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After a few days the walls should be washed with alcohol to remove the dust and alkali liberated The colors used for this style of painting are zinc white, green oxide of chrome, cobalt green, chromate of lead, colcothar, ochers, and ultramarine Soluble glass has also been used in the manufacture of soaps made with palm and cocoanut oil; this body renders them more alkaline and harder Interesting experiments have been made with soluble glass for coloring corals and shells.— Scientific American Supplement, No. 483, April 4, 1885
The colour is remarkably improved and brought forth by long grinding, which accordingly makes an essential circumstance in the process The precipitates of gold, and the colcothar or other red preparations of iron, are called tender colours.— The Botanic Garden A Poem in Two Parts. Part 1: the Economy of Vegetation
The precipitates of gold, and the colcothar or other red preparations of iron, are called _tender_ colours.— The Botanic Garden A Poem in Two Parts. Part 1: the Economy of Vegetation
Clear as a colcothar and yet more clear --— A Nonsense Anthology
Banoolah!" The Brahmins are nigh And the depths of the jungle re-echo their cry Pestonjee Bomanjee Smite the guitar Join in the chorus, my hookabadar Heed not the blast of the deadly monsoon Nor the blue Brahmaputra that gleams in the moon Stick to thy music, and oh, let the sound Be heard with distinctness a mile or two round Famsetjee, Feejeebhoy Sweep the guitar Join in the chorus, my hookabadar Art thou a Buddhist, or dost thou indeed Put faith in the monstrous Mohammedan creed Art thou a Ghebir--a blinded Parsee Not that it matters an atom to me Cursetjee Bomanjee Twang the guitar Join in the chorus, my hookabadar Henry S. Leigh THE PERSONIFIED SENTIMENTAL Affection's charm no longer gilds The idol of the shrine But cold Oblivion seeks to fill Regret's ambrosial wine Though Friendship's offering buried lies Neath cold Aversion's snow Regard and Faith will ever bloom Perpetually below I see thee whirl in marble halls In Pleasure's giddy train Remorse is never on that brow Nor Sorrow's mark of pain Deceit has marked thee for her own Inconstancy the same And Ruin wildly sheds its gleam Athwart thy path of shame Bret Harte A CLASSIC ODE Oh, limpid stream of Tyrus, now I hear The pulsing wings of Armageddon's host Clear as a colcothar and yet more clear Twin orbs, like those of which the Parsees boast Down in thy pebbled deeps in early spring The dimpled naiads sport, as in the time When Ocidelus with untiring wing Drave teams of prancing tigers, 'mid the chime Of all the bells of Phicol.— A Nonsense Anthology
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