coloring-matter

• “The seed of the nettle, mixed with fodder, gives gloss to the hair of animals; the root, mixed with salt, produces a beautiful yellow coloring-matter.”

  Les Miserables

• “Their want of mental coloring-matter makes them sensitive to those impressions which stronger minds neglect or never feel at all.”

  The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 02, No. 08, June 1858

• “As the coloring-matter of archil is not precipitated by baryta and magnesia, but changed to a purple, the baryta method, recommended by Pasteur, Balard, and Wurtz, and the magnesia test, are useless.”

  Scientific American Supplement, No. 385, May 19, 1883

• “Let the coloring-matter represent the magnetism in the body charged, and we have the magnet illustrated in its polarization: the deep-red end is the positive pole, and the white or faintly-colored end is the negative pole.”

  A Newly Discovered System of Electrical Medication

• “These cells do not contain either starch or the green coloring-matter, called chlorophyll, which exists in other plants.”

  Among the Mushrooms A Guide For Beginners

• “This was to be a fine quality of flint-glass, and to it might be added coloring-matter of any desired tint; but in the choice and proportion of this lay one of the principal secrets of the art.”

  The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 14, No. 83, September, 1864

• “It was caused by diatomaceae, minute algae, which under the microscope revealed delicate threads gathered in tiny bundles, and containing rings, like blood-disks, of that curious coloring-matter in tiny tubes.”

  Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 12, No. 28, July, 1873

• “` The cuttlefish 'has a remarkable qualify in this respect; but the coloring-matter which it produces is not used in the manufacture of ink.”

  Forty Centuries of Ink

• “To other eyes the cold spotless thinly furnished interior might have suggested the shuttered mind of a maiden-lady who associates fresh air and sunlight with dust and discoloration; but it is the eye which supplies the coloring-matter, and Paulina's brimmed with the richest hues.”

  "The Angel at the Grave."

• “To other eyes the cold spotless thinly-furnished interior might have suggested the shuttered mind of a maiden-lady who associates fresh air and sunlight with dust and discoloration; but it is the eye which supplies the coloring-matter, and Paulina's brimmed with the richest hues.”

  Crucial Instances

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