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After looking steadily on about an inch square of pink silk, placed on white paper, in a bright sunshine, at the distance of a foot from my eyes, and closing and covering my eyelids, the spectrum of the silk was at first a dark green, and the spectrum of the white paper became of a pink.— Zoonomia, Vol. I Or, the Laws of Organic Life
She had put on a loose gown of a thin Japanese silk -- dull red in hue, a relic of other days.— Mrs. Red Pepper
She wore on that night a dress of tea-color embroidered with tiny bouquets in Chinese silk, and trimmed below with an immense flounce of plaited muslin.— The Clique of Gold
As this has always been the case, I have concluded that the evolution of the silk is almost entirely a mechanical process, which is but little controlled by the spinners themselves, and that the gum requires some degree of preparation after it is secreted before it is fit for use as silk; for it must be remembered that with the spider, as with the silk-worm, the silk is formed and contained in little bags or glands in the abdomen, not as _threads_, but as a very viscid gum.— The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 18, No. 106, August, 1866
After looking steadily on about an inch square of pink silk, placed on white paper, in a bright sunshine, at the distance of a foot from my eyes, and closing and covering my eyelids, the spectrum of the silk was at first— Zoonomia, Vol. I Or, the Laws of Organic Life
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