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  • They have chromoed in brilliantly illuminated text, in all the languages and alphabets, the maxim about eternal vigilance, and hung it up over our council-fires and our domestic hearths.

    Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science, Volume 22. July, 1878. Various

  • The parlor was high-studded and square-pianoed and chromoed and oil-portraited and black-walnutted and marble-topped and hairclothed.

    Fair Harbor Joseph Crosby Lincoln 1907

  • It had been very hot for several days, but that morning the east wind came in, and crisped the air till it seemed to rustle like tinsel, and the sky was as sincerely and solidly blue as if it had been chromoed.

    Their Wedding Journey William Dean Howells 1878

  • It had been very hot for several days, but that morning the east wind came in, and crisped the air till it seemed to rustle like tinsel, and the sky was as sincerely and solidly blue as if it had been chromoed.

    Complete March Family Trilogy William Dean Howells 1878

  • Mercator's projection -- something that could be afterwards lithographed or chromoed, with the mills turning out tons of quicksilver through the energies of a happy and picturesque assemblage of miners -- even to please her padrone, Don Royal Thatcher.

    The Story of a Mine Bret Harte 1869

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