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The one that catches the eye though is Zoo City, with its cosplay/cyberpunk color-schemes -- I was completely unsurprised to learn that it's an "urban fantasy noir set in a re-imagined Johannesburg"; and although I've never bought anything like that before, I might just go out and get that one to stretch myself.
Book Cover Smackdown! 'Zoo City' vs. 'Plague Year' (Czech) vs. Firedrake 2010
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But I think we can carry the white paint idea too far: I have grown a little tired of over-careful decorations, of plain white walls and white woodwork, of carefully matched furniture and over-cautious color-schemes.
The House in Good Taste Elsie de Wolfe
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I am beginning to say with conviction that color-schemes are the mark of a narrow and rigid taste — that they are born of convention and are meant not for living things but for wall-papers and portières and clothes.
More Jonathan Papers Elisabeth Woodbridge Morris 1917
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But there is one thing about it that I find does not always appeal to them pleasantly, and that is its color-schemes.
More Jonathan Papers Elisabeth Woodbridge Morris 1917
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I must have my color-schemes again, and perhaps I am as narrow as the worst.
More Jonathan Papers Elisabeth Woodbridge Morris 1917
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But I have trouble explaining them, by daylight, to some of my visitors who like color-schemes.
More Jonathan Papers Elisabeth Woodbridge Morris 1917
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I told Dinky-Dunk if we'd ever put a chameleon on that shack-wall he'd have died of brain-fag trying to make good on the color-schemes.
The Prairie Wife Arthur Stringer 1912
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Others seem to take their monicas in part from the color-schemes stamped upon them at birth, such as: Chi Whitey, New Jersey
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Others seem to take their monicas in part from the color-schemes stamped upon them at birth, such as:
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Others seem to take their monicas in part from the color-schemes stamped upon them at birth, such as: Chi Whitey, New Jersey Red, Boston Blackey, Seattle
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