If now we sow on this gelatine drops of various solutions which give colorations with the salts in the gelatine, we may obtain forms of perfect regularity, presenting most beautiful colours and contrasts.
"The Mechanism of Life"
Stéphane Leduc
I had the Egyptian fever on me, which, when once acquired, is not to be shaken off-an enthusiasm for everything Egyptian, the antiquities, the history of the Pharaohs, the very desert, the brown Nile, the desolate hill ranges, the ever blue sky, the marvellous colorations at rise and set of sun, and last, but not least, the prosperity of the poor peasants.
"A Book of Ghosts"
Sabine Baring-Gould