It took him so long to hide all traces of his doings, to wash out the brushes, and rinse clean the paint-pots he had used, and on the top of that to get the studio swept and dusted, that there was hardly time left him in which to indulge the itching of his fingers.
"Moonshine & Clover"
Laurence Housman
Perhaps, however, it was his black velvet dress and the exasperating length of his yellow curls, together with the fact of his having been taught to recite Browning to visitors, that raised to fever-heat the itching of my palms in his Infant-Samuel-like presence.
"The Greater Inclination"
Edith Wharton
It isn't yellow: it's a delicious sort of old-ivory velvet which I am just itching to paint.
"The Orchard of Tears"
Sax Rohmer