Some folks should see that my bashfulness was wearing off faster than the gold from an oroide watch.
"The Blunders of a Bashful Man"
Metta Victoria Fuller Victor
Do you hold yourself quit of the duty of saying that it is second-best, that it is something mixed with copper or nickel, and of the value of oroide, say?
"Imaginary Interviews"
W. D. Howells
The tyranny of custom, it is true, compels your friend and myself to dress peculiarly, but I assure you nothing could be finer than the way that the olive green of your coat melts in the delicate yellow of your cravat, or the pearl gray of your trousers blends with the bright blue of your waistcoat, and lends additional brilliancy to that massive oroide watch-chain which you wear.
"Drift from Two Shores"
Bret Harte