The late violets bloomed here and there, side by side with those waxlike yellow blossoms, called by the country folk "butter and eggs."
"Hoosier Mosaics"
Maurice Thompson
There is the region, the heart, of Avarice,-systematized, spreading, rotting, the very fungus and leprosy of social states; suspicion, craft, hypocrisy, servility to the great, oppression to the low, the waxlike mimicry of courtly vices, the hardness of flint to humble woes; thought, feeling, the faculties and impulses of man, all ulcered into one great canker, Gain,-these make the general character of the middling class, the unleavened mass of that mediocrity which it has been the wisdom of the shallow to applaud.
"The Disowned, Complete"
Edward Bulwer-Lytton
Long want of exercise stunts her bodily growth, and when at last she becomes a woman, and emerges from her prison, her complexion has grown wan and pale and waxlike.
"The British Barbarians"
Grant Allen