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Whether the Earth near the Springs, or in their passage hath any peculiar ferment, or produceth a blackishness, if it rests, after it is well drained.

From Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society - Vol 1 - 1666 Giving some Accompt of the present Undertakings, Studies, and Labours of the Ingenious in many considerable parts of the World by Oldenburg, Henry

Much as impressionism has been praised for restoring color to a colorless art, its result has been, too often, to substitute whitishness for blackishness.

From Artist and Public And Other Essays On Art Subjects by Cox, Kenyon

In our more stimulating climate, we should bring on nervous prostration if we gave ourselves unremittingly to the discrimination between all the possible variations of blackishness and whitishness.

From The Gentle Reader by Crothers, Samuel McChord