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On the one side, at the colourlessness, the shabbiness, the squalid monotony of virtue; on the other, at the enervating and degrading effects of vice.

From The English Stage Being an Account of the Victorian Drama by Filon, Augustin

With all the achromatic clearness, the unromantic colourlessness of the early morning….

From Love and Mr. Lewisham by Wells, H. G. (Herbert George)

The brown flecks in the eyes seemed to spread and engulf the surrounding colourlessness.

From Cheerful—By Request by Ferber, Edna

Odo suspected a certain colourlessness in the life she depicted.

From The Valley of Decision by Wharton, Edith

In the cold colourlessness they were delicate and feeble as the faces of children, rosy and soft under the splattering of mud and the shagginess of unshaven beards.

From One Man's Initiation—1917 by Dos Passos, John