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Because of its longitudinal extension, fining down to a point in the distance, the elevation of the forest, when uncontrasted, looked much less than it really was.

From The Sea and the Jungle by Tomlinson, H. M. (Henry Major)

It is dangerous to try to use high, pure colors, unrelieved and uncontrasted, in large masses, but the brightest, strongest colors may be used with safety in units of sufficiently restricted size.

From Architecture and Democracy by Bragdon, Claude Fayette