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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

A separation is found here; which exhibits a slight loss of substance at the extreme edge of the gums, and, as far as I have observed, a whitishness of the diseased surface.

From North American Medical and Surgical Journal, Vol. 2, No. 3, July, 1826 by Bache, Franklin

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