[…] the chromophoric or color-carrying group of atoms and the autochromic or color-intensifying group.

By Jupiter there's vinegar! I heard him say to his friend, after he had stood on tiptoe an immense time, and had been crushed and beaten on all sides. And there's oil!! I saw them distinctly, in cruets! Can any gentleman, in front there, see mustard on the table? Sir, will you oblige me! Do you see a Mustard-Pot?

lights in the heavens transcending the region of the clouds

He seemed—somehow—younger than I had ever been, and blonder and more beautiful, and he wore his masculinity as unequivocally as he wore his skin.