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Updated: May 10, 2025
The day was as bright as yesterday had been, and from the white marble temple the Italian-looking landscape looked more than ever like a steel engraving coloured by hand, or an oleographic imitation of one of Turner's pictures.
I cried, "how gloriously oleographic!" and the painter, removing a brush from his mouth, smiled, well pleased, and said, "I am a Leader among Victorian artists and the public adores me!" and I left him vigorously painting pot-boilers.
Jernington, much impressed for Charmian's despair had been very definite indeed, "oleographic in type," as she acknowledged to herself did notice, did see for himself, and inquired innocently of Charmian what was to be done. "I leave that to you," she answered, fixing her eyes almost hypnotically upon him. Secretly she was willing him to go. She was saying in her mind: "Go! Go!
He touched his cap, and they stood watching the car go down the High Street. Then she turned to Vane. "You'd better see about your letters," she said demurely. "And then we might go over the Castle. There is a most wonderful collection of oleographic paleographs brought over by the Americans when they discovered England. . . ." "In one second," threatened Vane, "I shall kiss you.
And then that blackbird reasserted itself. It had a rich boastful note; it seemed proud of its noisy reiteration of simple self-assertion. For some obscure reason the phrase "oleographic sounds" drifted into the bishop's thoughts. This bird produced the peculiar and irrational impression that it had recently made a considerable sum of money by shrewd industrialism.
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