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Literary notes about chocolate (AI summary)

Writers have long used “chocolate” as a color to evoke rich, warm, and sometimes somber hues in their descriptions. In some texts, chocolate appears as a deep, sumptuous brown—one author contrasts eyes thought to be black with “chocolate‐brown” ([1]) and another refines the tone further by noting a shade “varying from brick red to chocolate brown” ([2]). The color’s evocative nature is extended to human features and moods, as when a child’s skin is compared to “the color of a cake of chocolate” ([3]) or a character’s hair is described as “chocolate-colored” ([4]). Even landscapes and abstract descriptions benefit from its versatility—a building is “painted it a despairing chocolate” ([5]) and a morbid scene is noted for its “chocolate‑coloured fluid” ([6]). Together, these examples demonstrate how “chocolate” functions not simply as a noun but as a vivid, layered adjective that enhances visual and emotional imagery in literature.
  1. Though spoken of as black, they are really chocolate-brown, but so covered with hair as to be very dusky.
    — from Queensland Cousins by Eleanor Luisa Haverfield
  2. —This appears in commerce in many shades, varying from brick red to chocolate brown.
    — from Henley's Twentieth Century Formulas, Recipes and Processes
  3. He was perhaps four years old and the color of a cake of chocolate.
    — from Smith College StoriesTen Stories by Josephine Dodge Daskam by Josephine Daskam Bacon
  4. He looked upon Hetty Pepper's homely countenance, emerald eyes, and chocolate-colored hair as a welcome oasis of green in a desert of cloying beauty.
    — from Options by O. Henry
  5. The owners had given up and painted it a despairing chocolate, suitable to the freight-yard life it was called upon to endure.
    — from The Magnificent Ambersons by Booth Tarkington
  6. At the post-mortem examination a large quantity of chocolate-coloured fluid was found free in the abdomen and pelvis.
    — from Surgical Experiences in South Africa, 1899-1900 Being Mainly a Clinical Study of the Nature and Effects of Injuries Produced by Bullets of Small Calibre by George Henry Makins

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