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yellow color symbolizing cowardice. [Western Culture: Misc.] See : Cowardice yellow color of fecundity, relating to yellow sun and earth. [Eastern Color Symbolism: Binder, 78] See : Fertility yellow color symbolizing jealousy. [Western Folklore: Jobes, 1704] See : Jealousy yellow color marking doors of convicted traitors. [Fr. Legend: Brewer Dictionary, 1171] See : Treachery
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| "Why, I've just laid an egg, that's all," replied a small, but sharp and distinct voice, and looking around her the little girl discovered a yellow hen squatting in the opposite corner of the coop. "If that was in this yellow cloth--yes," answered the injured man. Only man could have placed that collar there, and as no race of Martians of which we knew aught ever had attempted to domesticate the ferocious apt, he must belong to a people of the north of whose very existence we were ignorant--possibly to the fabled yellow men of Barsoom; that once powerful race which was supposed to be extinct, though sometimes, by theorists, thought still to exist in the frozen north. |
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