“It was Toto that made Dorothy laugh, and saved her from growing as gray as her other surroundings.”
L. Frank Baum book The Wonderful Wizard of Oz
The Wonderful Wizard of Oz (1900)
Context: It was Toto that made Dorothy laugh, and saved her from growing as gray as her other surroundings. Toto was not gray; he was a little black dog, with long silky hair and small black eyes that twinkled merrily on either side of his funny, wee nose.