"Light-green" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... then sank again from view; but up aloft on the brigantine's foreyard, the native pearl-divers, with their big, luminous eyes shining with excitement, gazed over and beyond the tops of the palm-trees, and saw the light-green waters of a noble lagoon that stretched northwest and south-east for fifty miles, and twenty from east ...
— Rodman The Boatsteerer And Other Stories - 1898 • Louis Becke
... village, on the banks of the stream, were several podado trees, which are of a light-green foliage, and extremely elegant. They are the abode of fire-flies; and at night it was most beautiful to watch the thousands of those brilliant insects flitting about among their branches. Sometimes I have seen both banks of the river completely ...
— Mark Seaworth • William H.G. Kingston
... use is it all to me?" said Adam, looking around him in Eden, at the rising sun, the blushing hills, the light-green forest, the glorious waterfall, the laden fruit-trees, and, most beautiful of all, the smiling woman—"of what use is it all to me, when I dare ...
— Library Of The World's Best Literature, Ancient And Modern, Vol 3 • Various
... duns of impossible and unnatural colours; if he succeeds with these, on several occasions, as well as with orthodox flies, perhaps we may decide that trout do not distinguish hues. On a Sutherland loch, an angler found that trout would take flies of any colour, except that of a light-green leaf of a tree. This rejection decidedly looked as if even Sutherland loch trout exercised some discrimination. Often, on a loch, out of three flies they will favour one, and that, perhaps, not the trail ...
— Andrew Lang's Introduction to The Compleat Angler • Andrew Lang
... build a bonny boat, To sail the salt salt sea: The sails were o' the light-green silk, The ...
— Minstrelsy of the Scottish Border, Vol. II (of 3) • Walter Scott
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