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"Green light" Quotes from Famous Books

... ripple of the water as it slutched up the sand and then broke, the shadows that were creeping farther and farther from rock to rock, the green light that pushed up from the horizon into the faint blue, the grey web of the sea, the thick gathering of the hills as they crept more closely about the little darkening beach... it was none ...

— Jeremy • Hugh Walpole

... shine In the green light Behind the cedar and the pine: Come, thundering night! Blacken broad earth with hoards of storm: For me ...

— The Shaving of Shagpat • George Meredith

... Instead, she was looking intently across the compound and out to sea. They followed her gaze, and saw a green light and the loom ...

— Adventure • Jack London

... who kills half the natives with his sword and is about to slay the Pirate when he discovers that he is his long lost father," said the Idiot. "The heroine then sings a pathetic love song about her Baboon Baby, in a green light to the accompaniment of a lot of pink satin monkeys banging cocoa-nut shells together. This drowsy lullaby puts the Lieutenant and his forces to sleep and the curtain falls on their capture by the Pirate and his followers, with ...

— The Wit and Humor of America, Volume III. (of X.) • Various

... clear moonlight night along these downs; and you have the whole world to yourself; everything and everybody asleep, except maybe a watchdog up at one of the farms. And the ships out at sea—you can tell whether they're going up or down Channel by the red or the green light, and you think of the poor chap at the helm, and hope he'll get soon home to his wife and children. That is a real fine tramp, Miss; you want to sing almost, and yet it's too beautiful to be broken by a sound. And then there's a fortnight in the ...

— The Beautiful Wretch; The Pupil of Aurelius; and The Four Macnicols • William Black

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