"Light-green" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... can not remind me of anything more imposing. But when I was visiting the great Mosques of Cairo I was reminded of them. Yes, the pine forests are the great mosques of Nature. And for art-lovers, what perennial beauty of an antique art is here. These majestic pillars arched with foliage, propping a light-green ceiling, from which cones hang in pairs and in clusters, and through which curiously shaped clouds can be seen moving in a cerulean sky; and at night, instead of the clouds, the stars—the distant, twinkling, ...
— The Book of Khalid • Ameen Rihani
... roast duck, boiled and roasted yams, cocoa-nuts, taro, and sweet potatoes; which we followed up with a dessert of plums, apples, and plantains —the last being a large-sized and delightful fruit, which grew on a large shrub or tree not more than twelve feet high, with light-green leaves of enormous length and breadth. These luxurious feasts were usually ...
— The Coral Island - A Tale Of The Pacific Ocean • R. M. Ballantyne
... and Tom looked all over, they could not find a katydid until Mr. Brown helped them. Then on a tree he found one of the queer, light-green grasshopper-like bugs and ...
— Bunny Brown and His Sister Sue at Camp Rest-A-While • Laura Lee Hope
... Marquette's map, Ouabouskiaou. On some of the earliest maps, it is called Ouabache (Wabash).] Soon they began to see the marshy shores buried in a dense growth of the cane, with its tall straight stems and feathery light-green foliage. The sun glowed through the hazy air with a languid stifling heat, and, by day and night, mosquitoes in myriads left them no peace. They floated slowly down the current, crouched in the shade of the sails which they had spread as awnings, when ...
— France and England in North America, a Series of Historical Narratives, Part Third • Francis Parkman
... surrounded with thickets of light-green foliage, amidst which clouds of white alder unfolded always in the soft wind with new surfaces ...
— Jerome, A Poor Man - A Novel • Mary E. Wilkins Freeman
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