"Greenish-gray" Quotes from Famous Books
... novels like 'Evelina,' which people even read nowadays, was born on the 13th of June, 1752. She grew up low of stature, of a brown complexion. One of her friends called her the dove, which she thought was from the colour of her eyes—a greenish-gray; her last editor thinks it must have been from their kind expression. She was very short-sighted, like her father. In her portrait, taken at the age of thirty, merriment seems latent behind a demure look. At any rate, her countenance was what might be called ...![](http://www.free-translator.com/rquot.gif) — East Anglia - Personal Recollections and Historical Associations • J. Ewing Ritchie |