"Bottle-green" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... confidence of white, the repeated Hallelujahs of yellow, the virginal glory of blue, all the quivering crucible of glass was dimmed as it got nearer to this border dyed with rusty red, the tawny hues of sauces, the harsh purples of sandstone, bottle-green, tinder-brown, fuliginous blacks, and ...
— The Cathedral • Joris-Karl Huysmans
... on, but she barred the way, rather an imposing figure in her bottle-green driving coat, with a fur toque pressed down over the flying chestnut of her hair. Her cheeks were not so much coloured as stained deep with the sun and wind of Walland Marsh, and though it was November, a mass of little freckles smudged and scattered ...
— Joanna Godden • Sheila Kaye-Smith
... Clarissa had never before beheld, and it was plain that the aristocracy affected certain adornments in the privacy of their homes which they did not caparison themselves with in public. Clarissa had seen dress suits in restaurants and in theaters, but never before had she seen a bottle-green dress coat with gold buttons and a velvet collar and a vest with broad longitudinal stripes of white and brown. In a brief space, Asbury Fuller returned, and glancing at his watch, ...
— The Strange Adventures of Mr. Middleton • Wardon Allan Curtis
... t'sun it wor shining, Aw went wi' mi father ta Hainworth ta sing; An' t'stage wur hung raand wi' bottle-green lining; And childer i' white made t' village ta ring. We went ta owd Meshach's that day ta wur drinkin', Though poor, tha wur plenty, an' summat ta spare; Says Meshach, "That lad, Jim, is just thee, aw'm thinking, It furst Pair o' Briches at ...
— Revised Edition of Poems • William Wright
... Dragon's Mouth; and westward again, a cloud among the clouds, the last spur of the Cordilleras of the Spanish Main. There was South America at last; and as a witness that this, too, was no dream, the blue water of the Windward Islands changed suddenly into foul bottle-green. The waters of the Orinoco, waters from the peaks of the Andes far away, were staining the sea around us. With thoughts full of three great names, connected, as long as civilised man shall remain, with those waters—Columbus, Raleigh, Humboldt—we ...
— At Last • Charles Kingsley
... his habit in moments of excitement or especial impressiveness to address his daughter-in-law as "madam," and on the second morning after their arrival, as she was sitting on the sand, viewing the great bottle-green rollers that marched unendingly landward, she noticed her father-in-law and Jewel engaged in deep discussion, where they stood, between ...
— Jewel's Story Book • Clara Louise Burnham |
