"Green-eyed" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... any one else in sight whom you preefers, an' who's s'fficiently single an' yoothful to render him el'gible for wedlock,'—yere Enright takes in Boggs an' Texas with his gaze, wharat Texas grows as green-eyed as a cornered bobcat—'he's yours, Ma'am, on your ...
— Faro Nell and Her Friends - Wolfville Stories • Alfred Henry Lewis
... to the wide streets and to the outskirts of the town, he spied a large mule, ready caparisoned for the road, hitched to the door of a house, waiting for his owner to mount him. The icy green-eyed individual, disgusted for the time with blue salt water, and being, as we know, a capital cavalry-man—in dashing charges among the patriots, and caprioling also up the Blue Mountains to Escondido—thought he would take another gallop on the dry ground, ...
— Captain Brand of the "Centipede" • H. A. (Henry Augustus) Wise
... Flutethroat, "if you sleep after that fashion, that old green-eyed cat must have you some day, and I shall be made a ...
— Featherland - How the Birds lived at Greenlawn • George Manville Fenn
... wonder if the green-eyed monster had got after mamma," soliloquized the youth aloud. "Somebody else sews on the buttons ...
— Jewel - A Chapter In Her Life • Clara Louise Burnham
... of it all, of course; but, although I have always held, and will continue to believe, that the presence of that "green-eyed monster," as the passion is euphuistically termed, is inseparable from all cases of real, thorough, heart-felt, engrossing love—still, jealousy is no excuse for ill-manners. "Noblesse oblige" always. There is no half-way medium; no ...
— She and I, Volume 1 • John Conroy Hutcheson |
