"Sage-green" Quotes from Famous Books
... Mamie's is a little, putty-colored face, and a still smaller white face, that just peeps over the sill. One belongs to the mulatto woman's youngster. Her mother goes out scrubbing, and the little girl is alone all day. She is so much alone, that the sage-green old bachelor in the second den from mine could not stand it, last Christmas time, so he sent her a doll on the ... — Jersey Street and Jersey Lane - Urban and Suburban Sketches • H. C. Bunner |