If I liken thy shape to the bough when green * My likeness errs and I sore mistake it; For the bough is fairest when clad the most * And thou art fairest when mother naked.
It was a garden with trees of freshest greenand ripe fruits of yellow sheen; and its birds were singing clear and keen and rills ran wimpling through the fair terrene.
How many trees earth nourisheth of the dry and of the green * Yet none but those which bear the fruits for cast of stone complain.
Their souls are at once stowed away in the crops of green birds where they remain till Resurrection Day, "eating of the fruits and drinking of the streams of Paradise," a place however, whose topography is wholly uncertain.
Thereupon the portress sat upon a low seat by the couch side; but the procuretrix, entering a closet, brought out of it a bag of satin with green fringes and two tassels of gold.
His tomb with the huge green dome is still visited by the Jews of Baghdad.
I was greatly surprised, and so was Arkins, when I found him in the eating-room of the Green Cormorant and told him what had occurred.
I have found a friendly welcome at theGreen Cormorant, and I am very much obliged to you.
The Green Cormorant had the custom of all the ships, whalers and others, that put in at Kerguelen.
Sir,” I resumed, “I believe Mr. Atkins of the Green Cormorant has spoken to you respecting a proposal of mine.
You shall see them all again, boatswain--Atkins, the Green Cormorant, and Kerguelen!
And--a fact which touched him more nearly--the Green Cormorant had not been visited by either Len Guy or his crew since the arrival of the Halbrane.
I was disappointed, however, for neither the captain nor anyone belonging to the ship patronized the Green Cormorant that day.
Talk, Mr. Jeorling, talk standing up, and our throats dry, when it is so easy to sit down in a corner of the Green Cormorant in front of two glasses of whisky.
I returned to theGreen Cormorant, and took up my post behind the window panes, which were dimmed by the hissing rain.
Besides, the captain of the Halbrane might come at dinner-time to the Green Cormorant, where the ship’s people usually took their meals when ashore.
When the fishing season comes, there will be more ships in Christmas Harbour than there are houses around the Green Cormorant.
In summer it is covered with green mosses, grey lichens, various hardy plants, especially wild saxifrage.
From the day of your arrival at Christmas Harbour, when you came to the Green Cormorant, I said to myself that in a fortnight, if not in a week, you would have enough of it, and would be sorry you had landed in the Kerguelens.
The red light shook over the green and purple hangings, the silver plating of the tent-poles.
The oars slipped from numb fingers; the anchor plunged into the green water; the mainsail rattled down the mast.
A girl-like youth guided the crimson reins, a second held the tall green parasol.
She was not sad, even to think of him crowned with green seaweed, and sitting under the sea-floor with fish-tailed Tritons at their tables of pearl, while the finny shoals like birds flitted above their heads.
The royal pavilion had its poles plated with silver, the tapestries were green and purple, the couches were spread with gorgeous coverlets.
And just as the first red blush stole over the green Malian bay and the mist-hung hills of Eubœa beyond, he woke with all the army.
Mardonius had come to them where under the pomegranate tree the women spread their green tapestry which their nimble needles covered with a battle scene in scarlet.
A mountain of green water thundered over the prow, bearing away men and wreckage.
The plain within the hills is sprinkled with thriving farmsteads, green vineyards, darker olive groves.
Gems flashed from the scarlet turban, the green jacket was embroidered with pearls—and was not half the wealth of Corinth in the jewels studding the sword hilt?
Pigeons cooed in the vast green foliage, and from time to time there came up from the river the chiming sound of oars.
By this opportunity I shall send you a canister of green tea by Mr. Hare.
Before Mr. Gerry went away from hence, I asked Mrs. Yard to send a pound of green tea to you.
Adams about a week after Mr. Gerry returned, when she entertained me with a very fine dish of green tea.
We had cherries, strawberries, and greenpeas in plenty.
The meadows, pastures, and grass-plats are as green as leeks.
We have had green peas this week past, but they were brought over the river, from New Jersey, to this market.
The green grass which begins to show itself here and there revives in my longing imagination my little farm and its dear inhabitants.
On the northern side of the Green Mountain a thin seam, about an inch in thickness, of compact oxide of iron, extends over a considerable area; it lies conformably in the lower part of the stratified mass of ashes and fragments.
The external saucer consists of compact obsidian, of a bottle-green colour, and is filled with finely cellular black lava, much less transparent and glassy than the obsidian.
Several other varieties are chiefly characterised by containing innumerable threads of dark-green serpentine, and by having calcareous matter in their interstices.
This variety passes into others of paler green tints, less hard, but with a more crystalline fracture, and translucent on their edges; and these are fusible into a green enamel.
Green Mountain, there is one stream of quite black, vesicular basalt, containing minute crystals of glassy feldspar, which have a rounded appearance.
Marcel de Serres, masses of green earth near Montpellier, which are supposed to be due to the decomposition of olivine.
In the neighbourhood of Green Mountain, fragments of extraneous rock are not unfrequently found embedded in the midst of masses of scoriae.
Great green walls of foaming water crashed upon the rocks, rending huge boulders and sucking them down into the black depths.
What of the green film which is drawn over every moist tree-trunk or shaded wall, or of the emerald film which coats the water of the pond's edge?
The blackburnian is an exquisite little fellow, marked with white and black, but with the crown, several patches on the face, the throat and breast of a rich warm orange that glows amid the greenfoliage like a living coal of fire.
The rarest of all the birds which I have found nesting in the Park is a little yellow and green warbler, with a black throat and sides of the face, known as the Lawrence warbler.
Where the grass is longer, the record of some furious gale is permanently fixed--swaths and ripples seeming to roll onward, or to break into green foam.
Carpeted with pink algæ and dainty sponges, draped with sea-lettuce like greentissue paper, decorated with strange corallines, these natural aquariums far surpass any of artificial make.
We surprise a group of mallard ducks, which rush out from the overhanging bank and dive for safety among the sheltering green arrowheads.
And with a pleasant smile the man took a little book bound in green leather and began to read.
At nine-fifteen a footman in dark-green livery came out of the house.
Two of them have been in great kings' crowns, and the center stone was in the tiara of seven popes; after which, the Great Green Prophecy having been fulfilled, it came back to its place on the Cross.
Out of the corner of his eye the coachman sees the footman returning to the house--a bareheaded footman in the dark-green Garrettson livery, a bundle of newspapers in his hands.
The skin was repulsive and slimy, of a dirty green color.
Nothing like that happy board of green cloth; it brings all intellects to one level," she said.
The two juniper trees had bowed their green branches together over the cupola.
At first in wonder she raised her eyes, which shone in the green light, astonished at this disturbance of her repose; and she seemed to take counsel within herself, whether this was the continuation of her sweet dreams.
Lorand, on the contrary, wished me to wear a dark green one.
You walk in February over a slippery field, where, through hoar-frost and mud, you perhaps hardly see the small green blades of trampled turf.
We are all thankful enough--as far as we ever are so--for green moss, and yellow moss.
This greenboss is called by botanists the pistil, which word consists of the two first syllables of the Latin pistillum, otherwise more familiarly Englished into 'pestle.
Vast hollows, confused among the recessed darknesses of the marble crags, surrounded by mere laths of living stem, each with its coronal of glorious green leaves.
And thereon resolve that you will yourself endeavour to promote the growing of the green wood, rather than of the black.
Carefullest Elizabethan gardener never shaped his yew hedge more daintily than the moss fairies smooth these soft rounded surfaces of green and gold.
My rough-nurtured poppy contents itself with these for its centre; a rich one would have had the green boss divided by a dozen of rays, and surrounded by a dark crowd of crested threads.
A figure working with a pointed chisel on a small oblong block of green serpentine, about four inches long by one wide, inlaid in the capital.
Spring and daisies came apace; Grasses hide my hiding place; Grasses run like a green sea O'er the lawn up to my knee.
Here is a child who clambers and scrambles, All by himself and gathering brambles; Here is a tramp who stands and gazes; And here is the green for stringing the daisies!
In that forest to and fro I can wander, I can go; See the spider and the fly, And the ants go marching by, Carrying parcels with their feet Down the green and grassy street.
There my garden grows again Green and rosy painted, As at eve behind the pane From my eyes it fainted.
You in a garden green With me were king and queen, Were hunter, soldier, tar, And all the thousand things that children are.
Those green and sweetly smelling crops They led in waggons home; And they piled them here in mountain tops For mountaineers to roam.
There was something almost dreamlike in this strange procession as it moved on between green earth and blue heaven, with none to see it, as it appeared, but the white-winged curlew which whistled mournfully overhead.
Then beyond it the headlands of green wood begin to cross each other again, lower and lower, till you can follow them no more.
When service was over, the Corporal solemnly packed up his bass viol in a bag of green baize, and was about to carry it off, when he was stopped by the village preacher, who begged the loan of it for the evening.
I had noticed a green baize writing-board down in the billiard-room, and I succeeded in arranging this across the arms of her chair, so that she could handle the cards conveniently.
She was so pleased to see him that she actually gave him what he would have called the "glad eye"--receiving in return a flash of green light which gave her a queer sensation of pleasure.
She changed shoes and stockings, and finally put on the simple little frock of dull green velveteen.
Olwen caught sight of several men on benches, three farmers round a central table, and the host, in a green baize apron, with a tankard in each hand.
It was a face which oddly succeeded in being pretty, in spite of a somewhat hatchet-like outline and green eyes.
I express myself far more easily in my own language," with the one-sided smile and green light in the eyes which still made her think of Mephistopheles.
For a moment her tear-dimmed eyes caught a greenray from his.
She thought that his eyes were like those of a leopard, green and golden, flashing an unspoken menace.
As he stood; his green eyes flickering like light upon steel, the idea that he was the worse for drink flashed upon her for the first time.
The face of the farmer seated facing her was clearly visible for a few moments--a long dark face, with a pronounced chin, a slight black moustache, and eyes as green as jade.
The brook chuckles to itself as it leaps rollicking between its green banks; the wind whistles merrily in the trees; the sunbeams dance lightly over the soft grass, and the violets and wild flowers look smilingly up from their green nests.
The contrast from the East was indeed marked and delightful, and the long train journey passed quickly in our joy at seeing once more green fields and green trees, villages, and farms, long fair hair and fair complexions.
This time we were just south of the Wadi Ghuzzeh, on a hill which was beautifully green and fresh.
The floor of the oasis is, for the most part, just as bare and desolate as the plateau above, but here and there are patches of green round the Artesian wells, which were the only sources of water.
Our oasis which looked so green on the map, we found to be a deep depression of about 1200 feet, cut out of the central limestone plateau.
The happy boy looked with delight at his full basket, and putting it down by his side, rested himself in the shade of an oak, on a carpet of soft green moss.
The hills were covered to the summit with fields of wild oats, coloring them, as far as the eye could reach, with tawny gold, against which the dark, glossy green of the oak and cypress showed with peculiar effect.
It is well known that greens, peas, French beans, and other green vegetables, lose much of their delicate color by being boiled in hard water.
The cow safe in the fail, her near hind leg is stretched out to its full length, and tied to a convenient post with the universal cordage of Australia, a piece of green hide.
The skirt is unflounced, but ornamented up the front with a row of green and white fancy silk buttons.
He felt as if he was mounting guard for the last time; listened to each sound, and looked with miserable affection across the mistygreen toward the Horse Guards, faintly seen in the distance.
My mother used to wear them bright cloaks, and they're right gradely things again' a green field.
The only cultivation I saw was a small field of maize, green and with good ears.
The robe is of a beautiful light apple-green silk, figured with white.
In the neighborhood of Bethnal Green there is a large open space called Wisker's Gardens.
In the struggle her dress had been torn, and she changed it for a pale greensilk gown, and Jack, pacing in the hall below, was on the point of coming up to discover if she had made her escape, when she sailed serenely down the stairs.
Ahead of them the green tongue of Cap Martin jutted out into the sea.
Beneath the conventional jellab he wore a dark green jacket, and she had a glimpse of glittering decorations before he pulled over his cloak so that they were hidden.
The way to get the Greenis to give Butsey White, down there, the nomination from the second form, if he'll swing the house.
But he kind of fears that the other members of the Green House aren't quite up on Anti-Federalism, and he reckons it will take quite a little literature to educate them.
Then his eye settled on the far green stretch between right and centre field and the brown masses of Memorial, where no ball before had ever reached.
Little Smeed, Poler Fox, and Snorky Greenstruggled in vain for recognition, and retired crestfallen and defrauded, to watch the scramble for each succeeding dance, which had to be portioned among three and often four clamourers.
At one corner a row of shelves held a villainous array of ill-smelling black, green and blue bottles, with which he was prepared to instantly cure anything from lockjaw to snake bite.
Isn't it a shame how he'll impose on the green ones?
More to continue the joke than for any other reason, Turkey detached the green and yellow cross tie, which was his joy, and tendered it.
Moore hastily trooped down with the others and followed across the long green stretches in the tingly September air, a little apprehensive of what the term "light practice" might mean.
A fresh storm of indignation was interrupted by the sudden tumultuous reappearance of Wash Simmons, shouting: "Fellows, Butsey White and the Green have sold out to the Mugwumps!
The Green is trying to fit themselves out for the baseball season.
Hickey, disillusionised and shocked, went glumly down the brownstone steps of Memorial and slowly about the green circle, resisting the shouted invitations to tarry under the nourishing apple trees.
He has broken up carbon dioxide and water-vapour in the air in precisely the same way that the green cells of plants do it.
It is perfectly sterilised in water and washed in green soap after all the stony particles are removed by hydrochloric acid.
The shores of Staten Island were almost as green as in the spring, and even the haze over the Brooklyn factories had lifted.
Since we were the latest comers we had to wait some time before we were ushered into the presence of the Pandit, who was clad in a green silk robe.
He picked up the green robe and examined the collar and neck very carefully under the least dim of the lights in the room.
Kennedy sidled over toward the green robe which the Pandit had laid on a chair.
At this time, as has been seen, Wildeve was quite innocent of any predetermined act of intrigue, and except at the dance on the green he had not once met Eustacia since her marriage.
The bottom of the vale was green to a width of ten yards or thereabouts, and the shining facets of frost upon the blades of grass seemed to move on with the shadows of those they surrounded.
Thomasin Walks in a Green Place by the Roman Road Clym saw little of Thomasin for several days after this; and when they met she was more silent than usual.
Tis Maypole-day tomorrow, and the Shadwater folk have clubbed with a few of your neighbours here to have a pole just outside your palings in the heath, as it is a nice green place.
Yeobright strained his eyes across the dark-green patch beyond the paling, and near the black form of the Maypole he discerned a shadowy figure, sauntering idly up and down.
He appeared of a russet hue, not more distinguishable from the scene around him than the green caterpillar from the leaf it feeds on.
He took a green hazel which he had used as a walking stick, split it at the end, inserted a small pebble, and with the lantern in his hand went out into the heath.
As he watched, the dead flat of the scenery overpowered him, though he was fully alive to the beauty of that untarnished early summer green which was worn for the nonce by the poorest blade.
He locked up the house and went out into the green patch which merged in heather further on.
It was a sunny afternoon at the beginning of summer, and the moist hollows of the heath had passed from their brown to their green stage.
Don't scratch your face," said her aunt, who stood at the edge of the pit, regarding the girl as she held on amid the glistening green and scarlet masses of the tree.
David Boone's face had by this time become so pale that it could not become paler, so it turned somewhat green instead.
Her own domestic arrangements were concealed from view by small green venetian blinds, which rose from below, and met the large venetians which descended from above.
Hence it happened that Miss Tippet and Emma went to bed in the back room with the green hangings, while Miss Deemas retired to the front room with the blue paper.
The stranger who had come after a score of years and had left murder in his trail, was more likely to have come for the great green stone than anything else.
Devlin's last impression of the ornate dining room was the sight of the debonair Trent sipping his green chartreuse.
Twelve feet below the green closely cropped turf touched the granite foundation of the walls.
Devlin ground his strong teeth when the other raised the green filled glass and drank his health.
You have twenty one-thousand-dollar bills and you put them in a green oilskin package.
Dangerfield saw a tall, slim young man correctly clad in breeches and stockings, using a mashie, drop his ball neatly on the green within putting distance of the hole.
The first green was distant one hundred and sixty yards from the tee.
Automatically he ordered the only liqueur he liked, green chartreuse.
Below him was the green and white striped awning that protected Commander Heathcote's windows.
A brook with sedgy reeds was a fine natural hazard, and as the green was on an elevated plateau with deep grass beyond, it was not an easy one to reach.
With shoulders hunched he looked without fear of detection into the fascinating green eyes of "The Countess.
