O thirsty eyes that linger magnet-bound On the nest's orphanhood of greenish black!
And in our night, as a glowworm, The ancients' memory Sends forth its greenish counterfeit Of light!
Beneath the bare and flowerless window's sill, A nest of greenish black, like a small heart, Hangs tenantless and waits and waits and waits In vain for the return of the first swallow That has gone forth, its first and last of dwellers.
He hesitates; hesitates so long that Linda looks at him in surprise; two large, greenish eyes shine at him through the filmy, white bridal veil.
This malformation results in square spikes, or somewhat elongated heads, consisting only of the greenish bracts.
A faint greenish light filters down from the quiet woods outside.
Covered with greenish mud, splashing the mud right and left with their great flat wheels, camions began passing them returning from the direction of the lines.
Torn camouflage fluttering greenish-grey against the ardent yellow sky, and twining among the fantastic black leafless trees, the greenish wraiths of gas.
Here and there was still a little greenish haze of gas.
Head greenish yellow, deeply punctured, a black band, sinuated in front between the eyes, on the back part of the head.
Legs and under side greenish yellow; three last segments of abdomen beneath of a rust colour with four longitudinal rows of yellow spots.
Anterior wings black above, with a transverse macular sulphur-coloured band beyond the middle, and a submarginal one, broadest towards the apex, composed of greenish atoms.
Head cleft between the eyes; Prothorax above and beneath vermilion, with a greenish black spot in the middle, and two small black dots, one on each side.
Below, the markings are nearly as above, with the addition of a greenish line along the costa of the anterior wings, bending downwards at its termination.
Posterior wings encircled by a marginal band of the same greenish colour.
In colour the body of the fly is an intensely dark greenish black, with a rusty ochreous head.
The pupa is black with greyish white mottlings, while the female is deep greenish black in colour.
Its head is crested and glossy greenish black, and its back is rosy.
A mineral consisting of sulphate of lead, occurring either massive or in long slender prisms, of a greenish white or gray color.
A grayish or greenish compact rock, composed of feldspar and augite, and allied to basalt.
These flowers are small and of a pale greenish color and yield small stone-fruits, with a thin coating of pulpy tissue.
Among fruits there are also some positive red varieties of greenish or yellowish species, as for instance the red gooseberry (Ribes Grossularia) and the red oranges.
Ordinarily a yellowish or greenish tinge underlies the ornamental color, and if this latter disappears, the yellowish ground will become manifest.
This malformation results in square spikes or somewhat elongated heads consisting only of the greenish bracts.
Its flowers are brown, but in [146] some woods a variety with greenish flowers and bright yellow berries occurs, which is also frequently seen in botanic gardens.
The New Zealand spinage (Tetragonia expansa) has a greenish and a brownish variety, the red color extending over the whole foliage, including the stems and the branches.
The water of the lake was beautifully clear and of a wonderful greenish colour.
We landed on the island, and found most beautifully clean forest, nice and cool in the greenish dim light which penetrated through the dense masses of foliage.
Into a hollow between two knolls wooded with beech trees, ran a shallow cove, its clear waters edged with sand of a tender, greenish gray.
The greenish light beat full on the sunken doorway, so that only the lowermost steps remained in shadow.
I looked out upon the wan pools and marshes, whence a greenish mist steamed up, and seemed to poison the sunlight streaming through it.
They were greenish yellow eyes, and they stared and stared.
Two paws pinned him down, and the greenish yellow eyes were not an inch from his own.
There was a flash of greenish flame, a cloud of mingled smoke and steam, and when this had drifted away there was not a vestige of the torpedo-boat to be seen.
He could see a bright greenish flash as it smote the steel roof of the central fort.
It is always of dark brown colour resembling porter, but after standing in the air it acquires a greenish tint.
The tint varies, being in the milder cases faint, in the more severe a deep saffron yellow, while in extreme degrees of obstruction it may be of dark brown or greenish hue.
The horizon has lost its greenish glow: it is a spectral blue.
A nice old French gentleman from Guadeloupe presumes to say this is not blue water--he declares it greenish (verdâtre).
Up from the warm deep color of the sea-circle the edge of the heaven glows as if bathed in greenish flame.
The horizon now has a greenish glow, Everywhere else the effect is that of looking through very light- blue glasses.
The young man was seated at one of those coffin-shaped oaken tables, with a glass of greenish liquor before him.
An example connected with the specimens just described is the cup belonging to Baron Lionel de Rothschild; though externally of an opaque greenish colour, it is by transmitted light of a deep red.
Early Assyrian glass is represented in the British Museum by a vase of transparentgreenish glass found in the north-west palace of Nineveh.
This is of glass of a greenish hue; on the upper part is represented, in relief, the chase of a lion by two men on horseback accompanied by dogs; the costume appears to be Byzantine rather than Roman, and the style is very bad.
And when a skelp cleaves siffling doom, And vapours scyle a greenish ghaut, Rebellious vandals stamp their feet As rulling Cyons wield hell's prong.
It is greenish in color and has a camphoraceous odor and pungent taste.
A massive mineral, greenishin color, and opal-like in appearance.
A colorless orgreenish oil extracted from cajuput.
A hydrous silicate of copper, occurring massive, of a blue or greenish blue color.
A hydrous silicate of magnesium, allied to serpentine, occurring in waxlike masses of a yellow or greenish color.
A small variety of muskmelon with sugary greenish flesh.
Like a citron or lemon; of a lemon color; greenish yellow.
It contains a fatty and gelatinous substance of a dull greenish tinge, much esteemed as a delicacy in preparations of turtle.
One of the elementary substances, commonly isolated as a greenish yellow gas, two and one half times as heavy as air, of an intensely disagreeable suffocating odor, and exceedingly poisonous.
Pyroxene group of minerals, closely allied to hornblende, usually of a greenish colour, occurring crystallised in prisms, and forming an essential component of many igneous rocks.
It had black plumage, with a greenish gloss; its legs were very long and slight, as were its toes and claws, especially the hind toe.
Then there was another palm, bearing a greenish fruit not unlike the olive in appearance, which hung in large pendent bunches just below the leaves.
As it ascended toward the zenith, as the last trailing daylight went after the abdicating sun, its greenish white illumination banished the realities of day, diffused a bright ghostliness over all things.
Then once a flash and what I thought was a gun, until I looked up and saw a fading trail of greenish light still hanging in the sky.
It was written on greenish tinted fancy note-paper, and with all and more than Nettie's usual triteness and inadequacy of expression.
Only I see again very distinctly the greenish gleams that ran over lock and barrel as I turned the weapon in my hand.
Against this, occupying the foreground, the pine trees, which sheltered the terrace, showed up a deep greenish purple bordering upon black.
Handrails were broken down, planks rotted and wrenched away leaving gaps through which the cloudy greenish blue water could be seen as it purred and chuckled beneath.
Meanwhile a far-off rustle of leaves came upon his listening ear, and against the right-hand window the clean-cut greenish shadow of a lofty bough brought him disturbing thoughts of the forest which he could feel to be near him.
And one entered, as into the liquid crystal of a source, a greenish limpidity, a sheet of silver reposing beneath reflected reeds.
Between the broken balustrades drooped tresses of stonecrop, light greenish locks, spotted as with mouldiness.
Mamillaria threw up living pustules, a crawling swarm of greenish tortoises, bristling hideously with long hairs that were stiffer than iron.
All the resuscitated earth, with its wealth of greenery, its waters, and its belts of hills, was in that greenish blur that quivered with the faintest breath of air.
In the greenish light which filtered like tinted water through the foliage, in the deep silence of the mossy soil, one only heard the dull thud of the fruit as it was culled by the wind.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "greenish" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word. Other words: emerald; glaucous; grassy; green; ivy; leafy; leaved; olive; summery; verdant; vernal
