Young dandelion greens are eaten on Maundy Thursday in order to remain well throughout the year.
The traditional bacon and greens dinner is passing away, though still the usual fare in the small farmhouses.
He told me that I was a blot against the sea and the sky, with my purples and greens and reds and yellows.
He had painted her in the costume which she had worn at the garden party--in all the glory of cool greens and faint pink, and heavenly blue.
The Greenswould say that Socialists and free lovers might well want to paint Mr. Asquith red; they wanted to paint the whole town red.
O the rest of the quiet greens and whites, of the daisied surface!
She always went for greens with an air of secrecy, very early, and sneaked along the roadsides stooping close to the ground, as if she might be detected and driven away, or as if the dandelions were wild things and had to be caught sleeping.
If Claude happened to step on one, the acrid smell made him think of Mahailey, who had probably been out this very morning, gouging the sod with her broken butcher knife and stuffing dandelion greens into her apron.
Some reference to the late Parisian comedy might have introduced a disquisition on the new grays and greens of the French milliners, with a passing mention made of the price paid for a pair of ponies by a certain marquise unattached.
Everywhere around were the traces of this glacier drift--great gray boulders of gneiss fixed fast into the black peat moss, or set amid the browns and greens of the heather.
But it is chiefly the best period, that is, Hartley, Greens & Co.
In response to a pull at the old-fashioned bell-rope, the stout country servant, who had been washing greens in the kitchen, entered the room.
The sprinkling of khaki and khaki-browns and greens increased every time we came on parade: until one day the whole of the three field ambulances were fitted out.
Edwin spoke a little absent-mindedly for the Greens were very busy getting ready for their yearly move to Wellington College and time for newspaper reading was at a premium.
It must be admitted that Lemonnier's greens used formerly to be a trifle--just a trifle--raw.
I think his greens are apt to be a little raw," interposed Müller, taking part in the conversation.
In a certain village there lived with his wife a poor gardener who cultivated greens in a small patch in the backyard of his house.
The gardener was returning home one morning after selling his greens and passed the temple.
His wife used to cut a basketful ofgreens every evening, and he took them in the mornings to sell in the village.
As you peeled the tubers, you cut raw slices and ate them, you pounded your greens and as 'kitoweo,' you ate them also.
We may as well brave the terrors of this first half of the Long Gallery, where El Greco's livid greens will at least divert attention, and where, opposite the collection of Riberas, wait the gracious Murillos to comfort and uplift.
On the house-fronts once so gayly colored, the greens have faded to yellows, the reds to pinks, and the pinks to browns.
There was a broad slant of sunlight athwart the floor, a great cat purred in a rocking-chair, the clock ticked, a pot of greens boiled over the fire.
There won't be any time to send word to the Greens over in Westbrook.
The Greens of Westbrook were there--the three little girls in blue, now women grown.
Boil it in well salted water for thirty minutes, then add the turnipgreens and boil at least thirty minutes longer.
Beet greens could be used but they are not considered au fait, and to use spinach is an absolute faux pas.
