back green
Britishnoun
Example Sentences
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Long after the ash had washed away and the charred landscapes grew back green, trauma remained.
From The Guardian ● Oct. 4, 2020
The 18-year-old Hammer chipped in for eagle from just off the back green on the 18th to beat Alvaro Ortiz of Mexico, 2 up.
From Washington Times ● Aug. 15, 2018
When the feast of Flora was celebrated, the young Romans went into the woods and brought back green boughs with which they decked the houses.
From Miscellanea by Ewing, Juliana Horatia Gatty
But now it was just like our own back green, as homelike and as pleasant, with the open air and the waving woods and all.
From Deep Moat Grange by Crockett, S. R. (Samuel Rutherford)
Mr. Nicholson sat silent for an appreciable time while his unhappy son surveyed the poles in the back green, and a certain yellow cat that was perched upon the wall.
From The Works of Robert Louis Stevenson - Swanston Edition Vol. 10 (of 25) by Stevenson, Robert Louis
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