fairy green
Americannoun
Example Sentences
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A dream of fairy green and delicate pink and shy blue sky melting into pearl.
From The Red Planet by Locke, William John
Indeed this lady was clad all in the fairy green, and her eyes were as blue as the sky above her head, and the long yellow locks on her shoulders were shining like the sun.
From A Monk of Fife by Lang, Andrew
All the earth is fairy green, And the sunlight filmy gold, Full of ecstasies unseen, Full of mysteries untold.
From Later Poems by Carman, Bliss
With a soúth-wésterly wínd blústering, with a tide rolls reels Of crumbling, fore-foundering, thundering all-surfy seas in; seen Únderneath, their glassy barrel, of a fairy green.
From Poems of Gerard Manley Hopkins Now First Published by Bridges, Robert Seymour
Streaks fairy green are traced on backward ways, Through vacant regions lightly overleapt, With pauses, where in soft pathetic haze Are phantoms of the joys that died unwept.
From Ionica by Cory, William (AKA William Johnson)
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