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
Billy looked once more all about his story-book home and then his eyes strayed away to Petersen's Woods, fairy green and already full of deep shadowed aisles, full of fretted beauty and solemnity.
From Green Valley by Reynolds, Katharine
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
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