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
It is like one I hae seen her hae out airing on the hay raip i' the back green.
From The Private Memoirs and Confessions of a Justified Sinner by Hogg, James
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)
Crown and back green, and tail rusty tipped with dusky, no notch in tail-feathers; in other respects like No. 433.
From Color Key to North American Birds with bibiographical appendix by Chapman, Frank M.
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