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They possessed a viridescence which hitherto I had supposed possible only in the eye of the cat—and the film intermittently clouded their brightness—but I can speak of them no more.

From The Insidious Dr. Fu Manchu by Rohmer, Sax

And high above all this, overlooking streets too steep for any vehicle, slope the red walls of the mouldering fort, patched with the viridescence of ruin.

From Two Years in the French West Indies by Hearn, Lafcadio