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Green earth

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(Min.) a variety of glauconite, found in cavities in amygdaloid and other eruptive rock, and used as a pigment by artists; - called also mountain green.

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What would the green earth be without its lovely flowers, and what a lonely home for us
Flower Fables by Alcott, Louisa May View in context
they are always with us and always will be while the sad old world keeps echoing to the sob of long good-bys, while the cruel ships sail away across the great seas, and the cold green earth lies heavy on the hearts of those we loved.
Idle Thoughts of an Idle Fellow by Jerome, Jerome K. View in context
And the lovers yearned to behold that green earth again, more intensely, alas
The Great Carbuncle by Hawthorne, Nathaniel View in context
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