As I approached it I saw that it was the dead and mummified remains of a little old woman with long black hair, and the thing it leaned over was a small charcoal burner upon which rested a round copper vessel containing a small quantity of
greenish powder.
He thought drowsily of her thin face, with its delicate features, and the
greenish pallor of her skin.
It is a vitreous
greenish blue, as I remember it, like those patches of the winter sky seen through cloud vistas in the west before sundown.
Albin de- scribed it as leaving a
greenish streak behind it that glowed for some seconds.
"This apartment was suffused with a faint
greenish light, the source of which I could not determine, making everything distinctly visible, though nothing was sharply defined.
Meditatively I smoke a cigarette and sip a pale
greenish liquor smelling strongly of aniseed, which isn't half so interesting as a commonplace whiskey and soda, but which, I am told, has the recommendation of being ten times as wicked.
Its back was corrugated and ornamented with ungainly bosses, and a
greenish incrustation blotched it here and there.
Alert, dilating and contracting, as swift as cautious, and infinitely apprehensive, the pupils vertically slitted in jet into the midmost of amazing opals of
greenish yellow, the eyes roved the room.
We could see the streams which fed the torrent we had followed issuing from under the
greenish ramparts of glaciers; but two or three of these, instead of flowing over the precipices, sank down into the rock and sprang in big jets out of holes in the mid-face of the walls.
He was clothed all in green, from his head to his feet, and even his skin was of a
greenish tint.
The heads of the dragonettes were as big as barrels and covered with hard,
greenish scales that glittered brightly under the light of the lanterns.
Tip noticed that the purple tint of the grass and trees had now faded to a dull lavender, and before long this lavender appeared to take on a
greenish tinge that gradually brightened as they drew nearer to the great City where the Scarecrow ruled.