The servant opened this door, and led me on a few yards to a second; opened that also, and disclosed two curtains of pale
sea-green silk hanging before us; raised one of them noiselessly; softly uttered the words, "Mr.
Yet Eurylochus fancied that one of them had
sea-green hair, and that the close-fitting bodice of a second looked like the bark of a tree, and that both the others had something odd in their aspect, although he could not quite determine what it was, in the little while that he had to examine them.
Here and there, in grooved depressions among the snowy desolations of the upper altitudes, one glimpsed the extremity of a glacier, with its
sea-green and honeycombed battlements of ice.
Her dress was an under-gown and kirtle of pale
sea-green silk, over which hung a long loose robe, which reached to the ground, having very wide sleeves, which came down, however, very little below the elbow.
Porthos was seduced by a wine-colored doublet and
sea-green breeches.
Then the house had been boldly planned with a ball-room, so that, instead of squeezing through a narrow passage to get to it (as at the Chiverses') one marched solemnly down a vista of enfiladed drawing- rooms (the
sea-green, the crimson and the bouton d'or), seeing from afar the many-candled lustres reflected in the polished parquetry, and beyond that the depths of a conservatory where camellias and tree-ferns arched their costly foliage over seats of black and gold bamboo.
Being a light-complexioned woman, she wore light clothes, as most blondes will, and appeared, in preference, in draggled
sea-green, or slatternly sky-blue.
If the agricultural person with the hair will kindly shut his head, the
sea-green barnacle with the wall-eye may perhaps condescend to enlighten us."
Miss Gertrude Lindsay, in pale
sea-green, had a small head, delicate complexion, and pearly teeth.
Thus for sixteen days I saw from my window a hundred men at work like busy husbandmen, with teams and horses and apparently all the implements of farming, such a picture as we see on the first page of the almanac; and as often as I looked out I was reminded of the fable of the lark and the reapers, or the parable of the sower, and the like; and now they are all gone, and in thirty days more, probably, I shall look from the same window on the pure
sea-green Walden water there, reflecting the clouds and the trees, and sending up its evaporations in solitude, and no traces will appear that a man has ever stood there.
"My dear Lavinia, you are thinking of '
Sea-green Shaw,' so called from the extraordinary liveries he adopted for his servants in the year when he was sheriff."
Upon his head he wore a purple velvet cap, and purple velvet was his robe, all trimmed about with rich ermine; his jerkin and hose were of
sea-green silk, and his shoes of black velvet, the pointed toes fastened to his garters with golden chains.