"Green paper" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... suffering, making accusations against men and especially against your friends, weak, discouraged, and filled with thoughts of death, your head supported by a fevered pillow and stretched upon a sheet whose white trellis-work of linen was stamped upon your skin, you traced with your eyes the green paper which covered the walls of your silent chamber? Do you recollect, I say, seeing some one noiselessly open your door, exhibiting her fair young face, framed with rolls of gold, and a bonnet which you had never seen before? She seemed like ...
— The Physiology of Marriage, Part I. • Honore de Balzac
... affair at the post-office must have the first turn; and very grand did David feel as the clerk peeped out from his little hole, and looked amused and gracious as the little boy stood on tiptoe to give in his green paper. ...
— The Stokesley Secret • Charlotte M. Yonge
... been evacuated at the cost of only some half-dozen casualties and of the abandonment of a very few worn-out guns. Then it was that an official, who was very much behind the scenes, extracted a document on the familiar grey-green paper from his safe and read it out with appropriate ...
— Experiences of a Dug-out, 1914-1918 • Charles Edward Callwell
... Here's a package marked one thousand dollars, and it contains only slips of green paper in place of bills. You can ...
— Chester Rand - or The New Path to Fortune • Horatio Alger, Jr
... being lashed to the arms. This frame is covered with white paper, which is to be afterward colored with rose color, with the yellow centre. The twine must be fastened to four of the arms, and the tail of the kite should be covered with green paper, which by the contrast, will ...
— Scientific American magazine Vol 2. No. 3 Oct 10 1846 • Various
... door of the great buildings where he lodged, and climbed wearily out, the porter ran out, hat in hand, holding a little green paper. ...
— Dawn of All • Robert Hugh Benson |
