"Sage-green" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... the quaint, grey-barked, soft-wooded tree with broad, rough, sage-green leaves, and florets massed in clumps to resemble sunflowers, was in all its pride, attracting relays of honey-imbibing birds during the day, and at night dozens of squeaking flying-foxes. Within a few yards of high-water stands a flame-tree ...
— The Confessions of a Beachcomber • E J Banfield
... a cigarette and his interest was, perhaps, more apparent than real. He had attended his last surgery case and the door of the "shop," with its sage-green windows, had been ...
— The Green Rust • Edgar Wallace
... rather too violent a contrast?' argued Urania. 'A faint sage-green, or a pale gray—or even that too ...
— The Golden Calf • M. E. Braddon
... along a passage in the basement, up a flight of steps, and into a huge, solitary, chill apartment. It was the ball-room. Spacious mirrors in gilt frames formed panels in the lower part of the walls, the remainder being toned in sage-green. In a recess between each mirror was a statue. The ceiling rose in a segmental curve, and bore sprawling upon its face gilt figures of wanton goddesses, cupids, satyrs with tambourines, drums, and trumpets, the whole ceiling seeming alive with ...
— The Hand of Ethelberta • Thomas Hardy |
