I notice a small one, half a mile off across a meadow, against the green wood-side there, a far brighter red than the blossoms of any tree in summer, and more conspicuous.

Winding its dark-green wood and emerald glade, The still vale lengthens underneath the shade; While in soft gloom the scattering bowers recede, Green dewy lights adorn the freshened mead, 1815.

The roses in the cushions on the lounge glowed like a fire in the heart of a green wood; the cat's eyes gleamed like olivines, but of course Pearl knew from the way he rubbed his head against her shoulder as she sat on the lounge beside him, and from the way he blinked at herhe knew, having no doubt in some occult cat-way, listened in on the phone!

The arrows of the Indians were made of green wood, for the immediate service of the day; the Spaniards, with the fear that always harasses oppressors, forbidding them to have any weapons, when they do not want their present assistance.

As they advanced, the glare of the fire grew brighter; and at length, when within a couple of hundred yards, they could plainly hear the green wood crackling in the full stillness of evening.

Now to the green wood wend I, God me speed.

We are told of a sort of picnic day, when "our women went on shore to wash and all to refresh themselves;" and fancy the times there must have been among the little company, while the mothers sorted and washed and dried the linen, and the children, under the keeping of the old mastiffs and with many cautions against the wolves and wild cubs, once more had liberty to play in the green wood.

" "And as a tree that in the green wood grows, With fruit and leaves, and in the summer blows, In winter like a stock deformed shows: Our beauty takes his race and journey goes, And doth decrease, and lose, and come to nought, Admir'd of old, to this by child-birth brought:

In the glad green wood-land al-leys Ev-e-ry bird its an-them trills!

Kit heard green wood crack, as a rope that had stretched and strained began to move.

A summer party in the green wood shade.p.

The philosopher's study was a very different place from the green wood,perched up, as it was, on the summit of a bare, bleak mountain.

Those who had no touch of scurvy (and they were few) munched their biscuit while they poked about everywhere with a knife, digging up roots or cutting green wood to make a fire.

Then Robin Hood desired the king and quene to come into the green wood, and see how the outlaws live.

It was na in the ha', the ha', Nor in the painted bower; But it was in the gude green wood, Amang the lily flower.

she wailed, and as the echoes of the green wood died, "Hilary!"

Did you ever burn green wood?

Some of them were perforated by cannon-shot, or have been completely cut off in that peculiar splintering that marks the course of a projectile through green wood.

And, as I with the Cuckoo thus 'gan chide, In the next bush that was me fast beside, I heard the lusty Nightingale so sing, That her clear voice made a loud rioting, Echoing through all the green wood wide.

'I heard the lusty Nightingale so sing, That her clear voice made 'a loud rioting', Echoing through all the green wood wide.' This 'loud rioting' is Wordsworth's, not Chaucer's; and it belongs, as it were, to that other passage of his: 'O Nightingale, thou surely art A creature of a fiery heart, These notes of thinethey pierce and pierce; Tumultuous harmony and fierce!

He fixed this leaf on the student's cap in the green wood, when the vow of friendship was concluded for the whole of life.

I did not get thoroughly warm all day, for the fire in the middle room, made of green wood, was continually in the process of being stifled with a greener stick, as the others kindled.

And thou shalt hear, all startled, A flute blown in the twilight, 10 With the soft pleading magic The green wood heard of old.

The sound of voices and even the tumult of the storm became fainter, an acrid smell of burning green wood smarted Lance's lips and eyes; in the midst of the darkness beneath him gradually a faint, gigantic nimbus like a lurid eye glowed and sank, quivered and faded with the spent breath of the gale as it penetrated their retreat.

The host, being of a practical turn, thought that the stove was set high in order that a good supply of green wood could be placed under it.