Which preposition to use with green
To see the bright sun standing in his glory up in the sky, shedding his placid light over the earth, when the air is clear, the winds hushed, and the leaves are still and moveless on the trees; and then to look along the hillsides, and mark the bright sunlight, and the deep shadows, the green of the fir, the
green in the meadows and pastures!
The Empress looked charming, dressed always in the uniform of the hunt, green with gold braid, and a tricorne on her head,all her ladies with the same dress, which was very becoming.
"'Tis a sweet and gentle youth all good beef and bone; a little green as yet, perchance, but 'tis no matter.
The rays of the rising sun, shimmered on the smoky patch in the lower corner, causing it to fluctuate from green to red, oddly.
Green on the hillside!
The dawn broke green For the high huntsman of the morn had flung His mantle o'er his back: stooping, he strung His silver bow; then rising, bright and bold, He shot a burning arrow of pure gold That rent the heart of Night.
They are men, and have pulled me out of tight holes when I was green at this game, and they did it at the risk of their lives.
Twelve years later one of the Clarks, holding Greenfields, not so very green by now, shot one of the Judsons.
And now the lists are opened and, lo! a dazzling band, The Saracens, on sorrel steeds leap forth upon the sand; Their trailing cloaks are flashing like the golden orange rind, The hoods of green from their shoulders hang and flutter in the wind.
President Davis, with Generals Lee and Magruder, were in place on the pretty green before the old colonial college edifice when the Rosedale people came up.
But the lakes of Oppapago are perhaps not so deep, less green than gray, and better befriended.
CHAPTER XXIX "Many Waters" shone white and green under the bright May sunshine.
The winds and the snow and the rain had toned all Torre Garda down to a cool gray-green against which the four cypress trees on the terrace stood rigid like sentinels keeping eternal guard over the valley.
The lawn was still green about the gray stone building and the tiles on the low-hanging roof were moss green, too.
These, and such like phrases of the game, came distinctly from the green into the highway that quiet evening.
The word farvel, "farewell," was worked in green over the front door.
"I wonder how long it'll take to get that old rut smooth and green like the rest of the yard," he thought.
Stutely pushed his robe quickly down again, but the constable who commanded the Sheriffs men saw what had passed, and saw also fair Lincoln green beneath the friar's robe.
On them, one finds oneself at once in a garden; amid the noblest of timber, wheat, roots, grass which is green through the driest summers, and, in the western counties, cider-orchards laden with red and golden fruit.
For a long time she knelt, her bright uncovered head dappled by a ray of sunlight which filtered through the deep, cool green above her, her face bent, her eyes brooding, as though she prayed.
The swamp-floor is thickly covered, and the Lycopodium lucidulum looks suddenly greener amid them.
A ride over sand-hills brought us in view of the town, embedded in olive and date-trees, looking fresh and green after our hot and dusty march; it lay stretched at the foot of a range of hills, which formed the boundaries of another extensive plain.
Of Earl Godwin's manor-house only the moat remains near an ancient mill towards the sea; and there, upon the little green between the grey church and the grey sea, one may best recall the reverent past of this lovely spot.
I want company, with imagination speaking from the sky and reality speaking from the patch of green out on the sea of gray!