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  • I had a stapler that was a kind of greygreen and I lifted the color off of that.

    unknown title 2009

  • A brisk wind almost tore the map from their fingers as they left the station, and their vaporetto bucked a steep chop on the greygreen Grand Canal as it took them to the Ca 'd' Oro, the fanciful white High Gothic palazzo that loomed like a frantic wedding cake above a swarm of bobbing gondolas and motorboats.

    Asimov's Science Fiction 2003

  • Beyond the bush, deep azure blue, within it and throughout it, flooding sunshine and golden ladders of light; and at its sun-flecked heart, under that drooping crimson-starred canopy of soft greygreen, that little company of bush-folk, standing beside that open grave, as Mother Nature, strewing with flowers the last resting place of one of her children, scattered gently falling scarlet blossoms into it and about it.

    We of the Never-Never Jeannie Gunn 1915

  • A little more of the greygreen lichen, a dead branch or two, and for the rest it might have been only last night that he had embraced that mossy trunk after Megan's flight and inhaled its woody savour, while above his head the moonlit blossom had seemed to breathe and live.

    Five Tales John Galsworthy 1900

  • A little more of the greygreen lichen, a dead branch or two, and for the rest it might have been only last night that he had embraced that mossy trunk after Megan's flight and inhaled its woody savour, while above his head the moonlit blossom had seemed to breathe and live.

    Complete Project Gutenberg John Galsworthy Works John Galsworthy 1900

  • Coleus canina has attractive greygreen foliage and pretty blue flowers in summer - but cats hate its smell.

    Mirror.co.uk - News 2009

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