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green-embroidered

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  • He turned and walked quickly over to the carved, box-like confessional, and drew aside the green-embroidered curtain.

    From out the Vasty Deep Marie Belloc Lowndes 1907

  • Oberland dons his gay green-embroidered jacket over his snowy shirt, fastens his short knee-breeches with a girdle round his waist, claps his high, feather-crowned hat upon his waving curls, and with bare legs, shod in mighty boots, strides over the hill-sides to his Gretchen's door.

    Diary of a Pilgrimage 1893

  • As I stood looking wistfully over the gate, alternately at the inviting vista of the green-embroidered path, and then at the grim notice over my head, "All trespassers prosecuted," a young man came up the ride, dressed in velveteen jacket and leather gaiters, sufficiently bedrabbled with mud.

    Alton Locke, Tailor and Poet An Autobiography Charles Kingsley 1847

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