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  • The stream issued out of a green-shadowed tunnel, walled and roofed with leaves and branches.

    War Game Price, Anthony 1976

  • The room was a forest of flowers; vases, bowls, and pots were perched everywhere, and each contained a mass of beautiful blooms that shone in the gloom, like walls of jewels in a green-shadowed cave.

    My Family and Other Animals Durrell, Gerald, 1925- 1956

  • Skirting the hither side of the pool where the hobbits had bathed, they crossed the stream, climbed a long bank, and passed into green-shadowed woodlands that marched ever downwards and westwards.

    The Lord of the Rings Tolkien, J. R. R. 1954

  • Van Roon already was bending over his papers, in his green-shadowed sanctuary, and the light shining down upon his smoked glasses created the odd illusion that he was looking over the tops of the lenses and not down at the table as his attitude suggested.

    The Devil Doctor Sax Rohmer 1921

  • He had an impulse to hunt it, for her sake, through the green-shadowed space in which it careered in long tacks with such energy and noise; but, standing up, he was seized with a stronger impulse to leave the house forthwith, and everything in it.

    Sisters Ada Cambridge 1885

  • "The eyes will eat her alive," Zina cautions against Gennady bringing Nurit home, but we get the sense that Zina's green-shadowed eyes would be the only ones watching, her eyebrows plucked in stern surprise.

    Tablet Magazine 2009

  • When his eyes had lowered to the green-shadowed landscape before him, he said fretfully: "I wish those fellows out yonder would quit pelting at us.

    The Little Regiment Stephen Crane 1885

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