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  • In photographs, the glacier looks like a sooty snowbank; close-up, it's an eerie blue mountain of ice, winding its way down to a milky-green glacial lake with hardly a plant in sight.

    Norway's Glaciers Become a Hot Spot 2010

  • Sighing, Belladonna walked into the bathroom and tossed the rag into the milky-green granite sink.

    Black Dust Mambo Adrian Phoenix 2010

  • Overall, Mimosa pour Moi is characterized by a watery-woody floralcy and subtle powdery and milky-green woodiness.

    Mimosa pour Moi Ayala Sender 2007

  • Overall, Mimosa pour Moi is characterized by a watery-woody floralcy and subtle powdery and milky-green woodiness.

    Archive 2007-04-01 Ayala Sender 2007

  • But, on their way home, he halted on the wooden bridge that spanned the milky-green alpine river.

    Succedaneum 2004

  • It seemed impossible that those neat emerald bobbles, those velvety, milky-green leaves, should have been implicit in the soot-black sticks -- so much deader-looking than the polished brown twigs of the countryside -- which she had brought in a month ago.

    Mrs. Miniver 1939

  • A woman whose shame was gone acquired a sudden hysteria at her lone table over her milky-green drink, and a waiter hustled her out none too gently.

    The Best Short Stories of 1915 And the Yearbook of the American Short Story Various 1915

  • That was in the Rockies, you know, and just below our mountain I am sure there was a canyon like that -- I dream of it -- with milky-green water running under and over and round the most extraordinary shapes of ice, and cactuses like green hedgehogs in the crevices of the rocks, and great untidy pine-trees clinging to an ounce of earth on an inch of flat surface.

    Living Alone Stella Benson 1912

  • It would not matter if such platitudes only lived on dustily in vapid and ill-furnished minds, like the vases of milky-green opaque glass decorated with golden stars, that were the joy of Early Victorian chimney-pieces, and now hold spills in the second-best spare bedroom.

    At Large Arthur Christopher Benson 1893

  • The water is pale, milky-green colour, which, under certain effects of light, has a wonderful aerial transparency.

    Northern Travel Summer and Winter Pictures of Sweden, Denmark and Lapland Bayard Taylor 1851

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