verdigrised

And even though the clothesline is in the middle of the vast roof and the angel is falling straight down, he slips right past the verdigrised cornice as if he were sliding down a photograph of the building, and disappears from sight behind an enormous ginkgo.

Here Comes Another Lesson Stephen O’Connor 2010

Hair the color of rust whipped around the iron mask that blanked his face, a lamellar hauberk of verdigrised bronze encased his muscled form, and a double strand of plucked eyeballs hung around his neck.

AN IMPERFECT SWORDSMAN • by Bill Ward 2008

The bathroom was a dark den with leprous walls and a rickety verdigrised geyser which would spit two inches of tepid water into the bath and then mulishly stop working.

Burmese Days 2002

Once again he rested the verdigrised copper of his helmet against the no-longer-quite-so-brightly-gleaming metal of the capsule.

Tales of Ten Worlds Clarke, Arthur C. 1950

On board the ferry, until the coldest weather began, there were always some wretched musicians, with an old fiddle, an old clarinet, and an old verdigrised brass bugle, performing during the passage, and, as the boat neared the shore, sending round one of their number to gather contributions in the hollow of the brass bugle.

Passages from the English Notebooks, Complete Nathaniel Hawthorne 1834

On board the ferry, until the coldest weather began, there were always some wretched musicians, with an old fiddle, an old clarinet, and an old verdigrised brass bugle, performing during the passage, and, as the boat neared the shore, sending round one of their number to gather contributions in the hollow of the brass bugle.

Passages from the English Notebooks, Volume 1. Nathaniel Hawthorne 1834

“… a lamellar hauberk of verdigrised bronze …”?????

AN IMPERFECT SWORDSMAN • by Bill Ward 2008

As for what they are after i’d say it was the restricted stacks at the smithsonian, you know soapstone stars with strange dot patterns, verdigrised bronze stantues that shift when you look at them, that sort of thing ..

Cheeseburger Gothic » Gentlemen’s Club. 2009

At the bottom of the page are my nephews, in Sydney trying out my cousin’s two-wheel skateboard (without any resounding success), and on the right is the younger’s drawing of the sundial in the garden in Killara – it has a twisted pedestal of thin red bricks and the gnomon (yes, I had to look that up) is verdigrised.

Dragons in the garden 2009

At the bottom of the page are my nephews, in Sydney trying out my cousin’s two-wheel skateboard (without any resounding success), and on the right is the younger’s drawing of the sundial in the garden in Killara – it has a twisted pedestal of thin red bricks and the gnomon (yes, I had to look that up) is verdigrised.

Illustration Friday: Pattern 2009