grey-green

• “A grey-green statue has fallen, and I lie naked on the grass with you while the people of a wedding party traverse the pink land up a path from the coast.”

  Fictionaut: the long white cloud above my body

• “He had elfinlike good looks, with curly light brown hair, sparkling grey-green eyes, an impish smile, and great warmth.”

  Simon & Schuster: Henry’s Demons

• “Apart from a rich green of dog's mercury and wild garlic leaves crawling across muddy ground, the overall colour was like the mood – grey: grey-brown, grey-green, grey-grey.”

  The Guardian: Country Diary: Wenlock Edge

• “Plaster curls decoratively down long walls; opal windows seem to let in a grey-green light; the effect is not so much tenement as verdigris ballroom.”

  The Guardian: Reasons to Be Pretty; Juno and the Paycock; The Lion in Winter – review

• “The curtains were drawn against a sun that might have bleached the grey-green silk and velvet upholstery of Mathilde's Louis XV settee and slightly mismatching chairs.”

  Fictionaut: Coppet, Switzerland — April 2000

• “She loved the illustration on the front cover, in which Madame Curie wore a plain dress, soft grey-green.”

  Fictionaut: Radium

• “It was the Atlantic, blue and sparkling with white-tipped waves; the water in Campbeltown Loch was dark grey-green and so sheltered as to be almost still.”

  Jill McGown, in her own words

• “As i was peeling off a dust cover to reveal grey-green mould stains , the first thought in my head was : “This must be how it starts”.”

  Compendium of Weird

• “Muted shades of taupe, blue and grey-green enhance this 8.5 inch soft doll's pensive demeanor.”

  Tis the Season Already?

• “On the other side of the mountains, the grey-green sea had followed the inward breath of the tide, across mirror-silvered, smooth sands.”

  The Guardian: Country diary: Wenlock Edge

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