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  • The green-garbed alien with one arm grabbed a weapon and waved it fiercely at the abat.

    Genellan- Planetfall Gier, Scott 2005

  • As Braan worked his way back to the lake he observed the green-garbed long-legs making their way along the northern edge of the lake.

    Genellan- Planetfall Gier, Scott 2005

  • Odysseus was sitting apart from his men, talking to the green-garbed Andromache.

    Lord of the Silver Bow Gemmell, David 2005

  • From its location on the next-to-the-top floor of the Federal Police Headquarters, Nogales Division (the top floor being armored and reserved for ballistics and rapid-reaction deployment via chopter and vertiprop), a visitor could see halfway across the Strip, past office towers and green-garbed codos, past humming maquiladoras and malls, and dream of the distant cool waters of the Golfo California.

    The Mocking Program Foster, Alan Dean, 1946- 2002

  • Amanda-Abbey giggled at the apparent nonsense in that, and when the green-garbed elf vanished again, she rubbed the bead on her wrist, like a waif summoning a genie from a bottle.

    Omnibus Lackey, Mercedes 1993

  • The green-garbed man reappeared right in front of her and winked at her, then laughed soundlessly and hid behind the holly's trunk.

    Omnibus Lackey, Mercedes 1993

  • The green-garbed man reappeared right in front of her and winked at her, then laughed soundlessly and hid -behind the holly's trunk.

    The Otherworld Lackey, Mercedes 1992

  • Cathedral porch, his mind in part pre-occupied by theology, but still not failing to observe how beautiful was this young princess, as she rode by on her white palfrey, green-garbed and crowned and a-glitter with jewels.

    Jurgen A Comedy of Justice James Branch Cabell 1918

  • Informed at Versailles of the task he would have to perform, the exact nature of which was kept a secret from the troops themselves now gathered at Brest, Rochambeau hastened to forget his “rhumatisme inflammatoire” and set to work to get everything in readiness, collecting information, talking with those who knew America, and noting down in his green-garbed registers, which were to accompany him in his campaign, the chief data thus secured.

    Rochambeau and the French in America. I. From Unpublished Documents. II 1916

  • To our left, as we rode eastward, ran the swift and shallow Platte, dotted with green-garbed islands.

    Last of the great scouts; the life story of Col. William F. Cody ("Buffalo Bill") as told by his sister, Helen Cody Wetmore 1899

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