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  • But not the green-robed Liberty with her proud, green face.

    Mexican-American Artist Brings Immigrant Experience Out of Shadows 2010

  • Attacked by bandits and left for dead in the Sahara Desert, millionaire playboy Franklin Wallace stumbles on the lost oasis of a mysterious green-robed Moor, Amir Al-Hazred.

    Archive 2010-01-01 Hal Duncan 2010

  • Attacked by bandits and left for dead in the Sahara Desert, millionaire playboy Franklin Wallace stumbles on the lost oasis of a mysterious green-robed Moor, Amir Al-Hazred.

    The Legion of American Watchers Hal Duncan 2010

  • Have you ever seen a punk band, a green-robed choir, a children's Irish step dance troupe, a conservatory string section, a bagpipe police band, and a mad violinist assembled on one stage?

    Archive 2008-03-01 Becca 2008

  • Have you ever seen a punk band, a green-robed choir, a children's Irish step dance troupe, a conservatory string section, a bagpipe police band, and a mad violinist assembled on one stage?

    Notes on Last Night Becca 2008

  • He hears bells tinkle on the wind: forthriding from the formless folds of the mist, dawns on him the brightest vision - a green-robed lady, on a snow-white palfrey; he sees her dress, her gems, and her steed; she arrests him with some mysterious questions: he is spell-bound, and must follow her into Fairyland.

    Shirley, by Charlotte Bronte 2004

  • It was the green-robed acolytes who awaited them, with knives in their hands.

    The Bloody Crown of Conan Howard, Robert E. 2003

  • Far below him, moving across the glimmering floor, which shone like burnished silver, he saw the forms of the green-robed acolytes.

    The Bloody Crown of Conan Howard, Robert E. 2003

  • The green-robed figure on the tower staggered, clutching at the long shaft which quivered in its bosom, and then pitched across the parapet.

    The Bloody Crown of Conan Howard, Robert E. 2003

  • Cipriano: ‘Till green-robed Malintzi brings her water-bowl.’

    The Plumed Serpent 2003

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