ivy-green

Years and years ago, in the dark ages when I was a young teenager, it was fashionable to fill your room with houseplants - spider plants, philodendron, ferns, ivy-green leggy things cradled in macrame hangars or tucked into brightly colored ceramic pots.

Thriving 2009

Years and years ago, in the dark ages when I was a young teenager, it was fashionable to fill your room with houseplants - spider plants, philodendron, ferns, ivy-green leggy things cradled in macrame hangars or tucked into brightly colored ceramic pots.

2009 May « Becca’s Byline 2009

It was like the swamp was wrapping ivy-green arms around her, constricting her, smothering her.

EMPIRE DAVID DUNWOODY 2008

It was like the swamp was wrapping ivy-green arms around her, constricting her, smothering her.

EMPIRE DAVID DUNWOODY 2008

It was like the swamp was wrapping ivy-green arms around her, constricting her, smothering her.

EMPIRE DAVID DUNWOODY 2008

Works of art dotted the ivy-green walls wherever bookshelves ceased momentarily, before winding their way on along the wall several feet farther on.

The Art Thief Noah Charney 2007

Then she made do; she used a section of her ivy-green skirt to protect her fingers and picked the crab up again.

Dragon on a Pedestal Anthony, Piers 1983

The oak-trees above the hedgerows had not lost their leaves, and in the darting, rain-washed light from the setting sun, had a sheen of old gold with heart of ivy-green; the hail-stripped beeches flamed with copper; the russet tufts of the ash-trees glowed.

Complete Project Gutenberg John Galsworthy Works John Galsworthy 1900

On second thought, I think I would have some flowers; and maybe a bit of ivy-green.

Children of the Bush Henry Lawson 1894

The clergyman who would have liked a grand cathedral like York Minster is perfectly pleased with his little country church, ivy-green and grey.

The Recreations of a Country Parson Andrew Kennedy Hutchison Boyd 1862