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  • That blogger -- Ms. Peagreen -- seems to not be able to decide whehter she's more upset that McMorris is a christian (Jesse Jackson, Bill Clinton and Algore claim to be one, too, but that apparently doesn't upset Ms. "peagreen" -- her blog pen name) or that Peagreen doesn't think McMorris is judged to be a 'good' christian.

    Sound Politics: Liberals Remain Miffed About Religion 2006

  • They were almost normal hands, if you ignored the peagreen color and the translucent webbing that joined the fingers.

    The Last Starfighter Foster, Alan Dean, 1946- Last starfighter 1984

  • He selected a costume of peagreen and pink satin and velvet, with embroidered shags on all the edges and iridescent pearls for ornaments.

    The Patchwork Girl of Oz Baum, L. Frank 1913

  • She had four dinky sets with awfully pretty stitchery, three garments and nighties extra, and each set slotted with different coloured ribbons, rosepink, pale blue, mauve and peagreen, and she aired them herself and blued them when they came home from the wash and ironed them and she had a brickbat to keep the iron on because she wouldn't trust those washerwomen as far as she'd see them scorching the things.

    Ulysses James Joyce 1911

  • He was a lovely peagreen under the gills, but he made a stagger at putting up a game of talk.

    Shorty McCabe Sewell Ford 1907

  • That turns its goat's-beard flakes of peagreen moss

    THE BORDERERS A Tragedy 1888

  • 'What dress shall I put on, mamma? the pink or the peagreen?' says

    The Rose and the Ring William Makepeace Thackeray 1837

  • Day after day produced nothing better for us than baffling winds, so light that we scarcely made tow miles and hour, and so variable that the sails could be scarcely set in one direction before it became necessay to shift them to another; while the monotony of our voyage was only broken by an occasional thunder-storm, the catching of stray dolphin now and then, watching a shoal of flying-fish, or guessing at the complexion of the corsairs on board some vessel in the offing: for the Caribbean Sea is now dabbed all over like apainter's pallette with corsairs of all colours, -- black from St. Domingo, brown from Carthagena, white from North America, and peagreen from the Cape de Verd Islands.

    Journal of a Residence among the Negroes in the West Indies Matthew Gregory 1845

  • She had four dinky sets with awfully pretty stitchery, three garments and nighties extra, and each set slotted with different coloured ribbons, rosepink, pale blue, mauve and peagreen, and she aired them herself and blued them when they came home from the wash and ironed them and she had a brickbat to keep the iron on because she wouldn’t trust those washerwomen as far as she’d see them scorching the things.

    Ulysses 2003

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