He bent to look at her, his brown-green eyes shadowed with pain.    From Wordnik.com.  [In Celebration Of Lammas Night]

They approach us in no unfriendly manner in their brown-green uniforms.    From Wordnik.com.  [Stuka Pilot]

I put on a grey flannel shirt, the brown-green trousers of a grazier, a woollen pullover and a tweed coat.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Breaking Wave]

A hill rose in a great, brown-green wave, already breaking into a skylit froth of fence rails and fruit trees.    From Wordnik.com.  [Nightside The Long Sun]

Monica supposed they'd be pretty once things started growing, but right now they were a sort of dirty brown-green.    From Wordnik.com.  [Jinx High]

They were the same odd shade of brown-green, or green-brown, at certain angles appearing green and, at others, brown.    From Wordnik.com.  [Let’s do something with this] Reference

If it were a fabric, it would be heavy, dark brown-green velvet with golden ornaments depicting intricate heraldic flowers.    From Wordnik.com.  [Archive 2007-05-01] Reference

Also, the field behind the iPad's type has a blue hue that's a bit harsher on the eyes than the brown-green tinge of the Kindle's.    From Wordnik.com.  [E-reader faceoff: Apple iPad vs. Amazon Kindle] Reference

Efeon sat at the worktable, watching her with those brown-green eyes, his face smooth, as though he had never had an angry moment in his life.    From Wordnik.com.  [In Celebration Of Lammas Night]

And he -- Shann Lantee from the Dumps of Tyr, without any influence or schooling -- was going to blast off in her, wearing the brown-green uniform of Survey!.    From Wordnik.com.  [Storm Over Warlock] Reference

I think it is probable that where Titian has used brown-green he intended it, since in many of the Venetian pictures we find green draperies of a beautiful colour.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Mind of the Artist Thoughts and Sayings of Painters and Sculptors on Their Art] Reference

Great ilexes of huge girth stood dark and solemn in wide glades with here and there among them hoary ash-trees, and giant oaks just putting out their brown-green buds.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Lord of the Rings]

America's wars have become up-country affairs, and the big ships of our blue-water Navy are not quite adapted to brown-green waters where today's conflicts are likely to take place.    From Wordnik.com.  [Why TR Claimed the Seas] Reference

Large holographic screens filled the walls with views, everything from Terra as seen from the Albagens Pr/de's orbit to rolling brown-green landscapes of a world Jim had never seen.    From Wordnik.com.  [Step into Chaos]

The trees were winter-bare, the grass a faded brown-green, but at night the lights shining down into the park gave it an air of mystery-a man-made fairyland, in sharp contrast to the inhuman beauty of Underhill.    From Wordnik.com.  [Beyond World's End]

Flowers innumerable grew on this plain, mixed with grass of a tawny brown-green.    From Wordnik.com.  [Clover] Reference

I couldn't see anything, but then, eventually, I spotted a tiny jutting brown-green tip.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Full Feed from HuffingtonPost.com] Reference

The result will be a bright white carcus, compared to the muddy brown-green you started with.    From Wordnik.com.  [reddit.com: what's new online!] Reference

Gavaghan is described as five foot five inches tall with a thin build, brown-green eyes and long black hair.    From Wordnik.com.  [CBC | Top Stories News] Reference

How the great, brown-green pines seemed to bend their lofty branches over her, protectively, understandingly.    From Wordnik.com.  [To the Last Man] Reference

From the rather thin, very sharp face looked a pair of small, muddy, brown-green eyes -- dull, crafty, cold, cruel.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Price She Paid] Reference

The game-time temperature was 17 degrees with a wind chill of 5 degrees, and the field was a dead looking dull brown-green.    From Wordnik.com.  [Redskins Insider Podcast -- The Washington Post] Reference

Not very green – a kind of brown-green, for the grass is short and close, nibbled by the sheep and cows that find their living on the hill most of the year.    From Wordnik.com.  [Little Miss Peggy: Only a Nursery Story] Reference

And here is a shell in which the opposite happened: the original shell had a light brown-green color, while the repaired portion ended up with the usual black color.    From Wordnik.com.  [SNAIL'S TALES] Reference

A fearsome orange wheel, spitting shreds of bright color, turning counterclockwise across the TV screen, moving from the blue of the Gulf to the brown-green of the land.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Other Side of the Ocean] Reference

Save for this slowly subsiding demonstration it was marvellously peaceful and remote up there, half-way to a blue sky thinly veiled from them by the crinkled brown-green leaves.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Dark Flower] Reference

The bark of the beech is itself a panel to study, spotted with velvet moss brown-green, made grey with close-grown lichen, stained with its own hues of growth, and toned by time.    From Wordnik.com.  [Field and Hedgerow Being the Last Essays of Richard Jefferies] Reference

There were the tender green of lettuces, the coral of tomatoes, the brown-green of stout asparagus stalks, bins of spring peas and beans, and carrots, and bunches of greens for soup.    From Wordnik.com.  [Roast Beef, Medium] Reference

He said nothing, watching a large bubble rise through the pure, brown-green water, float an instant on the surface, then vanish with the abrupt completeness of a miniature explosion.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Thing from the Lake] Reference

Around, and somewhat back beneath tall sentinel trees, crept the bushes and bracken of the mountain; but, above, the foliage opened and the sun shone in, turning the brown-green water of the pool to gold.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Window-Gazer] Reference

His cynical brown-green eyes paused upon a scatter of clothing, half-hiding the badly - rubbed red plush of the sofa -- a mussy flannel nightshirt with mothholes here and there; kneed trousers, uncannily reminiscent of.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Fashionable Adventures of Joshua Craig; a Novel] Reference

It is a bit of antique imagination, its cherub-borne plates of fruit, and golden flagons, and brown-green of foliage and turquoise of sky, and crimson and gold of garments, all softened to meet the shadows of the room.    From Wordnik.com.  [Principles of Home Decoration With Practical Examples] Reference

By two to three days after the birth, she’ll produce brown, brown-green, or brown-yellow stools that are the consistency of cake batter.    From Wordnik.com.  [Pregnancy, Childbirth, and the Newborn] Reference

Skip recognized the brown-green stain immediately: he’d been looking at variations of it for months while driving around the ruined city.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Lampshade] Reference

He glanced out at the brown-green expanses below.    From Wordnik.com.  [William Langewiesche on the Amazon air crash] Reference