They leaked silvery-green light out into the clearing. From Wordnik.com. [Mercadian Masques]
A low-growing shrub with silvery-green three-lobed leaves and milky sap. From Wordnik.com. [Concordance A Terran Empire concordance] Reference
Then she noticed the beautiful silvery-green leaves of sallow extending up beyond them. From Wordnik.com. [The Plains of Passage]
Chastyl pointed out that there were some silvery-green sparkles in the image, and that suggested the use of Talent. From Wordnik.com. [Soarer's Choice]
The silvery-green gleam of her eyes appeared, and then she smiled at him, turning her hand in his and gently squeezing. From Wordnik.com. [Ryan]
Slow-moving blobs of silvery-green, scarlet, and gold, accompanied by a faint hissing crackle, rose up from the horizon. From Wordnik.com. [Conqueror's Moon]
Many of these olive trees have a striking visual appeal: gnarled, thick trunks with cropped branches and silvery-green leaves. From Wordnik.com. [A New Market for Old Olive Trees] Reference
His eyes, like the leaves of the poppies, were a pale silvery-green, and his light brown hair fell down his back in a single cabled braid. From Wordnik.com. [Kushiel's Avatar]
None of the trees near the fountain had trunks large enough to hide behind, so she wandered around, looking up through the silvery-green foliage to find him. From Wordnik.com. [A Matter of Honor A Terran Empire novel] Reference
This is a cold fragrance, with silvery-green, high-pitched notes of lily of the valley and hyacinth, aided by the bright citrusy notes, being much more prominent than the warmer and sweeter notes of linden, rose and orange blossom. From Wordnik.com. [Archive 2007-03-01] Reference
We just repainted it a pale silvery-green and I'm bringing in lots of hanging ferns for air quality. From Wordnik.com. [RVABlogs] Reference
Far as the eye can reach, nothing is seen but one continuous sweep of country covered with the silvery-green olive. From Wordnik.com. [The Roof of France] Reference
All they can do is rustle those long, silvery-green leaves, peel off a dappled shred of bark, drop some pungent nuts. From Wordnik.com. [North Coast Journal Comments] Reference
Cardoon, a relative of globe artichoke, forms a 4 - to 6-foot clump of felted, deeply dissected silvery-green foliage. From Wordnik.com. [The Big Apple] Reference
From the higher branches of the alders that shut out the sky with their dainty, silvery-green leaves, hung -- with many. From Wordnik.com. [The Eyes of the World] Reference
They had not gone far over the silvery-green meadow -- three shadow-lengths, perhaps -- when they saw something coming toward them. From Wordnik.com. [The Primrose Ring] Reference
Outside the open windows, seen between breezy curtains, new buds already clothed the great twisted ropes of pendant wistaria with a silvery-green down. From Wordnik.com. [Ailsa Paige] Reference
People were coming and going from the line of bath-houses that backed upon the low sand-bank behind them, with its tufts of coarse silvery-green grasses. From Wordnik.com. [The Story of a Play A Novel] Reference
See for yourself: The tree is common in moist lowland forests, and can easily be spotted en masse as a silvery-green streak on hillsides among darker green foliage. From Wordnik.com. [SFGate: Top News Stories] Reference
It was almost mid-April; and still the silvery-green tassels on the wistaria showed no hint of the blue petals folded within; but the maples 'leafless symmetry was already veined with fire. From Wordnik.com. [Ailsa Paige] Reference
The votes have been cast, the tallies tallied and the winner determined: Viridian Joule will be the official name of the silvery-green hue as seen on a slew of Chevy Volt marketing material for what seems like the last decade or so. From Wordnik.com. [Autoblog Green] Reference
Close to our left hand rise banks fringed with silvery-green willows, and above a bold line of hills, part wood, part vineyards, with white houses peeping here and there; on our right, a little island-like group of poplar, the whole picture very sweet and pastoral. From Wordnik.com. [The Roof of France] Reference
There is much sadness yet poetic charm in the landscape sweeps of silvery-green olive or bluish salicornia against a pale-blue sky, dull-brown fishing villages bordering sleepy lagoons, stretches of white sand, with here and there a glimpse of the purple, rock-hemmed sea. From Wordnik.com. [In the Heart of the Vosges And Other Sketches by a "Devious Traveller"] Reference
The aments, too, with their light silvery-green tint, glisten beautifully on the darker leaves. ". From Wordnik.com. [Among the Trees at Elmridge] Reference
The birds’ washed silvery-green underparts match the underside of the new leaves, and their wings shiver like quivering foliage as they sing. From Wordnik.com. [A Year on the Wing] Reference
My household rose to see him off, watching his mounted form vanish into his surroundings, as the night’s rain dripped from the olives and the silvery-green leaves sighed at his passing. From Wordnik.com. [Kushiel's Avatar]
The green leitmotif continues to run through the middle stage, where the headiness of jasmine, rose and neroli appear like a luxuriant bouquet tied with a silvery-green thread of Dior’s beloved lily of the valley. From Wordnik.com. [Archive 2007-01-01] Reference
The day was beautiful, as only early September days can be -- when the sun is hot, yet not too hot, and its light falls in a silken radiance on trees just losing the opulent monotony of summer, on silvery-gold reaped fields, silvery-green uplands, golden mustard; when shots ring out in the distance, and, as one gazes, a leaf falls, without reason, as it would seem. From Wordnik.com. [Beyond] Reference
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