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    greenness example sentences

    greenness


    1. Underfoot, bits of rock crumbled and splashed into the water, sinking past fishes in the swaying seaweed to the greenness down beyond


    2. She nodded again and looked away from the all too blue out on the greenness of the forest


    3. 12 Whilst it is yet in his greenness, and not cut down, it withers before any other herb


    4. Then she was spun round until she no longer knew the direction of the sky or earth, and the greenness flooded through her mind and skin


    5. The gate was ajar; in the background, hidden between the greenness of the grass, one could see the white gravestones, some decorated with figures of winged angels, others with crosses or cherubs in a variety of positions: a whole eclectic met in order to ensure the last sleep of the dead


    6. With a smile I settle back in the chair beside her and stare out at the greenness of the Ara


    7. with the very green greenness of Hồ Gươm


    8. As she watched the rider gallop into the distance, she noticed the brilliance of the sunny day, the blueness of the sky and the greenness of the grass and trees in the far distance


    9. It seems that the main causes of our defeat include a more powerful than expected German air and ground reaction, poor top leadership on the American ground side and the utter greenness of the American troops involved


    10. What is “desiccated” is what is dry, and has lost greenness and freshness

    11. And bubbles over pebbles in the greenness,


    12. You see the place far away in the distance the whole time, and you jolt on and on at a walking pace towards it, in and out of ruts, over grass-mounds, the sun beating on your head, sea on your left rolling up the beach in long waves, more sea on your right across the undulating greenness, a distant hill with a village by the water to the west, sails of fisher-boats, people in a curious costume mowing in a meadow a great way off, and tethered all over the plain solitary sheep and cows, whose nervousness at your approach is the nervousness begotten of a retired life


    13. “Okay, fine, I’ll admit that it’s different here – the fresh air, the mountains, all of the greenness


    14. The greenness and freshness were at first restful to his weary eyes after the dust of the town and the huge houses that hemmed him in and weighed upon him


    15. He drew her farther on to a small pool where duckweeds made a greenness on the water


    16. She was silent whilst he worked, looking round at the afternoon, the red cottages shining among their greenness


    17. considering the greenness of the twigs and the severity of the infliction,


    18. On either side of them, as they glided onwards, the rich meadow-grass seemed that morning of a freshness and a greenness unsurpassable


    19. In the dark, they could smell soil, greenness, rain washing over living things


    20. Nor was this raw work to be wondered at, considering the greenness of the twigs and the severity of the infliction, whilst the whole surface of the skin was so smooth-stretched over the hard and firm pulp of flesh that filled it, as to yield no play, or elusive swagging under the stroke: which thereby took place the more plump, and cut into the quick

    21. It was as yet too early in the year for much colour to appear in the gardens and foliage; the so-called spring was but winter overlaid with a thin coat of greenness, and it was of a parcel with his expectations


    22. It sat on its own little point of land, with shimmering blue water on three sides and nothing but dense forest greenness looming behind


    23. The bus started and all of the people in it shook and swayed and cried out and smiled, and the land of Mexico seemed to whirl about outside the window, like a dream undecided whether to stay or go, and then the greenness passed away, and the town, and there was the Hotel de Las Flores with its open patio, and there, incredibly, hands in pockets, standing in the open door but looking at the sky and the volcano smoke, was Joseph, paying no attention to the bus or her and she was going away from him, he was growing remote already, his figure was dwindling like someone falling down a mine shaft, silently, without a scream


    24. But there were some boobies and bumpkins there, who, by their intense greenness, must have come from the heart and centre of all verdure


    25. Old as Pizarro, this whiteness keeps her ruins for ever new; admits not the cheerful greenness of complete decay; spreads over her broken ramparts the rigid pallor of an apoplexy that fixes its own distortions


    26. “Would you believe it that ever since that scene with her, I have thought of nothing else but my youthful greenness, and just as though you guessed that, you begin about it


    27. But he insisted that the good air at Pavlofsk and the greenness would certainly cause a physical change for the better, and that my excitement, and my dreams, would be perhaps relieved


    28. He lived solely for his own amusement; cropping life’s greenness in a slow, easy, ruminant fashion, and on a modest income


    29. Then, the day having been close and warm, he pushed his chair beside the roasted greenness on the balcony and sat looking down idly, in the early evening, from behind the thick stone balusters upon the square


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    Synonyms for "greenness"

    green greenness viridity verdancy verdure

    "greenness" definitions

    the lush appearance of flourishing vegetation


    the state of not being ripe


    green color or pigment; resembling the color of growing grass