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    '''Green'''<br /> '''Green Pip'''<br />
    11 KB (1,674 words) - 14:03, 27 April 2008
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    ...ermont, a flamboyant farmer-turned-statesman from Connecticutt who led the Green Mountain Boys, a citizen's militia formed to protect the interests of the f
    10 KB (1,387 words) - 07:52, 13 November 2012
  • "is slowly absorb'd into a mirthful Cloud of tartan-edg'd Emerald Green and luminous Coral Taffeta." 271 "We've seen 'em all, all manner of Traveler, saints and sinners, green and season'd some who could teach Eels to wriggle and some who were pure fi
    6 KB (1,027 words) - 06:24, 23 December 2006
  • ..." be more-or-less edible. Ours was a disgusting combination of shortening, green food coloring, and sardine oil.
    1 KB (204 words) - 07:24, 23 December 2006
  • ...bados as chaplain to her majesty's ship Louisa, accompanied by Mr. Charles Green. His astronomical observations there were presented to the Royal Society on
    9 KB (1,371 words) - 09:18, 24 December 2006
  • Etymology: From the Latin viridis, from virere ‘to be green’.<br> ...pinnate-leaved tree cultivated in the tropics. The fruit resembles a small green cucumber and grows on the trunk and the older branches. The fruit is about
    10 KB (1,655 words) - 13:43, 3 May 2013
  • '''Field of Duck-Green, not to mention reliable Magenta'''<br> ...g into almost every novel, with numerous mentions in GR - see 'Magenta and Green', [http://gravitys-rainbow.pynchonwiki.com/wiki/index.php?title=M GRwiki].
    17 KB (2,709 words) - 13:37, 7 May 2013
  • ...s), crusty bap or chunk of bread, and butter. It is often accompanied by a green salad; other common additions are half an apple, celery, pâté, sliced har
    9 KB (1,470 words) - 20:13, 15 February 2016
  • '''incipient case of the Green Pip''' <br> The green pip is an Old English term for "loss of color" - as in, Mitzi's face has gr
    12 KB (1,904 words) - 13:33, 9 May 2013
  • ..., as they're about to begin the West Line, must be sighted thro' a haze of green Resurrection.'''<br> "Wow! remember that radar screen in GR with its `green return' (also the
    13 KB (2,145 words) - 16:39, 10 September 2015
  • ...rocer or fruiterer is a retail trader in fruit and vegetables; that is, in green groceries. Greengrocer is primarily a British and Australian term, and gre
    11 KB (1,801 words) - 12:17, 20 June 2021
  • ...de from a horse's back or that of an onager (wild ass), and typically dyed green. The word derives from the French chagrin (sorrow) which in turn is borrow
    10 KB (1,526 words) - 13:14, 6 May 2013
  • ...outlaws known as his "Merry Men". Robin and many of his men wore Lincoln green clothes. From [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robin_hood WIKI] ...derives from the Sanskrit ''sila'' and ''dhara'', which mean "stone" and "green" respectively. From [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Celadon WIKI]
    30 KB (4,695 words) - 16:36, 15 July 2013
  • Whilst 'neath the Deadly Never-Green
    16 KB (2,855 words) - 14:29, 10 December 2011
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