Word: emerald
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...could be seen drinking his absinthe at the Cafe de la Paix. Papa advised that they be enlightened in 20 years. Eleanor, the loveliest one, first accepted, then jilted English Novelist Arnold Bennett. Writes Anne: "A chit was throwing over a good heart, a fine brain and an emerald ring, all belonging to a literary gentleman of some prominence, aged thirty-nine...
Across the abundant Midwest, the sun was bright and warm. Cool winds blew across the prairies. Winter wheat showed emerald in the rolling fields. On thousands of U.S. farms, plows and disc harrows turned back the black earth for next month's corn planting...
...been used [by other critics] to describe the book, which give a different impression from that conveyed by your reviewer. After all, one doesn't endure, for eight years, in exile, the difficulties which were a constant factor of my work on the book, just to embroider in emerald floss another portrait of Emmet suitable for use on a cuddly sofa cushion. It took guts and ingenuity even to stay in Ireland...
...returning to his ancestral clan. Clans aren't worth a darn unless they're a-feudin' and pretty soon another clan turns up with plaids and tempers that clash with Parks' outfit. After a couple of deep technicolor breaths of the sky (blue) the trappings (scarlet) and the lochs (emerald) the picture settles down to conversation (colorless, but strongly accented). The time has come to stop looking and listen. Clan wars are futile, says the hero sand because his bonny one belongs to the other clan, the time has come to make up. Ellen Drew, the bonny one, flashes...
Suddenly, at one of these halts, a blue Ford station wagon hove in sight, coming down from Konitsa. Out of it tripped a hatless, trim figure of a girl wearing woolen stockings, bobby-sox, a grey, fur-trimmed coat with an emerald bracelet peeping from the sleeve. "Hail, Boubou-lina!" bellowed the bishop.* The girl was Greece's blue-eyed, curly-haired, blonde Queen Frederika...