Word: greenish
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...once-pretty Irish servant and someone other than the grimy bargee she calls their "old man." Entering the East River, in thickening fog and greasy tide-rips, the barge is rammed. Loaded with bricks ("the city's red corpuscles") it plunges under. John Breen struggles out of the greenish-black water to a Manhattan stringpiece. The city claims...
...very quiet and unaffected, speaks in a low quiet voice, has a twinkle in his greenish grey eyes. One can judge readily enough that he would not take a drink nowadays, not for any hypocritical reasons but because he would regard it as lawbreaking. In fact, he seems to be a likable sort, upright, not courting the limelight, not endowed with the graces that make for success in society?but likable. But of course this is not Andrew Volstead. Volstead is a myth. Volstead is a figure as noble as John Barleycorn is sinister, a powerful crusader, a tower...
...bluish cloud of smoke ascend. An investigating party beheld a hole in the earth 50 feet wide descending conically into blackness. As hours passed, this fissure sucked in the adjacent ground for 300 feet around, gaping out into the dry, sandy riverbed. Out of the bottom darkness, pale greenish waters later welled up and there was the white cow's body floating upon them, 100 feet below ground level. Sulphur fumes arose...
...thirty-six hours after departure, normal weather conditions prevailing: discomfort in the epigastric region, varying with the rise and fall of the ship; anorexia; salivation, with frequent swallowing movements; headache, dizziness; weakness, progressing to faintness; cold perspiration of the skin, and pallor of the face, with the oft-described greenish hue. The facial expression, which is one of great dejection and apathy, faithfully records the internal feelings. Waves of nausea finally get so strong that the desire to vomit is overwhelming, and after that act is consummated great relief is experienced. The vomiting is very often projectile in character...
...curiosity long ago. Charlemagne was said to have had a tablecloth of it; Eskimos used it for lamp-wicks. Mined from veins in the earth, white or gray horn-blende-asbestos may have fibres five or six feet long, but brittle. Serpentine-asbestos has shorter fibres, yellow or greenish, of great tensile strength and elasticity. Canada (near Quebec) is a great source. The rock is quarried, cobbed by hand, dried, crushed, rolled, divided by "fiberizers," graded, woven...