“And at my feet the pale green ThamesLies like a rod of rippled jade.”
“She turned back to inspect a bank of greens: olive, jade, leaf, kiwi, lime, a silver-green like the back of birch leaves, a bright pistachio.”
“But always, to her, red and green cabbages were to be jade and burgundy, chrysoprase and prophyry. Life has no weapons against a woman like that.”
“The leaves had edges of silver that trembled and rippled like a river of green and fire flowing high above us.”
“Livia’s nickname for him was Green Eyes, as his were spectacular—the clearest jade and almost glowing.”
“I hold beneath pale green.”