"Earth-colored" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... the earth-colored streams, They breathe on me awake, and moan to me in dreams, And yonder ivy fondling the broke castle-wall, It pulls upon my heart till the wild ...
— The Little Book of Modern Verse • Jessie B. Rittenhouse
... die," it was yet the scene of not a few laughable experiences. And perhaps even in this respect it may not have differed so widely as one might think from cloistered shades of other days, when out of sad, earth-colored raiment and the habit of dismal speech human sentiment painted pictures while yet the fagots grew apace for their destruction as well as for the funeral-pyre of their scolding and bellowing enemy, Savonarola. For where Fra Angelico, working from the life, could create a San Sebastian so ...
— Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science, Volume 26, July 1880. • Various |
