Brown Green

The brown-green swamp water mixes with the blood, turning the water black. ❋ Max Brallier (2011)

In the late nineteenth century, Juliet Corson, the famed founder of The New York Cooking School, said that following such instructions yielded brown-green masses of fiber with no taste or nutritional value. ❋ Molly O’Neill (2010)

Also, the field behind the iPad's type has a blue hue that's a bit harsher on the eyes than the brown-green tinge of the Kindle's. ❋ Unknown (2010)

The goop is a brown-green, and it delivers a putrid-looking earth tone to the yarn, but in a magic moment of oxidization, this color suddenly explodes into electric blue. ❋ Unknown (2010)

They were the same odd shade of brown-green, or green-brown, at certain angles appearing green and, at others, brown. ❋ Unknown (2009)

I couldn't see anything, but then, eventually, I spotted a tiny jutting brown-green tip. ❋ Unknown (2008)

AU troops in brown-green camouflage, some wounded and barefoot, carrying belongings including a refrigerator and computer, were being ferried out by helicopter to safety, while Sudanese troops stood in combat positions nearby. ❋ Unknown (2007)

A shadow cut her face in half, and a single brown-green eye, glimmering in the sun, was searching me in a way she never had. ❋ Blair Underwood With Tananarive Due (2007)

If it were a fabric, it would be heavy, dark brown-green velvet with golden ornaments depicting intricate heraldic flowers. ❋ Marina Geigert (2007)

America's wars have become up-country affairs, and the big ships of our blue-water Navy are not quite adapted to brown-green waters where today's conflicts are likely to take place. ❋ Unknown (2007)

His eyes were the earthy brown-green of dead moss. ❋ William Kent Krueger (2006)

This is a sea dragon, and the one on the bottom, the blue one, is a juvenile that has not yet swallowed the acid, has not yet taken in the brown-green algae pond scum into its body to give it energy. ❋ Unknown (2005)

From the outset the bus had descended, by the slightest of gradations, into an immense basin, at the center of which lay a distant fleck of brown-green. ❋ John Dalton (2004)