Gosling Green

She wore a coat of gosling-green with facings of primrose-yellow, and when she fell and barked the knee of one stocking I took her to old Martha, and old Martha mended her. ❋ Gouverneur Morris (1914)

"And did he die?" said the nice little man in gosling-green. ❋ Various (1887)

"And what did he die of?" continued gosling-green, following him up. ❋ Various (1887)

Eyes gosling-green, both bleary, one of them bloodshot. ❋ Mayne Reid (1850)

When I made my first visit to these remote and lonely regions, the scattered woods through which we rode for many miles were gay in their first gosling-green suit of half-opened leaves, and the forest odours which exhaled with the dews of morning and evening, were beyond measure delicious to one “long in populous cities pent.” ❋ Unknown (1839)

He has discarded the gosling-green cords for cream-coloured leathers, and, to please Lucy, has actually substituted a pair of rose-tinted tops for the ❋ Robert Smith Surtees (1833)