He taps his wooden leg under the green-cloth table. ❋ Ed Higgins (2010)
His elbows were on the piano, which was sideways on to the wall, so that its green-cloth back was visible. ❋ Simenon, Georges, 1903- (1963)
Graham found himself in the little inner vestry, with its green-cloth table and massive inkstand and registers, and began to unvest mechanically. ❋ Robert Keable (1907)
The days of the _chasse à courre_ the gentlemen appear in red coats and the ladies in green-cloth dresses. ❋ Unknown (1886)
If there is a hunt, the ladies wear their green-cloth costumes and the gentlemen wear their hunting gear (a red coat, velvet cap, and top-boots). ❋ Unknown (1886)
Carlo -- with its azure sky, its deep blue sea, its verdant green-cloth table land, its delightful _promenades à pied_, and its frisky ❋ Various (1876)
Mr. Dunbar went to one of the windows, drew back the green-cloth curtain, unbarred the heavy shutters, and let the grey morning light into the room. ❋ Unknown (1875)
In the roof were two oil lamps which gave a light strong enough to read by; each had a green-cloth attachment by which it could be covered when the light should be no longer needed. ❋ Mark Twain (1872)
"Some of these seem older friends than others," says Waterford, pointing to a corner where several unbound tattered works break the ranks of green-cloth gilt-lettered volumes. ❋ Talbot Baines Reed (1872)
The men had put on their blue smocks over their new frock-coats or over their old dress-coats of green-cloth, the two tails of which hung down below their blouses. ❋ Guy De Maupassant (1871)
` There is the ordinary green-cloth covered table, with its brilliant down-coming lights. ❋ Unknown (1870)
They entered the salon, she in her riding-habit, they in their white leather breeches, high-top boots and green-cloth jackets, where they found Monsieur d'Hauteserre and his wife, not a little uneasy at their long absence. ❋ Honor�� De Balzac (1824)
There's something to be done with the board of green-cloth; I don't know what; but this I know, that several gentlemen have lived here a long time very comfortably, and have defied all the vengeance of their creditors. ❋ Henry Fielding (1730)
Bart.; and on April 6th, 1754, was appointed one of the clerks comptrollers of the board of green-cloth; he represented the borough of Bridgnorth in two parliaments, and the town of Lei - cester, in the late and present parliaments, but died in 1/77, with - out issue. ❋ Unknown (1812)
When he has finished, he puts the green-cloth with the papers in a corner of the dining-room; and when he goes out, Charlie Scott and I read the stories. " ❋ Mary Somerville (1826)
Auction house Christie's sold the influential, green-cloth volume for £103,250 (about ❋ Unknown (2009)
