Greenth

Neatness and greenth are so essential in my opinion to the country, that in France, where I see nothing but chalk and dirty peasants, I seem in a terrestrial purgatory that is neither town or country. ❋ Robert Lynd (1914)

She was like a Sun shedding sheen in sky serene, or a full moon at the fullest seen, with brow flower - bright and eyes black and white and beauty-spots fresh as greenth to the sight; brief she was as one of whom the poet saith, ❋ Anonymous (1855)

An fount of life thou drain in greenth of rose, * While drink I tear drops for my sole desert? ❋ Anonymous (1855)

Imagine a rambling, patchy house, the best part built of gray stone, and red-tiled, a round tower jutting at one of the corners, the mellow darkness of its conical roof surmounted by a weather-cock making an agreeable object either amidst the gleams and greenth of summer or the low-hanging clouds and snowy branches of winter: the ground shady with spreading trees: a great tree flourishing on one side, backward some ❋ George Eliot (1849)

I have long been mortified that for these three years you have seen it only in winter: it is now in the height of its greenth, blueth, gloomth, honey-suckle and seringahood. ❋ Horace Walpole (1757)

I will not, however, tell you, that I am Content with your being there, till you have seen it in all its greenth and blueth. ❋ Horace Walpole (1757)

Neatness and greenth are so essential in my opinion to the country, that in France, where I see nothing but chalk and dirty peasants, I seem in a terrestrial purgatory that is neither town nor country. ❋ Horace Walpole (1757)

The greenth used to take my breath away back when I was living there and flying back and forth from Australia every now and then. ❋ Unknown (2009)

I tired myself with walking on Friday: the gout came on Saturday in my foot; yesterday I kept my bed till four o'clock, and my room all day-but, with wrapping myself all over with bootikins, have scarce had any pain-my foot swelled immediately, and today I am descended into the blueth and greenth: (76) and though you expect to find that I am paving the way to an excuse, I think I shall be able to be with you on ❋ Horace Walpole (1757)