green-and-mud-colored

Updated: May 13, 2025

They positively insist upon the very refinement of purity, as you look at them. Did you ever see a pond-lily? not the miserable draggled green-and-mud-colored buds which enterprising boys bring into the cars for sale; but the white water-lily, floating on the silent brooks, or far out in the safe depths of the mill-ponds.

Various - The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 05, No. 27, January, 1860