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Large, placid mulleins, as summer advances, velvety in texture, of a light greenish-drab color, growing everywhere in the fields at first earth's big rosettes in their broad-leav'd low cluster-plants, eight, ten, twenty leaves to a plant plentiful on the fallow twenty-acre lot, at the end of the lane, and especially by the ridge-sides of the fences then close to the ground, but soon springing up leaves as broad as my hand, and the lower ones twice as long so fresh and dewy in the morning stalks now four or five, even seven or eight feet high.
He was reputed to be learned, particularly in the modern languages; had a profusion of long, wild hair of a greenish-drab hue, which matched his complexion exactly, this prevalent tint being infused also into the cornea or "white" of his eye, and, in physical proportions, was of weedy and unwholesome growth. He was not a young man of cheerful disposition.
Presently they discovered, under a low, scrubby bush, a down-lined nest containing eight greenish-drab eggs. "There's one!" shouted Jimmy. "This is an eider's nest."
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