olive-graying

Updated: May 14, 2025

The country was flat, and a raw green, as it should be in that raw air, under that dun sky, with sheep hardily biting the short tough pasturage under the imbrowning oaks and elms, and the olive-graying willows, beside the full, still streams scarce wetter than the ground they dreamed through. We did not reach Boston until six o'clock, when the day was already waning, and the Stump of St.

William Dean Howells - Seven English Cities