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  • He looked so tall and aristocratic walking beside her, with his full beard, and a puggaree round his hat, and his white, green-lined umbrella.

    On Forsyte 'Change 2004

  • On his head he had a sun-hat hung with puggaree and fly-veil: he also carried a sun-umbrella, green-lined; while a pair of dark goggles dimmed for him the intolerable whiteness of sky, road, iron roofs.

    Ultima Thule 2003

  • After picking up the hat, he set it on top of the green-lined computer printouts he'd abandoned earlier and looked at the mystery corpse.

    A Corpse is a Corpse Browne, Richard W 2001

  • It came up a slow drop at a time and dripped into the basin in the rock that was not much larger than the cup of his two hands, then overflowed and dribbled down into the next basin, green-lined with slippery algae.

    Warlock Smith, Wilbur 2001

  • When she made her call she found Colonel and Mrs. Forrester in bed and bolt upright under a green-lined umbrella of the sort associated with Victorian missionaries and Empire builders.

    Tied Up in Tinsel Marsh, Ngaio, 1895-1982 1972

  • They never travel without green-lined tropical umbrellas of a great age.

    Tied Up in Tinsel Marsh, Ngaio, 1895-1982 1972

  • Hair parted, brushed, oiled, under a green-lined parasol held in a big white hand.

    Heart of Darkness 1960

  • Here the Virgin sits, [42] clad in a gold garment and blue green-lined mantle, with the Child on her knee, and floating round her dark-green cherubs 'heads.

    Luca Signorelli Maud Cruttwell

  • It slid open easily, and from its green-lined depths she lifted out a small unframed canvas.

    Death of a Ghost Allingham, Margery, 1904-1966 1934

  • It was, of course, as she led the deplorable object towards the house that they encountered Eugenia under a green-lined white parasol, on the way back from the garden, carrying an armful of sweet-peas.

    The Brimming Cup Dorothy Canfield Fisher 1918

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