green-baize

The pilot stared at the glass ash-tray on the green-baize tablecloth flushed and miserable.

In Spite of Their Declaration of Bombs 2010

The three left the door and paced down Mellstock-lane and across the ewe-lease, bearing under their arms the instruments in faded green-baize bags, and old brown music-books in their hands; Dick continually finding himself in advance of the other two, and the tranter moving on with toes turned outwards to an enormous angle.

Under the Greenwood Tree 2006

He come out of a green-baize door — the very place I can point out to you, and the selfsame door, miss, though false to the accuracy of the mind that knows it, by reason of having been covered up red, and all the brass buttons lost to it in them new-fangled upholsteries.

Erema Richard Doddridge 2004

When all the ugly useful things had been packed up and taken away in a van by men in green-baize aprons, the two girls and Mother and Aunt Emma slept in the two spare rooms where the furniture was all pretty.

The Railway Children Edith 2003

When all the ugly useful things had been packed up and taken away in a van by men in green-baize aprons, the two girls and Mother and Aunt Emma slept in the two spare rooms where the furniture was all pretty.

The Railway Children Edith 2003

Money must be real in the minds of people, and it doesn't become so until they can get their hands on it, roll in it physically, stuff it into mattresses, slide it onto a green-baize table.

Will Upstart Euro End the Reign of Almighty Dollar? 2001

Named after a traditional provencal bar-counter dice game, it was a drink-and-dance club where the decor was based on mirrors repeating every image to infinity, the style was excuse-me, and the table cloths were symbolically green-baize plastic.

Salvage for the Saint Charteris, Leslie, 1907- 1983

Without waiting for an answer, she walked down the hall and through a green-baize door at the end of it.

My Bones Will Keep Mitchell, Gladys, 1901-1983 1977

"I've had his books and things put into the study, which his mamma has had new papered, and the sofa covered, and new green-baize curtains over the door" (the diplomatic matron threw this in, to show that the new boy was contributing largely to the partnership comforts).

Tom Brown's Schooldays Hughes, Thomas, 1822-1896 1971

"What a queer chum for Tom Brown," was the comment at the fire; and it must be confessed so thought Tom himself, as he lighted his candle, and surveyed the new green-baize curtains and the carpet and sofa with much satisfaction.

Tom Brown's Schooldays Hughes, Thomas, 1822-1896 1971