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The only green was the scum of livid weed on the dark greasy surfaces of the sullen waters.
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From above one could only occasionally catch a glimpse of life on the floor of this green sea: a neighbor's gingham skirt flashing into sight for an instant on the path beneath her grape-arbor, or the movement of hands above a clothesline and the flutter of garments hung there, half-way down the block.
This is not necessarily to green, however, for in some situations only a yellow indication is given to a train to let it into the `` plant ''.
In other instances where there is no automatic block signaling, the distant has only green and yellow aspects.
The video signal is amplified and then switched, in synchronism with the three ultraviolet light sources which are sequenced by the rotating mirror so that during one-twentieth of a second only one wavelength, corresponding to red, green, or blue, is seen.
Unstained sections mounted in buffered glycerine or sections treated only with NS or Af did not show such green fluorescence.
Sections of crown gall tissue similarly stained with either Af and Af or NS and Af also showed only the light green nonspecific fluorescence.
In the indirect method, this was evident from the fact that tumor sections were stained light green even when stained with NS and Af or with Af only.
A trim green and silver-painted craft only 22-1/2 feet long, the Waco was entered to compete in the `` On-to-Spokane '' Air Derby of 1927.
Alismatales comprise herbaceous flowering plants of aquatic and marshy habitats, and the only monocots known to have green embryos other than the Amaryllidaceae.
" Anaconda " is often used to refer only to the green or common anaconda, Eunectes murinus.
Although the name actually applies to a group of snakes, it is often used to refer only to one species in particular, the common or green anaconda, Eunectes murinus, which is one of the largest snakes in the world.
Young Mitchell was only 11 when he played on Kilmarnock Bowling green, the oldest club in Scotland, instituted in 1740.
O atoms are red balls, N atoms are blue, and H atoms are omitted for simplicity ; sidechains are shown only out to the first sidechain C atom ( green ).
This sudden influx of men led to a shortage of RIC uniforms, and the new recruits were issued with khaki army uniforms ( usually only trousers ) and dark green RIC or blue British police surplus tunics, caps and belts.
Most casinos usually charge only $ 1 for a $ 25 green-chip bet ( 4 % commission ), or $ 2 for $ 50 ( two green chips ), reducing the house advantage a bit more.
A convex function | function is convex if and only if its Epigraph ( mathematics ) | epigraph, the region ( in green ) above its graph of a function | graph ( in blue ), is a convex set.
Cut pieces of celery last only a few hours before they turn brown, and few American restaurants include it in green salads because it cannot be prepared far enough ahead of time.
The Channel F is only able to use one plane of graphics and one of four background colors per line, only three plot colors to choose from ( red, green and blue ) that turned into white if the background is set to black.
If each pixel on the display actually contains three rectangular subpixels of red, green, and blue, in that fixed order, then things on the screen that are smaller than one full pixel in size can be rendered by lighting only one or two of the subpixels.
Caddies will help with club selection, reading greens, weather variables, and marking balls on the green but should only do so if asked to by the player.
A fine emerald must possess not only a pure verdant green hue as described below, but also a high degree of transparency to be considered a top gem.
* Ayambil: A person eats only one kind of food per day, In Ayambil green vegetables, milk and milk products ( including ghee ), oil and / or salt ( optional ) are not to be used at all.
In intarsia, the yarns are used in well-segregated regions, e. g., a red apple on a field of green ; in that case, the yarns are kept on separate spools and only one is knitted at any time.
( Solution: if any number of each box is available, then three yellow boxes and three grey boxes ; if only the shown boxes are available, then all but the green box.
only and was
It was the only thing in his life for which he felt guilt.
His looting of the orderly room had taken only a minute or two and the vicinity was still clear of guerrillas.
It was pitiful to see the thin ranks of warriors, old and young, wheeling and twisting their ponies frantically from side to side only to be tumbled bleeding from their saddles by the relentless slam, slam of the cruelly efficient Hawkinses.
The fire had gone down, and the man was only a shadow against the trees.
There was only one place where Jake Carwood's description had gone badly awry: the peace and quiet.
It was the only thing about her that was the least bit hard to remember.
under the circumstances I was only too willing to confess all.
only the counter at one end was lighted by a long fluorescent tube suspended directly above it.
On a shelf in the office behind the counter was a small radio dialed permanently on a station which broadcast only vulgar commercials and cheap popular music.
Once, pressing him, I learned that his job was only part-time, in the afternoons when nothing went on in the hall.
Though only a relatively short walk separated it from my own part of town, its character was wholly foreign to me.
The river was only a few blocks away but an unbroken line of piers prevented me from seeing it.
Although it was dark as usual I could see that the hall had only recently contained a great many people.
This desire, I went on, growing voluble as my conviction was aroused, had mounted at such a rate recently that I now found its realization necessary not only to my physical but also to my spiritual wellbeing.
The only reason we brought you was to get Miller out.
The only thing which would have attracted attention was that two wore the uniform of prison guards, three the striped suits of convicts.
He had belonged to this land and, perhaps, had desecrated it -- and this was the only material symbol that remained of him.
There was only one place where the mountain might receive her -- that unnamed, unnameable pool harbored in its secret bosom.
Now, he could only play the last card in what was probably the world's coldest deck.
He was only vaguely aware of the sluicing rain.
He paused only long enough to ascertain that Jess's buckskin was still missing and that his own gray was all right, then climbed through a back window and dropped to the ground outside.
There was no lock on the door, only an iron hook which he unfastened.
Again he stood in the darkness listening, but there was only the scrape of a shod hoof on a plank floor.
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