Purple-grey sea
Storminess at sea, as in the sky, can be purple-inked.
'Beyond the ragged horizon of the purple-grey sea...'
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Flat-footed view
Nicolson's writing helped cure me of any 'flat-footed view' I may have had of the Bronze Age, spinning its warriors...
Wind-washed air
Elsewhere I have commented on a 'rain-washed sky', and here, wind-washed air, both yielding clarity.
‘The wealth of biological detail...
Hard-breathing horses
Caught up in the maelstrom of battle between the Greeks and Trojans, these horses have just seen their master massacred,...
Rain-swept sages
Something captivating about the idea of a rain-swept sage, impervious to the elements. And as I write this, I am...
Woad-covered Britons
Definitely my ancestors, no getting away from it.
See the quote-mosaic review of this wonderful, lively, engaging book.
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Tide-swayed fronds
An otter's eye view of the world, with its human connections and its human-free watery paradise.
Maxwell's classic account of...
Melancholy-looking satellite
An intriguing triologism, part of an inventively astronomical metaphor to distinguish a man's head from his much larger body, so...
Green-leaf invocations
Surely a practice worth borrowing or reviving? Leigh Fermor describes a woman beginning each verse of her song with such...
Salt-raddled farmland
Scientists are developing plant species that can cope with 'salt-raddled farmland', called 'halophytes'.
See the quote-mosaic review of this...
Seneca the Stoic
Erasmus' triologism to describe Seneca as a dyed in the wool Stoic. I prefer the alliteration of 'double-dyed'.
Glee-singing competition
There is something a little dated about this description of someone's clothing, but I liked the 'glee-singing competition'. I had...
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