Apple green has long been employed by writers as a vibrant marker of both nature’s freshness and artful design. In interior scenes, for example, apple green is chosen to highlight aesthetic harmony in spaces such as bedrooms and panels, evoking a playful yet sophisticated ambience ([1], [2], [3]). The color also lends its luminous quality to the natural world; authors describe horizons and skies transitioning into bands of apple green that imbue their landscapes with a serene, almost otherworldly light ([4], [5], [6]). Moreover, apple green is frequently used to color clothing and accessories, where a dress or sweater in apple green accentuates a character’s distinctive style and vitality ([7], [8], [9], [10]). This versatility—from technical paint mixtures to the portrayal of natural scenes—demonstrates the enduring appeal of apple green as a literary device.
- In the picture, the artistic bedroom, “in apple green, the bedstead of cherry-wood, with a touch of turkey-red throughout the draperies,” is charming.
— from They and I by Jerome K. (Jerome Klapka) Jerome
- All trim and paneling were painted a soft apple green, and walls and ceilings throughout were calcimined a deep cream color.
— from If You're Going to Live in the Country by Thomas H. (Thomas Hamilton) Ormsbee
- "I shall have my bedroom in apple green," Dorothy announced.
— from The Vanity Girl by Compton MacKenzie
- The sky had cleared; in the west shone a faint band of clear apple green in which burned one lucent star.
— from Shandygaff
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- The horizon was of a fine golden tint, changing gradually into a pure apple green, and from that into the deep blue of the mid-heaven.
— from Legends That Every Child Should Know; a Selection of the Great Legends of All Times for Young People by Hamilton Wright Mabie
- The horizon was of a fine golden tint, changing gradually into a pure apple green, and from that into the deep blue of the mid-heaven.
— from The Legend of Sleepy Hollow by Washington Irving
- They were all dressed in white and each carried a sweater, Sarah's red, Rosemary's blue and Shirley's apple green.
— from Rosemary by Josephine Lawrence
- Her apple green dress, clinging closely about her, Anne was crossing the room.
— from The Erratic Flame by Ysabel De Teresa
- His hose and doublet thistle-down, Together weaved full fine; His stockings of an apple green, Made of the outward rind;
— from The Nursery Rhymes of England
- He drew from an inner pocket a little scarf of apple green with knotted fringes, and butterflies, various colored in dainty broidery.
— from The Flute of the Gods by Marah Ellis Ryan