The color sea green appears across a wide range of literary works, frequently evoking images of nature’s gentle yet vivid hues and serving as a marker for both exterior and interior descriptions. In some texts, sea green is used to capture the delicate tint of a landscape or watery scene, as when the boundary river “makes the sea green with its outflow” [1] or when a tender shade is observed in the course of a river’s journey [2]. Other authors apply the color to intimate features, such as the “deep sea green” of eyes noted in several observations from Lewis and Clark’s journals [3, 4, 5, 6, 7]. Beyond nature and physiology, sea green also emerges in artistic and decorative contexts, illustrated both through precise recipes for dyeing [8, 9, 10] and in the description of fabric and adornment, for instance in a “sea green flat hat” or a sophisticated gown [11, 12]. Overall, sea green is portrayed as a versatile and evocative hue that bridges the natural and the aesthetic in literature.
- The river Isonzo, the boundary between Austria and Italy, glides through the valley, making the sea green with its outflow, sometimes as far as Duino.
— from The Life of Captain Sir Richard F. Burton, volume 2 (of 2)
By His Wife, Isabel Burton by Burton, Isabel, Lady
- Its colour after it has left the Falls, and proceeds on its rapid way, full of life and animation, to Lake Ontario, is a most tender sea green.
— from First Impressions of the New World
On Two Travellers from the Old in the Autumn of 1858 by Isabella Strange Trotter
- the pupil is circular, of a deep Sea Green and Occupies one third of the diamiter of the eye, the iris is of a bright yellowish silver colour.
— from The Journals of Lewis and Clark, 1804-1806 by William Clark and Meriwether Lewis
- the eye is large and prominant, the puple of a pale sea green and iris of a light yellowish brown colour.
— from The Journals of Lewis and Clark, 1804-1806 by William Clark and Meriwether Lewis
- the eye of a moderate Size, the puple of a deep Sea green encircled with a ring of yellowish brown.
— from The Journals of Lewis and Clark, 1804-1806 by William Clark and Meriwether Lewis
- the pupil is circular, of a deep sea green and occupys one third of the diameter of the eye, the iris is of a bright yellowish silver colour.
— from The Journals of Lewis and Clark, 1804-1806 by William Clark and Meriwether Lewis
- the eye is of a uniform deep sea green or black, moderately large.
— from The Journals of Lewis and Clark, 1804-1806 by William Clark and Meriwether Lewis
- With French blue it affords a beautiful sea green; and, mixed with aureolin, gives fine foliage tints.
— from Field's Chromatography
or Treatise on Colours and Pigments as Used by Artists by George Field
- Sea Green .—Mordant with 1 lb. tannic acid and ¾ lb. tartar emetic, and dye with 2 oz.
— from The Dyeing of Cotton Fabrics: A Practical Handbook for the Dyer and Student by Franklin Beech
- Sea Green.—Fifty parts white lead; 1 part dark chrome green.
— from Henley's Twentieth Century Formulas, Recipes and Processes
- She wore a sea green flat hat and carried a black cat done up in baby's clothes.
— from With the Battle Fleet
Cruise of the Sixteen Battleships of the United States Atlantic Fleet from Hampton Roads to the Golden Gate, December, 1907-May, 1908 by Franklin Matthews
- That night Sylvia had gone to a big ball and worn a wonderful, sophisticated Paquin gown of sea green satin and pearls.
— from Sylvia Arden Decides by Margaret Piper Chalmers