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Definition of Greenhearts
1. greenheart [n] - See also: greenheart
Lexicographical Neighbors of Greenhearts
Literary usage of Greenhearts
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. How to Fish: A Treatise on Trout & Trout-fishers by William Earl Hodgson (1907)
"The first-class greenhearts are very much fewer than the first-class canes; ...
There is reason for thinking that some greenhearts are as sound as the best ..."
2. The Quarterly Review by William Gifford, George Walter Prothero, John Gibson Lockhart, John Murray, Whitwell Elwin, John Taylor Coleridge, Rowland Edmund Prothero Ernle, William Macpherson, William Smith (1886)
"Between the stiff-butted Kelso rods and the ' Castle Connell ' greenhearts, or
the Spey rods, which bend even from the winch-fitting, who shall decide ? ..."
3. With Fly-rod and Camera by Edward Augustus Samuels (1890)
""Remember, Hiram," I exclaimed, "my rod isn't one of those heavy greenhearts that
you are used to." "No trouble," he answered, still lifting severely, ..."
4. The way of the woods: a manual for sportsmen in northeastern United States by Edward Breck (1908)
"... and greenhearts cost $4.00 to $8.00. Of course if you can afford it buy the
best rod in the market and pay $25.00 or $30.00 for it. ..."
5. Cartagena: Or, The Lost Brigade; a Story of Heroism in the British War with by Charles Winslow Hall (1898)
"On the Isle of Yarn, opposite, the palms moved gracefully in the sea breeze, the
great ceibas and greenhearts rose majestically from copses of carob, ..."
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