Adjective : a verdant oasis. ,a verdant lawn. ,verdant college freshmen. From Dictionary.com.
I agree this sounds unappealing: it's not, bubbling verdantly in the pan. From Wordnik.com. [The Broad and Narrow Way] Reference
Instead of trees of a type, all flourished in the verdantly egalitarian domain. From Wordnik.com. [Kingdoms of Light]
And around the dear ruin each wish of my heart, would entwine itself verdantly still. From Wordnik.com. [Believe Me If All Those Endearing Young Charms] Reference
With dreamlike slowness, a slender, verdantly green serpent wriggled free of the slumbering tangle and languorously rose up to the Lack. From Wordnik.com. [The Mad Ship]
It wound it's way up a mountainside that was so verdantly rich, she couldn't help but be impressed by the wealth of unfamiliar vegetation. From Wordnik.com. [Adam's Fall]
I was quite surprised, and verdantly enough, advised looking around for more money, which my wife, brother and I industriously did for some minutes. From Wordnik.com. [Seven Wives and Seven Prisons; Or, Experiences in the Life of a Matrimonial Monomaniac. a True Story] Reference
There shall we heare the pretty birds sweetly singing, see the hilles and plaines verdantly flouring; the Corne waving in the field like the billowes of the. From Wordnik.com. [The Decameron] Reference
Alice, who never loses sight of her duty to avert a possible mischance from any human being, rather verdantly suggested, 'that the segar might make her sick.'. From Wordnik.com. [The Continental Monthly, Vol. 2 No 4, October, 1862 Devoted To Literature And National Policy] Reference
Then they need to plant a transgenic species that's hardier, grows short so no mowing needed, drought resistant, as fluffy as a kitten and as verdantly green as possible. From Wordnik.com. [Grasscrete®] Reference
Influenced by I know not what, perhaps for a joke, perhaps to give the young fellow who was so verdantly staring at him a start, he half checked the animal, as if about to pull up, and gesturing to Hiram in the style of an omnibus driver, motioned him to get inside!. From Wordnik.com. [The Continental Monthly , Vol. 2 No. 5, November 1862 Devoted to Literature and National Policy] Reference
The green fields that stretched away to the sea were just such fields as in the "Romaunt of the Rose" or the poems of the troubadours, fields verdantly green, and starred with daisies and golden with buttercups -- the "enamelled meads" of Chaucer and the little illumined pictures of the fourteenth-century manuscripts; and the hedges were just such hedges, incredibly green, with here and there a break for the misty silver of the blackthorn. From Wordnik.com. [Lynton and Lynmouth A Pageant of Cliff & Moorland] Reference
'I used to be told I spoke very correctly,' I said, verdantly enough. From Wordnik.com. [The Talking Horse And Other Tales] Reference
The park spread out before them verdantly limpid, freshly cool and deep as a spring. From Wordnik.com. [La faute de l'Abbe Mouret] Reference
A Texas outlaw succeeded in inducing a young Englishman of the verdantly bumptious and moneyed sort to go homestead hunting with him. From Wordnik.com. [The Canadian Commonwealth] Reference
"I hope," he said, "that you caught that touching reference to 'the dear ruin,' and could anything be expressed more beautifully and poetically than that 'verdantly still?'". From Wordnik.com. [Laddie; a true blue story] Reference
"I hope," he said, "that you caught that touching reference to ` the dear ruin, 'and could anything be expressed more beautifully and poetically than that ` verdantly still?'". From Wordnik.com. [Laddie: A True Blue Story] Reference
At some 4,000 feet above sea level, each of the bungalows enjoys spectacular and panoramic views over Sri Lanka's 200,000 hectares of rolling, verdantly green and renowned tea country. From Wordnik.com. [ETravelBlackboard.com] Reference
Yet, this propensity for mothers and fathers alike to see fathers as utterly marginal flourishes most verdantly in areas where there is little economic activity, and there are few jobs. From Wordnik.com. [The Guardian World News] Reference
Consumer culture constantly undermines the idea that sadness can be an acceptable part of our lives - instead we are taught that the perfect life is verdantly happy, and that any malady can be treated, at a cost. From Wordnik.com. [Latest news from the public and voluntary sectors, including health, children, local government and social care, plus SocietyGuardian jobs | guardian.co.uk] Reference
I WISH, my darling, you could see this wonderfully rich and prosperous country, abounding in plenty, with its great, strong, vigorous horses and oxen, its cows and crops and verdantly thriving vegetation — none of the ravages of war, no signs of devastation — all in woeful contrast to the land where we lay dreaming. From Wordnik.com. [Documenting the American South: The Southern Experience in 19-th Century America] Reference
The verdantly gilded cage captures the seed head of the native Queen Anne’s Lace, Daucus carota. From Wordnik.com. [Bloom Day/Weed Day July 2009 « Fairegarden] Reference
Would entwine itself verdantly still -- "while Miss Amelia drove from sight up the Groveville road. From Wordnik.com. [Laddie; a true blue story] Reference
The trees did not crowd each other; and they were of every kind native to the East, blended well with strangers adopted from far quarters; here grouped in exclusive companionship palm-trees plumed like queens; there sycamores, overtopping laurels of darker foliage; and evergreen oaks rising verdantly, with cedars vast enough to be kings on Lebanon; and mulberries; and terebinths so beautiful it is not hyperbole to speak of them as blown from the orchards of Paradise. From Wordnik.com. [Ben-Hur, a tale of the Christ] Reference
Would entwine itself verdantly still. From Wordnik.com. [English Songs and Ballads] Reference
Would entwine itself verdantly still. '. From Wordnik.com. [Penelope's Irish Experiences] Reference
Hill and meadow deepened verdantly into smiles. From Wordnik.com. [Kenny] Reference
Both verdantly twine round your Great WELLINGTON!. From Wordnik.com. [Wellington's Welcome] Reference
Which was verdantly beautiful. From Wordnik.com. [Manhattan Marineland 3: Northeast] Reference
(2) as Kermit the Frog, also verdantly challenged, once remarked: "It isn't easy being green". From Wordnik.com. [Strange Maps] Reference
Would entwine itself verdantly still -- ". From Wordnik.com. [Laddie: A True Blue Story] Reference
Believe me, if all those endearing young charms, Which I gaze on so fondly today, Were to change by tomorrow, and fleet in my arms, Like fairy gifts fading away, Thou wouldst still be ador’d, as this moment thou art, Let thy loveliness fade as it will, And around the dear ruin, each wish of my heart Would entwine itself verdantly still. From Wordnik.com. [ONCE UPON A Love Song] Reference
The Gentlemen having their Chambers farre severed from the Ladies, curiously strewed with flowers, and their beds adorned in exquisite manner, as those of the Ladies were not a jotte inferiour to them; the silence of the night bestowed sweet rest on them al. In the morning, the Queene and all the rest being risen, accounting over much sleepe to be very hurtfull, they walked abroad into a goodly Meadow, where the grasse grew verdantly, and the beames of the Sun heated not overviolently, because the shades of faire spreading Trees, gave a temperate calmnesse, coole and gentle winds fanning their sweet breath pleasingly among them. From Wordnik.com. [The Decameron] Reference
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