The verdure is magnificent; the town is submerged in it, and flowers are everywhere. From Wordnik.com. [In Seven Stages: A Flying Trip Around the World] Reference
On the withered, bent tree the foliage is smaller, more scanty -- but the verdure is the same as ever. From Wordnik.com. [A Reckless Character And Other Stories] Reference
A wide space between the trees and the street had been turned into well-kept gardens, and their verdure was a pleasant thing to see. From Wordnik.com. [In the Days of Poor Richard] Reference
No kind of verdure will flourish where it reaches, nor any fish live in its stream. From Wordnik.com. [The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 19, No. 546, May 12, 1832] Reference
In time the names "verdure" and "Oudenarde" became interchangeably associated with this class of tapestry. From Wordnik.com. [Arts and Crafts in the Middle Ages A Description of Mediaeval Workmanship in Several of the Departments of Applied Art, Together with Some Account of Special Artisans in the Early Renaissance] Reference
A set of six "verdure" tapestries was owned by Cardinal Wolsey, which "served for the hanging of Durham Hall of inferior days.". From Wordnik.com. [Arts and Crafts in the Middle Ages A Description of Mediaeval Workmanship in Several of the Departments of Applied Art, Together with Some Account of Special Artisans in the Early Renaissance] Reference
The verdure is equal to that of. From Wordnik.com. [The History of Emily Montague] Reference
You flourish in verdure arrayed. From Wordnik.com. [Memoirs, Correspondence and Poetical Remains of Jane Taylor] Reference
The city swims in verdure, beautiful. From Wordnik.com. [Aurora Leigh] Reference
Farewell to thy valleys, in verdure arrayed. From Wordnik.com. [Memoirs, Correspondence and Poetical Remains of Jane Taylor] Reference
Beneath I trod on that fresh, even, and soft verdure which is to be seen only in England. From Wordnik.com. [Travels in England in 1782] Reference
But perhaps they would modify them if they knew how old Californians, with the memory full upon them of the dust-covered and questionable summer greens of Californian "verdure,". From Wordnik.com. [Roughing It] Reference
Thuiliere, and spreading an aromatic odor of fresh verdure around. From Wordnik.com. [The French Immortals Series — Complete] Reference
What a country of verdure and shade is Japan; what an unlooked-for Eden!. From Wordnik.com. [The French Immortals Series — Complete] Reference
At last, on the borders of the stream, the park with its extensive verdure appeared. From Wordnik.com. [The French Immortals Series — Complete] Reference
The valley resembled a lake of verdure, and the eye followed its contour with delight. From Wordnik.com. [The French Immortals Series — Complete] Reference
As we passed Cairo the snow was falling, and the country was wintery and devoid of verdure. From Wordnik.com. [Memoirs of the Union's Three Great Civil War Generals] Reference
We are, every one, rich in summer skies, in fair forests, in great tracts of meadow verdure. From Wordnik.com. [Hold Up Your Heads, Girls! : Helps for Girls, in School and Out] Reference
In the midst of the verdure of this wall of mountains, they stood out with a snowy whiteness. From Wordnik.com. [The French Immortals Series — Complete] Reference
In the dens where dragons dwelt before, shall rise up the verdure of the reed and the bulrush. From Wordnik.com. [The Bible, Douay-Rheims, Book 27: Isaias The Challoner Revision] Reference
Some distant flashes of lightning could still be seen; the perfume of humid verdure filled the warm air. From Wordnik.com. [The French Immortals Series — Complete] Reference
Occasionally the banks are moderately high, and we see long stretches of solid ground covered with verdure. From Wordnik.com. [Southern Stories Retold from St. Nicholas] Reference
In ten steps she would suddenly find herself plunged in solitude as in a bath of verdure, shade and oblivion. From Wordnik.com. [The French Immortals Series — Complete] Reference
The country became more barren, trees began to disappear, and, not long after, scarcely any verdure was visible. From Wordnik.com. [Eastern Tales by Many Story Tellers] Reference
There it lay, at my feet, gliding between banks of verdure which seemed a season younger than the grass I stood on. From Wordnik.com. [The French Immortals Series — Complete] Reference
The hills were of a stiff and tenacious clay, but the vallies of a deep, fat mould, and were covered with perpetual verdure. From Wordnik.com. [An Historical Account of the Rise and Progress of the Colonies of South Carolina and Georgia, Volume 2] Reference
A kind of gallery, composed of verdure and of flowers, connected the salon with the conservatory at the other end of the garden. From Wordnik.com. [The French Immortals Series — Complete] Reference
Amid all these pointed roofs and this profusion of verdure and trees the blue sky could only be caught a glimpse of here and there. From Wordnik.com. [The French Immortals Series — Complete] Reference
Tall mountains, crowned with verdure, rise in awful sublimity around; a river runs through, and bright flowers grow to the water's edge. From Wordnik.com. [Stories Worth Rereading] Reference
The Abbe perceived in the distance the farm of Blanche-Couronne; its red-tiled roofs showed distinctly against the verdure of the forest. From Wordnik.com. [The French Immortals Series — Complete] Reference
Then I attempt a walk on the mountain above us, in the wet verdure: little pathways lead up it, between thickets of camellias and bamboo. From Wordnik.com. [The French Immortals Series — Complete] Reference
Suddenly they made an abrupt turn, coming in sight of a small, neat-looking cabin, covered with clustering vines and embowered in verdure. From Wordnik.com. [Monte-Cristo's Daughter] Reference
There were no maples or other forest trees, but only scraggy fir, that seemed too exposed to the winds from the sea to have much health or verdure. From Wordnik.com. [Lost in the Fog] Reference
Jouy to the mills, Madame Desvarennes had noticed the chateau, the slate roofs of the turrets of which rose gracefully from a mass of deep verdure. From Wordnik.com. [The French Immortals Series — Complete] Reference
On the right the heights sloped up steep, and were covered with trees of rich dark verdure, while on the other side the slope was bolder and wilder. From Wordnik.com. [Lost in the Fog] Reference
I saw in the shadow of the trees glowworms sparkling on the grass, and, in the masses of verdure lit up mysteriously by the moon, I traced strange shapes of fantastic monsters. From Wordnik.com. [The French Immortals Series — Complete] Reference
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