verdure

How To Use verdure In A Sentence

• Amidst all that humbles and scathes; amidst all that shatters from their life its verdure, smites to the dust the pomp and summit of their pride, and in the very heart of existence writeth a sudden and "strange defeature," -- they stand erect, -- riven, not uprooted, -- a monument less of pity than of awe! The Disowned — Complete
• I was charmed with the scenery, consisting of fertile fields, rich woods, the ever-winding Thames and undulating mammillated hills, covered with verdure. Canada and the Canadians, Vol. 2
• Their flanks were blotched with a livid nitrous efflorescence, with flaring sulphur, unhealthy verdure of pitchstone, streaks of arsenical vermilion; their beds -- a frantic maze of boulders. South Wind
• The luxuriant coast bordering on the southern extremity of the lake and skirting the peninsula of Michigan and southwestern Ontario -- though comparatively flat -- is not void of charming features; being lined with numerous pretty villages imbosomed among gentle slopes that were covered with the richest verdure. By Water to the Columbian Exposition
• Victorian ladies possessing the colouring falsely called "auburn" -- but clouded their excessive verdure to neutrality by semi-transparent over-draperies of black. The Best British Short Stories of 1922
• It is striking and effective, complementing the picturesque Trinity verdure.
• There's a tremendous sense of growth, richness and verdure.
• Bowling unhindered through the Suffolk verdure, Peel offers a courteous monologue on the local environment.
• Instead, they linger in the field of vision on a more or less equal footing with the verdure they border.
• Mr. Blake had never been in such a God-forsaken country or community before, but there was something in the utter isolation, the far-stretching waste of shimmering sand, the desolate mountain ranges sharply outlined, hostile and forbidding, the springless, streamless, verdureless plains of this stricken land, that harmonized with the somewhat savage and cynical humor in which he had sought service in the most intolerable clime then open to the troops of Uncle Sam. A Wounded Name