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
• Natural colours such as sienna, coffee, verdure, burgundy, metal and champagne are chosen as ambient colours.
• The contiguous country as white as if covered with snow, contrasted with the foliage of trees flourishing in the verdure of tropical luxuriancy*. The Settlement at Port Jackson
• The usual verdure of the hemlock is very dark and glossy, lying in double rows flat upon the branches. Rural Hours
• 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. In the Days of Poor Richard
• When it has paid its tribute to the royal pile, and visited its gardens and pastures, it flows down the long avenue leading to the city, trinkling in rills, gushing in fountains, and maintaining a perpetual verdure in those groves that embower and beautify the whole hill of the Alhambra. Journeys Through Bookland, Vol. 8
• Gross area of all verdured lands and plants is more than 1607.6 ha.
• Nuanced verdure, brick reds and tempered whites, play against tints of calcined blues and gray-greens, broadcast beyond the paintings' modest confines.
• We sailed for some hours along a lava coast, streamless, rainless, verdureless, blazing under the fierce light of a tropical sun, and some time after noon anchored in the scorching bay of The Hawaiian Archipelago
• Venetian noblesse, with their cool porticos and colonnades, overhung with poplars and cypresses of majestic height and lively verdure; on their rich orangeries, whose blossoms perfumed the air, and on the luxuriant willows, that dipped their light leaves in the wave, and sheltered from the sun the gay parties whose music came at intervals on the breeze. The Mysteries of Udolpho