I will give thee a noble horse, Shall bear thee at thy need, And he will run upon the sea As on the verdant mead.
Midst of yonder verdant wood Stands the castle of the maid; The house is of gray marble stone, The court with steel belaid.
And when they came to the verdant moor, Her chariot broke into pieces four.
I will give to thee a barque, Its white sails silk shall be; Shall move as well on the verdant earth As on the foaming sea.
The several windows were open, and through them he had glimpses of his verdant lands and the mountains beyond.
The morning sun was blazing over the verdant landscape, filling the dewdrops on the grass with red, blue, and yellow light.
This broad but shallow stream flows for an immense distance through a wide and verdant valley scooped out of boundless prairies.
These beautiful and verdant recesses, running through and softening the rugged mountains, were cheering and refreshing to the wayworn travellers.
There is scarcely any rain throughout this time, yet the face of the country is kept fresh and verdant by nightly dews, and occasionally by humid fogs in the mornings.
To prevent this, the philosopher hangs these mimic caves with verdant seaweed, and plants the bottom with graceful marine grasses.
Ere long the Vale of Cleddau begins to widen out, forming a comely, verdant strath, through which the highroad winds like a narrow ribbon as it takes its way towards Narberth.
Though one of the most richly verdant of all the West India islands, Trinidad had little beauty to Stuart, on his first sight of it.
The journey was not long, three hours along a coast of steep cliffs with verdant mountains above.
The verdant lawn, the shady grove, the variegated landscape, the boundless ocean, and the starry firmament are beautiful and magnificent objects.
Disdaining fixed residence, they roam over its verdantpastures and through its perfumed groves, as bees from flower to flower, pitching their toldos, and making camp in whatever pleasant spot may tempt them.
The hills and valleys are becoming verdant with fresh grass and wild oats, the latter being, in places, two or three inches high.
The hills and plains are verdant with a carpet of fresh grass, and the scattered live-oaks on all sides, appearing like orchards of fruit-trees, give to the country an old and cultivated aspect.
Crossing a ridge of hills, we entered the magnificent undulating plain surrounding the city of Angels, now verdant with a carpet of fresh vegetation.
From the more luxuriant and verdant appearance of the trees and grass than the country hereabout assumed last year, when the water was abundant, we had felt assured of finding it and therefore our disappointment was the greater.
The nearer she came the more slowly she walked, loitering among the verdant shrubs, stopping to gaze at the cypresses, stooping to gather a handful of fallen leaves.
They were gazing through a locked grate into a tiny garden where were two graves only--a verdant little spot over which the roses hung in clouds of beauty and fragrance.
But the prettiest bit of all was the verdant natural slope, below which ran the brook that gave the village and the manor their names.
Several small rivulets descend from this peak, and irrigate the plain, which is covered with verdant fields and large shady trees on the side of the granite rocks.
The world outside is teeming with verdant vegetation.
Irrigating ditches, fertile fields, thrifty orchards, and blooming gardens are all seen in that fleeting glance, and we are more than ever impressed with the fact that it needs but water to convert these desert tracts into verdant fields.
Five miles to the west of the place from which William looked down on the river, now stands, on a verdant bank, amidst noble woods, Slane Castle, the mansion of the Marquess of Conyngham.
That bright and tranquil stream, the boundary of Louth and Meath, having flowed many miles between verdant banks crowned by modern palaces, and by the ruined keeps of old Norman barons of the pale, is here about to mingle with the sea.
Illustration: 299] On the opposite side of the torrent, the poplars rise one above another on the verdant hill; their palish leaves stand out against the pure blue of the sky; they quiver and shine at the slightest wind.
Finally, the soil being flooded by the river only at distant intervals, became a verdant meadow.
I observed along the borders of several freshwater lakes in the state of New York a luxuriant crop of this plant in clear water of moderate depth, rendering the bottom as verdant as a grassy meadow.
During his walk through verdant parks that morning, the Terror of the Departments who habitually thought in millions was very gloomy.
The first thing that strikes the eye is a lake that might be a great blue sapphire dropped into the verdant hollow where it lies.
It shone on the verdantslopes and low wooded hills that surrounded the town, and cast a glittering pathway on the ocean that bathed the beaches of the near-by shore.
My verdant Branches all the year } Did an Eternal Beauty wear; } Did ever young and gay appear.
The verdant Banks no other Prints retain, But where young Lovers, and young Loves have lain.
From the bridges I could perceive beyond the stony horizon of Chaillot and Passy the long line of verdant and undulating hills of Fleury, Meudon, and St. Cloud.
Her white dress shone out on the verdant meadow, and the shade of a haystack screened her face from the sun.
In great northern hunting ground, Where both fish and game abound, And verdant pastures here are seen, Where cattle graze 'mong sweetest green.
But we sing more glorious theme, It is ourverdant pasture land, Where cows produce a flood of cream, Doth make cheese of the finest brand.
The lawns and parks were smooth and verdant as a bowling-green from the frequent pressure of the roller.
Some went in one direction, others in another; until the verdant bottom near the sweet spring was deserted.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "verdant" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word. Other words: alive; emerald; glaucous; grassy; green; ivy; leafy; leaved; lush; olive; summery; verdant; vernal
