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.
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.
Glory of the vale, Such thy meek outset, with a crown, though frail, Kept in perpetual verdure by the steam Of thy soft breath!
Who never caught a noon-tide dream 55 From murmur of a running stream; Could strip, for aught the prospect yields To him, their verdure from the fields; And take the radiance from the clouds In which the sun his setting shrouds.
No scent of autumn haunted the deep verdure of those forests, even the harsh immutable laws of nature seemed to yield to their magic.
Now the last rays of the sun flooded all about her, mellowing the tints of verdureand drooping foliage, and softening the outlines of the Alban hills.
We have had nine weeks of drought and east wind, scarcely a flower to be seen, no verdure in the meadows, no leaves in the hedgerows; if a poor violet or primrose did make its appearance it was scentless.
Though it wants water it excels Dovedale by the extent of its prospects, the awfulness of its shades, the horror of its precipices, the verdure of its hollows, and the loftiness of its rocks.
I remember seeing, in the Swedish exhibit of women's work in the Woman's Building at the Columbian Exposition, a screen which had evidently been copied from an old bit of verdure tapestry.
If tapestries must be painted, let them by all means follow the style of the ancient verdure or foliage tapestries, and be used for the same purpose--to cover an otherwise blank wall.
So we at once began to search for a spot where a little verdure might tempt us to dig.
Having trudged on for some miles, some slight signs of verdure again greeted our eyes, although the bushes rose scarcely a foot above the ground.
The children led their companion beneath fig and bay trees through an Italian garden; all of this splendid luxury of verdure had sprung from the desert as the result of a fortune patiently spent in irrigation.
A kind of gallery, composed of verdure and of flowers, connected the salon with the conservatory at the other end of the garden.
It was with a thrill of delight that they gazed upon its verdure and its luxuriance, which were an hundredfold enhanced from the contrast with the dreary region which they had just traversed.
Beyond lies the prairie rich in verdure and enamelled with gorgeous autumnal flowers.
Wild plants grew in profusion, many-hued flowers studded its surface, and silvery streams, bordered by luxuriant verdure and shrubs, were winding through it.
I meant to throw myself on the first lap of verdure I should meet, and indulge in sleep that I so much wanted.
It was a neat dwelling, in a very fanciful and rustic style, in the bosom of a valley, which, when decorated by the verdure and blossoms of the coming season, must possess many charms.
Ye meadows that I watered, and each bush Set by my hands, ne'er may your verdure fail!
The verdurehad thickened and its bright green stood out sharply against the brownish strips of winter rye trodden down by the cattle, and against the pale-yellow stubble of the spring buckwheat.
The soil in the neighborhood of the Kansas is luxuriantly productive, and the most refreshing verdure meets the eye along the trails from that river to Soldier Creek.
Its banks are filled with all the luxuriant verdure which tropical climes produce.
The traveller as he goes along can tell where there is a stream of water, by theverdure along its banks.
So then, all through Scripture, we may say that we hear the murmur of the stream, and can catch the line of verdure upon its banks.
Now the air is sweeter than sweet balm, And satyrs dance about the palm; Now earth with verdure newly dight, Gives perfect signs of her delight: O beauteous queen!
The new slopes now revealed were covered with verdure down to the very edge of the water, which, for nearly a mile seawards, broke over jagged reefs.
He was not surprised to find that the hill terminated in a sheer wall of rock, which stood out, ominous and massive, from the wealth of verdure clothing the remainder of the ridge.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "verdure" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
