The Coliseum, whose naked ruin is robed by nature in a verdurous and glowing veil, lay in the sunlight on my right.
Still the same lofty domes and minarets towered above the verdurous walls, where Constantine had died, and the Turk had entered the city.
He could have seen the sailing-boats in the bay, the sailing clouds in the sky placidly floating over a world of serene and verdurous loveliness.
The town itself is flung down a steep hill, at the mouth of a verdurous gorge; and lies pitched so far as the very waterside, a picturesque jumble of wall and roof.
He was the war god of the Hittites as well as of the northern Amorites, the Mitannians, and the Kassites; and he led the Aryans from the Iranian steppes towards the verdurousvalley of the Punjab.
In verdurous tumult far away The prairie-billows gleam, Upon their crests in blessing rests The noontide's gracious beam.
Above the whole towers the purple mass of Adam's Peak; and the eye rests in every direction on the most luxuriant foliage, with verdurous glades, and slopes carpeted with flowers.
Occasional verdurousislands showed, with the lines of white surf marking them.
On the hills and woody slopes in the neighbourhood of the Iron Mountain, we likewise meet with sufficiently verdurous prairies.
On the Liba bloomed wide verdurous plains, consisting of plants with dazzling corollas and gramineae of tall stature.
In winter you may refresh your eyes in the clearings of the oasis with verdurous fields, green with barleys and early wheats springing vigorously from the earth.
He strode away into the forest, swinging his cane, throwing back his head, casting his eyes into verdurous vistas and following the road without a purpose.
He lay for a while staring up into the verdurous dusk overhead and trying mentally to see his friend at Saint-Germain hurry toward some quiet stream-side where HE waited, as he had seen that trusting creature hurry an hour before.
There the verdurous fields stretched away beneath their eyes--an expanse of living green; seeming like the abode of perpetual summer to those who looked down from the habitation of winter.
Far away the Arno wound on, through the verdurous plain, while on either side the hills arose dotted with white villas and deep green olive groves.
The verdurous sides of the planting are the sides of the frame; the foreground is the bottom, and the sky is the top.
But if one has no area which he can make into a lawn and upon which he can plant such verdurous masses, what then may he do?
Browning's "idyls" are studies in life's moments of stress and strain, not in its secluded pleasances and verdurous wooded ways.
How gladly would he have dreamed away the remainder of the day out here under the verdurous shade!
The foreground was no less enchanting; all round the pavilion lay a verdurous and luxuriant wilderness, and hardly a hundred paces from the spot rose the colossal palace of the Empress, shaded by venerable trees.
Never again henceforth outstretched in my verdurous cavern Shall I behold you afar from the bushy precipice hanging.
And there were verdurous courts that scalloped arches wreathed, Where fountains plashed in bowls of lapis lazuli.
VI THE shed that held the machine shop and garage fronted upon an informal lane skirting the verdurous border of the town.
But one corner enchanted him, a verdurous hollow filled with running water that breaks the austerity of the wood, the valley of Groenendael.
Dust rises in red clouds from the unmoistened, betrampled meadows, so lately verdurous and flower-spangled.
As they mounted to higher air, so did the arc of the horizon seem to mount with them, and the wide levels of rich country lying between retired from verdurous green to remote blue, divided by the lazy curves of glancing Thames.
Cool verdurousvalleys slope gently into its mountain recesses, their swelling declivities loaded with groves of bread-fruit and cocoa-nut trees.
A fire-red cloud was spread like an arch above theverdurous hills, green with palms and other trees.
Johnson caring much for the minute observations of Tennyson's nature poems, or delighting in the verdurous and mossy alleys of Keats.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "verdurous" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word. Other words: emerald; glaucous; grassy; green; ivy; leafy; leaved; olive; summery; verdant; vernal
