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verdant
1. Deep, regular waterings are essential to develop a lush, verdant lawn
2. grass verdant and flaming on the electric
3. The path, rocky and verdant on either side, sloped upward and grew ever more promising while horse and rider continued their trek
4. And she stood there on the verdant path, holding the note DRAFTChapter 18 483
5. The only sense of motion the train gave was the view of the verdant scenery passing by at five hundred kilometres an hour; maglev was still the most efficient form of travel
6. Scott entered the vast verdant grounds of the institute
7. How could he be a threat? Even so, he steered the craft in a circuitous route, trying not to appreciate the ‘post-invasion’ verdant landscape
8. There were verdant lawns where children and their pets and friends played
9. If you can call something so green, so verdant, so well- manicured a field
10. a verdant landscape that had outgrown the disfiguring reach of
11. Time flickered by, a wash of pavement and grey buildings and green, verdant forest
12. It led away from the palace, through masses of exotic-scented shrubbery where great pale blossoms spread their shimmering petals, through verdant, tangled bushes that showered blooms at the touch, until he came at last to a great mass of rock that jutted like a titan's castle out from the cliffs at a point closest to the palace, which, however, was almost hidden from view by vine-interlaced trees
13. very long wilderness trail that wound high up into the verdant
14. of verdant vegetation, combined with that eternal hallucinogenic
15. into a verdant blanket that was really kosher;
16. the verdant earth was alive with the illustrious kingdom
17. Harmony held her breath as the monster sniffed the wet, verdant landing spot
18. moving quickly through the winding verdant pathways
19. Thank you for showering me in your words and thoughts, questions and confessions; inside me they seed, for that is the gift of an open mind – a verdant field of fertile reflection under the nourishing light of sincerity
20. Time passed while the train was covering the long distances, travelling through beautiful scenic landscape, from one country to another, with pleasant weather until it passed through an area that was as verdant and beautiful as the most luxuriant garden
21. Holding her shoulder so she would not move from that spot, he searched one of the drawers and returned to her holding a verdant green velvet scarf
22. Within a few short hours, Veronique felt like her surroundings were becoming familiar, but it wasn’t until late morning when she felt sure she recognized an especially large, verdant green hill and several house-sized boulders strewn among rich clusters of pine and oak saplings
23. Three fathoms Cove, with its two tiny verdant islands, was a cutaway of Tolo Harbour, right at the end of the channel of the same name that was the marine highway for vessels coming from Mirs Bay to Tai Po
24. The verdant unspoiled parkland protects a host of mammals, reptiles and birds, though few larger animals
25. She glanced at the rippling water as it cascaded around the jagged stones in its path and could feel the first spots of rain as the sky darkened and threatened to empty, its contents on the verdant countryside
26. I had come to trust Kuri’s instincts on all things so I looked at the valley more closely, in particular the open stretches of terrain not covered by verdant tree canopies
27. "What! dost thou still persist, Sancho," said Don Quixote, "in saying, thinking, believing, and maintaining that my lady Dulcinea was sifting wheat, that being an occupation and task entirely at variance with what is and should be the employment of persons of distinction, who are constituted and reserved for other avocations and pursuits that show their rank a bowshot off? Thou hast forgotten, O Sancho, those lines of our poet wherein he paints for us how, in their crystal abodes, those four nymphs employed themselves who rose from their loved Tagus and seated themselves in a verdant meadow to embroider those tissues which the ingenious poet there describes to us, how they were worked and woven with gold and silk and pearls; and something of this sort must have been the employment of my lady when thou sawest her, only that the spite which some wicked enchanter seems to have against everything of mine changes all those things that give me pleasure, and turns them into shapes unlike their own; and so I fear that in that history of my achievements which they say is now in print, if haply its author was some sage who is an enemy of mine, he will have put one thing for another, mingling a thousand lies with one truth, and amusing himself by relating
28. perusal, I will not entice you to stray with me into the verdant meadow, to search for the flowers that youthful hopes scatter in every path; though, as I write, I
29. Hareton, with a streaming face, dug green sods, and laid them over the brown mound himself; at present it is as smooth and verdant as its companion mounds---and I hope its tenant sleeps as soundly
30. They were just abreast of Mareciana, and beyond the flat but verdant Island of La Pianosa
31. A spring, which many long years before had induced the natives to select the place for their temporary fortification, was soon cleared of leaves, and a fountain of crystal gushed from the bed, diffusing its waters over the verdant hillock
32. Some bore their choicest articles, others their young, and some their aged and infirm, into the forest, which spread itself like a verdant carpet of bright green against the side of the mountain
33. Here and there a bird was heard fluttering among the branches of the beeches, and occasionally a squirrel dropped a nut, drawing the startled looks of the party for a moment to the place; but the instant the casual interruption ceased, the passing air was heard murmuring above their heads, along that verdant and undulating surface of forest, which spread itself unbroken, unless by stream or lake, over such a vast region of country
34. It was built in a verdant valley
35. Nowhere but here are the Tree Trunks themselves kiss’d with Moss; nowhere but here are the Trees so verdant and heavy of Leaf, the Lawns so green, the Roses so pink, the Hedges so aromatick
36. Pleasant Rivers flow’d beautifully into verdant Vales where fruitful Meadows and rich Pastures lin’d the Banks
37. There were innumerable pleasant Towns, Villages, and Houses in the verdant Vales, but upon the Downs the Country seem’d wild and uninhabited—the proper Resort of Witches, Faeries, and all Manner of Gnomes, Elves, and Hobgoblins
38. Hareton, with a streaming face, dug green sods, and laid them over the brown mould himself: at present it is as smooth and verdant as its companion mounds—and I hope its tenant sleeps as soundly
39. In the middle of the grass one observes an uprooted tree-bole which lies there all verdant
40. The passers-by of forty years ago halted to gaze at it, without a suspicion of the secrets which it hid in its fresh and verdant depths
41. He is condemned to that terrible interment, long, infallible, implacable, which it is impossible to either retard or hasten, which lasts for hours, which will not come to an end, which seizes you erect, free, in the flush of health, which drags you down by the feet, which, at every effort that you attempt, at every shout that you utter, draws you a little lower, which has the air of punishing you for your resistance by a redoubled grasp, which forces a man to return slowly to earth, while leaving him time to survey the horizon, the trees, the verdant country, the smoke of the villages on the plain, the sails of the ships on the sea, the birds which fly and sing, the sun and the sky
42. I had set out from Whitcross on a Tuesday afternoon, and early on the succeeding Thursday morning the coach stopped to water the horses at a wayside inn, situated in the midst of scenery whose green hedges and large fields and low pastoral hills (how mild of feature and verdant of hue compared with the stern North-Midland moors of Morton!) met my eye like the lineaments of a once familiar face
43. Chief among these latter was a great Sperm Whale, which, after an unusually long raging gale, had been found dead and stranded, with his head against a cocoa-nut tree, whose plumage-like, tufted droopings seemed his verdant jet
44. "I have seen," he said, "the most beautiful scenes of my own country; I have visited the lakes of Lucerne and Uri, where the snowy mountains descend almost perpendicularly to the water, casting black and impenetrable shades, which would cause a gloomy and mournful appearance were it not for the most verdant islands that believe the eye by their gay appearance; I have seen this lake agitated by a tempest, when the wind tore up whirlwinds of water and gave you an idea of what the water-spout must be on the great ocean; and the waves dash with fury the base of the mountain, where the priest and his mistress were overwhelmed by an avalanche and where their dying voices are still said to be heard amid the pauses of the nightly wind; I have seen the mountains of La Valais, and the Pays de Vaud; but this country, Victor, pleases me more than all those wonders
45. Though his eyes rested on the verdant green of the infield, they did not see it
46. And to those who can be delighted with the view of an interminable forest, penetrated by the windings of a bold river, interspersed with hundreds of verdant prairies, and broken by many ridges and mountains, furnishes in the month of May, a landscape, which yields to few others in extent, variety or beauty