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verdant
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  • They stop by the old British cemetery, or take a taxi up a mountain peak for a view of the verdant, fog-shrouded valley below.†  (source)
  • More like ferns unscrolling — something old, carboniferous, but at the same time newborn, fragrant, verdant.†  (source)
  • The Swiss Guards had seen a lot of the camerlegno this week in preparation for conclave, and everyone had commented that the man seemed a bit rough around the edges, his verdant eyes a bit more intense than usual.†  (source)
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  • Behind them the great horde might tear the earth and muddy the rivers and send up clouds of choking dust, but the fields ahead of them were always green and verdant.†  (source)
  • Over everything — up through the wreckage of the city, in gutters, along the river banks, tangled among tiles and tin roofing, climbing on charred tree trunks — was a blanket of fresh, vivid, lush, optimistic green; the verdancy rose even from the foundations of ruined houses.†  (source)
  • The trees did not crowd each other; and they were of every kind native to the East, blended well with strangers adopted from far quarters; here grouped in exclusive companionship palm-trees plumed like queens; there sycamores, overtopping laurels of darker foliage; and evergreen oaks rising verdantly, with cedars vast enough to be kings on Lebanon; and mulberries; and terebinths so beautiful it is not hyperbole to speak of them as blown from the orchards of Paradise.†  (source)
  • Back from it sprouted palm trees, sparsely at first, and then more densely as the verdant forest took over and shrouded the island in a canopy of green that continued up the hills and into the mountains.†  (source)
  • She was playing a game; she was not simply taking pity on his aesthetic verdancy.†  (source)
  • Beyond a range of verdant mountains he sees the snow-covered Pico de Orizaba, the highest summit in Mexico.†  (source)
  • A verdant, treacherous lawn, in which mosquitoes bred and fish were fat but inaccessible.†  (source)
  • San Piedro had too a brand of verdant beauty that inclined its residents toward the poetical.†  (source)
  • The gateway to the industrial heartland of Southern China runs up through the wide, verdant swath of the Pearl River Delta.†  (source)
  • We are between islands; the sea is a rich lapis shot through with verdant undertones, a reversal of sky tones.†  (source)
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