Here was no gracious life, active and affectionate, to beguile into verdure the stubborn yet persuadable soil. |
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Fires have scarred the sides, and pasturing has robbed it of flowers and verdure. |
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It seemed to the young couple as if they were being rocked on a sea of verdure. |
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And there it was that Pere Merlier's mill enlivened with its ticktack a corner of wild verdure. |
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They had swept the country of its verdure, and left a trail of desolation behind them. |
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Some enormous and majestic firs encircling the obo, sheltered it with a magnificent dome of verdure. |
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The vine foliage that tosses and climbs and coils in league on league of verdure. |
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They are very pleasing from form, verdure, and the water breaking in their vales. |
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Then there came a jungle of nettle-trees, medlars and jujube trees, which pomegranates skirted with never-fading verdure. |
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And the hundred tints of this verdure do not form the only colorific charms of the landscape. |
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But with me, the verdure and the flowers are not frostbitten in the midst of winter. |
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Austere, as became the gate of Brittany, it had all the luxuriant verdure of the Vendean coast. |
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There was no verdure, no flowers, no birds hidden beneath the frondage, and twittering as if to outrival each other. |
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In the centre was the zocalo, a green oasis of verdure laid out in winding walks and brilliant flower-beds. |
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The woods were stript of their verdure and the hills were half shrouded in mist. |
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The sight of its heavy verdure and of its gurges heaped high with froth lifts them like immortal thoughts. |
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The skies were black and all the spring verdure was turned to a sickish gray-green. |
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Mountains and water, chateaux and shallops, vineyards and verdure, could do no more. |
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He is delighted with coombe, and says the verdure is something wonderful. |
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English verdure, English culture, English comfort, seen under a sun bright, without being oppressive. |
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The early Roman spring had filled the air with bloom and perfume, and the rugged surface of the Palatine was muffled with tender verdure. |
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But there were some boobies and bumpkins there, who, by their intense greenness, must have come from the heart and centre of all verdure. |
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An unsocial man is as devoid of influence as an ice-peak is of verdure. |
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A celestial fragrance mingled with the first exhalations of the verdure. |
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They have lost colour and verdure since the rescinding our vows to God. |
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Through the lacings of the leaves, the great sun seemed a flying shuttle weaving the unwearied verdure. |
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The fiercer element had cropped the verdure of the plain, which looked as though it were scathed by the consuming lightning. |
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All around were lofty mountains covered with verdure and glory. |
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Under the warming, germinating sunlight, the verdure sprung. |
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You ask what this verdure may be, of which you have never seen the like. |
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So by the soft leaves screened, the porch might flourish in verdure. |
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The earth is clothed with verdure, and the trees put forth their leaves. |
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But summer rioted in verdure over the cliffs to the very beaches. |
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He spent his days upon the crystal blueness of the lake or he walked back into the soft thick verdure of the hills and tramped until he was tired so that he might sleep. |
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They determined on walking round Beechen Cliff, that noble hill whose beautiful verdure and hanging coppice render it so striking an object from almost every opening in Bath. |
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Narrow, winding paths plunged in beneath the overarching verdure. |
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