| The settlement was long abandoned now, reclaimed by the verdure from which it had been carved. |
| Natural colours such as sienna, coffee, verdure, burgundy, metal and champagne are chosen as ambient colours. |
| Instead, they linger in the field of vision on a more or less equal footing with the verdure they border. |
| Bowling unhindered through the Suffolk verdure, Peel offers a courteous monologue on the local environment. |
| Soon the rivers begin to flow, the ponds and the lakes fill to overflowing, and verdure covers the earth. |
| The movement doesn't have to be much to tear root and shoot tissue as well as displace roots and dislodge the verdure. |
