Verdurous

Founded in 1684, just one year after its neighbour, Aduana - which faded immediately from prominence - Alamos rose to become the cultural, economic and spiritual centre of this splendid landscape of swooping, verdurous hills and sky-thrusting crags of rock. ❋ Unknown (2009)

God surrounds "delicious Paradise" with a "verdurous wall", enclosing his blessed but vulnerable human couple. ❋ Unknown (2011)

In 2002, at the beginning of his tenure as a F.d governor, he picked two traditional landscapes: "Harvest Scene, New York State" (c. 1859), a rare American subject by the expatriate artist Thomas Hotchkiss, and an untitled romantic view of a verdurous valley by Arthur F. Bellows. ❋ Mary Anne Goley (2010)

His favorite word is verdurous, his least favorite is mediocre, and his favorite spell is Alahomora. ❋ Unknown (2008)

Keats famously used it in "Ode to a Nightingale" in the line "Through verdurous glooms and winding mossy ways." ❋ Unknown (2009)

I saw part of Radcliffe's episode of "Inside the Actor's Studio," wherein he mentioned that verdurous -- which means "freshly green" or "verdant" (it's seldom used anymore) -- was his favorite word. ❋ Unknown (2009)

    Prunes no hedger's bill broad-verging verdurous arbours; ❋ Unknown (2006)

Advised by the U.S. Embassy to depart immediately, I boarded an evacuation flight to Vietnam where I viewed the U.S. forces in and around Saigon for several days before leaving for the calm and verdurous Malay highlands. ❋ Unknown (2004)

I acquire deliberately both knowledge and liking: the acquisition grows into my brain, and the sentiment into my breast; and it is not as the rapid springing produce which, having no root in itself, flourishes verdurous enough for a time, but too soon falls withered away. ❋ Unknown (2004)

Still the same lofty domes and minarets towered above the verdurous walls, where Constantine had died, and the Turk had entered the city. ❋ Unknown (2003)

Could anything be more desirable than such a blending of jungle-clad mountains, verdurous hills, sheltered valleys, orange-tinted beaches, with the shadows of white headlands staining the sea purple? ❋ Unknown (2003)

Through verdurous glooms and winding mossy ways. — ❋ Unknown (2003)

All the minor secrets of the land are bare; the “verdurous glooms” of yesterday are open to the inquisitive sun; the streams, fair-running but foul-tasting now, are blocked with decaying vegetation, and the flat lands are strewn with fallen timber. ❋ Unknown (2003)

“The water prisoned in its verdurous walls.” — “Tale of the Jewish Doctor.” ❋ Unknown (2003)

Yes, this is the earth; there is no change — no ruin — no rent made in her verdurous expanse; she continues to wheel round and round, with alternate night and day, through the sky, though man is not her adorner or inhabitant. ❋ Unknown (2003)

The Coliseum, whose naked ruin is robed by nature in a verdurous and glowing veil, lay in the sunlight on my right. ❋ Unknown (2003)