A wide expanse of living verdure, cultivated gardens, shady groves, fertile cornfields, flowed round it like a sea.
-- Motley,
The first white settlers in the area started as yeomen, scouring the land of trees and verdure to create and homesteads.
-- Claude Andrew Clegg III, An Original Man
The road silent, somnolent yet with a speech of its own, speaking back to them, father and child, through trappings of sun and fretted verdure, speaking of the old mutinies and a fresh crime mounting in the blood.
-- Edna O'Brien, Down by the River
