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Thus the shrilling of the field-cricket, though sharp and stridulous, yet marvellously delights some hearers, filling their minds with a train of summer ideas of everything that is rural, verdurous, and joyous About the 10th March the crickets appear at the mouths of their cells, which they then open and bore, and shape very elegantly.

—The Natural History of Selborne, Vol. 2

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Covered with verdnre; clothed with the fresh color of vegetation; verdant: as, verdurous pastures. Yet higher than their tops The verdurous wall of Paradise up sprung. Milton, P. L., iv. 143. Through verdurous glooms and winding mossy ways. Keats, Ode to a Nightingale.

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Thus the shrilling of the field-cricket, though sharp and stridulous, yet marvellously delights some hearers, filling their minds with a train of summer ideas of everything that is rural, verdurous, and joyous About the 10th March the crickets appear at the mouths of their cells, which they then open and bore, and shape very elegantly. — The Natural History of Selborne, Vol. 2
Occasional verdurous islands showed, with the lines of white surf marking them. — Brigands of the Moon
All the verdurous, gently rolling hills which are heaped about Firenze la bella are visible at once. — The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 01, No. 02, December, 1857
It was not a rude wilderness: all that Northern woods have of foliage, verdurous, slender, delicate, tremulous, overhung our shadowy path, dense as the vines that drape a tropic stream. — The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 10, No. 59, September, 1862
The twilight was verdurous, lingering, and resonant with life. — Tales of the Wilderness