Literary notes about Verdant (AI summary)
The word “verdant” is frequently employed to evoke an abundant, lush quality in natural settings, imbuing scenes with both vivid sensory detail and symbolic resonance. It transforms barren or desolate landscapes into realms teeming with life—a desiccated harbor reborn as a blooming meadow [1] or fields so inspiring they evoke pure ecstasy in the observer [2]. The term is used to depict everything from cultivated terraces and flourishing groves [3, 4] to idyllic banks and pastures that suggest renewal and endless promise [5, 6]. By choosing “verdant,” writers not only describe the physical greenness of the land but also hint at its deeper, almost mythic vitality, enhancing the emotional and aesthetic impact of the narrative [7, 8].
- The Seine no longer rolls its waves under Harfleur; and the desiccated harbor is now seen as a verdant meadow.
— from Account of a Tour in Normandy, Volume 1 by Dawson Turner - A serene sky and verdant fields filled me with ecstacy.
— from Frankenstein; Or, The Modern Prometheus by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley - I saw the rounded domes of its mosques, the elegant points of its minarets, its fresh and verdant terraces.
— from Twenty Thousand Leagues under the Sea by Jules Verne - The verdant banks of the Brenta exhibited a continued landscape of beauty, gaiety, and splendour.
— from The Mysteries of Udolpho by Ann Ward Radcliffe - But I can now no more; the parting Sun Beyond the Earths green Cape and verdant Isles Hesperean sets, my Signal to depart.
— from Paradise Lost by John Milton - All was verdant and green, and appeared to them as a paradise after the desert in which they had been wandering on the evening before.
— from The Mission; or Scenes in Africa by Frederick Marryat - The turf was verdant, the gravelled walks were white; sun-bright nasturtiums clustered beautiful about the roots of the doddered orchard giants.
— from Villette by Charlotte Brontë - They were just abreast of Mareciana, and beyond the flat but verdant Island of La Pianosa.
— from The Count of Monte Cristo by Alexandre Dumas and Auguste Maquet
