Literary notes about Verdurous (AI summary)
Writers use "verdurous" to imbue their descriptions with a sense of lush, thriving greenery that goes beyond mere color to express vitality and abundance. The word often appears in settings where nature’s rich, textured beauty is central to the scene—whether it’s the soft, leafy canopy providing a natural haven overhead [1] or expansive, gently rolling hills and sunlit plains that pulse with life [2, 3]. In some works, "verdurous" not only sketches the physical appearance of the landscape—capturing everything from intricate, tangled woods [4] to leafy, inviting alleyways [5]—but also evokes an atmosphere of serene temerity and hidden wonder, as light, shadow, and color interplay to create a living tapestry [6, 7]. Its recurring use across varied contexts highlights its versatility in transforming both natural and urban settings into realms teeming with organic, almost otherworldly charm [8, 9].
- Soft leaves beneath him made His pillow, and with leafy boughs above They twined a verdurous canopy of shade.
— from The Æneid of Virgil, Translated into English Verse by Virgil - And there fell some slender sprinklings On the verdurous plain below her.
— from Poems by Edward Dowden - All the verdurous, gently rolling hills which are heaped about Firenze la bella are visible at once.
— from The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 01, No. 02, December, 1857 A Magazine of Literature, Art, and Politics by Various - They had reached a point where the wood-path forked and put forth two divergent tracks which lost themselves in a verdurous tangle.
— from Roderick Hudson by Henry James - I ate no dinner that evening, but spent the hours in wandering up and down the long verdurous alleys in the neighborhood of the Arc de Triomphe.
— from The Ghost: A Modern Fantasy by Arnold Bennett - The open sky, the fresh airs of morning, the bird-song and the smell of verdurous earth in themselves gave Sabbath benediction.
— from Rosalind at Red Gate by Meredith Nicholson - green, verdant; glaucous, olive, olive green; green as grass; verdurous.
— from Roget's Thesaurus by Peter Mark Roget - Far away the Arno wound on, through the verdurous plain, while on either side the hills arose dotted with white villas and deep green olive groves.
— from The Cryptogram: A Novel by James De Mille - Still the same lofty domes and minarets towered above the verdurous walls, where Constantine had died, and the Turk had entered the city.
— from The Last Man by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
