“Most imagine a wondrous city or a verdant garden where human beings come face to face with God.”

“After Kallar, the track ascends into the mountains hugging the verdant slopes.”

“The verdant smell of the leaves and wild grasses at Lammas unified my own life-force with the fecundity of the land.”

“As its wide spate washes up against a small verdurous spur, it swirls over waterweeds and drenched rocks to form an inlet in which goats splash.”

“There were lunging valleys of dense wood, the mimicry of a lush and verdurous Costa Rican island without the whimsy of a foreign land.”

“The room, if it could be called that, appeared verdurous, contradicting that of the cavernous underground she had been previously.”

“Once upon a time there lived a golden cow in the verdured hill of San Isidro.”

“At the end of these days we set off down the estuary past innumerable little verdured islands.”

“You'll be impressed by its secluded limpid water and verdured hills, a smaller Three Gorges but with clean and still river.”