greenery
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When the Lucas Museum of Narrative Art opened in September, it touted its 11 acres of park space and greenery from the ground to its undulating roof as a celebration of California’s landscape.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 29, 2026
The home is surrounded in lush greenery and features several floor-to-ceiling windows that allow natural light to flood inside.
From MarketWatch ● Oct. 26, 2026
As we walk through the greenery, it is eerily quiet bar bird song and the mewing of hungry, stray cats.
From BBC ● Oct. 7, 2026
Other tour boats skate around the limestone coast fringed with wind-blasted greenery.
From Slate ● Sep. 8, 2026
It’s got greenery around the sides and back and looks like it’s being reclaimed by nature.
From "Fast Pitch" by Nic Stone
They had visited the Coliseum, at that period still overhung with ivy garlands and trailing greeneries, and not, as now, scraped clean and bare and "tidied" out of much of its picturesqueness.
From What Katy Did Next by Susan Coolidge
Between-whiles he cast admiring glances of the most ardent delight at his garden of an acre and a half, and its glowing mass of apple-bloom,—and at all the luscious greeneries of the May world without.
From A Day with Samuel Taylor Coleridge by May Clarissa Gillington Byron
Of these, indeed, the growth is luxuriant, and the path which leads down from the high-road to the cottage is cut through what might be called a grove of these leafy greeneries.
From Tony Butler by Charles James Lever
Each, in deference to the long-established tradition of the neighbourhood, bore a garland of ferns and other greeneries, and each came armed with the necessary pin that was to work the spell.
From The School by the Sea by Angela Brazil
Flask Walk, which leads out of the high street among old houses and greeneries, brings us to the shadowy Well Walk, with its overarching trees and with many living memories masoned into its dead walls.
From A Literary Pilgrimage Among the Haunts of Famous British Authors by Theodore F. (Theodore Frelinghuysen) Wolfe
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