verdurous

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And up to a million worms, collected as one, become a verdurous mat, bathing like a beach blanket beneath the sun.

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They could see the river winding along between its verdurous banks, and when they lost sight of the shining water they could still trace its course by the fresher green of the vegetation.

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In verdurous tumult far away The prairie billows gleam, Upon their crests in blessing rests The noontide's gracious beam.

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From the verdurous gloom of the studio with its mysterious and occult properties in which Rossetti compounded his colours, Morris went forth shortly to chant and then to narrate Socialist songs and parables.

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The town itself is flung down a steep hill, at the mouth of a verdurous gorge; and lies pitched so far as the very waterside, a picturesque jumble of wall and roof.

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