vernal season

IN the vernal season the lectures and theaters were dropped for neighborhood excursions of which the Buchers, like all German families, were extremely fond.

From Villa Elsa A Story of German Family Life by Henry, Stuart Oliver

And I think they knew that this plenary 68 sacrament would occur in the vernal season, in the month of March, whose sign or symbol was Aries, the Ram.”

From An Orkney Maid by Barr, Amelia Edith Huddleston

Simms describes the streets of Columbia as "wide and greatly protected by umbrageous trees set in regular order, which during the vernal season confer upon the city one of its most beautiful features."

From Literary Hearthstones of Dixie by Pickett, La Salle Corbell

By all that I can observe, I conclude that the vernal season of this part of the Island of Britain, is full fifteen days, if not twenty, earlier than that of Boston.

From A Journal of a Young Man of Massachusetts, 2nd ed. Late A Surgeon On Board An American Privateer, Who Was Captured At Sea By The British, In May, Eighteen Hundred And Thirteen, And Was Confined First, At Melville Island, Halifax, Then At Chatham, In England ... And Last, At Dartmoor Prison. Interspersed With Observations, Anecdotes And Remarks, Tending To Illustrate The Moral And Political Characters Of Three Nations. To Which Is Added, A Correct Engraving Of Dartmoor Prison, Representing The Massacre Of American Prisoners, Written By Himself. by Waterhouse, Benjamin

In every country of the world the vernal season and the resurrection of the Sun has been greeted with dances and the sound of music.

From Pagan and Christian creeds: their origin and meaning by Carpenter, Edward