vernal season

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In the vernal season the direction of the flight is reversed, and they arrive in similar condition on the Russian coast.

From British Birds in their Haunts by Johns, Rev. C. A.

Long-forgotten odors came sweeping across the fields, rich with the verdure of the vernal season, and brought with them precious accompaniments of the almost-forgotten past.

From The Redemption of David Corson by Goss, Charles Frederic

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

Boston harbor, which had been sealed, for several months, by the severe cold, then characteristic of the climate, was freed by the bright sun and genial gales of that vernal season.

From The Rivals of Acadia An Old Story of the New World by Cheney, Harriet Vaughan

The family entrance of Dugan's café was feasible; so Danny yielded to the vernal season as far as a glass of bock.

From Strictly business: more stories of the four million by Henry, O.