vernal season

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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

During the dreary winter-time the simple wants of the two mountaineers had been supplied by much toil and much privation, so that the return of the vernal season was hailed with joyful acclamation.

From Harper's Young People, November 25, 1879 An Illustrated Weekly by Various

Busy indeed at this vernal season was the mysterious Nurse of God's little world.

From Lying Prophets by Phillpotts, Eden

Years are thus doubtless spent by these long-eared sunfish in a dreamy sort of existence, their energies quickened by the vernal season and growing duller on the approach of winter.

From A Book of Natural History Young Folks' Library Volume XIV. by Jordan, David Starr

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