verdureless
- a word derived from verdure.
Example Sentences
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Alone—alone—a desolate dreary wild, Herbless and verdureless; low swampy moss, Where tadpoles grew to frogs, for leagues begirt My solitary path.
From Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 56, Number 349, November, 1844 by Various
The decayed and verdureless branches, clustered around its centre, tell also that the process of decay has been progressing for a longer span of time than is permitted in the life of mortals.
From The Last of the Vikings by Bowling, John
It had become an entrenched camp, lying silent, sullen, verdureless, under a gray sky.
From O. Henry Memorial Award Prize Stories of 1920 by Various
Very seldom does one see green vegetation mingling familiarly with the blue water of the sea—there is usually a strip of sand or other verdureless shore—but one sees it at lovely Singapore.
From Around the World on a Bicycle - Volume II From Teheran To Yokohama by Stevens, Thomas
Along the sides occasional shade-trees stifled, and beyond these gaunt, verdureless fields widened away, though we were told that in the spring the fields were red with flowers and green with young wheat.
From Familiar Spanish Travels by Howells, William Dean
