In the distance were the blue shadows of mountains; the river swept along between green-Verdured hills; a steamboat with lowered stacks was passing beneath the bridge that hung like a black line connecting the east and west sides of the town.
"Peggy-Alone"
Mary Agnes Byrne
Reclining in our chairs, we watched the strange splendor from the veranda of the little cottage,-saw the peaked land slowly steep itself in the aureate glow,-the changing color of the Verdured mornes, and of the sweep of circling sea.
"Two Years in the French West Indies"
Lafcadio Hearn
Beyond, alternating with fields of young grain and Verdured pastures like crushed velvet, rose a succession of tranquil slopes crowned with trees that here and there grouped about a white colonial dwelling, with its outbuildings behind it.
"The Valiants of Virginia"
Hallie Erminie Rives