Which preposition to use with verdures

of Occurrences 74%

The tall old trees spread their long arms over us, clothed in the rich verdure of spring, and the breeze, so fresh and fragrant, moaned, and sighed, and whispered among the leaves.

on Occurrences 7%

While, from amid the darkened roofs, the spire, Restlessly flashing, seems to mount like fire: 100 There, all unshaded, blazing forests throw Rich golden verdure on the lake below.

to Occurrences 6%

I hate these scrubbed shoots, thrusting out their starved foliage from between the horrid fissures of dusty innutritious rocks; which the amateur calls "verdure to the edge of the sea."

in Occurrences 5%

A spring of excellent water, at a little distance from Oushda, keeps up the whole year round freshness and verdure in the gardens, by means of irrigation.

than Occurrences 4%

On one side there was more light in the verdure than elsewhere and that way she called.

with Occurrences 2%

The mildew of slavery has blighted each blossom, That ever has bloomed in her path-way below; It has froze every fountain that gushed in her bosom, And chilled her heart's verdure with pitiless woe; Her parents, her kindred, all crushed by oppression; Her husband still doomed in its desert to stay; No arm to protect from the tyrant's aggression She must weep as she treads on her desolate way.

among Occurrences 2%

The occasional glimpses of cloisters and verdure among the red are very pleasant.

behind Occurrences 2%

He got his first sight of her profile relieved against the green of the wayside bank, with a bunch of blooming azaleas starring its verdure behind her bright head.

about Occurrences 1%

We saw before us a beautiful bay, well defended by a rocky coast; a good family mansion; a fine verdure about it,with a considerable number of trees;and beyond it hills and mountains in gradation of wildness.

like Occurrences 1%

From this leafy covert the stream leaps out into the light in a fluted curve thick sown with sparkling crystals, and falls into a pool filled with brown boulders, out of which it creeps gray with foam-bells and disappears in a tangle of verdure like that from which it came.

over Occurrences 1%

Some sour orange trees spread their branching verdure over the walls of the church,a blackened, rough stone edifice perforated with long, narrow, window-like niches now closed with mud plaster.

under Occurrences 1%

While Lady Lesbia was draining the cup of London folly and London care to the dregs, Lady Mary was leading her usual quiet life beside the glassy lake, where the green hill-sides and sheep walks were reflected in all their summer verdure under the cloudless azure of a summer sky.

by Occurrences 1%

We travelled on horses through a comparatively flat country, despoiled of all its verdure by the ruthless hand of war.

across Occurrences 1%

Between then and now lies the night, stretching like a bar of verdure across wearying sands.

after Occurrences 1%

It possesses a good deal of beauty, from the size and graceful sweep of its large compound leaves, that retain their brightness and verdure after midsummer, when our native trees have become dull.

along Occurrences 1%

While strolling about the little walks of his garden, the appearance of verdure along the edge of the crater, or immediately beneath the cliff, caught Mark's eye.

alongside Occurrences 1%

One evening in early spring, that magic season when nature is most charming, Fray Joseph, returning to his cell, heard from behind a screen of verdure alongside his path a woman singing.

around Occurrences 1%

The stumps, which are planted in double rows, and form long lines, throw sprays of dark verdure around them.

as Occurrences 1%

Around the lake arose little hills of the same beauty and verdure as our Berkshires, with the exception that these hills possessed a certain purplish, bluish haze with a gray mist over them, which gave to their colouring the same softness that a woman imparts to her complexion when she wears white chiffon under a black lace veil.

at Occurrences 1%

Waiting my turn upon the verge of the bank, I contemplated with pleasure the heavy masses of the forest stretching like dark shadows behind me, and on the other side, the long winding line of verdure at my feet, from beneath which rose the splashing, rippling, gushing sound of the stream, whilst overhead, the vault of heaven was thick inlaid with patterns of bright gold.

Which preposition to use with  verdures