It already had the setting: that theatrically tall, marble and nickel-walled hall in the old Metropolitan Life Building, with grand windows onto the verdure of Madison Square Park.
"Our shrubbery is all putting out, the hyacinths, narcissus, jonquils and Daffy, in fully bloom with the verdure of the grass in contrast make a most delightful scene".
Thus, green and yellow came to be chosen as the Brazilian colours; these colours were also associated with the verdure of the land and with its great mineral wealth, especially gold.
The atmospheric town was beloved by Byron who described it so poetically: Palaces and gardens rising in the midst of rocks, cataracts and precipices, convents on stupendous heights, a distant view of the sea and the Tagus it unites in itself all the wildness of the Western Highlands with the verdure of the South of France.
Eatalian's brick-oven pies are best with varied layers of flavor, like the verdure grigliate, a pizza of grilled eggplant, zucchini, bell pepper, onion and curls of trevigiano, a regional radicchio from Treviso.
As the Angels Centerr Fielder he covers a huge swath of the verdure outfield at Angel Stadium and the high-flying rookie has stolen, snatched, indeed robbed four of his colleagues of home runs this year, scaling the center field barrier in the deepest parts of the parks to do so.
"Enjoying the verdure and silent waves" [art original] / D.E.
10. "Enjoying the verdure and silent waves" [art original] / D.E.
The verdure of the place, verdure his word, pronounced in a comically pretentious accent that had always spurred laughter from his wife.
The verdure pastellate, battered and fried vegetables, arrived along with still more delicious, if unidentifiable, crostini.
