"Verdancy" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... this may be, I am pretty sure that, after Falstaff, there is not a greater piece of work in the play than Master Abraham Slender, cousin to Robert Shallow, Esquire,—a dainty sprout, or rather sapling, of provincial gentry, who, once seen, is never to be forgotten. In his consequential verdancy, his aristocratic boobyism, and his lack-brain originality, this pithless hereditary squireling is quite inimitable and irresistible;—a tall though slender specimen of most effective imbecility, whose manners and character must needs ...
— Shakespeare: His Life, Art, And Characters, Volume I. • H. N. Hudson
... had been standing over it. Does Providence graciously look out for the tenderfoot? Some of them, I fear, were made to feel that they would rather be dead than take the guying they got for this evidence of their verdancy. ...
— War from the Inside • Frederick L. (Frederick Lyman) Hitchcock
... not in possession of the true account of what happened to Miss Briggs the day she came to Overton. You know, perhaps, that two sophomores took advantage of her verdancy and hazed her. Perhaps they neglected to state, however, that they accepted her invitation to eat ice cream before they returned her hospitality by conducting her to the hall of a public building where they left her to wait for the ...
— Grace Harlowe's First Year at Overton College • Jessie Graham Flower
... reverberance and pang, And peaceless passes thro it evermore. The struck bird's cry wounds my all-feeling blood To pity that will not be solaced, Sounds on me like far pleas of the unborn Against predestined days. A withering bud Brews barrenness thro all the verdancy Of Spring. And in a tear—tho anguish shape it On the warm lid of joy—earth's Tragedy, Whose curtain falls not for it has no end, Comes mirrored to ...
— Nirvana Days • Cale Young Rice |
