... now he was / The ivy which had hid my princely trunk, / And suck'd my verdure out on't.
1813, Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice, Modern Library Edition (1995), page 142
The five weeks which she had now passed in Kent had made a great difference in the country, and every day was adding to the verdure of the early trees.
(RQ:Grey Riders)
To her belonged Amber Spring, the water which gave verdure and beauty to the village and made living possible on that wild purple upland waste.