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17 total sentences available.
It was in mid-summer, when the alchemy of Nature transmutes the sylvan landscape to one vivid and almost homogeneous mass of green; when the senses are well-nigh intoxicated with the surging seas of moist verdure and the subtly indefinable odours of the soil and the vegetation.
Source: tatoeba (5749611)
For a time absolute silence brooded upon the sylvan scene, save for the humming of insects and the twittering of birds.
Source: tatoeba (11840748)
The poets of the Augustan age would have celebrated such a meadow with the warmest raptures, and peopled its green expanse with all the sylvan demi-gods of their beautiful mythology.
Source: tatoeba (11960049)
Broke by the jutting Land, on either ſide: / In double Streams the briny Waters glide. / Betwixt two rows of Rocks, a Sylvan Scene / Appears above, and Groves for ever green: […]
Source: wiktionary
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Closest matches include afforestational, arboreal, arboreous, back, back country.
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