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vernal
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Definition:1. Of or pertaining to the spring; appearing in the spring;2. Fig.: Belonging to youth, the spring of life.Noah Webster. Webster's Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
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luscious pastureland of vernal green
James Joyce. Ulysses
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one year, that we should go for the Easter holidays to Florence and Venice, not finding room to introduce into the name of Florence the elements that ordinarily constitute a town, I was obliged to let a supernatural city emerge from the impregnation by certain vernal scenes of what I supposed to be, in its essentials, the genius of Giotto.
Marcel Proust. In Search of Lost Time [volume 1]
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And seems it hard thy vernal years Few vernal joys can show
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a yelp of amorous vernal laughter
Vladimir Nabokov. Lolita
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