What is "lushness"

Usage examples of "lushness".

Victorian richness and lushness of sentiment which was alien to them, but he was also a champion of such Augustan poets as Dryden and Crabbe at a period when their merits were often under-valued.

In his memory the green meadows and glistening hides of the animals shone in that vast lushness.

No one in five other bedrooms, nor in the box room no one in the bathrooms, no one in the plum and pink lushness of Malcolm's own suite.

There is a deceptive illusion of lushness near the riverbanks, but for the most part it is a burned land of scraggly brush, dry hills, weed, lizard, cedar, and salty creek beds that slant down from the Anacacho Mountains to the north.

The neat and practical fields men plowed and nurtured rode side by side with the tangled lushness of the live oaks and moss, the ubiquitous sumac, the ribbons of dark water that could never, would never, be truly tamed.

She could have modeled for a Madonna were it not for the lushness of her mouth, and the fact that her lips were painted poppy red.

Valentine found this region less interesting than the jungles of the mid-continent or the subtropic floribundance of the far west, though he decided after a few days of close observation that it did have a certain austere beauty of its own, restrained and severe, quite unlike the riotous lushness of the west.

In later years he had come to know them well, from the cliffs and mountains and thick green rain forests of the southern islands of the Windwards like Grenada, St Vincent and St Lucia, to the flatter Antigua of the Leewards, drier and almost arid in parts, from the smoothly rounded high hills - one could hardly call them mountains, and they always reminded him of Tuscany - of the Virgin Islands to the green lushness and mountains of Hispaniola and Jamaica.