What is "verdigrised"

Usage examples of "verdigrised".

Handcarved pine gates on thick doweled posts capped with verdigrised iron the kind of hard, waxed pine you see on Buddhist temples and the counters of sushi bars.

The entry was big enough to accommodate a delivery truck: double doors of lacquered oak, trimmed with more verdigrised iron, each side divided into half a dozen raised panels.

Two of the three pigeons took flight and landed on the verdigrised metal sculpture at the corner, on Sixth.

It was a very beautiful thing, the verdigrised sheen gleaming with rain.

Nearest the street were bronze bedsteads with verdigrised statues farther inside.

Though most of the grislier reminders of that retreat had rotted away over the years, still did odd artifacts crop up now and thena skull of horse or man here, part of a rusty, broken blade there, a scattering of round stone balls for an old-fashioned perrier-cannon scattered among roadside weeds, a verdigrised copper hoop still encircling the smashed and rotten staves of a powder keg in the mud of a watery ditch.

Pennyhaugh is gone more and more, liaising with bureaucrats in Parliament, which protrudes like a verdigrised nail from the meeting of the rivers.

The latch-chain of bronze links hanging from the notch at the top of the door was verdigrised except for the flat plate on the end where use had worn the metal to a natural golden sheen.

Dimly through verdigrised windows could be discerned a trio of occupants.

Under a marbled sky, the Twenty-ninth Keep loomed, a square, buttressed fortress of verdigrised stone.

Now, as he held forth, he led her to imagine entities resembling young women, with waves of hair like sea-leaves, and half their bodies a graceful, sweeping mosaic of verdigrised copper coins.

The night wind licked over us and London shimmered and yellowed as he showed me the verdigrised copperplate engravings which were bolted to each side of the four compass-facingpediments.

The night wind licked over us and London shimmered and yellowed as he showed me the verdigrised copperplate engravings which were bolted to each side of the four compass-facing pediments.

Venera tried on a vest made of verdigrised copper scales, added a skirt made of overlapping iron plates and weighed herself.

How he got wore: thinned out, legs bandier, skin loose and paler than land, copper sweat verdigrised, rattling eyes milky and other-directed.