vernal season

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Busy indeed at this vernal season was the mysterious Nurse of God's little world.

From Lying Prophets by Phillpotts, Eden

Long-forgotten odors came sweeping across the fields, rich with the verdure of the vernal season, and brought with them precious accompaniments of the almost-forgotten past.

From The Redemption of David Corson by Goss, Charles Frederic

"Youth is the vernal season of life, and the blossoms it then puts forth are indications of those future fruits which are to be gathered in the succeeding periods."

From Literary Character of Men of Genius Drawn from Their Own Feelings and Confessions by Disraeli, Isaac

By all that I can observe, I conclude that the vernal season of this part of the Island of Britain, is full fifteen days, if not twenty, earlier than that of Boston.

From A Journal of a Young Man of Massachusetts, 2nd ed. Late A Surgeon On Board An American Privateer, Who Was Captured At Sea By The British, In May, Eighteen Hundred And Thirteen, And Was Confined First, At Melville Island, Halifax, Then At Chatham, In England ... And Last, At Dartmoor Prison. Interspersed With Observations, Anecdotes And Remarks, Tending To Illustrate The Moral And Political Characters Of Three Nations. To Which Is Added, A Correct Engraving Of Dartmoor Prison, Representing The Massacre Of American Prisoners, Written By Himself. by Waterhouse, Benjamin

We have lovely weather now, and vegetation shows signs of the return of the vernal season.

From A Rebel War Clerk's Diary at the Confederate States Capital by Jones, John Beauchamp