Crossword-Solution: LUSHNESS 8 letters, 5 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 11

There is a lushness about the octave melody; the tune may be a little overripe, but it is sweet, sensuous music, and about it hovers the hush of a rich evening in early autumn.

The difference between these pages and that of the previously mentioned style is the same as exists between any coarse scene-curtain and some glorious painting, be it Church, with his tropical lushness, or Gifford, with his shaking, shining mists,-- "mist Like a vaporous amethyst, Or an air-dissolved star Mingling light and fragrance far As the curved horizon's bound,"-- some canvas that seems to palpitate and live and tremble with the breathing being confided to it by the painter.

Nature seemed to be holding herself in leash and only breathing upon the earth gently, as if to stir some latent lushness into autumnal activity.

There is a looseness and lushness, a romanticism and balladry, in the work, that is not quite characteristic.

She went down to Ciccio where he was weeding armfuls of rose-red gladioli from the half-grown wheat, and cutting the lushness of the first weedy herbage.