Crossword-Solution: VIRIDESCENT 11 letters, 1 clue 🏆 scrabble score: 17

Mighty mountain walls descending sheer along the whole face of the island into a sea unusually deep; the front of the mountain ivied and furred with clinging forest, one viridescent cliff: about half-way from east to west, the low, bare, stony promontory edged in between the cliff and the ocean; the two little towns (Kalawao and Kalaupapa) seated on either side of it, as bare almost as bathing machines upon a beach; and the population—gorgons and chimaeras dire.

The promontory on which Sorrento stands is barren enough, but southward rise pleasant cliffs viridescent with samphire, and beyond them purple hills dotted with white spots of houses.

Voices came to him from that part, and gleams of bright garments; and to get to them it seemed he must pass through a viridescent atmosphere flecked with blooms, and faintly sweet with odors.

Strange that a fragment of a life replete, A few brief hours as men measure time, A chapter in life's book, closed now--yet vaguely sweet As odor-laden zephyrs from some far-off clime-- Should drift across my heart while joysome memories rise Of golden moments snatched from Arcady, Of silver sails and opal-tinted skies, Of viridescent earth and sapphire sea.

The viridescent ribbon of the Thames bound bridge to bridge running thematically through a symphony of grey and green and gold.