| 1. | parts of verdigris with one of verdigris with two of yellow. - from The Notebooks of Leonardo Da Vinci, Complete by Leonardo Da Vinci |
| 2. | Lac and verdigris make a good shadow for blue in oil painting. - from The Notebooks of Leonardo Da Vinci, Complete by Leonardo Da Vinci |
| 3. | Then I got a big pebble from the river, and came and hammered till I had flattened a coil in the decorations, and the verdigris came off in powdery flakes. - from The Time Machine by H. G. (Herbert George) Wells |
| 4. | Grind verdigris many times coloured with lemon juice and keep it away from yellow. - from The Notebooks of Leonardo Da Vinci, Complete by Leonardo Da Vinci |
| 5. | And though now nailed amidst all the rustiness of iron bolts and the verdigris of copper spikes, yet, untouchable and immaculate to any foulness, it still preserved its Quito glow. - from Moby Dick; or The Whale by Herman Melville |
| 6. | Henceforth, it is apt at all roles, it is made suspicious by the counterfeiter, covered with verdigris by the forger, blacked by the soot of the incendiary and the murderer applies its rouge. - from Les Miserables by Victor Hugo |