| 单词 | leafage |
| 例句 | It wouldn't fix the world's troubles if places started using a little less leafage on sandwiches, but every little bit helps. Please stop putting so much lettuce on your sandwich 2022-03-18T04:00:00Z What can be worse than festoons of leafage, like so many sausages, painted upon a ceiling, with griffins, small framed pictures, impossible flowers, and feeble ornament, all with fictitious light and shade? Principles of Decorative Design Fourth Edition 2012-05-22T15:16:52.423Z You imagine the rich lights and shadows, the jewel-bright leafage, the faces and moving limbs of men and women, seen for an instant and gone again. Mortal Coils 2012-04-06T02:00:30.740Z That part of the capital of a column included between the abacus and neck molding; also used for the naked core of nearly cylindrical shape, assumed to exist within the leafage of a capital. Webster's Unabridged Dictionary (2nd 100 Pages) 2012-03-24T02:00:19.387Z The shower that had fallen had greatly refreshed the land, and though more rain was eagerly hoped for, the almond-trees were heavy in leafage and thickly ruched with the green-velvet casings of the embryonic fruit. The Fortunate Isles Life and Travel in Majorca, Minorca and Iviza 2012-03-21T02:00:34.053Z These three solid masses of color surrounded by bare earth and showing little green leafage made my eyes ache, but a picture was burnt in which will never leave my brain. Old-Time Gardens Newly Set Forth 2012-03-06T03:00:22.850Z We have, indeed, only a hideous human face with a marginal excrescence of leafage. Principles of Decorative Design Fourth Edition 2012-05-22T15:16:52.423Z But the most cogent reason of this blind manœuvring was to be found in the rapid variations of contour, the patulous trees, and the abundant leafage. Through East Anglia in a Motor Car 2012-02-22T03:00:21.787Z Then by an avenue of spring leafage, shot with sunlight and sweet with the smell of spruce and deep leaf mold, they entered the great forest where, a mile or so beyond, lay the Lodge. The Lucky Piece A Tale of the North Woods 2012-02-13T03:00:18.927Z Daily the "labyrinth of alleys" becomes denser with leafage, and the sun is hot enough to make the shade very pleasant, while occasional showers keep the greenery fresh. Journeys in Persia and Kurdistan, Volume I (of 2) Including a Summer in the Upper Karun Region and a Visit to the Nestorian Rayahs 2012-02-12T03:00:15.857Z Our broad fields often have pleasing expanses of leafage other than green, and flowers that are as all-pervading as foliage. Old-Time Gardens Newly Set Forth 2012-03-06T03:00:22.850Z Many grand ravines came down upon this gorge, their dwarf trees, orange, tawny, and canary-yellow, mingled with rose-red leafage. Journeys in Persia and Kurdistan, Volume II (of 2) Including a Summer in the Upper Karun Region and a Visit to the Nestorian Rayahs 2012-02-12T03:00:11.843Z And high overhead, in the unclouded blue, a soaring eagle, catching brief glimpses of the drama through the openings in the leafage, gazed down upon it with unwinking, scornful eyes. Hoof and Claw 2012-01-28T03:00:27.507Z Mother and Effie were in front and two of my Sunday-school scholars had scurried up like rabbits out of the fallen leafage and tucked themselves on either side of my carefully held skirts. A Woman of Genius 2012-01-18T03:00:09.517Z Out of the door of the building so decorated, one spring morning, when the trees were in delicate new leafage, came a sergeant attached to the recruiting station. The Code of the Mountains 2012-01-07T03:00:15.050Z Some of the Tree Peonies have finely displayed leafage of a curious and very gratifying tint of green. Old-Time Gardens Newly Set Forth 2012-03-06T03:00:22.850Z The luxuriant vine of a gourd spread its thick leafage over a part of the ground enclosed. The Outcaste 2011-12-12T03:00:25.380Z He recalled vividly that last meeting at the head of Plane Pond, under the sprouting green leafage of early spring in the Plane woods. The Heath Hover Mystery 2011-12-01T03:00:22.357Z Not a ray of the sun fell within that spot, though it were the month of May, so thick and close was the leafage. Aucassin & Nicolette And Other Mediaeval Romances and Legends 2011-11-24T03:00:40.487Z In such cases, there may be excess of nitrogen for current need with resultant over-development of leafage. The Tomato 2011-11-20T03:00:13.470Z Even the fierce rays of the Andalusian sun cannot penetrate the thick leafage. Southern Spain 2011-11-11T03:00:28.423Z Some of the canes of the roof dangled from the boughs, others littered the ground amid a tangle of creepers and leafage. The Girl Crusoes A Story of the South Seas 2011-11-03T02:00:16.647Z He made answer to himself with the barytone, but there was a third now singing, and his voice arose out of their attendance as a great, white, solemn, night-blooming flower might rise out of leafage. Saul of Tarsus A Tale of the Early Christians 2011-10-28T02:00:22.437Z Then she plucked flowers, and fresh grass and green leafage, and bound them tightly about the setting with the hem torn from her shift, and he was altogether healed. Aucassin & Nicolette And Other Mediaeval Romances and Legends 2011-11-24T03:00:40.487Z The protecting hairs and pigments disappear, and the green leafage takes its place, brightened by the yellow tassels of the stamen flowers, and the growing season is on. Trees Worth Knowing 2011-10-13T02:00:48.357Z Through the leafage of the weeping willows may be seen the white tombstones. The History of the Nineteenth Century in Caricature 2011-10-04T02:00:18.533Z I have seen her hardy cheek Like a molten coral leak Through the leafage shaded Of thick Chickasaws, and then, When I made more sure, again To a red plum faded. The Triumph of Music And Other Lyrics 2011-09-11T02:00:09.677Z Another, which I supposed to be of the leguminous order, had a silvery bole, and a texture of pale green leafage open and light, which at a distance resembled that of the birch. The Sea and the Jungle 2011-08-30T02:00:30.350Z Beyond, gay with orange and black, is the Princeton booth; and still beyond, Dartmouth and Columbia and California; and then, a blur of brilliant crimson through the leafage, Harvard. The Turner Twins 2011-08-28T02:00:36.990Z In the extreme Southwest—as on the plains of Texas—the vegetation dries up completely in summer so that there is no succulent leafage for the caterpillars to live upon. Butterflies Worth Knowing 2011-08-10T02:00:15.887Z The trees are dark with ripened leafage; out of the twilight of the woodside glow the declining disks of wild sunflowers and shine the rising constellations of asters. In New England Fields and Woods 2011-07-27T02:00:26.953Z The gardens of the opposite palace were in their fullest leafage; and the birds singing in the trees lured her out. On the Cross A Romance of the Passion Play at Oberammergau 2011-07-17T02:00:33.887Z These tents, in number about a dozen, are pitched among the trees of an apricot tope, whose leafage is just beginning to bud forth anew after the devastations of a flight of locusts. The Ruby Sword A Romance of Baluchistan 2011-07-05T02:00:28.367Z Generations unborn will enjoy the leafage and fruit of that sacred tree of Christianity, whose little seed we have seen planted in the dark ground. In Both Worlds 2011-06-08T02:00:17.360Z A great, clambering rose tree had thrown its arms around the square porch, softening the uncompromising angles into curves of leafage and bloom. The Secret of Lonesome Cove 2011-06-07T02:00:12.563Z Higher still the young leafage of the larches gives a delightful perfume of the same kind. Wood and Garden Notes and thoughts, practical and critical, of a working amateur 2011-06-02T02:00:22.983Z Nothing was to be seen but the gate and the green leafage of trees and shrubs on each side of it. A Letter of Credit 2011-05-20T02:00:40.410Z On the ground underneath the patch-quilt of virgin petals and emerald leafage, it peopled a theatre of animated pictures. The Red Debt Echoes from Kentucky 2011-05-08T02:00:04.810Z Beamy the world, yet a blank all the same,— Framework which waits for a picture to frame: What of the leafage, what of the flower? Browning and the Dramatic Monologue 2011-04-30T02:00:14.330Z It will be observed that its symmetry is more complicated, the leafage being divided into double groups of two lobes each, each lobe of different structure. The Seven Lamps of Architecture 2011-04-20T02:00:20.760Z The stiff, wholesome foliage adds much to the beauty of the outdoor kinds, contrasting most agreeably with the limp, mildewed leafage of those indoors. Wood and Garden Notes and thoughts, practical and critical, of a working amateur 2011-06-02T02:00:22.983Z Were there bands to be broken in her soul's life? were buds and leafage and flower to be developed in her character, for which this severe weather was but a safe and necessary precursor? A Letter of Credit 2011-05-20T02:00:40.410Z It was alone that during these enchanting weeks he made himself acquainted with the unimagined loveliness of English hamlets buried in immemorial leafage and whispered to by meandering rivulets in the warm recesses of antiquity. Aspects and Impressions 2011-04-12T02:00:22.073Z Its edges, the limits of its leafage, were not so distinct. The Terror A Mystery 2011-03-22T02:00:24.957Z Having marble at his command, and classical decoration in his sight, the southern architect was able to carve the intermediate spaces with exquisite leafage, or to vary his wall surface with inlaid stones. The Seven Lamps of Architecture 2011-04-20T02:00:20.760Z He is glad that the trees, then wrapped in the heavy uniformity of late summer, are now showing the juicy variety of their early leafage. Doctor Cupid 2011-03-13T03:00:23.987Z Around and above, save in the plantation which surrounds the house, is the soft green light of the paradisal woodland illumining its incredible wealth of leafage, fruit, and flowers. A Modern Buccaneer 2011-03-02T03:00:23.990Z The old houses had old gardens behind them, green enough, but with a certain grime upon them that made them strange to eyes unused to this combination of soot and leafage. Far Off Things 2011-02-04T03:00:19.967Z I suppose barbarians came like summer leafage, conquered and colonized, mixing the blood of a new race. The Car That Went Abroad Motoring Through the Golden Age 2011-01-27T03:00:39.880Z The common iron work of the middle ages was as simple as it was effective, composed of leafage cut flat out of sheet iron, and twisted at the workman's will. The Seven Lamps of Architecture 2011-04-20T02:00:20.760Z Upon our Tree, a branch from Scotland’s shore You grafted, and behold our Tree became Wanton in leafage; with blossoms all aflame; Deep rooted; and with boughs to heaven that soar. Wayside Weeds 2011-01-23T03:00:17.230Z To check them, “grease-banding” round the trees has been adopted; but as many other pests eat the leafage, it is best to kill all at once by spraying with arsenical poisons. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 8, Slice 10 "Echinoderma" to "Edward" 2011-01-19T03:00:19.027Z There was still a tinge of afterglow reflected in its many-paned windows, and among the young feathery leafage of the old sycamore sparrows were preparing to go to bed. Why Joan? 2011-01-02T03:00:20.290Z But the vine-covered hills between Épernay and Rheims, with their dark-green matted leafage, seemed to us as richly productive as anything in France. The Car That Went Abroad Motoring Through the Golden Age 2011-01-27T03:00:39.880Z A plant it was which grew under the mopanes, green as a leek, and not unlike one in its leafage, covering the ground thickly, as onions in a garden bed. The Vee-Boers A Tale of Adventure in Southern Africa 2010-12-20T17:12:24.303Z Then came wild tangle, cane-brake, and in one place, where a creek indented the land, weird-looking mangroves spread their leafage over their muddy scaffolds of aërial roots. Commodore Junk 2010-12-20T17:12:13.450Z An orchard climbing the slope to the left showed in dark leafage against the grey and green of the forest. The Pioneers 2010-12-20T17:12:11.787Z When he had reached the house his first action was to force from this bruised leafage a few drops of liquid into a saucer and this juice he carefully injected into his eyes. The Law of Hemlock Mountain “Curse the woman for a Jezebel!” cried Glen between his teeth, as he clutched a handful of the rich leafage of a palm and crushed it in his fingers. A Double Knot Dasso took it and drew out the folded sheet of paper it contained, holding it up to catch the moon-rays which here and there penetrated the leafage surrounding them. The Princess Galva A Romance The trees and bushes are dwarf oaks, with their old leafage still clinging in tawny masses, and willows, with their bunches of slim, yellow shoots. The Jonathan Papers The weathered, rambling homestead of Ayrmuir was just visible through the trees, and a cornfield waving down the slope of the hill showed golden through a gap in the waving leafage. The Pioneers 2010-12-20T17:12:11.787Z Forest trees, ancient as Druids, were playing at being young in the almost shrill greens of their leafage. The Key to Yesterday The young mountaineer was trudging along one day through a gracious woodland, which even, in the starkness of winter, hinted at the nobility that summer leafage must give to its parklike spaces. The Tempering Then up leapt the jolly sun and touched all the upper leafage of the trees and turned them into gold. The Story of Sir Launcelot and His Companions In winter they can whistle, and sigh, and creak, but I am sure that when I have heard these singing voices the trees have always had their full leafage. The Jonathan Papers Grey was the background and green—grey with falling gauzes of twilight, green with luxuriance of leafage in its emerald prime. Love's Usuries They flower more continuously and in much greater profusion, are not so troubled with green fly, and are far more decorative in habit of growth and colour of leafage than most of the other species. Small Gardens and How to Make the Most of Them A wholesome autumn smell, mingling oddly with the sound of summer leafage. Shadows of Flames A Novel The Great Artist had merely outlined and touched here and there with his brush the picture which later on he would fill in with the gorgeous coloring of summer's full leafage and full flowering. Clover and Blue Grass Cut, dragged, and piled up in masses of white stems and limp green leafage and tangled red-brown twigs! The Jonathan Papers As he ventured his head beyond the green leafage, the level light of the sinking sun struck him in the eyes. Man and Maid She knew that those dead hills with their dying leafage told another tale to the pair of young lives housed with her. Ewing\\'s Lady Each plant should tell its own tale, and not suffer partial extinction through a choke-muddle arrangement that makes a bank of leafage perhaps, but in which all individual beauty is hopelessly lost. Trees and Shrubs for English Gardens Through its thick, heavy drapery of leafage—I may not breathe, neither be warmed, by ever a single sun-ray. My Kalulu, Prince, King and Slave A Story of Central Africa It was now the month of August, and getting towards African spring-time, and, favoured doubtless by the neighbourhood of the vlei, the acacias were already putting forth a pleasant bravery of green leafage. Tales of South Africa Then the pale yellow of the timbers no more shone through the reddening leafage, but a sombre black bulk loomed impressively above the chips, daunting the squirrels for a few days with its strange shadow. International Short Stories American Under the slanting moon rays it shone like another moon, radiantly silver in its setting of cloudlike leafage. Ewing\\'s Lady It makes a glorious group on the lawn, and in early June the spreading shoots are so thickly covered with flower clusters that scarcely a vestige of the dark-green, wrinkled leafage is visible. Trees and Shrubs for English Gardens The trees grew around thickly, with many towering columns, supporting a mass of leafage, impenetrable to glare of sun or the white light of day. My Kalulu, Prince, King and Slave A Story of Central Africa Never again shall he stalk the pleasant Kalahari forests never again stretch upward that slender neck to pluck the young acacia leafage! Tales of South Africa The homestead was large and roomy, and not unpicturesque, with its deep verandah shaded by growing creepers, which, however, at that time of year were destitute of leafage. Aletta A Tale of the Boer Invasion As the colt stood wondering, a thickset, short-legged, grayish coloured animal, covered with long, bristling quills, emerged from the leafage and came crawling down the trunk toward him. The Haunters of the Silences A Book of Animal Life This shrub is chiefly remarkable for the tint of its young leafage, which is bright crimson, and gives a vivid, flower-like effect at a little distance in April. Trees and Shrubs for English Gardens The Prince: A withering way that makes the leafage fall, Custom, like Winter, is the King of all. King Cole From behind a spreading acacia tree, from which it has been plucking the green leafage, strides into a little glade of the grove a great cow giraffe. Tales of South Africa And he was pausing now, as he loitered along the wide, silent street with its trees in pale, sweet leafage and its old-fashioned houses showing a prim gayety in the bloom of their garden closes. The Torch Bearer He had just vanished in the leafage when his pursuers appeared at the other side of the pasture. The Haunters of the Silences A Book of Animal Life And lo! the Stranger Child appeared, coming forth out of the sweet-smelling leafage, surrounded by such a brilliant light and radiance, that Felix and Christlieb had to shut their eyes at the brightness of it. The Serapion Brethren, Vol. I. The delicious perfume of leaves and flowers streamed through it, while the birds, twittering and trilling in happiness, went rustling amongst the branches, and bathed themselves in the bedewed leafage. The Serapion Brethren. Vol. II The stems, though beautifully free, are not thoroughly drawn or rounded; and in the mass of the tree, though well formed, the tremulousness and transparency of leafage are lost. Modern Painters, Volume IV (of V) Do not cut leafage too much by the outlines of the groups of leaves—or wings by the outlines of the groups of feathers. Stained Glass Work A text-book for students and workers in glass He found the family assembled in their summer parlour, beneath the handsome butternut tree which Robert's axe had spared, and which repaid the indulgence by grateful shade and continual beauty of leafage. Cedar Creek From the Shanty to the Settlement The scene was a garden-arbour, thick with the luxuriant leafage of the South. The Serapion Brethren, Vol. I. The mouldings are the same, but they are coarsely worked, and the heads set amidst the leafage of the capitals quite valueless and vile. The Stones of Venice, Volume III (of 3) January, Carrying home a noble tree on his shoulders, the leafage of which nods forwards, and falls nearly to his feet. The Stones of Venice, Volume II (of 3), Small frogs, lizards, and snails almost always enliven the foregrounds and leafage of good sculpture. The Stones of Venice, Volume I (of 3) The south door has round arches beneath an ogee hood, the jambs are ornamented with damaged scrolled leafage, and in the tympanum is a figure of S. Dominic. The Shores of the Adriatic The Austrian Side, The Küstenlande, Istria, and Dalmatia The leafage is brown, against a sky that is not blue, but which rather reminds one of blue than of grey. Needlework As Art The design of the forms of the leafage round the head of the Bacchus, and the floating grace of the female figure above, will, however, always give interest to this picture, unless it be repainted. The Stones of Venice, Volume III (of 3) They have once had an arcade of low wide arches traced on their surface, the spandrils filled with leafage, and archivolts enriched with studded chainwork and with crosses in their centres. The Stones of Venice, Volume II (of 3), This I believe to have been the simple origin of most of the Venetian ogee 320 cornices; but they are farther complicated by the curves given to the leafage which flows over them. The Stones of Venice, Volume I (of 3) The spandrils are filled with Gothic leafage, the bases and caps to the columns are early Renaissance, and the frieze is quite plain, with a dentilled cornice. The Shores of the Adriatic The Austrian Side, The Küstenlande, Istria, and Dalmatia The heather when long and wiry and strong, covered with its harsh leafage and myriad hard knobs, that were to burst into flower, answered for the brush. The Broom-Squire You will also recollect that we left our question, respecting the mode of expressing intricacy of leafage, partly unsettled in the first letter. The Elements of Drawing In Three Letters to Beginners They are bare, too, of the rich vines and tremulous leafage which makes the ruins of Italy so picturesque, and those of England so grand in their decay. Mabel's Mistake They can paint oak leafage faithfully, but do not know where to stop, and by doing too much, lose the truth of all,—lose the very truth of detail at � 22. Modern Painters Volume I (of V) Approaching the edge of the open, the young hunter kept himself carefully hidden behind the fringing leafage and looked forth upon the little meadow. The House in the Water A Book of Animal Stories The spring winds blew themselves out; spring buds opened into full leafage; spring activities gradually merged into the steady routine of summer; and still Diana saw nothing, and still she heard nothing of Evan. Diana Farther back glimpses of the glittering fence are caught through the scanty leafage. The Lonely Way—Intermezzo—Countess Mizzie Three Plays No wonder that they array themselves in so broad an expanse of leafage. Little Masterpieces of Science: The Naturalist as Interpreter and Seer Let us, however, pass to the leafage of the elder landscape � 16. Modern Painters Volume I (of V) In both of these the cup is embossed with angels and leafage—in one the angels hold bells—and the stem is covered with tabernacle work. Portuguese Architecture On the landward side are lawns, flowers, and abundance of eye-gladdening leafage, while, seaward, there is the unspeakable glory of isle-dotted loch and distant sea. Literary Tours in The Highlands and Islands of Scotland The leafage is very thick.—Where have you placed those busts of the Roman emperors? The Lonely Way—Intermezzo—Countess Mizzie Three Plays Its shores present a diminishing perspective of woods; and, as mangroves line the beach on either side, the leafage and the water seem to melt into one another. Brighter Britain! (Volume 1 of 2) or Settler and Maori in Northern New Zealand Infants in judgment, we look for specific character, and complete finish—we delight in the faithful plumage of the well-known bird—in the finely drawn leafage of the discriminated flower. Modern Painters Volume I (of V) Of the west front only the fine doorway is left unchanged; pointed in shape, but romanesque in detail; having three of the five orders, carved one with grotesque animals and two with leafage. Portuguese Architecture The hills, with their green pastoral slopes and abundant leafage, are a delight to the eye in fresh spring and tinted fall. Literary Tours in The Highlands and Islands of Scotland In 200 a smother of leafage and blinding, lashing branches he sank downwards––at first, as it seemed, slowly, for he had time to think many things while his heart was jumping in his throat. The Backwoodsmen There is no native grass, as I have before mentioned, and the feed is tree leafage. Brighter Britain! (Volume 1 of 2) or Settler and Maori in Northern New Zealand At this moment a gigantic water python reared its head from the leafage close by, fixed its flat, lidless, glittering eyes upon them, and drew back to strike. In the Morning of Time Willie and I were reading "The Lady of the Lake," the other day, in the back garden, surrounded by the verdant leafage of our own kail-yard. Penelope's Progress Being Such Extracts from the Commonplace Book of Penelope Hamilton As Relate to Her Experiences in Scotland When the husbandman beholds his vines entering into leafage and blossom, he nurtures them on into fruitage. A Man's Value to Society Studies in Self Culture and Character His head shot up above the surface, above the swirl of foam, leafage, and débris; and splutteringly he gulped his lungs full of air. The Backwoodsmen Outside, almost brushing the eaves with the plumes of its farthest flung branches, stood a gigantic walnut tree whose fresh leafage filtered a mottling of sunlight upon the age-tempered walls. The Roof Tree He 230 had a vivid remembrance of that colossal head, with the awful dead eyes, which had reared itself through the leafage to stare up at him. In the Morning of Time He fairly stood upon his head, burrowing his muzzle into the moist leafage, as he strove to purge the exasperating torment from his nostrils. Kings in Exile Then Lois was plunged in a wilderness of green leafage and brilliant bloom, warm atmosphere and mixed perfume; her first breath was an involuntary exclamation of delight and relief. Nobody In the thick leafage there was a swaying, which moved down along the bank, but he could not see what was causing it. The Backwoodsmen There was a verandah round the restaurant itself, there were trees in joyous leafage, there were little tables, and there were waiters hurrying to and fro with napkins under their arms. The Belovéd Vagabond It vanished through a floor of thick leafage, and struck the ground with a dull crash. In the Morning of Time Fine trees encircle these abodes with so thick a curtain of leafage that the inhabitants might think themselves buried in the depths of the country. Messengers of Evil Being a Further Account of the Lures and Devices of Fantômas The trees were red and brown and yellow in their incipient leafage. A Christmas Accident and Other Stories If here the scar of some old quarry throws a stain, or there the clinging of some thin leafage spreads a bloom, the stain is of precious gold, and the bloom of silver. The Beauties of Nature and the Wonders of the World We Live In The scroll in green upon a brownish-purple ground; the smaller leafage upon the scroll in brighter green; the flowers and butterflies in blue and pink. Art in Needlework A Book about Embroidery The gorgeous bloom seemed to rise out of a black, curiously gnarled elbow of branch or trunk which thrust itself out through the leafage. In the Morning of Time Their principal food is the leafage and young shoots of various trees, the wild fig being a favorite. Due West or Round the World in Ten Months Beamy the world, yet a blank all the same —Framework which waits for a picture to frame;5 What of the leafage, what of the flower? Selections from the Poems and Plays of Robert Browning Now come the days of revelry on the leafage, in the mild morning sun. The Glow-Worm and Other Beetles The filling in of the leafage, the diapering within the leaf shapes, and the smaller and more elaborate details generally were done in long-and-short-stitch, or whatever came handiest. Art in Needlework A Book about Embroidery It was plainly straight at him, through the ineffectual screen of the leafage, that the dreadful insect was staring. In the Morning of Time The line of timber following every 397 stream was in the full leafage of May. Winning the Wilderness He explained that he had plucked it out of midair as it was in the act of dropping from the leafage above. Fibble, D.D. And as the arch with stars is sprent, I hear balm-dew from firmament Drip richly from their whispering leafage To soothe the fields to a sweet content. Song-waves Whoever planned the lines of the border in Illustration 91, or treated the leafage in Illustration 92, was not trying to be original, but determined to do his best. Art in Needlework A Book about Embroidery Its fury carried it through the screen of leafage––but then, its wings impeded by the branches, and the arrow hampering it, 215 it dashed itself to the earth. In the Morning of Time The odd, or rather the strange-looking houses, sitting apart from each other, some large and some small, intermingled gracefully with trees whose shape and leafage were as new, made a sweet picture. The Old Helmet, Volume II We glean the coy berry from its hiding place beneath the sheltering leafage. Fibble, D.D. The buttercups across the field Made sunshine rifts of splendour: The round snow-bud of the thorn in the wood Peeped through its leafage tender, As the rain came softly falling. Victorian Songs Lyrics of the Affections and Nature This gives emphasis to the bold forms of the leafage. Art in Needlework A Book about Embroidery We see a mighty spruce whose black leafage has waved above its fellows for a century or more, paying for its supremacy by the distortion of every branch. The Log of the Sun A Chronicle of Nature's Year The house garden was full of bloom; the trees were in leafage, and there was the music of blooms in the hives of the bees. True to His Home A Tale of the Boyhood of Franklin It was at the end of May; the meadow was like a rug of rich emerald velvet, and the willows were freshly decked in their pale leafage. The Huntress A month later the leafage will be in glory, but that also will have an aspect of sameness and moderation. The Apple-Tree The Open Country Books—No. 1 Here she nibbled tentatively at some stems and withered leafage. The Watchers of the Trails A Book of Animal Life Fearing the enemy might have tracked him, he stood as still as a mouse in the leafage of the oak. Blackbeard: Buccaneer "Superb and sole upon a plumèd spray That o'er the general leafage boldly grew," as literally as though Lanier had sketched that particular bird, stood the first free mocking-bird I ever heard. In Nesting Time This is the subject—the church and trees—all else belongs to that—we see dimly through the leafage—we read, through the gloom and the glimmer, the village histories. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 54, No. 334, August 1843 Meanwhile the national epopee declined in France; a breath of scepticism touched and withered the leafage and blossom of imagination; it even became possible to parody—as in Audigier—the heroic manner. A History of French Literature Short Histories of the Literatures of the World: II. A little to one side, beyond the corn-field and over a billowy mass of silvered leafage, stood the gray, clustered roofs of a backwoods farmstead. The Watchers of the Trails A Book of Animal Life Through that gray-green leafage, young with early spring, the pinnacles of the Certosa leap like flames into the sky. New Italian sketches Then hearken how the poplar trees unfold Their buds, yet close and gummed and blind, In airy leafage of the mind, Rustling in silvery whispers the twin-hued scales That fade not nor grow old. The Defeat of Youth and Other Poems Why should the buxom leafage of the Park Touch to an ecstasy the act of seeing? The Song of the Sword and Other Verses It was early morning; the breeze from the land blew sweet and fragrant, and the woods beyond the sandy beach bourgeoned in new leafage, green and tender. Margaret Tudor A Romance of Old St. Augustine And every time, before devouring her prize, she would carefully, though somewhat impatiently, cleanse her face of the mud and dead leafage which seemed to be an inseparable concomitant of her digging. The Watchers of the Trails A Book of Animal Life June the next, with roses scented, Languid from a slumber-spell; June in shade of leafage tented;— June the next, with roses scented. Collected Poems In Two Volumes, Vol. II The winding vale was flooded with silver radiance that rested on river and rock and tree-trunk and multitudinous leafage like an enchantment of tranquillity. Days Off And Other Digressions Dust in dust engendering dust In the leafage fresh and boon, Man and maid fulfil their trust— Still the morn turns merry June. The Song of the Sword and Other Verses The April sun bathed the tender leafage of the trees in light. The Gods are Athirst On three sides, east, west, and north, the willows and birches gathered close about it, their light leafage hanging motionless in the clear, still heat. The Watchers of the Trails A Book of Animal Life The afternoon found me in the lane, on a knoll where the leafage broke and gave a vista of rolling country. David Malcolm In dells roofed with green leafage, nature spread Couches meet for a Sybarite. Stories in Verse Richly decorative, various in design, light and flowing in form, the delicate curves broke into actual leafage, sweeping and free as nature's own. The Ffolliots of Redmarley Hidden in a shady tree is a bough with leafage and pliant shoot all of gold, consecrate to nether Juno, wrapped in the depth of woodland and shut in by dim dusky vales. The Aeneid of Virgil The other shore was a high, overhanging bank, from whose top drooped a varied leafage of birch, ash, poplar, and hemlock. The Watchers of the Trails A Book of Animal Life Some people love the country but in the time of leafage! John Splendid The Tale of a Poor Gentleman, and the Little Wars of Lorn Warm earth-scents drenched the air; soft sibilant whisperings stirred overhead, and hidden birds chattered in the leafage. Nicanor - Teller of Tales A Story of Roman Britain A low-growing orange-tree, all lustrous with globes of green and gold and shiny leafage, had intercepted his view of the pair for just the instant which intervened between the sound and the call. Despair's Last Journey He had a branch of bramble in his hand, plucked for the crimson of its leafage. Gilian The Dreamer His Fancy, His Love and Adventure The leading lines run through the pattern as continuously as possible, but the surface of the leafage is divided up into numbers of little hills and hollows. Wood-Carving Design and Workmanship The azure of the hyacinths, the pale saffron of the primroses, the cool hues of the meadow daffodils, the ruby eyes of the cultured jonquils, gleamed amongst wet rushes, grey herbs, and freshly budded leafage. Wisdom, Wit, and Pathos of Ouida Selected from the Works of Ouida A world of leafage murmurous and a-twinkle; The green, delicious plenitude of June; Love and laughter and song The blue day long Going to the same glad, golden tune— The same glad tune! Hawthorn and Lavender with Other Verses Whatever the quality of the soil, it should not be very rich, because in such soils the growth is apt to be rank and the quantity of oil small in proportion to the leafage. Culinary Herbs: Their Cultivation Harvesting Curing and Uses Softly and silently the two slipped off in the darkness, making for the belt of forest where the gloomy leafage made only a slight blur against the black velvet sky. !Tention A Story of Boy-Life during the Peninsular War There should also be a good supply of illustrations and photographs of birds and beasts and flowers, and above all, some branches and buds of real leafage. Wood-Carving Design and Workmanship I said to myself; and stepping aside among the thick leafage, I let our party go by and stopped to see what Jimmy was about to do. Bunyip Land A Story of Adventure in New Guinea Near and afar in the leafage, That last glad call to the nest! Hawthorn and Lavender with Other Verses Every man of us has all the centuries in him, though their operations be latent, dim, and very various; in his case the roots were as unmistakeable as the leafage, the blossom, and the fruits. The Life of William Ewart Gladstone, Vol. 1 (of 3) 1809-1859 I followed closely, and in a yard or two found myself in a deep lane or cutting, very thickly overgrown, so that only occasional gleams of sunshine crept in through the leafage. Highways and Byways in Sussex If you wish for more variety than these narrow limits afford, then try some other kind of carving, with perhaps leafage as its motive. Wood-Carving Design and Workmanship The steep with its trunks and leafage formed the northern bound of it; while its southern shore was the green verge of the meadows. Earth's Enigmas A Volume of Stories There were yet drifts of snow in the valleys among the hills, but spring was coming, and the bare boughs would soon be thick with the buds of leafage. Mary Gray The lindens and plane trees and shrubberies began to hug the place under their cosy leafage. Villa Elsa A Story of German Family Life "Though barrier mount, the leafy mount, the inner mount, be dense with leafage; What e'er one wills, naught hinders." The Yotsuya Kwaidan or O'Iwa Inari Tales of the Tokugawa, Volume 1 (of 2) But the ornamental leafage is different from ordinary Brugeois, inasmuch as it is “pearled” along the central veins, and is not symmetrical. Illuminated Manuscripts Illustrated with over 200 Drawings from Nature by the Author, and giving the botanical names and habitat of each tree and recording the precise character and coloring of its leafage. 12mo. The Farringdons The cedar trees in the yard were in need of pruning, and seemed, from their rusty trunks and scant leafage, to have shared in the general decay. The Colonel's Dream Their leafage is already darkening in the changed light, and they toss their branches in the wind, as if to wrestle with the spirit of the storm. Rembrandt A Collection Of Fifteen Pictures and a Portrait of the Painter with Introduction and Interpretation The beautiful vine leaf carving at the sides has, however, been happily spared; it is similar to the leafage on the Cantilupe shrine. Bell’s Cathedrals: The Cathedral Church of Hereford, A Description Of Its Fabric And A Brief History Of The Episcopal See The soft and curling foliages of the sunny South are for a season giving way to the hard and thorny leafage of the wintry North. Illuminated Manuscripts In this case the beautiful and delicate Byzantine leafage can be seen on the mouldings of the arch above the window. The Brochure Series of Architectural Illustration, Volume 01, No. 04, April 1895 Byzantine-Romanesque Windows in Southern Italy But where the rills ran off to the continuous swamps the leafage started up in splendrous versatility. The Entailed Hat Or, Patty Cannon's Times The sun, curious and determined, pried and slid through every crack in the leafage, turned the flaked lichen to gold, lay in clotted light on the pools around the fern roots. The Emigrant Trail At their feet lay the park, from which rose faint odours of unknown wild flowers and the more pungent fragrance of dewy grass and leafage. How Women Love (Soul Analysis) Helen Muir from her seat at the window looking into the thick leafage of the trees saw him turn at the entrance and heard him mount the steps. Robin I saw before me on that morning of tender leafage, of pale sunlight and blue mist contending for the day, a strangely assorted pair proceeding slowly toward the Inn. Lore of Proserpine At length the restraint vanishes, the freedom changes consequently into license, and the page is covered with exuberant, irregular, and foolish extravagances of leafage and line. Giotto and his works in Padua An Explanatory Notice of the Series of Woodcuts Executed for the Arundel Society After the Frescoes in the Arena Chapel The small, close growing leafage cowered, a frightened trembling seized the trees. The Emigrant Trail It was across this maze of leafage, and in absolute darkness, that the butterflies had to find their way in order to attain the end of their pilgrimage. Social Life in the Insect World One means of clearing the ground to make a farm was to fell the trees, while in full leafage, in what were called 'winrows.' The Story of a Summer Or, Journal Leaves from Chappaqua Our pet was well hidden in the hedge, with its nose poking through a hole in the leafage and so cunningly camouflaged that it was absolutely impossible to be noticed. S.O.S. Stand to! Love dead and dry as summer in the South When winds are still And all the leafage shrivels in the heat! Songs from Vagabondia The hills swept up into bolder lines, the pines mounted in sentinel files crowding out the lighter leafage. The Emigrant Trail Fresh hope thrills us with their coming, They, too, braved the winter long;Then at Springtime took new leafage, Frail yet steadfast, small but strong. Patriotic Plays and Pageants for Young People Yet, thanks to Nature, who sends her leafage and flowerage up through all kinds of débris, and who takes a blossomy possession of ruined walls and desert places, it is never altogether dead! Dreamthorp A Book of Essays Written in the Country The Casa de Campo, the Florida, and all green spots become carpeted with wild flowers; the trees seem to have put on new leafage, so fresh are they and free from the over-loading of dust. Spanish Life in Town and Country Ah the brave days when thy leafage shall toss High where gold noondays and sunsets a-stream Mix with its moving and kiss it across. More Songs From Vagabondia As they drew near they could see the crouched forms of two children, the light filtering through the leafage on the silky flax of their heads. The Emigrant Trail Then the road descended sharply, among thick leafage, fresh and fair, not pine needles; and finally at the bottom of the descent the stage stopped. Wych Hazel Varieties of the fern sometimes relieve the massy forms of the stonecrop, with their light and delicate leafage. The Poetry of Architecture Or, the Architecture of the Nations of Europe Considered in its Association with Natural Scenery and National Character This is the broad suggestive rendering of dark leafage at the sides of a building, to give it relief. Pen Drawing An Illustrated Treatise Feeling produced, for instance, by beautiful leafage, the dawn, a delicate landscape, a touching moon. Letters of a Soldier 1914-1915 A yellowing of the leafage along the river's edge was all that denoted the season's change. The Emigrant Trail She could hear nothing and saw nothing but, between the leafage, a dim gleam of white. Emily Fox-Seton Being "The Making of a Marchioness" and "The Methods of Lady Walderhurst" Not a single line of any other kind of ornament should be admitted, and there should be more leafage than flower-work, as it is the more easy in its flow and outline. The Poetry of Architecture Or, the Architecture of the Nations of Europe Considered in its Association with Natural Scenery and National Character By the decaying wall of the little church a scrub oak rattled its tenacious leafage of russet brown. Destiny The bringing in of the new leafage in the form of a tree or flowers is one, and perhaps the simplest, form of spring festival. Ancient Art and Ritual A June dusk, with the fresh smell of the lake mingling with the heavy scent of syringa and alder bloom, and of all the world of leafage at the high tide of freshness. Lydia of the Pines All round the landscape lay in fullest beauty of leafage and flower, and the air rang musically with the song of birds. Life of Charles Dickens Deep relief need not be attempted, but the edges of the leafage should be clearly and delicately defined. The Poetry of Architecture Or, the Architecture of the Nations of Europe Considered in its Association with Natural Scenery and National Character All the abundant hedgerows were red with the leaf of the wild cherry, and the oak woods wore masses of sere and russet leafage. Mike Fletcher A Novel The leafage of a gigantic red oak shaded her; through its greenery she could see the heavy white clouds, and once an eagle flying as it seemed straight up into the sun. The Princess Pocahontas What had been a mere margin of distant woods, stood eliminated and relieved in bough and stem and leafage, with a singular pre-Raphaelitic individuality. The Other Girls Another spring came in the tender green of the young leafage, and again they put to sea. Historic Tales, Vol. 1 (of 15) The Romance of Reality During the first decade or two, house construction reflected a primitive use found ready at hand, such as saplings for a sort of framing, and use of branches, leafage, bark, and animal skins. New Discoveries at Jamestown Site of the First Successful English Settlement in America The dome of leafage was sprinkled with the colour of the sunset, and as I pressed my lips to the wooden statue, I heard dead leaves rustling under a footstep. Mike Fletcher A Novel The lindens which fringed the wood were now in full leafage, adorned with their delicate ball-like tassels, and hosts of birds flitted among them daily. Dickey Downy The Autobiography of a Bird The plant should never be dry at the root, and must have a light shower twice a day over the leafage, but the moisture which is necessary for Cucumbers would be excessive for Melons. The Culture of Vegetables and Flowers From Seeds and Roots 16th Edition On either side distant forests, clad in the fresh leafage of June, marked the borders of the lake. Historic Tales, Vol. 1 (of 15) The Romance of Reality They could never have made his sapless nature break into leafage. Expositions of Holy Scripture Ezekiel, Daniel, and the Minor Prophets. St Matthew Chapters I to VIII Looking up the vista of road shaded by trees in fresh leafage, we saw a rider coming toward us at a very severe pace. Philip Winwood A Sketch of the Domestic History of an American Captain in the War of Independence; Embracing Events that Occurred between and during the Years 1763 and 1786, in New York and London: written by His Enemy in War, Herbert Russell, Lieutenant in the Loyalist Forces. At the dying-out of the applause, the violinist addressed himself to the nook where Io was no more than a vague, faërie figure to his eyes, misty through interlaced bloom and leafage. Success A Novel Light dustings will suffice to render the plant unpalatable without interfering with its health, but a heavy careless hand will do more harm than all the insects by loading the leafage with obnoxious matter. The Culture of Vegetables and Flowers From Seeds and Roots 16th Edition The river ran between walls of fresh green leafage, here narrowed, yonder widened into a broad reach which was encircled by far sweeping forests. Historic Tales, Vol. 1 (of 15) The Romance of Reality Voluminous leafage blew behind and above her head, splashed with the white of sunlight and the gloom of swaying shadow. Tramping on Life An Autobiographical Narrative The trees, their earliest red leafage already emerald, followed the dry channel cut back from Canary Creek to the Forge, and he soon emerged at the broad, flashing course of the stream. The Three Black Pennys A Novel So also it is drawn as a creeper in F. 492, where the flower appears to be oppressed and concealed by the leafage. Proserpina, Volume 2 Studies Of Wayside Flowers In their seedling state the plants are peculiarly robust and charmingly fresh in leafage and flowers, even if amongst them there does not happen to be one that is welcome as a novel florist's flower. The Culture of Vegetables and Flowers From Seeds and Roots 16th Edition Then comes a forest region of luxuriant chestnut-trees, giants with pink boles just bursting into late leafage, yellow and tender, but too thin as yet for shade. Sketches and Studies in Italy and Greece, First Series The things of the night came and went, rustled through the grass, rustled through the leafage. The Inheritors A warm light was spilling across the darkening grass from the lower windows of his dwelling, blurring in a dusk under the high leafage of aged maples. The Three Black Pennys A Novel We plunge into the thicker leafage below, striding fast, or staying to lend hands from stone to stone or around the patches of wet ground. A Midsummer Drive Through the Pyrenees The stems are usually trained on wires, but they may be allowed to fall down from a pot or basket with excellent effect, to form a most attractive tracery of leafage dotted with dazzling flowers. The Culture of Vegetables and Flowers From Seeds and Roots 16th Edition Through that grey-green leafage, young with early spring, the pinnacles of the Certosa leap like flames into the sky. Sketches and Studies in Italy and Greece, First Series At the season when the fields are most full of leafage and life let us not be lethargic and stupid. Around The Tea-Table The Ronco, a straight sluggish stream, flows by the lonely spot; mason bees have covered with laborious stucco-work the scrolls and leafage of its ornaments, confounding epitaphs and trophies under their mud houses. Sketches and Studies in Italy and Greece, Second Series Like a shore bereft in one second of its tide, like a tree stripped in one second of its leafage, she stood there, utterly stricken of temper or passion or any animating human emotion whatsoever. The White Linen Nurse He appraises the seed of act, which is its motive; not "leafage and branchage, vulgar eyes admire." A Handbook to the Works of Browning (6th ed.) Our fruit trees, which we had brought two thousand miles in the nursery wagon, began to put out tender leafage. 54-40 or Fight Meanwhile the church around him filled with shadows, the lamp grew dim, and the lofty sprays of leafage darkened the tall Virgin's varnished face. Abbe Mouret's Transgression Gazing I crouched among thick flowering leafage, Till one who spied a rustling branch on high, Turned to her comrades with a sudden cry, And 'Go! Sketches and Studies in Italy and Greece, Second Series The young summer was clothing the banks with leafage not yet dark green, and translucent in the morning sun. Westways The sun filtered through the thick leafage overhead, touching her white dress, her small shoes, and the masses of her hair. The Marriage of William Ashe Their spring has been borrowed from summer, for the leafage here does not begin until late in June. Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 12, No. 31, October, 1873 He also painted landscapes in which people were only accessory, sunny valleys with leafage, golden cornfields, meadows with rows of dancing country folk or reapers in the wheat. The Development of the Feeling for Nature in the Middle Ages and Modern Times The leafage had progressed beyond the bourgeoning period and the branches flung broad green splendors of verdure to the breeze. The Frontiersmen When the day came for his first venture on a horse and he rode through the young leafage of June, no enterprise seemed impossible. Westways He would look out through the thick Hemlock tops, the blots of Basswood green or the criss-cross Butternut leafage and say: "My own, my own." Two Little Savages Being the adventures of two boys who lived as Indians and what they learned The last light of day had gone from the sky, and the stars overhead were hidden by the thick leafage of the Burlingame elms. Vanguards of the Plains There the chaparral grew thickest; and there the scrub-oaks shrugged their shoulders and turned their backs to the wind, and grew all lopsided, with leafage as dense as moss. In the Footprints of the Padres A north wind sprang up; the snow was soon heavily driving; within an hour the woods, still in the red leafage of autumn, were covered with snow and encased in ice. The Frontiersmen My dreams, pale spheres amid the leafage, Ethereal, poised for flight. The California Birthday Book His well-known characteristics are present in the dozen; the tremulous leafage, the bright, pure light, the Italian softness. Promenades of an Impressionist Into the rock the road is cut full deep, At its low ledges village children play, From its high rifts fountains of leafage weep, And silvery birches sway. Poems by Jean Ingelow, In Two Volumes, Volume II. Happily he had reached a slight elevation, at the top of which a few palm-trees shot upward, whose leafage, seen from a long distance against the sky, had helped to sustain his hopes. Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern — Volume 3 The trees rushed into leaf, and never had there been such a glorious leafage. Missing The luxuriant landscape is in the main Giorgionesque, save that here and there a naked branch among the leafage—and on one of them the woodpecker—strongly recalls Giovanni Bellini. The Earlier Work of Titian "This house is too big to fit anything but an orphan asylum," said Max, with a wave toward the brick walls now heavily vine-clad with the tender green leafage of May. Strawberry Acres In that real landscape had wrought the secret vitality clothing the earth in leafage and bloom. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 09, No. 52, February, 1862 He had made his shirt into a banner and tied it to the top of a palm-tree which he had stripped of its leafage. Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern — Volume 3 One of the most remarkable characters of natural leafage is the constancy with which, while the leaves are arranged on the spray with exquisite regularity, that regularity is modified in their actual effect. English Prose A Series of Related Essays for the Discussion and Practice Thus we may have them in standing armies, tall and green, lining the streets, and overtopping the houses of our largest cities; filtering with their wholesome leafage the air breathed by the people. A Walk from London to John O'Groat's From bald and sun-parched earth it rises, One lonely birch, high towering— Upon its withered crown wide spreading, Green leafage never more will sing. Russian Lyrics It was what remains to the ruffled bird, as he shivers in the leafless tree, in which he had sung so loud in the high summer, embowered in greenness and rustling leafage. The Silent Isle The trees were in the tender green leafage of early May, and their solid expanse stretched away hundreds and thousands of miles into the unknown west. The Shadow of the North A Story of Old New York and a Lost Campaign That single tree in the foreground is a lime; what a splendour of leafage it will be in the summer! A Mere Accident Still, after we had shaken hands on parting, the General, who had gone first, turned his bent head under the concealing leafage, and nodded and smiled with a quite particular cordial friendliness. Over There War Scenes on the Western Front List, how the leafage in raindrops all tearful Trembles and wails for a sorry defeat,— All that was ours, that we once proudly boasted, All, was a glittering cheat. Russian Lyrics They continued northward, never leaving the dark shadow cast by the dense leafage, and, as they went slowly, they enjoyed the luxury of the canoe. The Masters of the Peaks A Story of the Great North Woods Whether the sun were curtained by leafage or by silken folds he did not know—only this: that she was coming towards him, borne lightly as a ball of thistle-down. The Lake As the feathers of this bed are harsh stems covered with leafage, the process of bed-making must be systematic, the stems thoroughly covered, and the surface smooth and elastic. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 10, No. 62, December, 1862 The fair June leafage was out in its young glory of vivid green; it reminded her of her talk with Cousin Delight. A Summer in Leslie Goldthwaite's Life. But most of all I love the Quays, between the leafage and the sunlit Seine. Ballads of a Bohemian Nightingales trilled near by and the fresh leafage rustled, moved by a passing breeze. Father Sergius Just about here the trees were large and wide apart, and there was no undergrowth, so that she could be seen to some distance; a sylph-like, greenish-white creature, as toned by the sunlight and leafage. The Woodlanders Half a stone's throw from the east end of the churchyard wall was a tall cross of stone, new like the church, the head beautifully carved with a crucifix amidst leafage. A Dream of John Ball; and, a king's lesson Some of the yards were, indeed, but stony wastes, with grass in the cracks of the pavement and no shade in spring save that afforded by the intermittent leafage of the clothes-lines. The Early Short Fiction of Edith Wharton — Part 1 The daylight is dying Away in the west, The wild birds are flying In silence to rest; In leafage and frondage Where shadows are deep, They pass to its bondage — The kingdom of sleep. The Man from Snowy River Transplanted to Rome, I fancy he 'll put forth a denser leafage. Roderick Hudson The mass of full-juiced leafage on the heights around her was just swayed into faint gestures by a nearly spent wind which, even in its enfeebled state, did not reach her shelter. The Woodlanders Nobody seemed likely to disturb them; and the pleasant twitter of birds, and rustle of October leafage, came in through an open window, and mingled with their talk. Jude the Obscure They did not dwell fondly upon the picture of the lofty, spreading boughs, with their waves of sap-green leafage stirring against the blue. The Damnation of Theron Ware Keen-eyed and alert through danger and loneliness, he noted every stage of development, from the first piping frog and unsheathing bud, to full leafage and the return of the last migrant. Freckles She came towards me, half feeling her way between the tree boles, and though a child it seemed clung to her skirt, it swerved into the leafage like a rabbit as she drew nearer. Traffics and Discoveries The humid gloom of an ordinary wet day was doubled by the shade and drip of the leafage. The Woodlanders Lo the petalled leafage is finer, under the feet The coarse soil with a rainbow's worth Of delicate colours lies enamelled, Translucently glowing, shining. Georgian Poetry 1918-19 But the public footpath through the park ran along the farther side of the pond, and the doings of the inhabitants of the cottage, thick though the leafage was, could sometimes be observed from it. The Case of Richard Meynell The straggling vine-branches have a curious effect, but the brightness of the leafage is pleasant to the eye. In the Heart of the Vosges And Other Sketches by a "Devious Traveller" For some minutes amongst the wood and leafage a rending and heaving went on. Villette In a few minutes he was in its top, high above all the surrounding leafage of the forest. The Mysterious Island More than once they remained thus for nearly five minutes, peering at each other through the heavy leafage. With Edged Tools A chilly west wind blew up the dust before him and stirred the parched leafage of the valley. Robert Elsmere At the present time, the brilliant red soil, emerald crops, and gold and purple leafage of stripped vine, make up a picture of wondrous fertility. In the Heart of the Vosges And Other Sketches by a "Devious Traveller" Awe thrills me, seeing these shrines with leafage crowned. Suppliant Maidens and Other Plays Moreover, he set thereabout a screen of trees, which so grew and interlaced over the pool, that one could go in and wash, without being seen of any, for the thickness of the leafage. The Book of the Thousand Nights and One Night, Volume IV But Giotto always uses severe geometrical mouldings, and disdains all luxuriance of leafage to set off interior sculpture. Val d'Arno It can hardly be wholesome to have the air you breathe strained, as it were, through all that leafage.' Ghost Stories of an Antiquary And all this stretch of river is a mirror, and you have the shadowy reflections of the leafage and the curving shores and the receding capes pictured in it. Life on the Mississippi, Part 6. In grey- green leafage, dewy and downy, lay a little blossom of delicate pink, chalice-shaped, with a lip of flushed white. Rest Harrow A Comedy of Resolution They crept through the trees where it twilighted and where the sun played so prettily with little golden arrows in the leafage; from there they came into the high pine-wood. The Path of Life The morning was bright with sunshine, the air was fragrant with the leafage of spring, and birds were singing and rejoicing in the tree. The Christian A Story There were flowers in the beds, and the trees were beautiful in their leafage. Esther Waters She looked up and saw a green cloud, faintly green like early spring leafage, curl from the tower smoke-wise; and there, lifting his hat, pausing at her side, was Johnny St. Leath. The Cathedral A warm sunlight was working its way through the leafage; a sunlight which though of saintless gold had taken on the quality of evening. Tremendous Trifles I have chanced upon her without her make-up, and seen the real face of the city divested of its wig of leafage and rouge of blossoms. America To-day, Observations and Reflections It will not be long, indeed, before he has so covered the object of his affection with the leafage of his fancy, that she ceases to have an actual existence for him at all. The Poet's Poet : essays on the character and mission of the poet as interpreted in English verse of the last one hundred and fifty years If we live for Him, the power of that motive will make all our nature blossom like the vernal woods, and dry branches break into leafage. Expositions of Holy Scripture Second Kings Chapters VIII to End and Chronicles, Ezra, and Nehemiah. Esther, Job, Proverbs, and Ecclesiastes The green leafage of the shrubbery was suffused in tender light; the waters reflected calmly all their drapery, but none of the savage desolation of the pyre in the Court of Honor. The Web of Life Deepening with tenderness, Sadder the blue of hills that lounge along The lonesome west; sadder the song Of the wild redbird in the leafage yellow.— Poems I see a line of leafage drawn across the Thames, but the line dips, revealing a slip of grey water with no gleam upon it. Memoirs of My Dead Life Suddenly the leafage was thrust aside from above by a cautious hand, and a shy, half-wild girl appeared in the opening. The Call of the Cumberlands So dense was the leafage in the greenest heart of the grove that not a shred of sunlight, not a particle as large as a sixpence, could penetrate to earth. Alone There is the same motif of cold in the sky and the fruits, intensified by the somber leafage of fir and pine. The Jewel City Thus our highest holds are lost, In the ruthless winter's wind, When, with swift-dismantling frost, The green woods we dwelt in, thinn'd Of their leafage, grow too cold For frail hopes of summer's mold. Dreams and Days: Poems A forlorn cry, half appeal, half gurgle, filtered through the leafage as from the beach, and on the instant the jungle had soundlessly absorbed the affrighted pair. Tropic Days Lescott sank down behind a rock, cloaked with glistening rhododendron leafage, where Samson had already crouched, and become immovable and noiseless. The Call of the Cumberlands Why, so is the leafage rude and quaint, yet you imitate that. The Two Paths The leafage throughout such as only Luca could do, and the whole consummate in skill and understanding. Mornings in Florence Though armfuls of leafage floated to the surface and rolled out to sea, George worked with joyful desperation. My Tropic Isle Again it thrilled through the leafage, a trifle stronger, and seemed to convey a threat commingled with a prayer for succour. Tropic Days She was not trembling for herself, though, if a fusillade broke out below, the masking screen of leafage would not protect her from the pelting of stray bullets. The Call of the Cumberlands Do you suppose those imaginations of yours will ever lie down there asleep beneath the shade of your iron leafage, or within the coloured light of your enchanted dome? The Two Paths For shrubbery planting they must ever rank high, the beautiful flowers and rich green ample leafage rendering them distinct and attractive. Hardy Ornamental Flowering Trees and Shrubs The cave is only about 30 feet above high-water mark and the entrance the birds favour is, strange to say, averse from the sea and much obscured by leafage. My Tropic Isle When the shot was fired, a peephole was made through dense leafage just where the snake had reposed, but with the report it had 'disappeared. Tropic Days But now the branches were rich with leafage, hiding most of the Board-school, so that only a large upper window of it could be seen. Hilda Lessways The beech trees." said aloud, "have come at last to full leafage. Great Possessions She had given strong waters to the minister with a heart as innocent as their disguise of ice and leafage had made them actually appear to that good man. The Boss of Little Arcady Some of the flowering plants of old England here dwell contentedly, leafage being free, however few and dwarfed in some cases the bloom. My Tropic Isle Pendant roots and immersed branches create on each hand a continuous scroll of wavering ridges and eddies bordered with the living tints of the steadfast wall of leafage. Tropic Days It was a dripping-sweet spring morning, dew-drenched, and with the air so full of moisture that it gathered and pattered from the scant leafage. The Power and the Glory Separated from it by a very absurd and useless ditch, a Green Shamrock spread its trefoil leafage to the sun, and grew greener every day. Punchinello, Volume 1, No. 18, July 30, 1870 Roses and lilies were not the only products of the terraces; vines and trees of delicate leafage and limited growth flourished upon them in artistic arrangement. The Prince of India — Volume 02 Their course lay over a long stretch of sodden marshes, brown with the russet of Indian pipes and the bronze of their leafage. Annette, the Metis Spy Yet does he dream on, accepting that which comes, admiring leafage, bloom, and fragrant fruit, and always postponing the day when substantial aid and credit should be given. Tropic Days This variation is not felt architecturally, for the figures balance perfectly and are nestled in a mass of leafage. The Sculpture and Mural Decorations of the Exposition A Pictorial Survey of the Art of the Panama-Pacific international exposition Isles of beauty and bloom are here, Groves, whose leafage is never sere, Teeming harvests of boundless wealth, Peace, and plenty, and buoyant health— Haste! haste! haste! Poems of the Heart and Home We walked upon the shady path that leads from rectory to church, under green arches of leafage, in the real dim religious light which grand cathedrals only imitate. The Letters of "Norah" on Her Tour Through Ireland The sand at their feet alternated in veins of umber brown, and ashes of roses; while the vermillion of the rowan berries made a vivid and gorgeous contrast to the glaucous green of the leafage. Annette, the Metis Spy They shimmered with a pearly mist of buds in early spring and later with luminous green of tender leafage. The Valley of Vision : a Book of Romance an Some Half Told Tales The lizard is here hidden in the leafage. The Sculpture and Mural Decorations of the Exposition A Pictorial Survey of the Art of the Panama-Pacific international exposition The trunks of the young elms rose straight, and through the pale leafage the sunlight quivered, full of the impulse of the morning. Celibates Turnbull swung round without a word, and he and his companion were lost in the lustrous leafage of the garden. The Ball and the Cross Its trunk is straight and comely enough for the mainmast of a first, class frigate, while its expanding crown of leafage is distinguished from all others by its density and vivid greenness. How I Found Livingstone; travels, adventures, and discoveres in Central Africa, including an account of four months' residence with Dr. Livingstone, by Henry M. Stanley A heavy, slovenly-patched mantle of leafage, impervious to sunlight, covers the Isle of Timana, creating a region of perpetual dimness from western beach to eastern precipice, where orchids cling and palms peer on rocks below. Confessions of a Beachcomber She looked up as she rode, and saw that she was passing the 'Five Sisters,' now in all the glorious panoply of opulent summer leafage. God's Good Man The spectacle was fascinating in its grandeur, appalling in its violence; with the broad leafage of the glen arched over it in warm, still sunshine, wondrously beautiful. The Crown of Life When quite screened from observation by the friendly leafage, Juliet turned quickly. The Secret Passage It was shady and cool, and I followed the road almost unconsciously, till I caught a glimpse of masts and white sails gleaming through the leafage of the overarching trees. Vendetta: a story of one forgotten From the sea, merely a range displaying the varied leafage of jungle and forest. Confessions of a Beachcomber It was a picture unsurpassable in richness of tone; the dense leafage of deepest, warmest green glowed and flashed, its magnificence heightened by the blaze of the countless golden spheres adorning it. By the Ionian Sea Notes of a Ramble in Southern Italy The trees were misty with half-unfolded leafage birds twittered cheerily among the branches; but Piers heeded not these things. The Crown of Life A lazy leaf or two drifted upon the surface of the water, and where gold sunlight fell through the thick leafage overhead and touched the water, brown water-bugs flitted and jerked. Poor, Dear Margaret Kirby Emily tried to believe that this at length was really the country; there were no houses in view, meadows lay on either hand, the leafage was thick. A Life's Morning The swaying fronds of aspiring palms, adorned in due season with masses of straw-coloured inflorescence, to be succeeded by loose bunches of red, bead-like berries, shoot out from the pall of leafage. Confessions of a Beachcomber Alas! the soil is bare and lumpy as a ploughed field, and all the leafage that hangs low is thick with a clayey dust. By the Ionian Sea Notes of a Ramble in Southern Italy Franks noticed a bunch of tinted leafage which she was carrying, and spoke of its beauty. Will Warburton Dull, brief whistles of river-craft came to her; under the full leafage of trees on the Drive green omnibuses lumbered; baby carriages, each with its attendant, were motionless in the shade. Poor, Dear Margaret Kirby He threw himself down, and let his eyes dream upon the delicate blades and stalks and leafage which one so seldom regards. A Life's Morning The gully enters the boulder-strewn inlet under the shade of much leafage. Confessions of a Beachcomber He read, then raised his eyes and let them stray from the papers on the table to the wax-fruit before the window, thence to the young leafage of the trees around the Baptist Chapel. Demos Basil pulled away the trailing leafage from a marble hemicycle, and, having spread his cloak upon it, begged tremorously that Veranilda would rest. Veranilda May was looking behind her into the frees and bushes, which hid them from the park The sky had begun to brighten; a breeze shook drops from the shining leafage. Our Friend the Charlatan Without, a roaring wind stripped the autumnal leafage of the garden, and from time to time drenched the windows with volleys of rain. Denzil Quarrier She walked down to a familiar spot by the lake, where a rustic bench was set under shadowing leafage; in front two skiffs were moored on the strand. Thyrza Opposite was the wooded slope, freshening now with exquisite shades of new-born leafage; looking north, she saw fruit-gardens, making tender harmonies; southwards spread verdure and tillage. Demos Presently he heard footsteps, and through the leafage of a tree that shadowed him he saw Jane looking this way and that, as if she sought some one. The Nether World Here, among the flowers and leafage, sat May Tomalin, who, surprised at her aunt's early appearance, rose forward with an exclamation of pleasure. Our Friend the Charlatan No sooty smother hung above the house-tops and smirched the garden leafage; no tramp of crowds, no clatter of hot-wheel traffic, sounded from the streets hard by. The Whirlpool Hailstones fell, as large as a pigeon's egg, and stripped off such leafage as the drought had left. Lady Bridget in the Never-Never Land: a story of Australian life The tepid downpour has caused the trees to assume as by magic a clothing of limp green leafage, and has turned the ruts of the uneven highway into little canals. The Dynasts My heart is green with leafage; come and wake The old-time echoes with the songs of glee, For only echoes now are left to me, Though bloom and beauty cling to bush and brake. Yesterdays No trace of a petticoat was visible, so thick was the leafage; but a loud whispering and tittering betrayed the fugitives. Australia Felix On the other hand, the Butterfly, a nectar-drinker, makes not the least enquiry into the savoury qualities of the leafage; at most dipping her proboscis into the flowers, she abstracts a mouthful of syrup. The Wonders of Instinct Chapters in the Psychology of Insects Lo silken my garden, and silken my sky, And silken my apple-boughs hanging on high; All wrought by the Worm in the peasant carle’s cot On the Mulberry leafage when summer was hot! Poems By the Way It seems a pleasant thing to breathe, to be, To hear the many-voiced, soft summer wind Lisp through the dark thick leafage overhead— To see the rosy half-moon soar behind The black slim-branching elms. The Poems of Emma Lazarus, Volume 1 They vanished behind the gymnasium; and again nothing resounded but the river murmurs and the clock-like drippings of the leafage. A Laodicean : a Story of To-day The trees by the snake fences stood in the full pride of their rich leafage, casting deep shadows on the growing grains. The Doctor : a Tale of the Rockies The object of these sallies is not to look for food, for the native pine-tree is far from being exhausted: the shorn branches hardly count amid the vast leafage. The Wonders of Instinct Chapters in the Psychology of Insects The yearly dissolution of leafage was setting in apace. Two on a Tower An enemy force, passing through the immediate, wooded territory, might easily fail to discover a small army nesting sixty feet above the shrouding leafage. Pioneers of the Old Southwest: a chronicle of the dark and bloody ground I thought it exquisite in tint and texture; a delicate, pale-greenish film that clung and floated, and set off the girl's beauty as the leafage of a flower heightens the loveliness of a flower. An Open-Eyed Conspiracy; an Idyl of Saratoga The 'leafage was luxuriant, and the mountains, wooded to the tops, seemed overspread with great, shaggy rugs of green. A Mountain Europa And, in the course of five hours, an industrious little flicker had ignited other bits of brush and of dried leafage and last year's weed stumps. Further Adventures of Lad The air was disturbed by stiff summer blasts, productive of windfalls and premature descents of leafage. Two on a Tower Under its leafage he read the constitution of the new colony. Pioneers of the Old Southwest: a chronicle of the dark and bloody ground Giuseppe's dark face between flashing earrings, a twisted rag of red and yellow silk round his throat, turned from the reaching yearning monkey to the pink and white biscuits spiked on the bronzed leafage. Actions and Reactions But what a different leafage that was from this! David Elginbrod He was hidden among the thick leafage of the OMBU, and they must call out if they wanted him. In Search of the Castaways; or the Children of Captain Grant Louis Glanville was so highly interested that he stood upon the seat of the arbour, and looked through the leafage over the wall. Two on a Tower Behold her under the new leafage sitting upon its root. Divine Comedy, Norton's Translation, Purgatory But all faces turned to the place where now a green and flowering leafage enshrined and partly hid the living Nature Goddess, as she listened to a voice that was not dumb to me. The ninth vibration and other stories Just outside the black entry of the wood, now curtained with greener and larger leafage, he came on a solitary figure. The Trees of Pride Very well; and 'leafage' is good for hide-and-seek; especially when there is no rogue in ambush. The Egoist The woodlands no longer are shady and sweet, Dry leafage encumbers the ground; The pathways, once verdant and soft to my feet, In fetters of ice are bound. Cinderella; or, The Little Glass Slipper and Other Stories XXIII—To P. A. G. Here they trysted, here they strayed, In the leafage dewy and boon, Many a man and many a maid, And the morn was merry June. Poems I hear a pattering upon the still leafage of the garden; it is a sound which lulls, and tunes the mind to calm thoughtfulness. The Private Papers of Henry Ryecroft Their leathery leafage had sprouted in advance of the faint mist of yellow-green around them, and it was of another and less natural green, tinged with blue, like the colors of a kingfisher. The Trees of Pride While yet her lord lies under seas, She takes us as the wind the trees' Delighted leafage; all in song We mount to her, to her belong. Poems — Volume 3 Willie and I were reading The Lady of the Lake the other day, in the back garden, surrounded by the verdant leafage of our own kale-yard. Penelope's Experiences in Scotland Why should the lovely leafage of the Park Touch to an ecstasy the act of seeing? Poems Never, I could fancy, did autumn clothe in such magnificence the elms and beeches; never, I should think, did the leafage on my walls blaze in such royal crimson. The Private Papers of Henry Ryecroft But he waited inside his screen of leafage, his eyes fixed on the screen on the opposite side. The Night-Born With splendour of a silver day, A frosted night had opened May: And on that plumed and armoured night, As one close temple hove our wood, Its border leafage virgin white. Poems — Volume 3 Many a maid and many a man Found the leafage close and boon; Many a destiny began - O, the morn was merry June! Poems Dust on dust engendering dust In the leafage fresh and boon, Man and maid fulfil their trust - Still the morn turns merry June. Poems O, the savour and thrill of the woods, When their leafage is stirred By the flight of the Angel of Rain! Poems |
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