| 单词 | leafless |
| 例句 | Their road was only a scar through the waste of thin snow and leafless bushes. A Wizard of Earthsea 1968-11-01T00:00:00Z Presently they were in among a clump of ragged leafless shrubs, useless either for concealment or as protection from the wind. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z Looking at the wilted, leafless tree, I doubted it ever would again. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z The sun, rising against black pines and leafless trees, filled the grove with a baleful light. The Black Cauldron 1965-06-01T00:00:00Z A tangle of leafless ivy clutched at the limestone walls. Chasing Vermeer 2004-06-01T00:00:00Z The leafless branches of the trees surrounding the prison were skeletal against the iron-hued December sky. The Serpent King 2016-03-08T00:00:00Z They were covered in black soot and all the plants were leafless and charred. Dead End in Norvelt 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z As I waited for his reply, my mind flashed back to a winter day from long ago, Hassan and I sitting on the snow beneath a leafless sour cherry tree. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z “And us,” he mumbles, taking out his bedroll and spreading it under the leafless tree. On the Far Side of the Mountain 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z He should have brought something to give them, and he had not thought of it, and every plant in the graveyard was leafless and frozen. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z Outside, the wind howled and sent the tops of the leafless trees casting back and forth in the night. The Book of Unknown Americans 2014-06-03T00:00:00Z Crazy Horse took his warriors to a thick stand of leafless bushes. In the Footsteps of Crazy Horse 2015-11-10T00:00:00Z Smokestacks fume and locomotives trundle back and forth on elevated conduits and leafless trees stand atop slag heaps like skeleton hands shoved up from the underworld. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z Swiftly she hastened down from the heights of Olympus to the barren, leafless earth, and standing at the door of the temple she spoke to Demeter. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z We walked up the dirt road past a few leafless poplars along a row of broken mud walls. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z I stared at them now, leafless at the end of winter, and saw the same thing. The Book of Unknown Americans 2014-06-03T00:00:00Z Jon glimpsed the red wanderer above, watching them through the leafless branches of great trees as they made their way beneath. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z “Cree, cree, cree,” Frightful answered from a leafless maple. Frightful's Mountain 2001-05-21T00:00:00Z The forest slowed Flux and the beast, as they were forced to knock down the ashen, leafless trees to keep up. The Last Last-Day-of-Summer 2019-04-02T00:00:00Z In the northernmost realms of Prydain many trees were already leafless, and among the branches clung the ragged shapes of empty nests. The Black Cauldron 1965-06-01T00:00:00Z His eyes become a cliff of snow threatening to avalanche; his eyebrows bend like black limbs of leafless trees. The Bluest Eye 1970-01-01T00:00:00Z I met him by a leafless birch tree on the edge of the ravine. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z They passed, one after the other, through a small, neatly raked garden, between brown raspberry canes and leafless apple trees, and walked slowly up the few steps to the porch. The Incredible Journey 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z As we sank through wispy white clouds, leafless dead trees appeared, leaning out of the water like spears. Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky 2019-10-15T00:00:00Z At the close of day, when night comes, the troop goes to sleep in a dead, leafless tree. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z But the conditions of transportation were such that, for some, it was easier to take the leap from the leafless and dance on nothing until the dancing was done. American Gods 2011-06-21T00:00:00Z But we passed under one dead tree, leafless but still standing, and I looked up through its branches, which intersected to fracture the cloudless blue sky into all kinds of irregular polygons. Turtles All the Way Down 2017-10-10T00:00:00Z Morning found Shadow back on the road, driving through a gently undulating brown landscape of winter grass and leafless trees. American Gods 2011-06-21T00:00:00Z They passed close to a solitary mukonde tree, which raised many pale, leafless branches against the dark sky. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z The chestnut was leafless and skeletal, but its bare brown limbs were not empty. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z Their delicate song surrounded her, running in waves though the leafless trees. The Birchbark House 1999-07-21T00:00:00Z He was a few feet away from his father now, high up in a leafless oak tree. Miracle's Boys 2000-04-23T00:00:00Z The snow deadened his careful footsteps, over the smaller rocks, over the low thicket of leafless bushes. The Contender 1967-01-01T00:00:00Z Even without sunlight, there were actual plants—clumps of reeds, scrawny leafless trees, even a few sickly-looking flowers blooming in the muck. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z It was nearly dusk and a March stillness had seized everything—the trees, the rotting deadwood, the leafless vine maple, the stones littering the ground. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z When they finally crossed the bridge into Vermont, the sun came out and turned the leafless trees into silver against the deep green of the evergreen on the mountain slopes. Lyddie 1991-02-01T00:00:00Z The forest was a mix of evergreens and leafless trees. A Place to Belong 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z I waddle through the orchard of leafless apple trees, the legs of my snowpants whisking against each other, down to the bus stop. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z From behind leafless shrubs and out of narrow old creek beds, the waiting warriors emerged. In the Footsteps of Crazy Horse 2015-11-10T00:00:00Z Half-hour after daybreak the buzzards rise from the leafless billboard tree and flap away like the sound of old black satin dresses beat together. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z The leafless trees trembled to their roots; the branches writhed as if in agony. The Black Cauldron 1965-06-01T00:00:00Z Big rear windows look out into the hearts of four leafless lindens. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z They’re near the river’s edge and there’s a forked tree just this side of them along the riverbank, bleached and leafless, like it maybe once got struck by lightning. The Knife of Never Letting Go 2008-05-05T00:00:00Z As she came over a logging road, a man walked out of the leafless November woods. Frightful's Mountain 2001-05-21T00:00:00Z Up and down more stairs, and now they were in a long, long room, made of glass, that protruded, needlelike, out over the leafless black-and-white countryside hundreds of feet below them. American Gods 2011-06-21T00:00:00Z Ivy grows on it, leafless now in winter, covering it with skeletal veining. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z A ton of the pictures on his phone were of leafless branches dividing up the sky, like the view I had as we floated under that sycamore. Turtles All the Way Down 2017-10-10T00:00:00Z Now, for the winter table, the studio has introduced handmade beeswax candles cast from leafless tree branches. Add a Bit of Winter Forest to the Table 2022-01-03T05:00:00Z Cloud shadows darkened sections of the leafless rim and the tan crater floor. Peering Into Volcanoes at Tanzania’s Crater Highlands 2023-04-17T04:00:00Z She also finds that leafless trees add artistic dimension, especially the curving branches and leathery pear-shaped fruit of red horse chestnut. Three stunning gardens that will change the way you think about fall 2017-09-19T04:00:00Z Thomas Jefferson had applied a similar shade in Monticello’s dining room, he said, and it brought a cheerful note to his wintry leafless property. ‘Yelling, Screaming, Almost Fisticuffs’ ...Over House Paint? 2019-03-07T05:00:00Z So I tend my leafless apple twigs, and imagine their roots unfurling slowly, slowly in the dark soil. In a world moving at breakneck speed, growing indoor plants is teaching me patience | Mel Campbell 2019-06-18T04:00:00Z The earth goes flat and monochromatic, and, especially in November, dry corn shocks and leafless birch trees dominate the view, reminiscent of the American Midwest where I grew up. Stalking the Trump Family’s Roots 2018-10-16T04:00:00Z A cluster of dead, leafless trees was “the Fingers.” Migrating birds of prey draw visitors to the Florida Keys 2019-01-24T05:00:00Z Winter dulls the landscape as green meadows turn beige and amber, and the ubiquitous twisted scrub oaks, leafless, appear stark and naked, hunched over like weathered old witches clutching broomstick and cane. Martha’s Vineyard, the Off-Season Version 2016-11-14T05:00:00Z Usually Act II is understood to occur the night following Giselle’s death, or soon after, but in this staging the leafy autumn of Act I is followed by a wintry, leafless forest in Act II. Dance Review: Paris Ballet Opera’s ‘Giselle’ at Lincoln Center 2012-07-15T21:45:22Z As we exited the oasis, Harlan pointed out various plants, such as the stinky creosote bush; the golden cholla, with fierce-looking spines; and the leafless smoketree, for which photosynthesis occurs through branches. Beyond the green in Palm Springs: The desert is Coachella Valley’s true oasis 2015-01-15T05:00:00Z In between attempts to read War and Peace, I spent the next four days lying in damp, tangled sheets watching leafless trees flit by the window. ‘The Godfather of trains’: the Trans-Mongolian from Moscow to Beijing 2020-01-12T05:00:00Z Riding in the direction of those sub-regions, I pass cuttings of fractured siltstone and embankments overlooking vineyards where twisted, leafless vines are still struggling to escape the clutches of winter. The epicurean way: a four-day road trip around South Australia's wine regions 2020-10-14T04:00:00Z But viewing birds among leafless branches is like watching your favorite actors perform soliloquies on a bare stage. Eagle-Eyed Urbanites? Winter Treks 2011-02-17T21:01:12Z The pines and leafless maples drip over paths, into the waterfall, into the stream and pond where herring and black-headed gulls drift serenely among the mallards. Esther Woolfson's urban nature diary 2013-02-01T10:00:02Z Far below, the narrow but spirited Karkar River rushed through; across, a hill was covered by slender trees that, leafless in winter, looked like porcupine quills. A Warm Welcome in the Caucasus Mountains 2015-04-08T04:00:00Z Outside, my husband shovels five inches of fresh snow, which has made for a blindingly monochromatic world — except for the cardinals at the backyard feeder and the brilliant red canes of a leafless dogwood. Perspective | To escape the winter blues, try seeing red — pomegranate red 2018-01-27T05:00:00Z One of the recurring subjects in this new group of paintings is trees, and in Lasworth's aesthetic cosmos, they are always isolated and leafless, emblems of singularity. Laura Lasworth paintings read as luminous reflections of life 2016-08-25T04:00:00Z Initially reluctant or just wary, Nate at last agrees, and together they head off into a wintry landscape wreathed in a spectral blue light and speckled with leafless trees and corpses. Movie Review: ‘The Retrieval,’ a Civil War Drama 2014-04-01T22:46:50Z A pink, red and green houndstooth print was studded with silver, and sparkly leafless tree branches spread across other coats and dresses. Libertine Fashion Week show big on embellishment 2012-02-10T19:41:09Z You might see a moon rising behind the leafless trees, illuminating what the inimitable nature writer Annie Dillard once called a “twiggy haze.” Escape From the City: 9 Winter Outings That Fight Cabin Fever 2020-12-18T05:00:00Z Vladimir, Estragon and the occasional moldy carrot return to their leafless tree in the Druid’s production of Samuel Beckett’s masterpiece, part of Lincoln Center’s White Light Festival. 14 Plays and Musicals to Go to in N.Y.C. This Weekend 2018-11-01T04:00:00Z The play seems minor because it’s better at instruction than revelation; Timon’s ascetic exile in the forest, under a looming leafless tree, portrays her as wiser, and sadder. Review | ‘Timon of Athens’ is tricky Shakespeare. A fearless director gets it right. 2020-02-25T05:00:00Z He walked down Walnut Street to the campus of Central Elementary—past the empty bike racks, past four leafless cherry trees and a single, white-barked birch. “They ripped him apart”: Searching for answers in the suicide of bullied teen Jadin Bell 2013-09-08T11:00:00Z In the context of the park’s arboreal luxe they make an odd sight, because they’re leafless, and clearly dead or dying. In Maya Lin’s ‘Ghost Forest,’ the Trees Are Talking Back 2021-07-01T04:00:00Z Each piece in the series is a triptych: a photograph of a leafless tree and two drawings in which the tree’s shape is reproduced by numbers within the boxes of a grid. ‘Charles Gaines: Gridwork,’ at Studio Museum in Harlem 2014-07-31T04:00:00Z And then one morning across the road, I see two magpies collecting twigs from the leafless sycamore, twining through the branches, picking and tugging, chatting loudly to one another, as magpies do. Esther Woolfson's urban nature diary 2013-02-01T10:00:02Z In each, a large black-and-white photograph of a leafless tree is overlaid by a plexiglass sheet with a grid printed on it. ‘Charles Gaines: Gridwork,’ at Studio Museum in Harlem 2014-07-31T04:00:00Z The landscape represented on the walls — an arbor of leafless trees — is not one full of the promise of spring, but of the bleakness of winter. Marg Helgenberger and company give Lillian Hellman her due in ‘The Little Foxes’ 2016-10-03T04:00:00Z Prune deciduous azaleas while they are dormant and leafless. Azalea Planting Guide 2011-03-14T17:50:06.793Z Route 62, before entering Crater Lake National Park, I passed a sweeping landscape of meadows, slack wooden fences, meandering cows and spooky, leafless trees with limbs awry. In Oregon’s lone National Park, hike the country’s deepest, bluest lake 2016-10-06T04:00:00Z In order to move on from my broken engagement, I would need to place the basket in the branches of a leafless tree and not look back. The Heart Said Yes; the Hindu Horoscope Said No 2015-12-10T05:00:00Z There was still a “For Sale” sign posted on a weather-beaten and leafless tree that resembled a scarecrow warning people to stay away. COVID-19 fraudster used stolen relief aid to purchase a private island 2023-11-09T05:00:00Z The guide, a forester, could name leafless trees by their bark. Seattle’s ‘Big Tree Bob’ measures the world’s tallest trees 2023-09-01T04:00:00Z The honks and squawks of ibises and louries - shuffling silhouettes in the leafless trees. Andrew Harding: A fond farewell to an uneasy South Africa 2023-08-26T04:00:00Z Smoking heaps of rubble lay piled high next to the waterfront, boats in the harbor were scorched and gray smoke hovered over the leafless skeletons of charred trees. Maui wildfire death toll rises to 36, with more than 270 structures damaged 2023-08-09T04:00:00Z Smoking heaps of rubble lay piled high next to the waterfront, boats in the harbor were scorched, and gray smoke hovered over the leafless skeletons of charred trees. Wildfires take Maui by surprise, burning through a historic town and killing at least 6 people 2023-08-09T04:00:00Z Still, they stood several rows deep under a leafless tree on a summery winter day to express their deep gratitude to the man they’d never met and whose name they’d just learned. A proper burial, finally, for a sailor killed at Pearl Harbor 2023-02-24T05:00:00Z BAKHMUT, Ukraine — Wind howled through leafless trees and through the windows of the blown-out apartment building as the surveillance team marched up flights of stairs covered with broken glass. The Infrared Hunt for Russian Troops in the Battle for Bakhmut 2022-12-15T05:00:00Z It has become a desolate scene of leafless trees, deserted homes and long, muddy roads. Russian Retreat Reveals Signs of an Atrocity in a Ukrainian Village 2022-11-29T05:00:00Z Mostly leafless trees in the backgrounds appear to suggest a fall or winter timeframe. Ukraine says will look into alleged prisoner shooting video 2022-11-20T05:00:00Z Winter also will reduce the amount of overhead concealment, with leafless trees providing little cover. Russian retreat from Kherson city sets stage for more hard combat 2022-11-10T05:00:00Z A wildfire in the California wilderness has come to an end, and what’s left behind is a blackened landscape of skeletal pines and leafless oaks, scorched meadows and ashen stumps where saplings once stood. Life gradually returns a year after fire chars Sierra Nevada 2022-08-10T04:00:00Z It’s much easier to spot dead, leafless limbs that need to be removed in summertime, when the greens are lush. 5 ways to spot sick and dangerous trees before they damage your home 2022-08-02T04:00:00Z Deciduous trees lose their leaves each fall and remain leafless in the winter. Environmental Biology 2018-09-06T00:00:00Z The sounds of shovels scraped, echoing over a brown field and through branches of leafless trees. A funeral for Ukraine soldiers brings war to small town 2022-03-16T04:00:00Z A: It’s possible to transplant an established lilac either after it blooms in the spring or while it is leafless and dormant. Stop! Saturated winter soil is not good for planting or transplanting 2022-02-01T05:00:00Z Lightning Complex fire tore through the Guenoc Valley project site, leaving patches of charred, leafless trees. In California, a New Fight to Stop Building in the Path of Fire 2022-01-26T05:00:00Z The surrounding trees, leafless, looked like dead outstretched hands. 11 years after trying to kill each other, a Marine and a Talib meet again 2021-12-29T05:00:00Z BAY, Ark. — The first tornado touched down in a field outside this small town, leaving a cluster of leafless trees with their tops sheared off. Recovering together Viewed through a hand-held periscope, the landscape on the other side appears post-apocalyptic with blown out houses set amid thickets of twisted, leafless walnut trees. On Ukrainian Front, Grinding War and Weary Anticipation of Invasion 2021-12-06T05:00:00Z But a leafless dormant plant is more likely to thrive after the move because new roots will have a chance to grow before spring’s heat hits. Stop! Saturated winter soil is not good for planting or transplanting 2022-02-01T05:00:00Z Proceeding through the door you find yourself in the Grove of Spirits, a place of gnarled, leafless trees and muted daylight. Review | ‘Death’s Door’: A clever and fun Zelda homage 2021-07-30T04:00:00Z “Most are spiny and angry, but not this one, with its leafless, jointed stems and then those wonderful flowers. I wish more people would grow them again.” With Summer Nearly Over, It’s Time to Think About Houseplants 2020-09-02T04:00:00Z But in most of the world – except China, where the problem persists – the lifeless lakes and leafless trees that acid rain created have long since revived. 'We've had so many wins': why the green movement can overcome climate crisis 2020-10-12T04:00:00Z The cycle ultimately leads to a spike in atmospheric carbon dioxide in May, as spring transforms plants from leafless to bushy again, followed by a drop as summer approaches. Even with people staying in, carbon dioxide is breaking records 2020-05-07T04:00:00Z Outside his house was a yard replete with flowers, vegetables, vines and trees, including a leafless bottle tree surrounded by bottles of soda and milk of magnesia. David Driskell, advocate for African American art, dies at 88 of coronavirus 2020-04-03T04:00:00Z It’s easy to see what to cut on leafless plants, and cuts heal quickly. March is a great time to prune many shrubs, but not all 2020-03-10T04:00:00Z Seizing the initiative, the entity flies over to a lantern that hangs from a branch of a leafless tree. Review | Beautiful visuals and dreamy puzzles make ‘Luna The Shadow Dust’ an unusually enchanting game 2020-02-27T05:00:00Z On a brisk Sunday evening, four men shared food and drinks before stumbling the next morning into a humble little cemetery dotted with leafless trees. Mystery over cemetery murders sparks fear and rumors in California town 2020-02-25T05:00:00Z The road we followed led alongside a park with tall, leafless trees, and soon we pulled up in front of a gate and drove onto the property. Into the Black Forest With the Greatest Living Artist 2020-02-12T05:00:00Z Dark ash is spread beneath their leafless arms. A climate of uncertainty: pro cycling in a warming world | Adam Phelan 2020-02-15T05:00:00Z Of course, the city looks quite different between November and April when deciduous trees and shrubs are leafless. Why trees aren’t just colorful fall features for our region’s neighborhoods 2019-10-23T04:00:00Z Possible solutions included moving the leafless, dead oak elsewhere, tearing it down or finding another tree or place for the hoops. Speed limit being trimmed to raise safety at Hula Hoop Tree 2019-09-26T04:00:00Z The lions cower in fear while looking onto the remains of their homeland – the dusty, dried-up earth and the craggy, leafless trees. The Lion King missed an opportunity to talk about the climate crisis | Greta Moran 2019-08-20T04:00:00Z Repair a leafless hole by widening it, cutting old wood around the hole back to healthy wood. Topiary tips: When you want shrubs to double as sculpture 2019-07-30T04:00:00Z In a rain forest near Auckland, New Zealand, a leafless kauri tree stump rises a few feet off the ground. Tree Stumps Are Dead, Right? This One Was Alive 2019-07-25T04:00:00Z And what a photo: A solitary red-winged blackbird perches atop a leafless shrub. Perspective | An award-winning nature photo was snapped in the wilds of Fairfax County 2019-07-24T04:00:00Z "Here," she says softly, nodding slightly with her head, to a patch of earth, surrounded by leafless bushes and horse manure. The Red Zone: A place where butch lesbians live in fear 2019-06-23T04:00:00Z What to look for: This low-growing plant has oblong, heart-shape leaves and blue-violet flowers that grow on a leafless stalk and that bloom from early spring into early summer. 5 edible plants you can forage for in your backyard | Produced by Advertising Publications 2019-06-05T04:00:00Z If severe cuts are needed, renovation is possible only if the plant is one capable of sprouting from old, perhaps leafless, wood. Topiary tips: When you want shrubs to double as sculpture 2019-07-30T04:00:00Z Now thousands of blackened, leafless trees that poke up throughout the landscape like frazzled spikes show signs of life, with leaves sprouting from their branches and trunks. Hiking in the Woolsey fire’s burn area: See photos of nature's remarkable comeback 2019-04-19T04:00:00Z Despite trees remaining leafless, lots of tree damage was reported across the region as well as more than half a million customers without power. Washington’s top weather stories of 2018: Spring snow, brutal wind and record rainfall 2018-12-27T05:00:00Z The leafless gloom of British winters can evoke powerful emotions. The Wright brothers’ real story, cosmic chronology, and what happened to the megafauna: Books in brief 2018-12-11T05:00:00Z And something that indeed looks like a cross between a bat and an umbrella does drift out of a patch of leafless trees as three expressionless figures look on. Edward Gorey’s Enigmatic World 2018-12-03T05:00:00Z One painting in the show finds leafless trees in a grassy lot flanked by an empty street and distant buildings and almost encircled overhead by a highway ramp. Rackstraw Downes and Malcolm Morley, Renegades from Sixties Abstraction 2018-09-17T04:00:00Z “Bare-root” trees and shrubs are grown in the field, then dug up while they are leafless, which might be done in either fall or spring. Fall’s a great time to plant trees and shrubs 2018-09-11T04:00:00Z Boulders and rocks along the river are covered in ash, and on the ridge line, several trees are leafless and burned. Yosemite reopens to a surreal scene of smoke, tourists and flames in the distance 2018-08-15T04:00:00Z During every dry season, brush fires sweep across the parched landscape, leaving behind leafless trees and baked, orange soil. Hints of Human Evolution in Chimpanzees That Endure a Savanna’s Heat 2018-04-27T04:00:00Z The mountains loom over, with leafless trees lending an eerie, ominous atmosphere. A puncher's chance: amateur fight event offers a desperate swing at glory 2018-01-16T05:00:00Z Under a leafless tree by the old industrial canal, a mournful 1905 monument pays tribute to the hundreds who died in the local mines over the decades. Chef Gives Up a Star, Reflecting Hardship of ‘the Other France’ 2017-12-27T05:00:00Z Everything is easier to see in the leafless winter forest: wildlife, sunshine, the trees themselves. ‘It’s so still’: A winter solstice filled with peace at the National Arboretum 2017-12-22T05:00:00Z They show little potential for producing new growth, with rotted, hollowed-out trunks and leafless, gnarled branches covered in lichen. Navy’s hidden Bangor orchard is a ‘step back through time’ 2017-10-29T04:00:00Z Burned road signs, leafless trees and the melted carcasses of abandoned automobiles littered the side of N236-1, a winding rural road. ‘Panic Killed Those People’: Portugal Buries Wildfire Victims 2017-06-27T04:00:00Z When it is out of bloom, the ghost, which is leafless, looks like flat green straps about the width of linguine. Orchid Fever 1995-01-15T05:00:00Z “There was a lot of acoustic guitar playing that went down here,” she says, as we stand on the dry winter lawn under leafless trees. Going Home With Chloë Sevigny 2017-02-10T05:00:00Z Through leafless trees, the wrecked plane came into view. A small plane crashes. Night falls. And one man struggles to survive. 2016-11-20T05:00:00Z A leafless tree becomes a spider web, a circus transforms into a box of sweets, while a harvest field simplifies into slashes of flaxen and gold. How Drones Are Changing Our View of the World 2016-11-18T05:00:00Z “There they are!” he exclaimed, as we approached a group of tarantula hawks buzzing around a leafless milkweed plant on Schmidt’s patio. The Connoisseur of Pain 2016-08-18T04:00:00Z In a totally unexpected spot, far from the last sighting, hiding in the dark, barely as tall as your thumb, leafless, probably the rarest plant in Great Britain. The Rarest Plant in Britain Makes a Ghostly Appearance 2016-07-21T04:00:00Z I remember what it was like: all of the sudden, the trees were furry and leafless. Oh good, caterpillars are now blocking bathroom doors 2016-06-10T04:00:00Z The "Wore my feelings on my sleeveless / My weed seedless, my trees leafless" Chance? A non-theory about Chance the Rapper's new album art 2016-05-01T04:00:00Z Once covered with pale green leaves and flowers as yellow as summer, it is now leafless, coarse and bleached, anchored in the poor soil it prefers. Woolly Mullein: The City Cactus 2016-03-04T05:00:00Z At the top of a small staircase lurks a poster depicting a sprawling tree, its lower branches bereft and leafless but its top half a lush burst of greenery. A graveyard of ambition 2016-02-18T05:00:00Z “These trees are friends,” he said, craning his neck to look at the leafless crowns, black against a gray sky. German Forest Ranger Finds That Trees Have Social Networks, Too 2016-01-29T05:00:00Z Prune, a $3.99 game for mobile devices and PC about removing leafless branches with to persuade a tree to grow, is TIME’s game of the year. This Was the Best Video Game of 2015 2015-12-21T05:00:00Z In satellite pictures, the towering mounds of leafless trees — all of them destined to become wood pellets — resemble thousands and thousands of sepia-toned pick-up sticks. Blazing our way to apocalypse: The unexamined source of our climate catastrophe 2015-11-04T05:00:00Z Bright-colored or unusual branches save a garden after perennials have given up the ghost and trees and bushes are leafless. How to Plan a Garden That’s Beautiful Come Winter 2015-10-29T04:00:00Z When the cold and snapping breezes Bend the sere and leafless trees, When a pile of feathery snowflakes Is the most a farmer sees. Making Apple Cider Keeps Me Honest 2015-10-15T04:00:00Z A great crested newt hangs suspended near the surface of a stream with leafless trees as a backdrop. See 11 of the Year's Best Wildlife Photographs 2015-10-15T04:00:00Z He showed me another slide, with a more complex branching pattern; it looked like a leafless tree branch. How 3-D Printing Is Changing Medicine 2014-11-17T05:00:00Z Strands of lights are ubiquitous this time of year — tangled in leafless trees, framing windows, sparkling their way to Santa’s sled. LED holiday lights really are quite efficient 2013-12-09T22:08:09Z There wasn’t a bit of vegetation in sight, beyond a few brambly thorn bushes, low and leafless in the sand. Twelve Minutes of Freedom in 460 Days of Captivity 2013-08-28T18:07:36Z At the memorial in Yarnell, binoculars hang from a wooden placard; visitors pick them up to search for the flag in the distance, flapping against a charred backdrop of rocks and leafless trees. Weeks After Deadly Fire, Arizona Town Struggles to Pick Up Pieces 2013-07-27T16:53:44Z A great crested newt hangs suspended near the surface of a stream with leafless trees as a backdrop. See 11 of the Year's Best Wildlife Photographs 2015-10-15T04:00:00Z But even from just outside that central core, the scale of the destruction is clear, with burned-down buildings, mountains of rail-related debris and charred, black, leafless trees. First glimpse at Canada disaster site shows scale of devastation 2013-07-16T18:20:10Z Gasping for breath, Hampole rushes out into the street, only to find it has resumed its usual aspect, with the trees leafless and black in the dull March daylight. The doors of perception 2013-05-26T14:14:34Z In addition to dangling limbs and leafless branches, there can be other signs of trouble in a tree: mushrooms, water sprouts, cavities, cracks, pest infestations, conjoined trunks and dieback in the canopy. Parks Workers Urged to Get Training to Spot Tree Decay 2012-05-31T01:56:14Z It adds beauty to the leafless woods, interest to the trailer, and a hundred amusements among the hills. Reading the Weather 2012-04-19T02:00:27.487Z A great crested newt hangs suspended near the surface of a stream with leafless trees as a backdrop. See 11 of the Year's Best Wildlife Photographs 2015-10-15T04:00:00Z Stems dorsally compressed, with rootlets at the base and often producing somewhat leafless runners. The Manual of the Botany of the Northern United States Including the District East of the Mississippi and North of North Carolina and Tennessee 2012-04-12T02:00:30.140Z The leafless woods and isolated clumps of trees breathed a dusky purple bloom like fruit; the grass was peacock green. The Vanity Girl 2012-04-12T02:00:26.883Z A few dry and leafless limbs stood out from the old trunk, pointing upward; and along these the fire now crept, and they seemed like tortured arms held bleeding to the sky. The Frontiersmen 2012-04-10T02:00:18.933Z Long on the leafless willow, My tuneless harp has hung, The themes are all forgotten, On which its numbers rung. Recollections of Windsor Prison; Containing Sketches of its History and Discipline with Appropriate Strictures and Moral and Religious Reflection 2012-04-06T02:00:31.240Z Some wayfarer, plodding along the dark road, would pause and look up the avenue, and see the lights shining in the windows beyond the leafless trees. Mitchelhurst Place, Vol. I (of 2) A Novel 2012-04-03T02:00:33.630Z Aquatic or marsh herbs, with scapes or scape-like peduncles, sometimes nearly leafless. The Manual of the Botany of the Northern United States Including the District East of the Mississippi and North of North Carolina and Tennessee 2012-04-12T02:00:30.140Z The tree is well shaped, but is leafless, long thin thongs taking the place of foliage. Australian Pictures Drawn with Pen and Pencil 2012-04-02T02:00:28.873Z And Perna saw a vine entwined around a tree, whose dead and leafless branches were loaded with grapes. Walks in Rome 2012-03-31T02:00:36.010Z The roads were frost-bound and the trees leafless. The Story of Francis Cludde 2012-03-30T02:00:16.347Z Speech was forbidden me; I could but stay, Ambushed behind a leafless hawthorn screen, And look upon her passing. Mitchelhurst Place, Vol. I (of 2) A Novel 2012-04-03T02:00:33.630Z Leaves all crowded at the summit of sterile stems; leaflets broadly ovate, bluntish, whitish beneath; raceme elongated on an ascending mostly leafless stalk or scape from the root, 2° long.—Dry woods, common. The Manual of the Botany of the Northern United States Including the District East of the Mississippi and North of North Carolina and Tennessee 2012-04-12T02:00:30.140Z That the muddy brick pavement, the low-browed shops, the leafless trees all seemed brighter than before, and that even the butcher's stall became almost a thing of beauty? The Great House 2012-03-30T02:00:14.973Z Though trees, all bare and leafless, Stretch up their naked arms, In sad and mournful silence, To brave the wintry storms! The Portland Sketch Book 2012-03-28T02:00:28.847Z Upon these slopes a few withered shrubs were growing: leafless, twisted things, tortured by the bitter east winds that swept those cheerless valleys. Held by Chinese Brigands 2012-03-26T02:00:40.573Z Washington departed on his mission, crossed the mountains, descended to the bleak and leafless valley of the Ohio,81 and thence continued his journey up the banks of the Alleghany until the fourth of December. The Conspiracy of Pontiac and the Indian War after the Conquest of Canada 2012-03-26T02:00:34.423Z Fleshy and mostly leafless prickly plants, with solitary sessile perfect flowers. The Manual of the Botany of the Northern United States Including the District East of the Mississippi and North of North Carolina and Tennessee 2012-04-12T02:00:30.140Z She had strayed this way on the morning after her arrival at the Gatehouse, and, remembering this, she looked across the gray, frost-bitten park, with its rows of leafless trees and its naked vistas. The Great House 2012-03-30T02:00:14.973Z Near the beach stood a little house surrounded by small fields and hemmed in by the leafless woods. The Ice Queen 2012-03-22T02:00:40.843Z The trees were leafless, not a flower appeared, and the whole countryside, which had once appeared to him so glorious, now seemed grim and depressing. The Everlasting Arms 2012-03-22T02:00:37.327Z The mountains towered above the wayfarers in gray desolation; and the leafless forest, a mighty Æolian harp, howled dreary music to the wind of March. The Conspiracy of Pontiac and the Indian War after the Conquest of Canada 2012-03-26T02:00:34.423Z Embryo thick, the cotyledons incumbent upon the radicle.—Low saline plants, with succulent leafless jointed stems, and opposite branches; the flower-bearing branchlets forming the spikes. The Manual of the Botany of the Northern United States Including the District East of the Mississippi and North of North Carolina and Tennessee 2012-04-12T02:00:30.140Z The woods were still bare and leafless; in the undergrowth alone signs of the first tender green could be seen sprouting timidly forth. Fickle Fortune 2012-03-20T02:00:13.167Z The trees were a species of thorn about eight feet high, with leafless branches on which hung a number of hollow seed-pods. Settlers and Scouts 2012-03-17T02:01:06.297Z At that moment the wind wailed across the open space, and moaned as it passed through the leafless branches of the trees. The Everlasting Arms 2012-03-22T02:00:37.327Z The road stretched lonely on either side of them, the woods were brown and sad and almost leafless, the lake below them mirrored the unchanging grey above, or lost itself in dreary mist. Starvecrow Farm 2012-03-15T02:00:29.617Z Flowers large and showy, rose or flesh-color variegated with purple, opposite, crowded in simple or panicled terminal leafless spikes. The Manual of the Botany of the Northern United States Including the District East of the Mississippi and North of North Carolina and Tennessee 2012-04-12T02:00:30.140Z Upon the bare and leafless oak The ring-dove’s wooings will provoke A colder blood than you possess, To play with me and do no less. Bacon and Shakspere 2012-03-14T02:00:24.313Z Rising bare of leaves, it has but a seminatural aspect, as if it had been stuck rootless in the ground like the leafless, stemless blooms of a child's posy bed. Old-Time Gardens Newly Set Forth 2012-03-06T03:00:22.850Z Yes, in spite of the winter, in spite of the leafless trees, the place was very beautiful. The Everlasting Arms 2012-03-22T02:00:37.327Z Hid in it were rosemary and lavender; and the leafless branches of a rose-tree whipped the diamond panes of the low, broad window. Starvecrow Farm 2012-03-15T02:00:29.617Z Catkins lateral, terminating short spurs on branches of a year's growth or more, short or globular, developed in early spring; the sterile from leafless buds; the fertile mostly with leaves below. The Manual of the Botany of the Northern United States Including the District East of the Mississippi and North of North Carolina and Tennessee 2012-04-12T02:00:30.140Z Most of the hardy bulbs will do well enough in the border, care being taken not to disturb them while leafless and dormant. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 13, Slice 7 "Horticulture" to "Hudson Bay" 2012-03-04T03:00:13.390Z All were crowded with boats, and their thickly clustered masts seemed, in the gathering shadows, like a forest of branchless, leafless trees. Our Journey to the Hebrides 2012-03-03T03:00:19.857Z Both the carriage-windows were streaming with raindrops, and we could hear the wind howling across the open country, and whistling mournfully among the leafless trees. Mr. Marx's Secret 2012-03-02T03:00:10.327Z The fell on their right took gloomier shape; on their left a brook sopped its way through low marsh-covered fields; and here and there the leafless limbs of trees pointed to the grey. Starvecrow Farm 2012-03-15T02:00:29.617Z Seeds anatropous.—Aquatic perennials, with pectinate immersed leaves, and the erect hollow flower-stems almost leafless. The Manual of the Botany of the Northern United States Including the District East of the Mississippi and North of North Carolina and Tennessee 2012-04-12T02:00:30.140Z It is a common mode of propagating vines, the eyes being in this case cut from the ripened leafless wood. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 13, Slice 7 "Horticulture" to "Hudson Bay" 2012-03-04T03:00:13.390Z He did not answer on the instant, but stood gazing through one of the windows at the leafless trees and slow-dropping rain in the Mall. Laid up in Lavender 2012-02-28T03:00:28.157Z I once saw one drop like a stone from a height of fifty yards on to a Pigeon perched on a leafless tree. Argentine Ornithology, Volume I (of 2) A descriptive catalogue of the birds of the Argentine Republic. 2012-02-26T03:00:17.560Z A light air blew down the lake, ruffling the open water, and bedecking the leafless woods on Wray Point with a fringe of white breakers. Starvecrow Farm 2012-03-15T02:00:29.617Z Fleshy and thickened mostly leafless plants, of peculiar aspect, globular or columnar and many-angled, or flattened and jointed, usually with prickles. The Manual of the Botany of the Northern United States Including the District East of the Mississippi and North of North Carolina and Tennessee 2012-04-12T02:00:30.140Z Castles there were too, or what I took for castles,—silvery gray amidst leafless trees, and sometimes softest pine woods with their clinging mist. Charles Auchester, Volume 1 of 2 2012-02-23T03:00:42.347Z The inscription on mine host's sign-board was blotted out by the driving sleet; the brown and leafless trees stood transfigured into objects of wondrous beauty. Nooks and Corners of the New England Coast 2012-02-22T03:00:25.113Z Winter comes, and though it will not mock its fellow plants by growing then, it will not pine and mourn, and turn colorless or leafless as they. Modern Painters. Vol. III (of V) Containing Part IV. Of Many Things 2012-02-20T03:00:15.843Z This species is a hardy deciduous shrub with rush-like and nearly leafless branches, and attains a height of six feet. Our Flowering Shrubs and how to know them 2012-02-18T03:00:16.030Z In early winter the pure-white clusters of the snow-berry, on their almost leafless stems, make flecks of light through the dun woods. The Wild Flowers of California: Their Names, Haunts, and Habits 2012-02-17T03:00:37.163Z The mountain slopes were thickly covered with dead wood—wood, too, that had evidently long since been dead; some of these leafless trunks were prostrate, some still stood up as they had grown.... The Cruise of the 'Alerte' The narrative of a search for treasure on the desert island of Trinidad 2012-02-17T03:00:29.247Z Added to the sadness and gloom of the landscape, the frozen earth, the bare and leafless trees, was a silence not alone of nature, but of death. Nooks and Corners of the New England Coast 2012-02-22T03:00:25.113Z He dragged a low cricket to the window, and, standing upon it, looked out at the sodden brown lawn, the leafless trees rocking in a late October gale, and the gray windswept sky. Black-Eyed Susan 2012-02-13T03:00:16.587Z When the old oak is visited in vain by Spring—when light and rain no longer thrill—it is not well to stand leafless, desolate, and alone. The Works of Robert G. Ingersoll, Vol. 12 (of 12) Dresden Edition?Miscellany 2012-02-11T03:03:47.297Z The small pink flowers, half an inch across, terminate the almost leafless stems, and later are replaced by the dry, curled remains of the opened capsules and the feathery down of the escaping seeds. The Wild Flowers of California: Their Names, Haunts, and Habits 2012-02-17T03:00:37.163Z When the great winds through leafless forests rushing, Sad music make? The Genius of Scotland or Sketches of Scottish Scenery, Literature and Religion 2012-02-11T03:03:41.800Z Stunning hills punctuated by leafless trees glistening in the winter sun. Why is Hebden Bridge the lesbian capital? 2012-02-09T11:58:29Z Lumley went a few paces off to a bed of polygonum, the gloomy leafless bramble of the wilderness. The Bushranger's Secret 2012-02-09T03:00:14.847Z As in the leafless woods some tree, aflame with life, stands like a rapt poet in the heedless crowd, so stood this man among his fellow-men. The Works of Robert G. Ingersoll, Vol. 12 (of 12) Dresden Edition?Miscellany 2012-02-11T03:03:47.297Z Depressed, hemispherical, fleshy, leafless plants, with from thirteen to twenty-one prominent, vertical ribs, bearing groups of rigid spines; usually less than a foot in diameter. The Wild Flowers of California: Their Names, Haunts, and Habits 2012-02-17T03:00:37.163Z Over the gray wall he sprang, and came earthward with a crash among the leafless shrubs that edged the south boundary of Central Park. Lad: A Dog 2012-02-08T03:00:19.720Z When the winter winds are whistling through the leafless trees, and snows are drifting over the ground, these little nut gatherers feast to their hearts' content. How We are Fed A Geographical Reader 2012-02-07T03:00:10.237Z If in Madrid the desert blossoms like the rose, it is a leafless rose, for the city has no suburbs. Spanish Highways and Byways 2012-02-06T03:00:15.617Z Here and there odd groves of birches went streaming by, but for the most part there were only leafless willow copses about the gleaming strips of water which she afterward learned were sloos. A Prairie Courtship 2012-02-01T03:00:12.830Z This plant is easily known by its succulent branching, leafless stems and from the fact that it does not grow outside of the salt marshes. The Wild Flowers of California: Their Names, Haunts, and Habits 2012-02-17T03:00:37.163Z The three tall poplars stood leafless up in front of him; the sky was heavy with grey clouds; the wind was roaring about the chimneys; and the roads ran with water. The Truants 2012-01-28T03:00:26.257Z "Not me," said her ladyship, with a glance at the leaden sky outside and the bare leafless trees shaking in a cold wind. The Eldest Son 2012-01-24T03:00:28.780Z Tulips dwell not only on the ground; they have parted great, opaque petals at the tops of trees, startling to see in the leafless wood. Minstrel Weather 2012-01-24T03:00:25.640Z The sun now hung low above the great white waste and the red light streamed in upon them both between the leafless birches. A Prairie Courtship 2012-02-01T03:00:12.830Z Oval, fleshy, leafless plants; mostly single, though sometimes clustered; three to five inches long; covered with prominences or tubercles. The Wild Flowers of California: Their Names, Haunts, and Habits 2012-02-17T03:00:37.163Z The sun was bright; there was a sparkle of spring in the air; on the black leafless boughs birds sang. The Truants 2012-01-28T03:00:26.257Z It is a bunch of flowers such as I have never seen—leafless, white as snow, soft as velvet, and without fragrance. The Monk and The Hangman's Daughter 2012-01-19T03:00:23.620Z We watched the exquisite rhythm of the body of men moving in scarlet and silver further down the leafless avenue, like a slightly wavering spark of red life blown along. The White Peacock 2012-01-14T03:00:21.627Z On his left hand stretched the dark, solemn woods, where the breeze hooted weirdly among leafless boughs. A Scout of To-day 2012-01-11T03:00:22.820Z There are about half a dozen species of cancer-root known upon our Coast, all strange-looking, leafless plants, of very doubtful moral character—for I fear it must be confessed they are thieves. The Wild Flowers of California: Their Names, Haunts, and Habits 2012-02-17T03:00:37.163Z In the drawing, Ms. Rubin’s body is divided by a vertical horizon line, one side filled with burial markers, the other with leafless trees. | Westchester: The Hart Island Project at Westchester Community College in Peekskill 2011-12-31T21:11:28Z The leafless trees made it easy to peer at private property, while an undergrowth layer of evergreen mountain laurel and rhododendron gave hints of what Laurelton Hall’s plantings had looked like. | Long Island: Louis Comfort Tiffany?s Paintings Displayed on Long Island 2011-12-24T03:30:19Z The geologic results are easily seen in the leafless forest. City Room: Manhattan Forest, Now Barren, Is Far From Lifeless 2011-12-23T21:20:26Z Pale sunshine streamed down between the leafless trees, glistening upon the pools and wet wheel-ruts that marked the winding trail. Harding of Allenwood 2011-12-21T03:00:21.617Z The leafless branches are wreathed with the abundant flowers, which gives the shrub the appearance of a garden fruit-tree. The Wild Flowers of California: Their Names, Haunts, and Habits 2012-02-17T03:00:37.163Z A portion of Duarte Square, a small sidewalk with leafless trees, is public. Church That Aided Wall St. Protesters Is Now Their Target 2011-12-17T03:21:32Z A few minutes later, Jessie, standing where the light of a big lamp streamed down upon her through the boughs of a leafless maple, bade Vane farewell at her brother’s gate. The Protector 2011-12-14T03:00:17.460Z The stems of the leafless trees looked like pillars of frosted silver, while their branches were more lovely by far than the coral that lies beneath the blue waves of the Indian Ocean. The Cruise of the Snowbird A Story of Arctic Adventure 2011-12-13T03:00:23.197Z The sides of the ravine were clothed with leafless poplars, and the snow shone a soft gray-blue in their shadow. Harding of Allenwood 2011-12-21T03:00:21.617Z He saw Ned and Frank standing still, crouched in the shadow of a leafless tree. Bart Keene's Hunting Days or, The Darewell Chums in a Winter Camp 2011-12-11T03:00:12.153Z They could hear the cracking of whips; see the red light of lanterns passing along the leafless woods, the frightened wood-pigeons circling over head. Autumn Glory The Toilers of the Field 2011-12-11T03:00:11.417Z The days grew shorter and shorter, the frosts fell morning and night, and winds moaned through trees leafless and bare. Kenneth McAlpine A Tale of Mountain, Moorland and Sea 2011-12-05T03:00:48.967Z I have before me as I write the picture of a square, brick house, with outside shutters hooked back, a white paling half encircling it, and a couple of bare, leafless trees before it. The Boyhood of Great Inventors 2011-12-05T03:00:46.233Z On her left was a sombre oak-wood, its gnarled leafless boughs showing a hundred fantastic—almost threatening shapes in its twilight depths. The Heath Hover Mystery 2011-12-01T03:00:22.357Z He thought it was another rabbit, and he was about to pass on when he looked up, and saw, through the leafless trees, a big buck gazing full at him. Bart Keene's Hunting Days or, The Darewell Chums in a Winter Camp 2011-12-11T03:00:12.153Z And she went down the avenues, then along the path by the leafless hedges in front as she had been hidden. Autumn Glory The Toilers of the Field 2011-12-11T03:00:11.417Z Consider what would be the result if the proper food of birds were leaves, or if insects were permitted to devour the foliage unchecked! our woods would be leafless, our gardens would become deserts. British Birds in their Haunts 2011-11-23T03:00:23.677Z A faint twilight veiled The leafless, shadowy trees and herbless plains. The Epic of Hades In Three Books 2011-11-16T03:00:28.060Z “I’m afraid you’ll be getting awfully fed up with this, dear,” he said one morning, when the thin drizzle and the drip-drip from bare, leafless bough and twig seemed rather more depressing than ordinarily. The Heath Hover Mystery 2011-12-01T03:00:22.357Z Thábit, one of the Prophet's amanuenses, who collected the fragments with great difficulty "from bits of parchment, thin white stones, leafless palm-branches, and the bosoms of men." A Literary History of the Arabs 2011-11-13T03:00:15.660Z Their stems were thick and gnarled, their branches all bent and driven towards the east; leafless above, they met and over-arched beneath. Autumn Glory The Toilers of the Field 2011-12-11T03:00:11.417Z The trees may then remain leafless for weeks following, and yet produce a heavy crop of fruit. The Nut Culturist A Treatise on Propogation, Planting, and Cultivation of Nut Bearing Trees and Shrubs Adapted to the Climate of the United States 2011-11-12T03:00:31.793Z Not a twig stirred on the leafless trees. A Tale of the Kloster A Romance of the German Mystics at the Cocalico 2011-11-11T03:00:32.153Z A cloud of blue titmice was twittering in a leafless alder, glancing from twig to twig. The Heath Hover Mystery 2011-12-01T03:00:22.357Z Such are enough To burden the slow flight of labouring rooks, When on the leafless tree-tops in young March Their glossy herds assembling soothe the air With cries of solemn joy and cawings loud. The Poetical Works of Robert Bridges 2011-10-22T02:00:26.887Z Soon she saw Andr� come up the hill, skirt the dwarf orchard, then pass between the leafless hedges in the road. Autumn Glory The Toilers of the Field 2011-12-11T03:00:11.417Z Some few remain erect; but withered, scorched, and leafless: all the rest are prostrate, snapped off at the root—many in the full vigour of vegetation: all now rotting on the ground. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Vol. 60, No. 373, November 1846 2011-10-21T02:00:17.417Z The woods, which are composed almost entirely of beech and oak, are leafless. Birds and Man 2011-10-20T02:00:25.513Z It lay faintly white in the misty moonlight which barely lit up the ground under the leafless trees. Life in an Indian Outpost 2011-10-19T02:00:19.943Z She sat motionless, looking out before her at the leafless trees. Ecstasy: A Study of Happiness A Novel 2011-10-18T02:00:20.340Z The one thing he saw on the road to Chalons was that the topmost leaves of the willows were already turning yellow, and that the branches were growing leafless. Autumn Glory The Toilers of the Field 2011-12-11T03:00:11.417Z Its leafless, gnarled, and thorny twigs are covered in spring with dense clusters of white bloom, honey-sweet in fragrance, a carnival of pleasure and profit to bees and other insects. Trees Worth Knowing 2011-10-13T02:00:48.357Z Were I to take a turn in the country the trees would present a leafless wintery appearance. The Life Of Thomas Paine, Vol. I. (of II) With A History of His Literary, Political and Religious Career in America France, and England; to which is added a Sketch of Paine by William Cobbett 2011-10-12T02:00:38.787Z But she sees nothing, except the air whitened with snow, and white also the long road, and white also the leafless trees. Flemish Legends 2011-10-10T02:00:21.467Z The white flowers appear in erect or drooping clusters in early spring, before the leaves, making the tree quite conspicuous in the leafless or budding forest. Forest Trees of Illinois How to Know Them 2011-10-08T02:00:23.997Z It was a melancholy evening; all around them were furze-bushes, ground uncultivated, hedges devastated, leafless trees, the gloom and chill of autumn. Autumn Glory The Toilers of the Field 2011-12-11T03:00:11.417Z Follow farther back and these sheaths are missing, but on long stretches between the growing tip and the leafless part of the branch the characteristic sheathed needle-bundles declare this evergreen to be a pine. Trees Worth Knowing 2011-10-13T02:00:48.357Z Yet this is not the fact, as I remembered last week when walking through the bare and leafless wood. Through Magic Glasses and Other Lectures A Sequel to The Fairyland of Science 2011-10-03T02:00:33.003Z And she saw nothing, except the air whitened with snow, and white also the long road, and white also the leafless trees. Flemish Legends 2011-10-10T02:00:21.467Z The leafless branches lashed tragically to and fro, as though sweeping the scudding clouds; and the street-lamps seemed like ghostly eyes blinking here and there in the fitful darkness.... The Later Life 2011-10-02T02:00:13.037Z Not a house in sight, only a stretch of snow and trees, and the wind howled mournfully through the bare, leafless branches. The Bobbsey Twins at Cedar Camp 2011-09-30T02:00:20.203Z A few evergreens, scattered here and there among the leafless trees afforded shelter to innumerable birds. Bungay Castle: A Novel. v. 1/2 2011-09-27T02:00:20.260Z In this condition I had not once noted the change of the seasons, and I now gazed with wonder on the trees, long since leafless, decked in their autumn mellowness. The Prose Writings of Heinrich Heine 2011-09-21T02:00:27.670Z And she sees nothing, except the air whitened with snow, and white also the long road, and white also the leafless trees. Flemish Legends 2011-10-10T02:00:21.467Z It lacked, all need, the softening light Which other brows supply: We should conjoin the scathèd trunks Of our humanity, That each leafless spray entwining may Look softer 'gainst the sky. The Poetical Works of Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Vol. I 2011-09-20T02:00:18.217Z After this we spent a short time promenading around the rock-maple grove, if leafless trees can be called a grove. Mind Amongst the Spindles 2011-09-20T02:00:13.677Z A few drops of rain were falling, and ahead of her, when she reached Franklin Street, the city, with its church spires and leafless trees, emerged indistinctly out of the mist. The Builders 2011-09-19T02:00:09.067Z On this barren mound stood a small, thin, solitary poplar, almost leafless, and it swayed to and fro in the autumn winds, not like a living plant, but like the ghost of a tree. The Prose Writings of Heinrich Heine 2011-09-21T02:00:27.670Z The wind howled dismally through the branches of the leafless trees. A Maid at King Alfred?s Court 2011-09-13T02:00:30.520Z Immediately beyond the enclosure Belchantska and the mansion were as visible through leafless alders as something on one's hand. On the Field of Glory An Historical Novel of the Time of King John Sobieski 2011-09-13T02:00:27.560Z The rivers would be frozen and the forests dark and leafless. Stories of Great Musicians 2011-09-10T02:00:28.157Z The sun had risen, and was pale; its beautiful rays broke through leafless branches. Pan Michael An Historical Novel of Poland, the Ukraine, and Turkey. 2011-09-10T02:00:24.983Z The bulbs bloom at a period when the trees are leafless, and therefore sufficient sunlight is able to percolate through the bare branches for their benefit. Beautiful Bulbous Plants For the Open Air 2011-09-10T02:00:24.197Z There was no sound save the sighing of the wind through the leafless boughs. A Maid at King Alfred?s Court 2011-09-13T02:00:30.520Z Then the wind began to rise, and moan around the chimneys, and go shrieking through the leafless boughs of the ash trees and elms. Harry Milvaine The Wanderings of a Wayward Boy 2011-09-08T02:00:23.340Z Talking was impossible; we could but clutch our sticks and boldly hurry onwards, while the wind sighed and roared through the telegraph-wires, and the snow sifted angrily through the leafless hedgerows. Aileen Aroon, A Memoir With other Tales of Faithful Friends and Favourites 2011-09-08T02:00:20.773Z The storm roared through the leafless elm trees, and shrieked and moaned among the giant poplars. O'er Many Lands, on Many Seas 2011-09-08T02:00:19.987Z The birds and the buds were saying it, and the winds were whispering the glad news to the almost leafless trees. In Touch with Nature Tales and Sketches from the Life 2011-08-31T02:01:35.803Z The sun had just got high enough to peep over the almost leafless linden trees. Born to Wander A Boy's Book of Nomadic Adventures 2011-08-31T02:01:32.837Z But autumn winds sigh mournfully through the leafless birch trees and drooping willows, and rustle the withered leaves of the wild myrtle on the braesides. In the Land of the Great Snow Bear A Tale of Love and Heroism 2011-08-31T02:01:29.827Z The trees were all leafless and bare, but tiny flowers and things kept growing in under the shrubs in quite an unnatural way. Aileen Aroon, A Memoir With other Tales of Faithful Friends and Favourites 2011-09-08T02:00:20.773Z At the upper end of this bank, flanked by four leafless leprous palms, there rose a long building, askew upon its rotting piles, with torn tin roof and shutters fallen outward. Caybigan 2011-08-31T02:01:21.780Z The leafless elms, the lindens and the oaks are trees of coral, the larches and pines mere shapes of snow shadowed out with a faint green hue beneath. In Touch with Nature Tales and Sketches from the Life 2011-08-31T02:01:35.803Z He glanced anxiously down each of the straight walks, and peered through the leafless fruit-trees. Jane Oglander 2011-08-30T02:00:38.717Z The sooty limbs of the cacao trees grew low, and filled the view ahead with a perplexity of leafless and tortured boughs. The Sea and the Jungle 2011-08-30T02:00:30.350Z He proceeded to hoist a leafless branch, smeared with birdlime, in a conspicuous place, and not far off he deposited a cage, with a bird in it. Aileen Aroon, A Memoir With other Tales of Faithful Friends and Favourites 2011-09-08T02:00:20.773Z The gray automobile went on and was speedily dropping from sight beyond the nearly leafless forest. The Turner Twins 2011-08-28T02:00:36.990Z There are buds on the leafless twiglets of the oak, though the tree still soundly sleeps, and the ground is everywhere covered with moss and broken mast. In Touch with Nature Tales and Sketches from the Life 2011-08-31T02:01:35.803Z Above it rose, like gaunt, leafless trees, two iron poles set thirty feet apart and stayed by stout guy wires. The Boy Aviators' Flight for a Fortune 2011-08-27T02:00:19.473Z Flocks of crows from among the leafless trees by the roadside flew before the sleighs with shrill cawing. The Deluge, Vol. I. (of 2) An Historical Novel of Poland, Sweden, and Russia. 2011-08-26T02:00:24.433Z Fortunately, the Spinney was well-nigh leafless, and a bright but wintry sun penetrated it completely. Lost Sir Massingberd, v. 2/2 A Romance of Real Life 2011-08-25T02:00:33.793Z The crucifix is black against the landscape, against the grey and misty waters of the lake; and framed by the nearly leafless branches of a willow growing below. Limbo and Other Essays To which is now added Ariadne in Mantua 2011-08-25T02:00:33.233Z The robins sang in the leafless backs, the sun shone out on the sloppy streets; the youth he thought gone for ever was come back to him. Cecil Castlemaine's Gage, Lady Marabout's Troubles, and Other Stories 2011-08-25T02:00:30.323Z Already winter's snows upon the hills Like phantoms to our vision rise; the trees Groan leafless in the wind, and ghosts of pain Flit dark between the present and our eyes. Songs of Womanhood 2011-08-21T02:00:31.203Z Knockdane seldom sees hard frost or snow, but as a rule the south wind blows up a warm mist, and a steady rain drips through the leafless trees. Lives of the Fur Folk 2011-08-20T02:00:13.820Z I had not gone far into it, when I noticed a great number of turkeys running about among the leafless bushes. The Backwoodsman or, Life on the Indian Frontier 2011-08-17T02:00:27.330Z Walking back to the Pinta they passed under the now leafless teak-tree marked and scored by the bullets they had fired at it. Bevis The Story of a Boy 2011-08-13T02:00:28.377Z The frangipanni, tall and almost leafless, but with thick, fleshy shoots and a broad-spread, single leaf, was recognized here among other interesting plants. Equatorial America Descriptive of a Visit to St. Thomas, Martinique, Barbadoes, and the Principal Capitals of South America 2011-08-05T02:00:46.387Z Yonder, three vague and shadowy figures are pushing laboriously forward beside the leafless hedge; while the dirt-spattered bays hardly show against its black background and through the mist. Wild Life in a Southern County 2011-08-04T02:00:27.037Z The leafless branches were full of swallows chirping, but the flowers were gone, the fountain silent. In Wild Rose Time 2011-08-01T02:00:13.473Z The trees were leafless, and I could see, too, the carriage and postilions passing like the wind through the plumes and caps. The Blockade of Phalsburg An Episode of the End of the Empire 2011-07-27T02:00:39.197Z There was a gloss on the holly leaf, and catkins at the tips of the leafless birch. Bevis The Story of a Boy 2011-08-13T02:00:28.377Z The desolate leafless months go by, till at last comes the promise of spring, and you are aware of a half unconscious listening for the golden-wings. In New England Fields and Woods 2011-07-27T02:00:26.953Z Another perch to which he removes now and then is formed by a branch, dead and leafless, which projects across a corner of the bubbling pool below. Wild Life in a Southern County 2011-08-04T02:00:27.037Z The sparrows came and chirped cheerfully; but the flowers were gone, the trees leafless. In Wild Rose Time 2011-08-01T02:00:13.473Z He gazed out across the leafless trees of the park towards the drab of the moorland beyond. The Men Who Wrought 2011-07-26T02:00:16.320Z Dark clouds overhung the sky, and a biting March wind swept over the bare fields and through the somber aspens and Lombardy poplars, as yet leafless and wintry, around the house. Throckmorton 2011-07-25T02:00:15.900Z So the fig tree seemed to say: “See I am green when other trees are leafless, you may look to me for fruit.” Pastor Pastorum 2011-07-25T02:00:14.597Z The Germantown road was a favorite ride with them, and this day they stopped often to exclaim over the spaciousness of the landscape which the leafless trees admitted to their view. Peggy Owen at Yorktown 2011-07-17T02:00:35.830Z A low whisper,--a soft suggestion of the resurrection,--trembled among the withered leaves and leafless branches. Only a Girl: or, A Physician for the Soul. 2011-07-13T02:00:14.230Z There was a shooting-party at New Year, with pleasant al fresco luncheons in sheltered corners of leafless woods, and of an evening music, and ghost stories round a great fire of beechen logs. A New Medley of Memories 2011-07-12T02:00:37.147Z The hard, gray, leafless trees stood up sternly around these first daughters of spring, arrayed in their garments of pomp, and looked, as well as inanimate things can look, jealous and uneasy. The Puddleford Papers, Or Humors of the West 2011-07-12T02:00:33.027Z The moon now rose behind the trees, shining with an unsteady light from out the flying clouds, through the leafless boughs of the forest. King Eric and the Outlaws, Vol. 1 or, the Throne, the Church, and the People in the Thirteenth Century. Vol. I. 2011-07-07T02:00:29.790Z A plunge or two through the leafless thicket and they were in a small open space. Golden Face A Tale of the Wild West 2011-07-05T02:00:27.453Z But the drooping boughs of the old pear-tree afford no shade now to those two persons seated on the rustic bench beneath—being leafless. The Fire Trumpet A Romance of the Cape Frontier 2011-07-05T02:00:23.353Z As the snow began to melt, I took a walk, and observed the birds hopping about with drooping wings, or mute on the leafless boughs. Mary Wollstonecraft's Original Stories 2011-06-26T02:00:10.173Z For a token, plant thy pine-trunk, so long dead and leafless, in the earth; to-morrow it shall shoot out green twigs. Chronicles of the Schonberg-Cotta Family 2011-06-17T02:00:18.293Z Then her gaze wandered to an oak, out of the leafless boughs of which hung the ropes of the boy’s swing, oscillating gently. The White Hecatomb And other Stories 2011-06-15T02:00:22.103Z Suddenly a white shape darted through the leafless brake. Golden Face A Tale of the Wild West 2011-07-05T02:00:27.453Z The council-fire was built, the flames crackled and the smoke rolled upward and swept through the leafless trees. Erskine Dale?Pioneer 2011-06-13T02:00:32.327Z The sun shines brightly on the clear, white, glistening road, covered with snow; the icicles glitter in the limbs of the leafless trees like crystal; everything is bright, cold, and sparkling. Zoe; Or, Some Day A Novel 2011-06-11T02:00:13.290Z Part of our way lay through the forest, and one could hear the oozing sap, mounting upward into the yet leafless branches interlaced above us. Donald McElroy, Scotch Irishman 2011-06-04T02:00:12.520Z Finally the visual field appears dark, due to the intense illumination of the retina and there will appear, apparently projected upon the wall, an image resembling a branching leafless tree. Visual Illusions Their Causes, Characteristics and Applications 2011-06-02T02:00:25.247Z Jays shot through the leafless woods shouting their raucous call; crows cawed in the distance; close at hand, squirrels chattered and scolded at her from the trees as she passed under the stark, bare branches. The Corner House Girls' Odd Find Where they made it, and What the Strange Discovery led to 2011-05-31T02:00:34.950Z There he was, tinkering at something about his saddle, now and then whistling in mimicry of a bird swaying on a leafless reed in the garden. Told In The Hills 2011-05-30T02:00:15.530Z There, too, is the "Fountain's Blood," or "Blood of the Seven Brothers," as the Turk would say, with its crimson, leafless stalk and lily-like bloom, the reddest of all red flowers. Essays in the Study of Folk-Songs (1886) 2011-05-28T02:00:21.687Z In five minutes they walked together down the street under the beautiful arch of leafless elms, where the snowy air brought glowing roses into Lucy's cheeks, and an elastic spring into her tread. Boston Neighbours In Town and Out 2011-05-24T02:00:13.567Z By and by when the rose is over-ripe, or when the frosts come and the November winds are trumpeting through all the leafless spaces of the woods, will be the time to die. Rosemary and Rue 2011-05-21T02:00:11.483Z Her soul is like a wolf that stands Where sunlight falls between the trees Of a sparse forest's leafless edge, When Spring's first magic moveth these. Songs and Satires 2011-05-20T02:00:37.050Z The clear sky was unclouded, and its brilliant blue was rendered only the more lovely from its contrast with the leafless branches which were pencilled against it. Amy Herbert 2011-05-20T02:00:31.467Z A torn handkerchief hangs on one of the leafless branches; the river is dragged, but the body is not found. The International Monthly, Volume 4, No. 1, August, 1851 2011-05-18T02:00:11.200Z It was a fine genial day, with a warm breeze blowing, which kept the trees in constant motion, and gave life to the company beneath their leafless branches. Trevethlan: (Vol 2 of 3) A Cornish Story. 2011-05-16T02:00:19.270Z She made her way amidst the trunks of the almost leafless trees, and concealed herself as she best could. Trevlyn Hold 2011-05-16T02:00:12.977Z I will only throw out, as hastily as possible, the further statement, that I am sitting in the sacristy of Emanuel, which is latticed with leafless shrubbery. Hesperus or Forty-Five Dog-Post-Days Vol. II A Biography 2011-05-14T02:00:08.440Z On, on they rode, past the farm houses by the wayside, past the fallow fields and leafless woods which seemed to take wings and fly behind. The Cave by the Beech Fork A Story of Kentucky?1815 2011-05-07T02:00:28.747Z They walked for some hours over the barren plains until they came to an avenue of leafless willows. The Blue Rose Fairy Book 2011-05-03T02:00:18.777Z In the leafless treetops overhead, red squirrels wake and perform aerial ballets. Pamper and protect 2011-04-16T11:00:31Z And indeed the thick growth of tree trunk and palm stems, absolutely leafless for some forty or fifty feet, might easily be mistaken for the dead walls of some enchanted fortress. Cuba Past and Present 2011-04-16T02:00:18.193Z Not a breath of wind shook the trees, the leafless and delicately-fibred boughs of which, when viewed against the cloudless sky, seemed like a sable network spread overhead. Tales from Blackwood Volume 9 2011-04-15T02:00:18.057Z Seriousness is often a very dry and leafless trunk; else folly would scarcely find room, to wind her wanton green-leaved tendrils around it ... Ekkehard. Vol. I (of II) A Tale of the Tenth Century 2011-04-14T02:00:55.273Z As he did so his eyes fell on a window in the gable half-hidden by the leafless boughs of an old rose-tree. She's All the World to Me 2011-04-09T02:00:16.923Z The village inn remained: but no smoke poured now from its chimney; and the branch that should have invited the traveller was dead and leafless. Tales from Blackwood Volume 8 2011-04-09T02:00:09.087Z There was snow on the ground, and thin snow on the leafless boughs of the trees. The Deemster 2011-04-08T02:00:08.197Z What matter that the wind blows chill Through leafless tree and naked vine, That snowdrifts linger on the hill, When warm love makes the pulses thrill? The Cornflower, and Other Poems 2011-04-07T02:00:18.740Z When she stood on the porch with its leafless and ragged vines flapping in the wind a kind of chill unreality seemed to shut her in. Peggy Parsons at Prep School 2011-04-01T02:00:43.170Z Wind and rain, and trees with leafless branches for stringed instruments, made an elemental orchestra that discoursed cataclysmic music. The Taming of the Jungle 2011-03-23T02:00:16.887Z The five men met upon a bowling-green surrounded by trees, which, although leafless, were so thickly planted as to form an impervious screen. Tales from Blackwood Volume 8 2011-04-09T02:00:09.087Z Their forlorn, leafless branches rattled together with a dreary sound, as the breeze stirred among the gaunt and pallid assemblage. The Prophet of the Great Smoky Mountains 2011-03-22T02:00:18.637Z There is nothing poetic about the works of Epicurus, or St. Thomas Aquinas, or Kant; they are leafless forests. Three Philosophical Poets Lucretius, Dante, and Goethe 2011-03-20T02:00:33.357Z The rain still rattled on the glass panes, and the wind banged the shutters, and moaned through the leafless trees. Jane Lends A Hand 2011-03-20T02:00:32.553Z The Hot Wind blew fiercely, rattling the leafless branches of the forest trees. The Taming of the Jungle 2011-03-23T02:00:16.887Z The garden-chairs are set out; and on them, just as if it were midsummer, only that above their heads the Judas-tree holds leafless arms, the lovers sit, through the splendour of the lengthening days. Doctor Cupid 2011-03-13T03:00:23.987Z The few blackberry bushes, almost leafless, stretching out on either hand, were indistinct in the mist, and against the dense vapour they had the meagre effect of a hasty sketch on a white paper. The Prophet of the Great Smoky Mountains 2011-03-22T02:00:18.637Z The dog now came bursting through some leafless foliage, and stood beside her, receiving her light caresses while the conversation went on. The Road to Paris 2011-03-07T03:00:11.103Z The song-birds were gone, the sparrows twittered shrilly, and in the midst of the brown autumnal desolation there bloomed in languishing loveliness a white rose upon a leafless stalk. 'O Thou, My Austria!' 2011-03-04T03:01:01.630Z He walked to the window and looked out through the black trellis-work of leafless vine branches. A Charming Fellow, Volume III (of 3) 2011-03-02T03:00:27.467Z Mona shivers, and draws even closer to Geoffrey, as, mute, yet full of saddest thought, they move through the leafless wood. Mrs. Geoffrey 2011-02-27T03:00:29.460Z At the distance of one hundred yards from the imperial stand, a stack of tall leafless willow staves had been erected on the bright green turf which extended far and wide in front. The Highlands of Ethiopia 2011-02-25T03:01:07.193Z No winter night winds sighed in the bare, leafless limes as we passed down the street; no discordant sounds broke the stillness of the Gillfoot as we wended our way by its shadowy wood. Betty Grier 2011-02-24T03:01:04.507Z Already the rain had been sufficiently heavy to moisten the ground in spite of the protection afforded by the leafless branches. Billy Barcroft, R.N.A.S. A story of the Great War 2011-02-24T03:01:02.917Z Not till then did the weary wanderers 'think themselves safe enough to sleep,' and they encamped, with no shelter but the leafless forest-tree. The International Monthly, Volume 5, No. 4, April, 1852 2011-02-23T03:00:33.760Z The snake looked about and saw a tree, leafless and bare, flinging up its wild branches to the sky. Folk-Lore and Legends: Oriental 2011-02-22T03:00:06.247Z It grows in swamps and rivulets, and is an annual low plant from a perennial root, with large radical leaves and a leafless stalk, bearing the minute flowers on a bunchy raceme. The Highlands of Ethiopia 2011-02-25T03:01:07.193Z We were standing together in the oriel, watching the sunset splendour through the leafless trees, when Mrs Stuart and Murray Monteith joined us. Betty Grier 2011-02-24T03:01:04.507Z Fortunately this required little or no effort, for the thick-set though leafless trees broke the force of what wind there was. Billy Barcroft, R.N.A.S. A story of the Great War 2011-02-24T03:01:02.917Z For a moment she had forgotten the approaching guest, and her sad eyes, half veiled in tears, saw only the leafless branches outside her window, now glittering with snow. The Eichhofs A Romance 2011-02-19T03:01:37.327Z Onward rushed the Great Saskatchewan, with a sobbing and murmuring, while loose shingle hissed and rattled upon the shore, and leafless bushes swept the waters. Menotah A Tale of the Riel Rebellion 2011-02-14T03:00:35.553Z Dreary and desolate, without a trace of vegetation saving a few leafless acacias, there was no object to relieve the gaze over the whole forbidding expanse. The Highlands of Ethiopia 2011-02-25T03:01:07.193Z I looked toward the window, and down from a dull leaden sky the first of winter's snowflakes were quietly falling—falling, as it appeared to me, into the eager upstretched arms of the leafless lime. Betty Grier 2011-02-24T03:01:04.507Z The wood was nearly a mile away, and presented an expanse of leafless trees extending nearly twice that distance. Billy Barcroft, R.N.A.S. A story of the Great War 2011-02-24T03:01:02.917Z The night's shadows still lingered among the great, black tree-trunks draping the leafless boughs, but the sun's radiant lances were already lifting the white mists from the lowlands. Oldfield A Kentucky Tale of the Last Century 2011-02-13T03:00:19.953Z In the table-lands of Cape Colony there are numerous fleshy, leafless tribes of aloes and other plants. The World and Its People: Book VII Views in Africa 2011-02-13T03:00:17.920Z Heretofore, saving in the wadys, no tree had been seen except small stunted leafless acacias, few and far between, and scarcely deserving of the name. The Highlands of Ethiopia 2011-02-25T03:01:07.193Z For the next hour or two I passed through a deserted countryside, woods in autumn colouring and leafless forests which seemed interminable under a gloomy sky. War 2011-02-10T03:00:52.487Z Though so late in the season, they still retained the green freshness of summer, and afforded an agreeable contrast to the dry and leafless forests which we had just left at the north. The South-West By a Yankee. In Two Volumes. Volume 1 2011-02-02T03:00:22.253Z Ah, it must be charming there at present, with the November fogs, and the wet, leafless forests! The Sign of Flame 2011-01-27T03:00:43.087Z Below him a leafless clump of branches moved up and down, although there was no breeze stirring. Lost Farm Camp 2011-01-23T03:00:16.437Z The high, leafless trees sent long black, ominous shadows across the road, and Miss Jerusha cast apprehensive glances on either side as she walked. The Actress' Daughter A Novel 2011-01-23T03:00:14.117Z Although the month of May had come, the bare leafless trees in the park showed hardly any symptoms of sprouting forth. Success and How He Won It 2011-01-23T03:00:12.077Z It was of no avail, however; the leafless timber afforded them no protection, and during the continuance of the storm the poor, tired and almost exhausted fugitives were exposed to the pitiless blast. The Spy of the Rebellion Being a True History of the Spy System of the United States Army during the Late Rebellion, 2011-01-17T03:00:42.913Z It was an avenue ending in a great group of leafless trees, grey, between which one could see the slopes of a roof. The Children of Alsace Les Oberl?s 2011-01-16T03:00:19.697Z Perhaps it was only the shrill sound of the wind through the leafless bushes; for the wind has at times the knack of whistling like a human being. The Pobratim A Slav Novel 2011-01-11T03:00:27.460Z The sun shone brightly on the frozen gravel walks, and glittered in the rime that hung on the branches of the leafless trees. Englefield Grange or Mary Armstrong's Troubles 2011-01-01T03:00:27.980Z Through the lattice work of the leafless bushes gleamed the lamps lining the more public ways; and on all sides the gongs of the electric trams, shooting hither and thither, sounded like fire alarums. The Song of Songs 2011-01-01T03:00:25.907Z On examining the leafless branches in early spring, two things strike the observer—the blackness of the big opposite leaf-buds, and the stoutness of the twigs. Wayside and Woodland Trees A pocket guide to the British sylva 2010-12-25T03:00:16.510Z Round, isolated trees—leafless because it was winter—resembled dry thistles; some crows were flying, helped by the north wind, and seeking a newly sown spot. The Children of Alsace Les Oberl?s 2011-01-16T03:00:19.697Z I, the old leafless oak, and I ask thee whither art thou going, and is thy journey far?”—“I am going to Tsar Zmy to collect arrears of rent for the last twelve years.” Russian Fairy Tales From the Skazki of Polevoi 2010-12-20T17:11:44.353Z This room, with its four-poster bed, blue-painted chairs, light blue shades, and dark blue straw matting, the leafless elms in front, the breeze that swept in from the sea, and even her reception, seemed cool. The Girl From Tim's Place From where she stood she could see right down almost to the entrance gates, for the trees were leafless, and the window where she stood was set high. Capricious Caroline That this character is not confined to it as a hedge shrub is clearly shown by the winter photograph of the leafless tree. Wayside and Woodland Trees A pocket guide to the British sylva 2010-12-25T03:00:16.510Z His horse splashed in a pool of water, and a shower-bath of raindrops trickled on him from the leafless branches which flanked the road. The Undying Past The trees around the little cottage of Braehead bent before the wind like willow wands; and loud and wild, nay, even appalling, was the rushing sound of the storm amongst the leafless branches. Wilson's Tales of the Borders and of Scotland Volume 13 Winter— Took a foal swift as the spring wind, Let the storm wind bear him forward, Blew the trees till they were leafless, Blew the grass till it was seedless, Bloodless likewise the young maidens. Beowulf An Introduction to the Study of the Poem with a Discussion of the Stories of Offa and Finn From the great juicy, leafless, branchless stalk of the yucca, soap is prepared, and strong fibres useful in making paper, rope and fabrics. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 2, Slice 5 "Arculf" to "Armour, Philip" In the next 30 hours only 6 ounces dripped through the leafless branch, whereas the leafy branch absorbed 18 ounces. Rustic Sounds and Other Studies in Literature and Natural History As he walked cautiously amongst the dead fern and bracken, stooping beneath the swinging, leafless branches, sinking knee-deep in the drifted, dead leaves, he wondered what chance he would get of speaking to Stephanie. Dick's Desertion A Boy's Adventures in Canadian Forests Where phlox and asters grew, A leafless thornbush stands, And shrubs that never knew Her tender hands... Challenge Susanna sat by the window up-stairs, in her room, a white cloth bound about her forehead, and her eyes, weary and red with weeping, looked out upon the leafless garden. A Sister's Love A Novel The girls clustered round, and began in orthodox fashion to hang their garlands on the leafless branches of a stunted tree that stretched itself over the spring. The School by the Sea The creeping plants which during the rainy season had matted over the sandy soil were now leafless and withered by the heat of the dry season. Into the Primitive The sun had not yet appeared above the far-off edge where the misty forest lands faded into mistier skies, but the promise of his approach thrilled the leafless, songless world to deeper quiet. Dick's Desertion A Boy's Adventures in Canadian Forests The first thing that caught Cal's attention was an enormous dead tree, whose gaunt, leafless arms reached grimly out above a great mound that it leaned over. The Red Mustang The moist autumn wind swept past the house in short gusts, and caught itself in the half leafless crests of the poplars, which bowed towards each other and entwined amid creaking and rustling. The Wish A Novel A coach-house shut in the remainder of the court, in the centre of which a chestnut-tree, long dead, lifted its dark, leafless branches, where a flock of tumultuous sparrows bustled noisily all the day long. At the Ghost Hour The House of the Unbelieving Thomas He stood up, and peered around through the half leafless branches. Into the Primitive Through the leafless branches of the willows and poplars, La Louve could see the roof of the very house where Martial perhaps lay dying. The Mysteries of Paris, Volume 4 of 6 A, at the beginning of words of Greek derivation, commonly signifies a negative, or the absence of something; as apetalous, without petals; aphyllous, leafless, &c. The Elements of Botany For Beginners and For Schools They were almost leafless now, but they wrapped themselves in colour tones that touched them into purple and blue. The Tempering We pressed forward, conversing only in whispers, until in front of us a row of leafless willow trees loomed up out of the darkness. Highway Pirates or, The Secret Place at Coverthorne Once they caught a glimpse of the sinuous, tawny form gliding among the leafless stems of a thorn clump. Into the Primitive There stood the gnarled old apple tree, with its rustic chair, but the tree was leafless, and the chair empty. Norine's Revenge; Sir Noel's Heir A bench stood beneath a tall, leafless tree, its branches stencilled flatly on the yellow-gray fog. The Nest, The White Pagoda, The Suicide, A Forsaken Temple, Miss Jones and The Masterpiece It was Harry's voice and Mr. Cobb made his way to her where she stood at the edge of a thicket of leafless brambles. The Crimson Sweater But conversation soon faded out between us, as we made our way through etched mysteries of black and silver under thickset leafless branches. The Book of Susan A Novel This ridge ran inland parallel to the first, and from a point some little distance back from the shore was covered with a growth of leafless trees. Into the Primitive In it there is a tree, High and with many boughs, But they are bare and leafless. Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern, Vol. VIII Another charming winter shrub is cornus sanguinea; its beauty lies in the red glow of its leafless stems, which makes it visible some distance off. Small Gardens and How to Make the Most of Them Up and down little hills he went, across open stretches and through tangles of leafless bushes. The Crimson Sweater Here and there oaks of different ages and altitudes rise gray, gnarled, and almost leafless,—oaks on which a thousand tempests have beaten, and around which ten thousand storms have blown. Zigzag Journeys in Europe Vacation Rambles in Historic Lands Nick collected the grey leafless shrubs, which grew in abundance among the rocks; and which, though anything but picturesque in appearance, made capital firewood. Hair-Breadth Escapes The Adventures of Three Boys in South Africa Of what occurred afterwards I have no recollection, for, when I slowly regained knowledge of things around me, I found myself, cramped and cold, lying beneath a bare, leafless hedge in a grass field. Spies of the Kaiser Plotting the Downfall of England The forsythias are pretty climbers or shrubs, according to the variety chosen, much like the yellow jasmine, with its golden stars on leafless stems. Small Gardens and How to Make the Most of Them A chattering magpie sat up in the leafless cherry-tree; but not a human being was visible. On the Heights A Novel I saw on its borders many full-grown trees still standing leafless, the bottoms of their trunks several feet under water, and a still greater number lying prostrate. Principles of Geology or, The Modern Changes of the Earth and its Inhabitants Considered as Illustrative of Geology He shook the reins impatiently to this decision, and then suddenly became aware of a bit of vivid coloring among the leafless trees. Was It Right to Forgive? A Domestic Romance I remember, like a picture, one frosty afternoon, the evergreens festooned with ice, while the leafless trees, struck by the level rays of the western sun, glistened with rainbow crystals. Sigurd Our Golden Collie and Other Comrades of the Road The little towns and villages, and the rolling fields with their leafless trees or blackened stumps, lay under drifts. The Indian Drum Suddenly the road and the leafless bushes at its sides flashed out in the bright light of a motor-car passing. The Blind Man's Eyes Even on the dry ground along the confines of the submerged area, I observed in some places that all the trees of prior date to 1811 were dead and leafless, though standing erect and entire. Principles of Geology or, The Modern Changes of the Earth and its Inhabitants Considered as Illustrative of Geology A slight fall of snow had defined the outline of church and houses, and the leafless trees were sparkling with ten thousand diamonds on their branches. Her Season in Bath A Story of Bygone Days A leafless and fantastic euphorbia, E. canariensis, and a shrubby composite plant, Cacalia kleinia, give a character to the landscape about Santa Cruz. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 5, Slice 2 "Camorra" to "Cape Colony" Constance climbed over leafless briars and through brush and came upon a clearing perhaps fifty yards across, roughly crescent shaped, as it followed the configuration of the hills. The Indian Drum The trees, still gold in calmer homes, stood almost leafless in wild, windy Lymchurch. Man and Maid Winter was closing in, the weather was growing colder every day, many men were barefoot, and without any protection against the icy rain except the branches of the leafless trees. The Greater Republic A History of the United States They produce bark which for one or two seasons remains a bright red during the time the branches are leafless. Trees and Shrubs for English Gardens It was Christmas Eve, and now the bells in the tower rang out in sudden and tuneful chime, flinging their merry peal far and wide over leafless woodland and frozen meadow. In the Whirl of the Rising You gaze on fields as yet yellow with no ripening corn, meadows as yet uncarpeted by flowers, trees as yet leafless. The Religious Life of London The freedom of the night and the hour was sweet to him; and he dreamed as he limped slowly down the Avenue under the leafless trees. Fairfax and His Pride For miles upon miles the forest was a whirlwind of furiously roaring flames, or a desolate waste of blazing 150 wreckage, smoldering stumps and blackened, leafless tree trunks. The Auto Boys' Mystery When the leafless shoots are studded with the golden-yellow, narrow-petalled flowers, with their crimson calyces, it is very pretty. Trees and Shrubs for English Gardens The whorls are many-flowered, close to the stem and mostly leafless. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 8, Slice 5 "Dinard" to "Dodsworth" And once a clouded vulture with wings at least six cudgels wide dropped like a stone upon a leafless Bōōbab-branch, and watched him gloatingly go limping by. The Three Mulla-mulgars A jay, coming for the first time out of his wood, folded his sapphire wings on a leafless cherry tree. Anatole France The Revolt of the Angels Around them stretched seemingly endless vistas of burned and blackened forest, stark, leafless, forbidding. The Auto Boys' Mystery In such a position an Alder at that time, leafless, but laden with its slender, greenish-yellow catkins, is a beautiful object, and characteristic, too, of our English landscape. Trees and Shrubs for English Gardens But now that it was winter, the tree stood leafless, so that every one could see how crooked and bent were the branches that sprang forth from the trunk. Hans Andersen's Fairy Tales Second Series The patch of garden, small as it is, has a division-line of leafless thorns to cut it into two equal halves. Black Forest Village Stories I do not believe I feel about leafless trees as most people do. Helen Grant's Schooldays He followed him there, and their voices guided him through the leafless and snow covered walks to a thick grove of yew-trees, in which Megret and the stranger were sitting. Tales from the German. Volume I. Arwed Gyllenstierna Bramble, the only form of which is worth growing, and that merely as a curiosity, is a practically leafless one. Trees and Shrubs for English Gardens Somehow he felt a chill go through him as he stood beneath its leafless gray limbs. The Boy Scouts for Uncle Sam Again came to her, as they had often come of late, dropping down through the still air, down through the leafless boughs like joyful hopes yet to be realized, the flute notes. The Mountain Girl He and Marjorie were trotting leisurely along a road where the trees met overhead in summer, although now the boughs were leafless, and there was a light covering of snow on the ground. The Girl from Arizona They are ugly creatures, with reddish fur, and spend their time climbing a leafless semblance of a tree, with no object but to descend again, or in sitting up to beg for biscuits of visitors. An American Girl Abroad At that time the still leafless branches are packed for some distance with the pretty fragrant blossoms, so that it may be regarded as the most showy shrub at that time in bloom. Trees and Shrubs for English Gardens Still at the door, a leafless relic now, Appeared a remnant of the May-day bough; No hour-glass, in the window, tells the hours: Where is poor Mary, where her book, her flowers? The Poetical Works of William Lisle Bowles Vol. 2 Through myriad leafless branches the wind soughed pleasantly overhead, unfelt by her, so completely was she protected by the thickly growing laurel and rhododendron on either side of her path. The Mountain Girl I have none to blush for me; I stand alone in the world, a poor, scathed, sapless, leafless trunk. The Daltons, Volume I (of II) Or,Three Roads In Life Plants without green color; leafless or with scale leaves only — 2. 1b. The Plants of Michigan Simple Keys for the Identification of the Native Seed Plants of the State A severe cutting autumn wind roared over the bare fields, and awakened the voices of the leafless wood in the distance, which united their groans to its howling. Tales from the German Comprising specimens from the most celebrated authors Then forward bound both horse and hound, And rattle o’er the vale; As the wintry breeze through leafless trees Drives on the pattering hail. Border Raids and Reivers Ah, the flaming azalea had made its appearance at last, huge clusters of brilliant bloom on leafless shrubs. The Mountain Girl Distance merged the leafless trees into veil-like masses of dove browns and grays where shadows of violet lurked and deepened. The Portal of Dreams A peduncle arising directly from the base of the plant, leafless or bearing bracts only. The Plants of Michigan Simple Keys for the Identification of the Native Seed Plants of the State The foretaste of snow in the air brought him no memory of the summer that had gone, and when he reached the park the leafless trees that spring would regarment left him unimpressed. Eden An Episode Not only were the trees leafless and bare, the roads broken up and fissured with streams of water, but the neglected look of the ch�teau itself bespoke the sad and gloomy, season. Tom Burke Of "Ours", Volume I What to do he knew not, but his eyes glanced warily round, till he saw just above him a big leafless branch, which he broke off close to the body of the tree. Historic Tales, Vol. XIII (of 15), Part I The Romance of Reality. King Arthur On leafless grove and herbless lawn Warm lie the yellow beams of noon; Yet winter is not gone. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 14, No. 81, July, 1864 Small brown leafless plants, growing as parasites on the tamarack or black spruce LORANTHACEAE, p. The Plants of Michigan Simple Keys for the Identification of the Native Seed Plants of the State The rows of trees that lined the street on either side were leafless; the grass brown and dead. The "Genius" Loudest of all, the chiff-chaff sings in the ash woods, bare and leafless, while yet the sharp winds rush between the poles, rattling them together, and bringing down the dead twigs to the earth. The Hills and the Vale The plants in the water were as leafless as the plants on land. The Pond The sage and greasewood ended abruptly, and a row of leafless walnut-trees stretched their gaunt white branches above the road. Stories of the Foot-hills Aquatic plants, with all or most of the leaves submerged, or leafless — 2. 1c. The Plants of Michigan Simple Keys for the Identification of the Native Seed Plants of the State She could see the leafless line of sentinel poplars that bordered the upper edges of Morningside. The "Genius" The leafless branches take a brown tint in the sunlight; on the summit above there is furze; then more hill-lines drawn against the sky. The Hills and the Vale All leafless now the groves that girdled her as if shifting rainbows were in love perpetually letting fall their colours on the Queen of Lakes. Recreations of Christopher North, Volume I (of 2) With hurried strides they made their way through the leafless branches, until they stood where, themselves well under cover, they had a view of the store. In the Brooding Wild Stemless and leafless plants, consisting of flowers only and partly underground 4a, in ARACEAE, p. The Plants of Michigan Simple Keys for the Identification of the Native Seed Plants of the State I pine amid its leafless bowers, And on the black and lonely strand. Graham's Magazine Vol XXXIII No. 5 November 1848 They were holding hands; and without looking at one another, their eyes fixed upon the tender blue of the sky between the branches of the leafless trees, they kept silence. Pierre and Luce Through the window I see the Square, shrouded in mist, the nearer leafless shrubs swaying in the chill wind, pavement glistening in the flickering light of street lamps. The Brassbounder A Tale of the Sea But the leafless branches of the scrub, faintly tinged with the signs of coming spring, alone confronted him; only that, and the noise of breaking brushwood ahead. In the Brooding Wild Stem thick and fleshy, leafless, thorny CACTACEAE, p. The Plants of Michigan Simple Keys for the Identification of the Native Seed Plants of the State The cold wind blowing through the gables and leafless trees held no terror for them. The Daughter of a Republican Light still floats over the leafless wood, and athwart the bare branches the blue eye of the sky fascinates the reason and lulls it to sleep.... Pierre and Luce He turned off into the country road, already deep in snow-drifts, and swept on, through the little wood whose leafless birches now looked unfamiliar, even spectral, in the increasing gloom. The Girl in the Mirror Thenceforth to her eyes they were serious still, but less unkindly than before, less bald and leafless, in a garment thinly strewn with arbutus and larch. La Sorcière: The Witch of the Middle Ages Flowers in globose woolly heads terminating leafless unbranched stalks ERIOCAULACEAE, p. The Plants of Michigan Simple Keys for the Identification of the Native Seed Plants of the State The cold night wind swept over him, sighing drearily among the leafless bushes. Cudjo's Cave Have you seen the leafless branches Tossing wildly 'gainst the blue? Mother Truth's Melodies Common Sense For Children Whose face, white as that of a corpse, gleamed from between those leafless stems? Under False Pretences A Novel He went down the hill, up another, and thence saw Plymouth at his feet; the masts of the ships were like a great forest of leafless trees.... Orientations Foliage leaves all or principally basal; flower-stalk either completely leafless, or bearing a single pair of opposite leaves only. The Plants of Michigan Simple Keys for the Identification of the Native Seed Plants of the State Along the reaches of the river the clumps of leafless poplars are grey against the pale, palest blue sky; grey but with a warmth of delicate brown, almost of rosiness. Euphorion Being Studies of the Antique and the Mediaeval in the Renaissance - Vol. I Over all the brown ploughlands, and under all the leafless hedgerows, there was a stout piece of labour abroad, and, as it were, a spirit of picnic. The Works of Robert Louis Stevenson - Swanston Edition Vol. XXII (of 25) Juvenilia and Other Papers At midnight we arrived at the long promenades which border the Pleisse, and halted under the old leafless lindens, and stacked arms. The Conscript A Story of the French war of 1813 |
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