"Very well; and 'leafage' is good for hide-and-seek; especially when there is no rogue in ambush. From Wordnik.com. [Complete Project Gutenberg Works of George Meredith] Reference
The trees are all plumed with their leafage superb. From Wordnik.com. [Our Boys Entertaining Stories by Popular Authors] Reference
Dark as a solemn grove, with sombre leafage shaded. From Wordnik.com. [The Suppliants] Reference
The yearly dissolution of leafage was setting in apace. From Wordnik.com. [Two on a Tower] Reference
Some people love the country but in the time of leafage!. From Wordnik.com. [John Splendid The Tale of a Poor Gentleman, and the Little Wars of Lorn] Reference
Awe thrills me, seeing these shrines with leafage crowned. From Wordnik.com. [The Suppliants] Reference
I hid myself behind the trees whose leafage concealed the wall. From Wordnik.com. [The French Immortals Series — Complete] Reference
I jumped off my horse, and led it through a small opening in the leafage. From Wordnik.com. [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine - Volume 54, No. 338, December 1843] Reference
For some minutes amongst the wood and leafage a rending and heaving went on. From Wordnik.com. [Villette] Reference
He had a branch of bramble in his hand, plucked for the crimson of its leafage. From Wordnik.com. [Gilian The Dreamer His Fancy, His Love and Adventure] Reference
The humid gloom of an ordinary wet day was doubled by the shade and drip of the leafage. From Wordnik.com. [The Woodlanders] Reference
Their spring has been borrowed from summer, for the leafage here does not begin until late in June. From Wordnik.com. [Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 12, No. 31, October, 1873] Reference
The air was disturbed by stiff summer blasts, productive of windfalls and premature descents of leafage. From Wordnik.com. [Two on a Tower] Reference
The immense avenues of leafage looked like mysterious labyrinths, with castles and arches of ferns forty feet high. From Wordnik.com. [The Romance of Isabel Lady Burton] Reference
In this case the beautiful and delicate Byzantine leafage can be seen on the mouldings of the arch above the window. From Wordnik.com. [The Brochure Series of Architectural Illustration, Volume 01, No. 04, April 1895 Byzantine-Romanesque Windows in Southern Italy] Reference
It was like finding a purse that had spilled its contents among the leafage, a pink lining studded with turquoise seed. From Wordnik.com. [Summer podding] Reference
No trace of a petticoat was visible, so thick was the leafage; but a loud whispering and tittering betrayed the fugitives. From Wordnik.com. [Australia Felix] Reference
The temperature at starting should be 55° Fahr., rising gradually to 60° by the time the leafage is thoroughly developed. From Wordnik.com. [The Culture of Vegetables and Flowers From Seeds and Roots 16th Edition] Reference
One means of clearing the ground to make a farm was to fell the trees, while in full leafage, in what were called 'winrows.'. From Wordnik.com. [The Story of a Summer Or, Journal Leaves from Chappaqua] Reference
Again it thrilled through the leafage, a trifle stronger, and seemed to convey a threat commingled with a prayer for succour. From Wordnik.com. [Tropic Days] Reference
Louis Glanville was so highly interested that he stood upon the seat of the arbour, and looked through the leafage over the wall. From Wordnik.com. [Two on a Tower] Reference
Some of the flowering plants of old England here dwell contentedly, leafage being free, however few and dwarfed in some cases the bloom. From Wordnik.com. [My Tropic Isle] Reference
It was early morning; the breeze from the land blew sweet and fragrant, and the woods beyond the sandy beach bourgeoned in new leafage, green and tender. From Wordnik.com. [Margaret Tudor A Romance of Old St. Augustine] Reference
The sun was higher in the sky by now, and found a better angle through the leafage of the trees, to shed more light upon the distorted and lamentable body. From Wordnik.com. [The Hermit of Eyton Forest]
A forlorn cry, half appeal, half gurgle, filtered through the leafage as from the beach, and on the instant the jungle had soundlessly absorbed the affrighted pair. From Wordnik.com. [Tropic Days] Reference
The birdsfoot ivy (pedata) is curious, as it clings to the stones like delicate leaf embroidery, and for shining green leafage but few equal to the one called lucida. From Wordnik.com. [Scientific American Supplement, No. 433, April 19, 1884] Reference
Our pet was well hidden in the hedge, with its nose poking through a hole in the leafage and so cunningly camouflaged that it was absolutely impossible to be noticed. From Wordnik.com. [S.O.S. Stand to!] Reference
Hidden in a shady tree is a bough with leafage and pliant shoot all of gold, consecrate to nether Juno, wrapped in the depth of woodland and shut in by dim dusky vales. From Wordnik.com. [The Aeneid of Virgil] Reference
Pendant roots and immersed branches create on each hand a continuous scroll of wavering ridges and eddies bordered with the living tints of the steadfast wall of leafage. From Wordnik.com. [Tropic Days] Reference
Whatever the quality of the soil, it should not be very rich, because in such soils the growth is apt to be rank and the quantity of oil small in proportion to the leafage. From Wordnik.com. [Culinary Herbs: Their Cultivation Harvesting Curing and Uses] Reference
It will not be long, indeed, before he has so covered the object of his affection with the leafage of his fancy, that she ceases to have an actual existence for him at all. From Wordnik.com. [The Poet's Poet : essays on the character and mission of the poet as interpreted in English verse of the last one hundred and fifty years] Reference
Yet does he dream on, accepting that which comes, admiring leafage, bloom, and fragrant fruit, and always postponing the day when substantial aid and credit should be given. From Wordnik.com. [Tropic Days] Reference
Under the eaves of the workshop the dangling bunches of dried leafage rustled and chirped like nests of singing birds in waves of warmed air, where there was hardly any wind. From Wordnik.com. [St. Peter's Fair]
I followed closely, and in a yard or two found myself in a deep lane or cutting, very thickly overgrown, so that only occasional gleams of sunshine crept in through the leafage. From Wordnik.com. [Highways & Byways in Sussex] Reference
The mass of full-juiced leafage on the heights around her was just swayed into faint gestures by a nearly spent wind which, even in its enfeebled state, did not reach her shelter. From Wordnik.com. [The Woodlanders] Reference
The young leafage shimmered like a veil of golden gauze, the poplar buds were pink and brown, the chestnuts had all their candles afire; larks by dozens were abroad in the clear sky. From Wordnik.com. [Little Novels of Italy Madonna Of The Peach-Tree, Ippolita In The Hills, The Duchess Of Nona, Messer Cino And The Live Coal, The Judgment Of Borso] Reference
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