Old, leafless trees are covered and green with it. From Wordnik.com. [The Citizen-Soldier or, Memoirs of a Volunteer] Reference
And wintry winds moan through its leafless boughs. From Wordnik.com. [The Death of Saul and other Eisteddfod Prize Poems and Miscellaneous Verses] Reference
Then, through the trees and tall leafless bushes just behind. From Wordnik.com. [No Great Magic] Reference
November's fierce blast had begun to toss the leafless branches, and. From Wordnik.com. [Katie Robertson A Girls Story of Factory Life] Reference
Trees -- In general; (green) hope; (withered) grief; (leafless) deceit. From Wordnik.com. [The Handy Cyclopedia of Things Worth Knowing A Manual of Ready Reference] Reference
After ripening of the seed, the leafless flowering culms always die down. From Wordnik.com. [Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 3, Part 1, Slice 2 "Baconthorpe" to "Bankruptcy"] Reference
The blast whistled through the leafless trees and howled round the cabin. From Wordnik.com. [Woman on the American Frontier] Reference
I saw many souvenirs of the past among those leafless trees and faded lawns. From Wordnik.com. [The French Immortals Series — Complete] Reference
Outside, wind caused the leafless branches to scrape against the window glass. From Wordnik.com. [One Thousand Incarnations and One Thousand Deaths - Part I] Reference
The large courtyard lay deserted with its leafless poplars and spiked railings. From Wordnik.com. [The French Immortals Series — Complete] Reference
The little stream, cold and leafless though it be, is not without its beauties. From Wordnik.com. [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 62, No. 382, October 1847] Reference
After the bleak mountains, with their leafless trees, the old Valley looked like. From Wordnik.com. [The Story of a Cannoneer Under Stonewall Jackson] Reference
Slowly, and still more slowly they wandered, aimlessly, under the leafless trees. From Wordnik.com. [Old Valentines A Love Story] Reference
In her fridge, they spill out of her leafless vegetable bin, perch next to the butter. From Wordnik.com. [Gathering] Reference
Each year, as Christmas approaches, hundreds of lighted balls twinkle in now leafless trees. From Wordnik.com. [Steve Poses: On the Road: Philadelphia's Neighborhood Farmers' Markets -- Rittenhouse Square] Reference
The leafless tree may pray for the time of buds and blossoms; will the time come the sooner?. From Wordnik.com. [Ideala] Reference
Not a breath stirred the leafless boughs outside, nor rattled the withered vines on the walls. From Wordnik.com. [The Paternoster Ruby] Reference
The weird gods climbed down from the moon, past low-hanging clouds and upon leafless treetops. From Wordnik.com. [The Weird Gods] Reference
Up the street, Perry Alford was winging snowballs at a black, leafless trunk opposite his house. From Wordnik.com. [A Son of the City A Story of Boy Life] Reference
Here, as in the Mohave Desert, are found the leafless, thickly spined forms of the cactus family. From Wordnik.com. [Wealth of the World's Waste Places and Oceania] Reference
The leafless branches of great trees waved creakily over their heads as the wind whistled through them. From Wordnik.com. [Army Boys on German Soil Our Doughboys Quelling the Mobs] Reference
Rising from between the leaves is a slender, leafless stalk bearing a single, nodding flower at the top. From Wordnik.com. [Elements of Structural and Systematic Botany For High Schools and Elementary College Courses] Reference
It had been leafless, but now the touch of spring had lighted every twig with a pale flame-point of red. From Wordnik.com. [The Dragon Painter] Reference
At length Sir Owen became faint with hunger, and he dismounted and tethered his horse to a leafless thorn. From Wordnik.com. [King Arthur's Knights The Tales Re-told for Boys & Girls] Reference
It had snowed during the night, and sleighs were dashing in and out under the leafless arches of the trees. From Wordnik.com. [Ainslee's, Vol. 15, No. 5, June 1905] Reference
I look out through the leafless trees toward the lake, but it is hidden by the whirling, eddying snowflakes. From Wordnik.com. [How to Cook Husbands] Reference
Unobserved, Prince darted swiftly out, and perched amid the leafless boughs of one of the high trees on the lawn. From Wordnik.com. [Chatterbox, 1905.] Reference
A pink light glowed upon his paper shoji; the plum tree, now entirely leafless, threw a splendid shadow-silhouette. From Wordnik.com. [The Dragon Painter] Reference
The north wind blew freely across the arid fields and the river, and swept unopposed through the leafless trees and bushes. From Wordnik.com. [The French Immortals Series — Complete] Reference
Our turn came while in this camp one dark, chilly night; the rain falling fast and the wind moaning through the leafless woods. From Wordnik.com. [The Story of a Cannoneer Under Stonewall Jackson] Reference
They left the park gravel path, now flanked on either side by leafless shrubbery, and struck out over the hard macadam of the road. From Wordnik.com. [A Son of the City A Story of Boy Life] Reference
The house faced the north end of Sheridan Park, a glimpse of whose lagoons could be caught here and there among the leafless trees. From Wordnik.com. [The Paternoster Ruby] Reference
Madeline Payne stood alone in her own room, looking moodily out upon the leafless grove that was fast taking on a covering of snow. From Wordnik.com. [Madeline Payne, the Detective's Daughter] Reference
He was thinking of that all the way, as he watched the still leafless trees glide along the embankment of the Saint-Germain railway. From Wordnik.com. [The French Immortals Series — Complete] Reference
It was only five o'clock, but the stars were out, and through the leafless trees I could see lights twinkling from the houses as I passed. From Wordnik.com. [The Rose of Old St. Louis] Reference
He returns to find the kingdom in leafless ruin, with the indolent hyenas complaining that the lionesses aren't bringing home enough food. From Wordnik.com. [King Of The Urban Jungle] Reference
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