papery leaves.    From Wordnet, Princeton University. 

"She hasn't changed much, though; fallen away a little; her red cheeks have turned to a kind of papery white; her mouth has grown thin and.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Old Homestead] Reference

Leaflets are papery, with a glabrous upper surface.    From Wordnik.com.  [Chapter 10] Reference

He had -- his skin was almost papery, as I recall it.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Jun 25, 2009] Reference

He seems to have no circulation under his papery white skin.    From Wordnik.com.  [Erica Jong: Is John McCain Really Our Friend?] Reference

Noveen landed in the pile of dead wasps with a papery rustle.    From Wordnik.com.  [Duma Key]

Seeds reddish brown with a small brown papery wing at the base.    From Wordnik.com.  [Chapter 7] Reference

He had that funny, silvery, papery voice that didn't seem threatening.    From Wordnik.com.  [Looking for History: Dispatches from Latin America] Reference

He hoisted Davey up by his dry, papery armpits and sat him in the seat.    From Wordnik.com.  [Someone Comes to Town, Someone Leaves Town] Reference

Even in the body of books — its papery, stitched, glued, bound aspect.    From Wordnik.com.  [Two Times a Lady] Reference

FLOWERS: In spikes, white or cream with large conspicuous papery bracts.    From Wordnik.com.  [Chapter 7] Reference

The papery bark peeled off where my hands held onto the eight-inch trunk.    From Wordnik.com.  [White Birch] Reference

Thimbleberries with white, papery buds grew thickly down to either shore.    From Wordnik.com.  [Stallion Gate]

The Cameron voice retains some of the papery growl found in former smokers.    From Wordnik.com.  [Everything You Always Wanted To Know About David Cameron] Reference

Her skin was papery and without any colour, grey, almost as if it were dirty.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Funeral In Blue]

The papery fruits (actually winged seeds or samaras) contain one to two seeds each.    From Wordnik.com.  [Chapter 7] Reference

Pale, papery skin covered her soft jowls, and deep frown lines furrowed her forehead.    From Wordnik.com.  [html]

An arrow protruded from his eye, a long wooden arrow with papery leaves for feathering.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Ringworld Engineers]

All they can do now is relive everything like watching old movies, papery and deflated.    From Wordnik.com.  [my return to oz] Reference

LEAVES: Small, variety of shapes, often almost round and papery with a serrated margin.    From Wordnik.com.  [Chapter 7] Reference

That's the title of a new papery by Kartik Athreya of the Richmond Federal Reserve Bank.    From Wordnik.com.  [HUFFPOST HILL - JUNE 28TH, 2010] Reference

When Romanchek released my hand from his dry, papery grip, I went to pour a cup of coffee.    From Wordnik.com.  [Till the Butchers Cut Him Down]

As with tomatillas, you peel away the papery husk and just eat the "berry" that sits within.    From Wordnik.com.  [Steve Poses: Farm Stands of Long Island's North Fork] Reference

Her fingers encircled the back of the book, where she felt something cool, papery, unpebbled.    From Wordnik.com.  [html]

Just under the papery-thin skin of the Loa's head, Dihana saw soft cracks in the skull plates.    From Wordnik.com.  [Crystal Rain] Reference

Lightly roasting groundnuts (which are not soaked) makes it easy to remove their papery coats.    From Wordnik.com.  [14. Saving seeds for planting] Reference

They tend to be papery, glabrous, and laxly and rather diffusely veined, with one or two seeds.    From Wordnik.com.  [Chapter 23] Reference

He'd become so thin that she wondered how he kept his bones from poking through his papery skin.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Traitor to Memory]

The papery bark of the tree was slightly soft. and he was able to form a pillow of his bent arm.    From Wordnik.com.  [Juxtaposition]

When the garlic is cool enough to handle, separate the cloves and squeeze the garlic out of the papery skin.    From Wordnik.com.  [From Seasoned Chef to Storyteller] Reference

Almost every shrub and tree was more or less infested with it, and its large papery nests were everywhere to be seen.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Malay Archipelago] Reference

They immediately took possession of my house, building a large nest in the roof, and forming papery tunnels down almost every post.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Malay Archipelago] Reference

Marguerite stared at the flames while Natalie's boyfriend, Jimmy, lodged a birch log on the fire and the papery bark threw off sparks.    From Wordnik.com.  [Marguerite in Idaho] Reference

For he associated the papery surfaces with the apprehension he then had that Istra might give him up to the jag-toothed grin of Carson.    From Wordnik.com.  [Our Mr. Wrenn] Reference

Beneath the massive stones, remnants of papery thin leather garments were preserved, but the bones of the body were in complete disarray.    From Wordnik.com.  [Interactive Dig Hierakonpolis - Nubian Cemetery Week 4] Reference