Into and across tree-ferned ravines, through dashing streams of icy water, past cataract and morass, the party plowed its devious way until long past noon.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Rogue Elephant The Boys' Big Game Series] Reference

A bunch of us sat in the Silver Grill of the Hotel Spokane where we could see the gold fish and the baby turtles swimming in the pool of the ferned grotto in the center of the room.    From Wordnik.com.  [Tales of the Road] Reference

Music from the ferned-in orchestra came in drifts, faint, not so faint.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Best Short Stories of 1917 and the Yearbook of the American Short Story] Reference

By a frosty-ferned brook, where water tinkled and ran clear as air and cold as ice, Jean quenched his thirst, leaning on a stone that showed drops of blood.    From Wordnik.com.  [To the Last Man] Reference

She ran forward with the eagerness of a thirsty bird, and, leaning on the bank, supported by bent arms, bent down and drank with keenest relish of the cool spring waters gathered in the "cove," then dabbled her brown slender fingers in the shining depths, watching, with a smile, concentric, widening ripples as they hurried out across the glassy surface, to the ferned bank beyond.    From Wordnik.com.  [In Old Kentucky] Reference