A sparse thicket of scrub oak and leatherleaf covered the outer slopes. From Wordnik.com. [The Great Hunt]
Well yes, there is a real flower, unfazed by the cold, the leatherleaf Mahonia, Mahonia bealei. From Wordnik.com. [Blooms? In January? « Fairegarden] Reference
The road ran through a thicket here, nearly a small forest of oak and elm, pine and leatherleaf. From Wordnik.com. [The Fires of Heaven]
The rest was scrub brush, little as much as waist-high, dotted with leatherleaf and paperbark and the occasional oak. From Wordnik.com. [The Fires of Heaven]
Rand stood not far from the entrance, leaning against the rough trunk of a leatherleaf, staring at the palms of his hands. From Wordnik.com. [The Dragon Reborn]
Sphagnum moss grows in lumpy mounds atop this mat, and where it is thick enough, small shrubs such as leatherleaf take root. From Wordnik.com. [The Field Guide to Wildlife Habitats of the Eastern United States] Reference
Suddenly some trick of the moonlight resolved the shadows ahead of him, and he froze, touching the rough bole of a leatherleaf. From Wordnik.com. [The Great Hunt]
The trees flailed about, and the leatherleaf suddenly cracked in two, the greater part of its trunk crashing down not three paces from Rand. From Wordnik.com. [The Dragon Reborn]
The meadow, ringed by huge oaks and leatherleaf, towering pine and shorter sweetgum, was less than six hundred paces wide, though longer than that. From Wordnik.com. [Knife of Dreams]
Scattered copses, mainly leatherleaf and pine and oak, lay between them and the nearest hedged fields of barley and oats, tabac and tall grass for hay. From Wordnik.com. [The Shadow Rising]
Much of the Tower grounds were gardens full of trees, leatherleaf and paperbark and elms, and he soon found himself walking along a wide, twisting graveled path. From Wordnik.com. [The Dragon Reborn]
Some mile or more off, a few hundred cadin'sor-clad shapes running eight abreast and heading east topped a rise where half-a-dozen leatherleaf made a poor excuse for a copse. From Wordnik.com. [The Fires of Heaven]
After watching Mat put three arrows into a knot the size of a man's head, on the fissured trunk of a dead leatherleaf, at a hundred paces, he told the others to take their turns. From Wordnik.com. [The Eye of the World]
As he panned the looking glass slowly, hunting the tower, a slope covered in spaced leatherleaf and paperbark abruptly went up in flames, every tree become a torch at the same instant. From Wordnik.com. [The Fires of Heaven]
It was startling to see trees again, real trees, towering oaks and leatherleaf in actual thickets rather than an occasional wind-twisted, stunted shape, and tall grass waving in the breeze across the hills. From Wordnik.com. [The Fires of Heaven]
The undergrowth was not too thick; they had found an easy way under the canopy of oak and hickory, blackgum and beech, pierced here and there by a tall pine or leatherleaf, or the white slash of a paperbark. From Wordnik.com. [The Great Hunt]
Well hidden in a stand of tall leatherleaf above the north bank of the River Taren, Dain Bornhald tossed back his white cloak, with its flaring golden sun on the breast, and raised the stiff leather tube of a looking glass to his eye. From Wordnik.com. [The Shadow Rising]
The land was rolling, forested hills, thick with fir and leatherleaf and oak, but the path Hurin set led almost straight as an arrow, never wavering except to go around a few of the taller hills, where the way was clearly quicker around than over. From Wordnik.com. [The Great Hunt]
From Fog and Steel by Madoc Comadrin Embers Falling on Dry Grass Prologue The sun, climbing toward midmorning, stretched Galad's shadow and those of his three armored companions ahead of them as they trotted their mounts down the road that ran straight through the forest, dense with oak and leatherleaf, pine and sourgum, most showing the red of spring growth. From Wordnik.com. [Knife of Dreams]
Just before the recent rain I noticed that my leatherleaf viburnum had gone too long without irrigation. From Wordnik.com. [The Union - All Categories] Reference
After about 200 yards, they reached a leatherleaf bog, about the size of a football field; she pointed to the spot the deer was last seen. From Wordnik.com. Reference
The smaller kettle bogs are dominated by leatherleaf, a knee-high brush that is a potentially threatened species in Ohio and a member of the blueberry family. From Wordnik.com. Reference
The fallen leatherleaf, and the broken branches. From Wordnik.com. [The Dragon Reborn]
leatherleaf, 161, 163, 165. From Wordnik.com. [The Field Guide to Wildlife Habitats of the Eastern United States] Reference
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