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Sentences ending with leaf

I grew to understand as well as another the methods of curing the leaf. [9]
The flavor of the Partaga is too delicate for palates that have been accustomed to Connecticut seed leaf. [5]
People say that Tahoe means "Silver Lake"--"Limpid Water"--"Falling Leaf. [5]
The world looked so bright and safe that there did not seem to be any real occasion to turn over a new leaf. [5]
In the days of the flood I'll bring the olive leaf. [11]
The conjurer watched her keenly and searchingly, as not without difficulty he picked up the leaf. [10]
Of course I had been expecting such news every day for many days; but no matter, the shock of it almost took my breath away and set me trembling like a leaf. [5]
They brought each grief, And you did comfort them and cheer Their bruised hearts, and steal a tear That, healed, rose a leaf. [5]
His presence affected even the lean kitten, and it skipped to the ground and began to chase a leaf. [5]
When we came down the next morning, each of these (two only excepted) was covered with a broad leaf. [6]

Sentences containing leaf two or more times

Her mind seemed to unfold leaf by leaf, and every time to discover new sweetness. [4]
It is in opulent leaf, and every leaf perfect. [5]
But I looked again upon my leaf, and then I saw that thy name now was also upon my leaf, and that it was neither green nor withered; but was a leaf that drooped as when an evil wind has passed and drunk its life. [11]

More example sentences with the word leaf in them

Just so subtly, yet with the same seeming suddenness had budded and come to leaf and flower a perfect understanding, which nevertheless remained undefined. [9]
Mr. Marmaduke was wont to rise at noon, and knew not wheat from barley, or good leaf from bad; his hands he kept like a lady's, rendering them almost useless by the long lace on the sleeves, and his chief pastime was card-playing. [9]
Our world, too, with all its breathing life, is but a leaf to be folded with the other strata, and if I am only patient, by and by I shall be just as famous as imperious Caesar himself, embedded with me in a conglomerate. [6]
It matters not what comes to Tekewani; he is as the leaf that falls from the stem; but for Summer Song that has far to go, it is the madness from beyond the Hills of Life. [11]
The poppy leaf was not to flutter toward the sky, but to wither in the dust. [10]
But, besides, there was a bookcase with an unusual number of books in it, and there was an open colonial writing-desk, claw-footed, brass-handled, and scutcheoned, with foreign periodicals--French and English--littering its leaf, and some pages of manuscript scattered among them. [8]
When drooping pleasure turns to grief, And trembling faith is changed to fear, The murmuring wind, the quivering leaf Shall softly tell us, Thou art near! [6]
I resolved to turn over a new leaf instantly; I also resolved to connect myself with the church the next day, if I survived to see its sun appear. [5]
Then we could turn from this scene to the Lake, and see every branch, and leaf, and cataract of flame upon its bank perfectly reflected as in a gleaming, fiery mirror. [5]
A strange process, too, this by which experience is converted into thought as a mulberry leaf is converted into satin. [6]
In the autumn, too, many a dry brown leaf found its way among the more expensive tobacco ones. [10]
He devoted himself to the task with the utmost diligence; but when, at the end of four years, he could write on the last leaf of the roll. [10]
Poor wreck of time the wave has cast To find a peaceful shore at last, Once glorying in thy gilded name And freighted deep with hopes of fame, Thy leaf is moistened with a tear, The first for many a long, long year! [6]
And, besides all this, if a leaf flutters off the table without being touched by any visible hand, you do not doubt that a draught of air, which you can neither hear nor see, has swept through the room. [10]
The veins of this leaf in the decorations over your head, were his finger-joints, a hundred and fifty years ago. [5]
I have liked the young man, admired his talents, been anxious when he trifled with his life as if it were a paltry leaf, which is flung into the river. [10]
As Paaker took the vessel from her looked at the laurel leaf, she said: "This indeed binds hearts; three is the husband, four is the wife, seven is the chachach, charcharachacha. [10]
Will it measure the fluttering leaf by the same standard as the firmly-rooted plant? [10]
And I watched the falling leaves; and I saw my leaf, and it was withered, but only a little withered, and so I live yet a little. [11]
Every leaf of the cottonwood is distinctly defined--it is a kodak for faithful, hard, unsentimental detail; the other an impressionist picture, delicious to look upon, full of a subtle and exquisite charm, but all details fused in a swoon of vague and soft loveliness. [5]
I have noticed the almost selfish passion for their flowers which old gardeners have, and their reluctance to part with a leaf or a blossom from their family. [4]
That avil baste that's killed two Injins already--an' all the men o' the place sneakin' behind dures, an' she walkin' up cool as leaf in mornin' dew, an' quietin' the divil's own! [11]
I bade him thank the chaplain for me, and opening the book, I found a leaf turned down at the words, "In the shadow of thy wings will I make my refuge, until these calamities be overpast. [11]
She described, with tears in her eyes, how painful their parting had been, and laughed again, as she told how an ivy leaf in her hair had nearly betrayed everything to her father. [10]
It does not take a great man to soon discover that, in raising anything, the greater part of the plants goes into stalk and leaf, and the fruit is a most inconsiderable portion. [4]
Tears of emotion stood in Nefert's eyes, and when Uarda flung herself into her arms she said: "The forlorn swan has found its kindred, the floating leaf has reached the shore, and must be happy now! [10]
Not a leaf stirred; not a sound obtruded upon great Nature's meditation. [5]
The hens performed still more difficult feats, for they drew from a wooden box for each spectator a leaf of a tree, on which certain characters were visible. [10]
The trees were still in full leaf, the fields green, though the crops had been gathered, and the crystal air gave vivid value to every colour in the landscape. [9]
They gome and steal what I leaf there on my daple. [8]
There was a silence that seemed an eternity as the palm leaf trembled in her hand, there was an answer that strove tenderly to command. [9]
Usually, the more show of leaf and wood, the less fruit. [4]
Not that,--the palm-tree's rustling leaf Brought from a parching coral-reef! [6]
O sweet, tranquil refuge of oblivion, so far as earth is concerned, for us poor blundering, stammering, misbehaving creatures who cannot turn over a leaf of our life's diary without feeling thankful that its failure can no longer stare us in the face! [6]
You enter, and proceed to that most-visited little gallery that exists in the world--the Tribune--and there, against the wall, without obstructing rag or leaf, you may look your fill upon the foulest, the vilest, the obscenest picture the world possesses--Titian's Venus. [5]
You enter, and proceed to that most-visited little gallery that exists in the world.... and there, against the wall, without obstructing rag or leaf, you may look your fill upon the foulest, the vilest, the obscenest picture the world possesses--Titian's Venus. [5]
One thing was present, however, at times, and when it rushed over her in its fulness, it shook her as the wind shakes the leaf on a tree--a sense of indignation, of anger, or resentment. [11]
You must not open a book; if you do I am lost, for I shall have to look at every illuminated capital, from the first leaf to the colophon. [6]
Clear drops sparkled on leaf and flower and blade, for, only a short time before, the garden by Bent-Anat's house had been freshly watered. [10]
Although a man of presence, measurable by scales with weights enough, our general has no more ponderosity now than a leaf in a mountain storm at Hale--and no more control over the hurricane. [9]
Upon the tomb of Mahomet I will set my lips, and it may be that the leaf of my life will come fresh and green again. [11]
Not a breath of air stirred, not a leaf or a twig fell from the trees. [10]
This story is not an invention; it is a leaf out of life. [4]
Now red--now pale, no rest at night, at table she scarcely eats a chicken-wing and a leaf of salad. [10]
But Myrtilus was no more, and who could tell whether his body had not remained unburied, and his soul was therefore condemned to be borne restlessly between heaven and earth, like a leaf driven by the wind? [10]
And does not Nature plant me as an eye to behold her beauties while she is dressed in the glories of leaf and flower, and draw the icy lid over my shining surface when she stands naked and ashamed in the poverty of winter? [6]
I who carry my life as a leaf in autumn for the west wind was saved, and he--! [11]
Who cares how many stamens or pistils that little brown flower, which comes out before the leaf, may have to classify it by? [6]
Here are the magnolia, the laurel, the Japanese medlar, the oleander, the pepper, the bay, the date-palm, a tree called the plumbago, another from the Cape of Good Hope, the pomegranate, the elder in full leaf, the olive, salvia, heliotrope; close by is a banana-tree. [4]
By him was lying the uprooted limetree, from which that leaf had fallen, and whereas the rain was dropping from it fast, meseemed it was weeping. [10]
Lady, life's sweetest lesson wouldst thou learn, Come thou with me to Love's enchanted bower: High overhead the trellised roses burn; Beneath thy feet behold the feathery fern, A leaf without a flower. [6]
I freighted a leaf with a mental message for the friends at home, and dropped it in the stream. [5]
On a blank leaf was the following, written in a very delicate and careful hand:- Presented to . [6]
I scanned a leaf particularly and saw that it was a palimpsest. [5]
He wore the leaf on his shoulder which entitled him to be called Major Lindsay. [6]
What the mulberry leaf is to the silk-worm, the author's book, treatise, essay, poem, is to the critical larva; that feed upon it. [6]
In every tiny leaf and gland and hair Sweet perfume is distilled, and scents the air. [10]
His interest in Joan had been first awakened when, as a printer's apprentice in Hannibal, he had found blowing along the street a stray leaf from some printed story of her life. [5]
The Junker wrapped it with care in a green leaf which, as his lady grandmother had taught him, had a healing gift; Paulus held forth the laced kerchief, and the Italian was striking wailing tones from his lute. [10]
You cannot know it as I do; but Charmian will tell you how sensitive she has become since the flower of her youthful charms--you don't perceive it--is losing one leaf after another. [10]
The trees were in their early leaf in Ripton Square, and the dark pine patches on Sawanec looked (from Austen's little office) like cloud shadows against the shimmer of the tender green. [9]
She was alone in the world like a tree without roots, like a leaf blown out to sea, like an unfledged bird that has fallen out of the nest. [10]
There are flowers in profusion, scented violets, daisies, dandelions, and crocuses, large and of the richest variety, with orange pistils, and stamens purple and violet, the back of every alternate leaf exquisitely penciled. [4]
The almond-trees are in blossom; the fig-trees are beginning to sprout; everything is in the tender bud, the young leaf, or the half-open flower. [4]
I dare say I did this a hundred times, but generally the leaf gave the wished-for sound, and I had much oftener reason to be joyful than sad. [10]
Boston has glorified her State House and herself at the expense of a few sheets of gold leaf laid on the dome, which shines like a sun in the eyes of her citizens, and like a star in those of the approaching traveller. [6]
The colour of her skin against the lions was splendid to-day: a regular rich gold with a sweet stain of red like a leaf of maize in September. [11]
One might have heard a leaf fall, a spicier walk, as, supported by the arm of William of Orange, he raised the notes of his address and began to read. [10]
However, I shouldn't have done it, for I am too lazy, now, in my sere and yellow leaf, to be willing to work for anything but love..... [5]
The sensitive plate has taken one look at a scene, and remembers it all, Every little circumstance is there,--the hoof in air, the wing in flight, the leaf as it falls, the wave as it breaks. [6]
Finn the Red-Handed had stolen a skillet and a quantity of half-cured leaf tobacco, and had also brought a few corn-cobs to make pipes with. [5]
A faded leaf had fallen on his brow and was strange to behold against his ashen skin; but I bent me down and took it off. [10]
My sister Emily had a. particular love for them, and there is not a knoll of heather, not a branch of fern, not a young bilberry leaf, not a fluttering lark or linnet, but reminds me of her. [14]
Without a single green leaf on his head, he walked, leaning on the Egyptian's arm, into the palaestra, which was diagonally opposite to his house. [10]
The dew was glistening on every little leaf and blade of grass, and the birds sang deliciously in the shrubberies round her dwelling. [10]
One, two, three, four, five, six,--seven; not room enough, without the leaf in the table; one place empty, if the leaf's in. [6]
He could not forget the oppressive sense of helplessness which had seized him when he had felt himself at the mercy of the unrestrained horses, like a leaf driven by the wind, and then suddenly saved by a miracle. [10]
But I looked for thy leaf, thou who wert born in that moment when I waked to the world. [11]
There was no flower or leaf or fruit that she had seen that she could not imitate exactly in wax or paper. [4]
And he carefully filled his pipe with choice leaf out of Mr. Carvel's inlaid box. [9]
She dropped them, fastening in the lapel of his coat a flaunting red flower set against a shining leaf, and there was a gentle, joyous subterfuge in her answer. [9]
Every leaf of every tree and flower had impressions of glories, of love, ambition and intrigue, of tears and laughter, of joyousness and ruin. [11]
Coolin hated the duty, and because he was in a bitter mood his tongue was like a leaf of aloe. [11]
There is no colour yet in the leaf of the larch. [11]
He managed to catch the creature in a large leaf, from which he was afterwards transferred to a wide-mouthed bottle, where he lived without any food for a month or more. [6]
I looked long, but I found no leaf, neither green nor withered. [11]
The trees had burst forth again into leaf, the spiraea bushes seemed weighted down with snow, and with a note like that of the quivering bass string of a 'cello the bees hummed among the fruit blossoms. [9]
Every "local" editor breathed his woe over the incidents of the police court, the falling leaf, the tragedies of the boardinghouse, in the most lachrymose periods he could command, and let us never lack fine writing, whatever might be the dearth of news. [4]
Why, he had been as grave and as solemn as a bishop to-day; perhaps he had already turned over a new leaf. [10]
The tea-cup will be a cheerful substitute for the funeral urn, and a freshly made infusion of the fragrant leaf is one of the best things in the world to lay the dust of sad reflections. [6]
A piece of bark struck me in the face, and a dead leaf fluttered to the ground. [9]
He opened it and read the name of Bernard C. Langdon on the blank leaf. [6]
Excuse me moment, and I'll wager twenty gold florins against yonder linden leaf that, ere the moonlight has left the curbstone, I can tell you my lady's colour. [10]
Then upward from an opening bud hath flown A poppy leaf toward the azure sky, But close beside it, from a flower full-blown, The scattered petals on the brown earth lie. [10]
And we are also speaking of these three estates when we say that every individual was either chewing natural leaf tobacco prepared on his own premises, or smoking the same in a corn-cob pipe. [5]
It was nearly all leaf and blow, with only a sickly, crook-necked fruit after a mighty fuss. [4]
No lifting of a rebellious leaf like an upstart servant that does not know his place and can never be taught manners, but tranquil, well-bred repose. [6]
But we took a personal leaf out of this experience. [4]
Why, she was a perfect ass; and yet the king and his knights had listened to her as if she had been a leaf out of the gospel. [5]
He took out a notebook, hurriedly scribbled something in pencil, tore out the leaf, gave it to Kozlovski, stepped quickly to the window, and threw himself into a chair, gazing at those in the room as if asking, "Why do they look at me? [2]

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