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Sentences starting with leaves

Leaves Uncut. [6]

Sentences ending with leaves

Well, how can you mistake that insect for dried leaves? [6]
In the sharp wind the trees shook themselves angrily free of leaves. [11]
Somewhere a storm was gathering, but only a small cloud had scattered some raindrops lightly, sprinkling the road and the sappy leaves. [2]
The wide house was darkened and silent, and without a sunlight washed with gold filtered through the leaves. [9]
If I go to Meeting at all I like best to sit in the quiet old house in Germantown, where the windows are all open and I can see the trees, and hear the stir of the leaves. [5]
The moonlight trembled through the shifting leaves. [9]
She saw only this sad, gray, passion-worn man, and she heard only the faint rustling of the leaves. [13]
I sat down there on a log, and looked out through the leaves. [5]
The birches with their sticky green leaves were motionless, and lilac-colored flowers and the first blades of green grass were pushing up and lifting last year's leaves. [2]
The atmosphere of the woods was of soft, diffusive green--the sunlight filtering through the transparent leaves. [11]

Short sentences using leaves

Bess peeped into the leaves. [13]
Out with your Sibylline leaves! [11]
She leaves us at Hamburg. [5]

Sentences containing leaves two or more times

It had come from Beaton at the last moment, as a compromise, when the problem of the vulgar croppiness of cut leaves and the unpopularity of uncut leaves seemed to have no solution but suicide. [8]

More example sentences with the word leaves in them

Spring had as yet lured no leaves from the boughs, but there were many objects to be seen in the bare top of the tree. [10]
There, once a year, one caravan comes, and, at the outskirts of the place unclean, leaves food and needful things for another year, and returns again to Egypt after many days. [11]
If it is written on the leaves of the Tree of Life that the white man rule us for ever, then it shall be so. [11]
These verses were written in the first leaves of the locked volume. [6]
First came a wreath of roses and lotos-flowers, looking as if they had been plucked just before sunrise, for among the blossoms and leaves there flashed and sparkled a glittering dew of diamonds, lightly fastened on delicate silver wires. [10]
Out in the woods of Beedon he had attuned his flute to the stir of leaves, the murmur of streams, the song of birds, the boom and burden of storm; and it was soft and deep as the throat of the bell-bird of Australian wilds. [11]
One would sit without moving, undertaking nothing...." "Life as it is leaves one no peace. [2]
At any rate, within five years from now there will be at least such a substantial ligament of buildings stretching between them and uniting them that a stranger will not be able to tell where the one Siamese twin leaves off and the other begins. [5]
It was sprinkled with the fallen leaves of autumn. [11]
Major Rollins leaves with me very strong papers from the neighbors of these men, whom he says he knows to be true men. [7]
Great maples, heavy with leaves, stood out against the soft blue of the sky, and the sunlight poured over everything, bathing the stone walls, the thatches of the farmhouses, extracting from the copses of stunted pine a pungent, reviving perfume. [9]
But the central wisdom which was old in infancy is young in fourscore years, and dropping off obstructions, leaves in happy subjects the mind purified and wise. [6]
But the west windows gave a broad outlook across the common, beyond which the historical "Washington elm" and two companions in line with it, spread their leaves in summer and their networks in winter. [6]
There was no wind, apparently no breath of air, yet the leaves of the trees moved, the weather-vanes turned slightly, the animals in the byres roused themselves, and slumbering folk opening their eyes, turned over in their beds, and dropped into a troubled doze again. [11]
And then a wind burst out of the east with a high mournful note, as from a great flute afar, filling the air with leaves and branches of trees. [9]
But perhaps you will learn to appreciate him before he leaves Mohair. [9]
In summer its white wooden front was nearly hidden by the quivering leaves of two tall pear trees. [9]
Her dress was white embroidered muslin, with a lace mantle, and white bonnet trimmed with green leaves, which perhaps might suggest the resemblance to the pale wintry flower. [14]
Just for a whim of his own, goodness only knows why, he leaves me and locks me up alone in the country. [2]
Once in a while they take something up to him, but as a rule he leaves things to Gorse. [9]
When the gale, which preceded the thunderstorm, blew leaves and straws in through the open window she started violently, imagining that Herr Ortlieb had come to call her to account and her trial was to begin. [10]
But this rule which leaves out of account the spirit of the army continually proves incorrect and is in particularly striking contrast to the facts when some strong rise or fall in the spirit of the troops occurs, as in all national wars. [2]
In the spring, when the new leaves were green on the slopes of Coniston, Priest Ware ended a life of faithful service. [9]
One windy morning when the leaves were kiting over the valley we were getting ready for pounding hominy, when a figure appeared on the trail. [9]
Time it was when the leaves were grown Your rose-colour, my queen; Ere the birds to the south had flown, While yet the grass was green. [11]
Ephraim knew not what to say, and mutely handed her the leaves and blossoms. [10]
She was like wet clay on which even the light touch of a butterfly leaves a mark, her sister like a mirror from which the breath that has dimmed it instantly and entirely vanishes. [10]
Besides these there were several newly-picked leaves and young shoots of a pinkish colour, the whole showing a decided taste for the beautiful. [1]
The yellow leaves were fluttering about the school play-ground, the starlings were gathering in flocks on the church roof to take their departure, and Ulrich would fain have gone with them, no matter where. [10]
Clothes, saddles, reins, were all wet, slippery, and sodden, like the ground and the fallen leaves that strewed the road. [2]
We shall sleep well to-night; but let us sit awhile with nubiferous, or, if we may coin a word, nepheligenous accompaniment, such as shall gently narcotize the over-wearied brain and fold its convolutions for slumber like the leaves of a lily at nightfall. [6]
And I suppose we put on the sackcloth and ashes, when the striped bug came at four o'clock A.M., and we watched the tender leaves, and watered night and morning the feeble plants. [4]
Yes, we knew we must lose him,--though friendship may claim To blend her green leaves with the laurels of fame; Though fondly, at parting, we call him our own, 'Tis the whisper of love when the bugle has blown. [6]
The other oar was smashed off, and the raft was littered up with leaves and branches and dirt. [5]
The huge man was in his garden soon after sunrise gathering the dewy leaves for his feathered pets. [10]
The gas log was almost hidden by dried palm leaves, a cigarette stump lay on the fender; on the mantel above were several photographs of men and at the other side an open door revealed a bedroom. [9]
When a lady walks the streets, she leaves her virtuous-indignation countenance at home; she knows well enough that the street is a picture-gallery, where pretty faces framed in pretty bonnets are meant to be seen, and everybody has a right to see them. [6]
And my most vivid remembrance is of the great trunks towering half a hundred feet in the air, with a tassel of leaves at the top, which my father said were palmettos. [9]
This is all very well so long as fortune favors those who are chosen to be the ornamental personages; but if the golden tide recedes and leaves them stranded, they are more to be pitied than almost any other class. [6]
It must be very near noon if not already past; she dusted her sandals and tidied her curly hair, picking out the dry leaves and not noticing that at the same time a rose fell out on the ground. [10]
The evidence reaching us from the country leaves no doubt that the material for the work is abundant, and that it needs only the hand of legislation to give it legal sanction, and the hand of the executive to give it practical shape and efficiency. [7]
Down we swooped upon them, glooming all the air with a quivering pall of dead leaves flung up by the whirlwind of our flight. [5]
Beaded dewdrops stood upon the leaves and grasses. [5]
It's no news up in Utah how he holes in canyons an' leaves no track. [13]
During her absence Uarda was to rub her grandfather's temples with the leaves which the witch Hekt had laid on her bruises, for as they had once proved efficacious they might perhaps a second time scare away the demon of sickness. [10]
One off, leaves two hundred and thirty-five. [5]
I have to tumble them over and over, and open them in a hundred places, and sometimes cut the leaves here and there, to find what I think about this and that. [6]
The sound of trotting horses had ceased, and there was silence broken only by a faint, dry pattering of cottonwood leaves in the soft night wind. [13]
There were great trees with swings, groves, orchards where the late apples glistened between the leaves, an old-fashioned flower garden loath to relinquish its blooming. [9]
And gray old trees of hugest limb Shall wheel their circling shadows round To make the scorching sunlight dim That drinks the greenness from the ground, And drop their dead leaves on her mound. [6]
The weather clears, toward dawn, and leaves a brisk pure atmosphere and a sky without a shred of cloud in it--and everything is still, there is not a breath of wind. [5]
The Magian then took a mortar, laid some leaves and stalks of the sacred herb Haomas within it, crushed them and poured the ruddy juice, the food of the gods, into the flames. [10]
And of deception too--do you see how nearly those dried leaves resemble an insect? [6]
He permitted her to wash the blood from his temple and forehead, to stanch it first with brandied jeru- leaves, then with cobwebs, and afterwards to bind it with her own kerchief. [11]
Life has leaves to tread And flowers to cherish; summer round thee glows; Wait not till autumn's fading robes are shed, But while its petals still are burning red Gather life's full-blown rose! [6]
Bury her according to the customs of your church; we have come to arrange the earthly possessions she leaves behind. [10]
Ye'll fetch back to Kaintuck, and draw every redskin in the north woods suckin' after ye like leaves in a harricane wind. [9]
Then she turned to her window, breathing in the perfumes, gazing out through the horse-chestnut leaves at the green, shadow-dappled lawn below. [9]
It pleases me to have you follow my lead in that glowing way, but it leaves me nothing to combat. [5]
Providence leaves nothing to go by chance. [5]
They were ready to do and to suffer anything for their faith, and a faith which breeds heroes is better than an unbelief which leaves nothing worth being a hero for. [6]
Bartja invites us to a wine-party and leaves us sitting here without a host, while he talks secrets yonder. [10]
The most dangerous time will be when the fever leaves her. [5]
Give me a tight frigate that leaves a singing wake. [9]
The shutters were thrown open, and the morning sunlight filtered through the leaves and fell on the four-poster where the Judge sat up, gaunt and grizzled as ever. [9]
He contrived to throw down a woman standing beside him before the mini-balls swished over their heads, and the leaves and branches began to fall. [9]
As they passed through it, Jessica was vaguely aware of the rich fragrance of fallen leaves and the sound of waves washing the foot of the cliffs. [11]
The lawyer glanced through it, and then handed it to Mrs. Henderson, with the remark, "It leaves you, madam, pretty much everything of which he died possessed. [4]
Two shall live through bitter days, and when the leaves shall shine in the sun again, there shall good things befal. [11]
It stains backward through all the leaves we have turned over in the book of life, before its blot of tears or of blood is dry on the page we are turning. [6]
Such were Austen's thoughts as he drove to Fairview that September afternoon when the leaves were turning their white backs to the northwest breeze. [9]
It is as though the leaves from the tree of my life had all dropped on the ground--nay, as though my own guilty hand had torn them from the stem. [10]
Confucius speak like this: 'Young woman go to young man; young bird is for green leaves, not dry branch. [11]
My idea is this: Make a scrap-book with leaves veneered or coated with gum-stickum of some kind; wet the page with sponge, brush, rag or tongue, and dab on your scraps like postage stamps. [5]
With some species this may be the case, as with one kind which lives on the green leaves of algae, and is itself bright-green. [1]
He knows that this leaves his garrison of Beaugency at the mercy of fortune, to escape our hands if it can; but there is no other course if he would avoid this battle, and that he also knows. [5]
And she leaves this house to-day, never to enter it again. [9]
And very often this "moral" is tagged on at the bottom, and the reader, not knowing that it is the key of the whole thing and the only important paragraph in the article, tranquilly turns up his nose at it and leaves it unread. [5]
In the afternoon they threaded valleys, silent save for the talk between them and the stirring of the leaves under their horses' feet. [9]
I don't think they are as accomplished as the ministers, but they have a way of cramming with special knowledge for a case which leaves a certain shallow sediment of intelligence in their memories about a good many things. [6]
Where did all these withered leaves come from in the month of June? [10]
Borrow one of these from another language and religion, and you will find it leaves all its magnetism behind it. [6]
The buds were then swelling which held the leaves that are still green. [6]
Every now and then I stopped a second amongst the thick leaves and listened, but my breath come so hard I couldn't hear nothing else. [5]
But he reminded them how the company of Ralph Lane, in like circumstances, importuned him to proceed with the discovery of Moratico, alleging that they had yet a dog that boiled with sassafrks leaves would richly feed them. [4]
Garlands, stripped of their leaves and flowers, still crowned their heads and hung over their shoulders. [10]
Well-remembered figure amidst the yellow leaves dancing in the sunlight! [9]
The quiet of the woodland, the song of the birds, the tumbling brook, the smell of the rich earth, replenishing its strength from the gorgeous falling leaves, had soothed him. [11]
Venters thought of the woman who loved the birds and the green of the leaves and the murmur of the water. [13]
One said: "Oh, the Virgin's face is full of the ecstasy of a joy that is complete --that leaves nothing more to be desired on earth! [5]
In due course the superintendent stood up in front of the pulpit, with a closed hymn-book in his hand and his forefinger inserted between its leaves, and commanded attention. [5]
Foliage carved in the stone, and emulating the mastery of Nature's hand, yet remained to tell how many times the leaves outside had come and gone, while it lived on unchanged. [12]
This gives B. the State by 7000 and leaves him in the minority of the whole 14,000. [7]
The lindens in the square were already putting forth young leaves, the birds were singing, and her heart swelled more joyously than it had done for many years. [10]
Perhaps it is the sentimental regret with which one always leaves the east, for we have been a thousand miles nearer Ireland than Boston is. [4]
He took down the second volume of the Corpus Juris Civilis, turned the leaves over mechanically, as if in search of some title, and replaced it. [6]
Spirits whispered in the rustling leaves, ghosts lurked in the murky nooks, the deep baying of a hound floated up out of the distance, an owl answered with his sepulchral note. [5]
I had sighted the rifle among the yellow leaves of the fallen oak an hundred times. [9]
My view of the principle is that every soldier obtained voluntarily leaves one less to be obtained by draft. [7]
The landlady of The Pike had arranged them daintily upon fresh vine leaves an hour before with her own plump but nimble hands. [10]

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