How To Use Leafage In A Sentence
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Diseased leaves should be removed and burned, if they are not too numerous, but do not cut down the leafage too much as these spots do not permanently injure the plant unless they take complete possession of it.
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Eight humans - all but Gren - hurled themselves among the feathery leafage on its back, stabbing deep into the epicarp to wound its rudimentary nervous system.
HOTHOUSE
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Among them are the carved rosette and floral vines emanating from the crest along the upper stiles, the five curved slats with leafage and fish-scale carving, and the pendant rosettes on the front legs.
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The rotten bark gave way under his feet, and with a despairing yelp he pitched down the rounded crescent, smashed through the leafage and stalks of a small bush, and in the heart of the bush, on the ground, fetched up in the midst of seven ptarmigan chicks.
The Wall of the World
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Very well; and 'leafage' is good for hide-and-seek; especially when there is no rogue in ambush.
Complete Project Gutenberg Works of George Meredith
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For thirty miles the track passes under the deep shade of coco palms, of which Puna is the true home; and from under their feathery shadow, and from amidst the dark leafage of the breadfruit, gleamed the rose-crimson apples of the eugenia, and the golden balls of the guava.
The Hawaiian Archipelago
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Among them are the carved rosette and floral vines emanating from the crest along the upper stiles, the five curved slats with leafage and fish-scale carving, and the pendant rosettes on the front legs.
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The inn-keeper in the Milan version is vexed and disconcerted with the frugality of the meal of leafage and bread, which has been contemptuously served on a tin plate.
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Upright, and confused in the leafage, which is sharp-pointed and close set, much hiding the blossom, but of extreme elegance, fit for a sacred foreground; as any gentle student will feel, who copies this outline from the Flora Danica,
Proserpina, Volume 2 Studies Of Wayside Flowers
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The lotus blossom and leafage carving on the splat and stay-rail are of a distinctively high quality.
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The lotus blossom and leafage carving on the splat and stay-rail are of a distinctively high quality.
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It was like finding a purse that had spilled its contents among the leafage, a pink lining studded with turquoise seed.
Summer podding
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By Him who made mankind and every branch with leafage dight,
The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night
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I looked over at a bit of mobile green leafage that I could see through the long thin window.
THE ANTHOLOGIST
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The gene transcription level increases with leafage adding.
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Fluffy leafage is shed, flowers are almost non-existent, and what we are left with is stems and bark.
Times, Sunday Times
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As I write now I hear the moaning rustle of the wind through their plume-like tops, and their long slender stems, and crisp crown of leaves above the trees with shining leafage which revel in damp, have a suggestion of
The Hawaiian Archipelago
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But he waited inside his screen of leafage, his eyes fixed on the screen on the opposite side.
War
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Here and there, a sweet chestnut still in full summer leafage dotted the grassland, and a couple of miles away, a stand of willow marked the line of Possum Creek where it twisted and turned, dipping at last into light woodland.
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Even as when the daughter of Pandareus, the nightingale of the greenwood, sings sweet in the first season of the spring, from her place in the thick leafage of the trees, and with many a turn and trill she pours forth her full-voiced music bewailing her child, dear Itylus, whom on a time she slew with the sword unwitting, Itylus the son of Zethus the prince; even as her song, my troubled soul sways to and fro.
Book XIX
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But the ornamental leafage is different from ordinary Brugeois, inasmuch as it is "pearled" along the central veins, and is not symmetrical.
Illuminated Manuscripts
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Not only will the bloom of crowded plants be comparatively poor and brief, but by early and bold thinning the plants will become so robust, and cover such large spaces of ground with their ample leafage and well-developed flowers, as really to astonish people who think they know all about annuals, and who may have ventured after much ill-treatment to designate them 'fugacious and weedy.'
The Culture of Vegetables and Flowers From Seeds and Roots 16th Edition
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Let me understand one of your conclusions, root and all, and all in all, and such is the gracious plan of oneness in the branching and leafage and uptowering, that I must know and name the tree.
The Kempton-Wace Letters
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In summer it stood in the midst of a waving garden of buttercups and whiteweed, a towering mass of verdant leafage, a shelter from the sun and a refuge from the storm; a cool, splendid, hospitable dome, under which the weary farmer might fling himself, and gaze upward as into the heights and depths of an emerald heaven.
The Village Watch-Tower