The ground was spangled with little tufts of primroses, peeping from among the grass and dead leaves, as the pre-Raphaelite artists so loved to paint them in their masterpieces.
They walked across two meadows, went through a little spinney where hazel catkins were opening fast, and actually a few primroses were peeping through the carpet of dead leaves; then came to a stile which led down into a deep lane.
The eggs are either laid upon the bare ground or upon a slight lining of grasses or dead leaves.
Their eggs are laid upon the bare ground among the leaves and sticks; they are of about the color of dead leaves, as is also the bird, making it quite difficult to discover their nests.
Fairy islands of it, that will not be greener when they are wet with summer showers, arise among the brown expanse of dead leaves.
One may sometimes see among the dead leaves in the woods, minute slender bodies with thread-like stems, springing up from the ground, 2 to 3 inches high, of a white color and cylindrical in shape.
They grow on dead leaves, on mosses, or on dead herbaceous stems.
It grows in woods or in open country, on mosses or on dead leaves.
We found this in the woods in the month of October, growing on dead leaves; a pretty fungus from the violet tints.
It is active all the winter among the dead leaves in some thick hedgerow, where it searches for hibernating insects which are plentiful in such covers.
The summer coloration is "protective" inasmuch that it harmonises generally with the colour of the ground littered with the remains of dead leaves, bark, etc.
He passes the day under a heap of dead leaves or moss in a spinney or thick hedgerow, and the solitary observer in such places may sometimes be guided to this retreat by his snoring!
The ground was carpeted, as usual, by Lycopodiums, but it was also encumbered with masses of vegetable debris and a thick coating of dead leaves.
It was a conical pile of dead leaves, in the middle of which twenty eggs were buried.
He spread one of the blankets as usual on dead leaves, and put the other and the painted coat over himself.
The nest is generally concealed among an accumulation of dead leaves which, arching over it, hides it from above.
All our specimens from the west are on dead leaves of oak; some eastern gatherings are on moss.
This species occurs more commonly on moss-tufts, with which it is frequently con-colorless, or escaped on dead leaves, etc.
Torrend finds it on or in dead leaves of Agave americana!
That is because they are living on the dead leaves of the last year, or rather of two or three years ago.
So far nothing has been said about the roots themselves, which penetrate, explore, and exploit all these layers of dead leaves, soil, and subsoil.
With his loaded pistol lifted he sat a moment, staring into the woods out of bloodshot eyes; then he summoned all his strength and rose, letting his unconscious comrade slip from his knees to the bed of dead leaves.
At night the Swiss camp-fires glimmered on the rocks of Mount Terrible while, fireless, McKay and Miss Erith lay in their blankets under heaps of dead leaves on the knees of Thusis, cold as the moon that silvered their forest beds.
III Blown by the north wind over the hard, white ground along with a whirl of dead leaves, M.
Then, as he happened to throw a glance three paces in front of him, he caught sight of an old man who was sitting on a heap of dead leaves on the other side of the road and leaning against the grey wall.
And raising his foot from the cushion of dead leaves, he pointed to his big toe sticking out, wrapped in wads of linen, through the slits in the leather of his boot.
The nest is some distance away from the web, in a low, thick cluster of bushes; it is a clumsy bundle of dead leaves, roughly drawn together with silk threads.
It resumes its march, crosses the garden paths, disappears from sight in the grass, reappears farther on, threads its way through the heap of dead leaves, comes out again and continues its search.
He was the man who burned the hills of dead leaves in autumn.
He went on busily burning updead leaves he had been collecting all night long--dead, useless thoughts he had found clogging a hundred hearts and stopping outlets.
Dead leaves, dropped year by year in his City life, were cleared away as though a mighty wind had swept him.
Was it to be another disappointment, like the silent roll of dead leaves?
The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "dead leaves" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this group of words.
