The shadows of the bridge and of the trees fall on the water in leaden purple, opposed to its general hue of aquamarine green.
The leaden footstep of Care Leaps to the tune of her pace, Fairness of all that is fair, Grace at the heart of all grace!
In rayless majesty, now stretches forth Her leaden sceptre o'er a slumbering world.
He came in the grey of the morning, when she was not yet prepared, and he sat by her head and oppressed it with heaviness and the leaden cowl of sorrow; and each day she counted the minutes until he was gone, and each day they were more.
The sky was overcast with a dull leaden grey, and the south-east wind blew under the trees, bad enough in itself, but infinitely better than the close heat indoors.
But, after all, he was a very secondary object in her mind in comparison with Oona, whose course she watched in the boat, drawing a long line across the leaden surface of the water.
It had ceased to rain, and in the west there was a pale clearness, which made the leaden loch more chilly still, yet was a sign of amelioration.
Such, however, was not the case, for he had only been knocked off his balance in consequence of the leaden bullets striking with their terrific force against his head-piece.
He seemed to bear a charmed life, for, although some of the leaden missiles rent his clothing, he still stood there unwounded.
At the top sat a cuckoo, below hung the heavy leaden weights, and the pendulum with the polished disc of metal went to and fro, and said 'tick, tick.
One story projected a long way over the other, and under the roof ran a leaden gutter, with a dragon's head at the end.
It owes its specific name of Plumbea to the livid blue or leaden colour of the scales which cover its body.
That firstleaden closing of the doors of hope, as if no other doors remained!
One thing she was coldly determined on--to pay him back the old debt that had set like a leaden weight on her conscience!
The leaden one was too heavy to be carried off at once, and it was despatched to Bassorah on the rafts with the bulk of the collection, whose fate it shared.
Finally the separate slabs were held together at the top by leaden dovetails like the metal clamps used to attach coping stones to each other.
At the word "police," my heart turned leaden again.
With a leaden heart I must record it that he has proven a disappointment to me.
So you see I am attached to Clochegourde as those leaden finals are to our roof.
The roof is charmingly rounded at the angles, and bears mansarde windows with carved mullions and leaden finials on their gables.
Are you so weary of life, comrade, that you want a leaden pill or two to cure it?
And a leaden weight was falling on my heart, as I wondered if I was never again to hold my friend's hand in mine; when one day I chanced to stumble on news of him in the strangest way.
A small layer of metal, like a portion of one of the coats of an onion, occasionally becomes detached from a leaden bullet, and lodges.
The leaden thoughts and the despondency that you fling upon me are my clogs, else I should long ago have achieved the task that I was created for.
In the opinion of Peter Hovenden, however, and that order of sagacious understandings who think that life should be regulated, like clockwork, with leaden weights, the alteration was entirely for the better.
Toward day-break she slept heavily; a leaden hand lay on her limbs, and even the noise which went on around her in the morning did not rouse her.
The shortest route was all too long for men on missions such as that of Celoron bearing his leaden plates to the Ohio Valley in 1749.
It is an ancient French custom to bury leaden plates at the mouths of rivers as a sign of possession, and Celoron bore a supply of such memorials to bury at the mouths of rivers emptying into the Ohio.
When Celoron journeyed from Quebec to the Ohio Valley with his leaden plates, he paused at one of the portages to allow his Indian allies to jollify with certain comrades whom they met here.
They held in their mouthsleaden bullets and pebbles of obsidian, which they chewed with a desperate fierceness.
It is a leaden font, the only leaden font which Surrey possesses, though England has thirty; and of the thirty English fonts, Walton's is of as fine workmanship and design as any.
Still, the church within and without is a noble building, and the leaden spire which soars up from the tower is the finest in the county.
Circumstances combined to deepen it, and as the winter crowded down more quickly than usual, its leadenmonths of scanty daylight and cold rains left their mark on Will as time had never done before.
As he approached, Mr. Blee felt a leaden weight about his newly polished boots, and a distinct flutter at the heart, or in a less poetical portion of his frame.
He shook and stuttered with passion; his eyes glowed, his lips changed from their natural colour to a leaden blue.
Fisherman in hot haste took the leaden cap with the seal and stoppered therewith the mouth of the jar and called out to the Ifrit, saying, "Ask me by way of boon what death thou wilt die!
Of such are the icy cowls in chapter 26, which recall the leaden copes worn by the hypocrites in Inf.
When they engage with the Spaniards they neglect their bow and wooden breastplates, which would be of little service against leaden bullets.
In that case, the Paraguayrians would be of a black, or at any rate of a dusky leaden colour, like the Africans.
It is by this art chiefly that they escape the leaden bullets of the Spaniards; for by continually changing their position, they deceive and weary the eye of him that is taking aim at them with a gun.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "leaden" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
