One cup was set down on what looked like an inverted saucer, in the form of a dark green oak leaf wound with cobweb.
I saw it fly into a low spray, and it stayed there so long that when it left I rode up to look, and found that it was building on the tip of a twig under a sycamore leaf umbrella, one whose veining showed against the light.
Up to this time not a grass blade had stirred, but while I dreamed a brown leaf went whirling to the ground, the stray stalks of oats left from the mowing began to nod, and the sycamore branches commenced to sway.
That done, he leaned over, rounded his shoulders, and pecked at a leaf as if he were as much grown up as anybody.
One morning when a gnat was in the nest a leafblew down past it, startling it so it hopped out in such a hurry that the first I knew it was seated beneath the nest, flashing its tail.
It was attached to a red leaf--to mark the spot, perhaps--one often wonders how a bird can come back twice to the same leaf in a forest.
It was sadly soiled and damaged, but bore on its fly-leaf my name and address.
Everything was quiet, not a leaf stirred, so, taking the body under the arms, I dragged it out into the light.
On the plain kitchen-ware table was spread a cloth of Reseda green, like a dull old leaf in color.
The little river was white with surf rushing in over the bar: not a leaf remained on the bare ground, the naked trees tossed their arms wildly to and fro, and the pines were coated with ice.
Frost had already done its work upon the embrowned forests, and leaf by leaf the withered foliage had dropped away or been swept in clouds before the autumnal winds.
Not a leaf moved on the forest trees, for even the zephyrs were asleep.
First the bud scales drop, then the flower drops, then the fruit drops, then the leaf drops.
There are windfalls among them, too, as among the apples, and one side or hemisphere of the leaf is usually brighter than the other.
His perceptions are said to be so keen that the displacement of a leaf or pebble, or the bending down of a spear of grass, or the removal of a little dust from the fence are enough to give him the clew.
The address was prepared on parchment by an artist who was handy at ornamental lettering, and was laid on with the best gold-leaf and colours that the sign-painter had in his shop.
You should have taken a leaf out of his book, and have had your sports in a sheltered place like this.
The Garland I send thee was culled from those bowers Where thou and I wandered in long vanished hours; Not a leaf or a blossom its bloom here displays, But bears some remembrance of those happy days.
If every rose with gold were tied, Did gems for dewdrops fall, One faded leaf where Love had sighed Were sweetly worth them all.
Thy book of life till then effaced, Love should have kept that leaf alone On which he first so brightly traced That thou wert, soul and all, my own.
It was noon, and on flowers that languished around In silence reposed the voluptuous bee; Every leaf was at rest, and I heard not a sound But the woodpecker tapping the hollow beech-tree.
And saw that no unhallowed line Or thought profane should enter there; And daily did the pages fill With fond device and loving lore, And every leafshe turned was still More bright than that she turned before.
No, no-- "When the stem dies the leaf that grew "Out of its heart must perish too!
Then rapidly with foot as light As the young musk-roe's out she flew To cull each shining leaf that grew Beneath the moonlight's hallowing beams For this enchanted Wreath of Dreams.
Take back the virgin page, White and unwritten still; Some hand, more calm and sage, The leafmust fill.
In every leafthou bearest; Welcome, dear gazelle, to thee, And joy to her the fairest!
Here in this leaf are boundaries intermittent, boundaries rugged, boundaries curved, and boundaries broken.
And all this is true of but one dead leaf; and yet every dead leaf will differ from its fellow.
The same unbounded power, never at fault and never in calculation, which comprehends all the landscape, and which has made the woods, has worked in each one separate leaf as well; they are inconceivably varied.
The envelope bore her name, and inside was a leaftorn from a pocket-diary.
But beneath the visible incidents resulting from Lucius Harney's arrival there ran an undercurrent as mysterious and potent as the influence that makes the forest break intoleaf before the ice is off the pools.
Sammy took one leaf in each of his front paws and held them out as far as he could.
Then he puffed out his cheeks and blew on the oak leaf as Bobtail gave it a toss.
But the leaf only fluttered and fluttered because the branch held the string fast.
I found the hollow tree, and I found the little maple-leaf book.
But the oak leaf just fluttered and fluttered, and fell to the ground at Billy's feet.
And another leaf floated softly down to the ground beside its brother.
In the following example from the Catacomb of Callixtus, the fig-leaf aprons with which they try to hide their guilty shame indicate that the act of disobedience has been already consummated.
The design is executed in gold leaf on the bottom of the cup, so as to appear through the glass on the inside, and is occasionally beautifully relieved by a dark purple background.
She put down the decanter and cowered back with a sense of guilt which made her glowing beauty pale, fade, wither, like the sere leafwashed by the heavy tears of a November night's rain.
We could hear the drip of the dew from leaf to leaf.
This is not all, for when at Mohonagh I heard that the god strikes blind any thief who attempts to steal but a leaf from the tree.
Only a dry leaf dropping into the water, or the sleepy snapping of one of the dogs at the midges, or the faint twitter of a far-off bird broke the silence.
I mean to turn over a new leaf on my thirty-first birthday," she continued serenely.
One fine yellow leaf on this November day attracted Mr. Foxley's attention particularly, for it was obstinate in returning again and again to a cosy little bay formed by a couple of large stones.
The fly-leaf bore no inscription, but up in one corner, in faded red ink, was something that looked like a monogram with a device underneath.
He could hardly speak but through his gasping I could gather that he wished me to examine the words in the corner of fly-leaf I had once noticed before and believed to be a monogram.
Have I found my haven too, like the wise leaf of autumn?
I seem to hear you say, that, for all that is come and gone yet, we will not reduce by one chaplet or one oak-leaf the braveries of our annual feast.
The first leaf of the New Testament it does not open.
And he found himself gazing dully at one leaf of the tree, which happened to be turned toward him, so that the odd markings, which had partly made the legend, really looked a little like the eye in a peacock's feather.
Illustration: A Leaf From Dick's Score Book] A LEAF FROM DICK'S SCORE BOOK 1.
The Sampson Medal Medal for Campaign in the West Indies and for Spanish War A Leaf From Dick's Score Book Marksman's Badge Sharpshooter's Badge Expert Rifleman's Badge "Hands Up!
This leaf is from Dick's Score Book, which he inked in after he left the range.
Down from the infinite, down from the height Stricken and whirled, Swept like a leaf on the blast of the night Back to the world!
I listened to the sun who can recover Miraculous instants of an earlier time Surprise Her eyes alinger on her lover And run like rhyme On leaf and stream.
