In her escape from this oppression, she too gathered a freshness, a convalescent pleasure in what they saw; everything had in some way the likeness of the leafing teak trees, tender and curative.
The air was full of ease, warm, fretillante, abandoned to the lavish energy of growing things; beyond the discoloured wall of the compound rose the tender cloud of a leafing tamarisk against the blue.
That man--will know--" and she disappeared among the leafing undergrowth.
Franquette and Mayette, over there and with us, were anywhere from ten days to two weeks later leafing out.
The only hardiness against late spring frosts is the characteristic ofleafing out late, thus escaping most of such frosts.
The golfer, even he of the town, hears the change in the song of the birds, he notices the newcomers among them; he has interest in the leafing of the trees, and lo!
He was so completely frustrated that he couldn't read, but he sat there leafing the pages slowly and making a determined show of not lifting his head.
In the chair with the headset on sat the crowning insult of all: Paul Brennan leafing through a heavy sheaf of papers, reading and intoning the words of political oratory.
He turned back to his own work, leaving Mrs. Bagley leafing her way through the assembly manual.
And if leafing had no other reward, the thought of the snoozing, snoring pig buried to his winking snout in the bed, would give joy and zest enough to the labor.
And, if leafing had no other reward, the thought of the snoozing, snoring pig buried to his winking snout in the bed, would give joy and zest enough to the labor.
But leafing like every other humble labor of our life here in the Hills of Hingham has its own reward,--and when you can say that of any labor you are speaking of its poetry.
The keys of the soft maple will soon be ready to fall and send out rootlets, and the winged seeds of the white elm already lie thickly beneath the leafing branches.
On the sloping hillsides, around the leafing hazel "gay-circles of anemones dance on their stalks.
Through a leafing maple-wood and up a windy hill, Velvet pussy-willows press soft hands amid the brambles Fringing round a sky-filled pool where cattle drink their fill.
The periods of leafing and flowering differ both absolutely and relatively to each other; thus the Whitesmith produces early flowers, which from not being protected by the foliage, as it is believed, continually fail to produce fruit.
The trees of the several sorts differ greatly in their periods of leafing and flowering; in my orchard the Court Pendu Plat produces its leaves so late, that during several springs I have thought it dead.
There is a famous horse-chesnut in the Tuileries which is named from {363} leafing so much earlier than the others.
The air was full of ease, warm, fretillante, abandoned to the lavish energy of growing things; beyond the discoloured wall of the compound rose the tender cloud of a leafing tamarisk against the blue.
In her escape from this oppression, she too gathered a freshness, a convalescent pleasure in what they saw; everything had in some way the likeness of the leafing teak-trees, tender and curative.
I spray the trees when leafing out, and once a week for five or six weeks after that time, to ward off the insects.
Encourage the birds, and spray some years with London purple and Bordeaux mixture before and after leafing out.
It will grow anywhere, and is one of the plants that thrive under the spreading branches of summer–leafing trees, as it blooms and perfects its leaves before the buds open on the beech.
Take the case of, say, a spreading old specimen of any summer–leafing tree.
Illustration: Crocuses in turf, in grove of Summer leafing trees.
The trees of the several sorts differ greatly in their periods of leafing and flowering; in my orchard the COURT PENDU PLAT produces leaves so late, that during several springs I thought that it was dead.
There is a famous horse-chestnut in the Tuileries which is named from leafing so much earlier than the others.
As if against his will, Manguino found himself leafing through some papers on the corner of his desk, desperately trying to formulate a plan in his mind to rebuke Brook.
He pointed at the book that Lloyd was now leafing through, and then moved to his high-backed chair and sat down.
The little rose bushes leafing out, ready to bloom, and sticking out through the sandiest beds they could find.
She pronounced them mentally, leafing through her notebooks to see if she had encountered them before, and in what contexts.
The old man got to his feet, brushing tobacco ashes from the front of his jacket, and came to where she was sitting, laying the title page on the table and leafing quickly through the stack of photostats.
Pop was smoke-screening the room with a handsome new meerschaum that Richard Holt had brought him from Europe, and happily leafing through a huge new world atlas that had so far provided an answer for every question he could contrive.
He was leafingthrough the New York telephone book.
It will be necessary, likewise, to remark what sowings made in different parts of the spring produce the best crops, in order that, by comparing these with the leafing of trees, it may appear which is the most proper time for sowing.
Perhaps, therefore, we cannot promise ourselves a happy success by any means so likely, as by taking our rule for sowing from the leafing of trees.
In Sweden, the budding and leafing of the birch-tree is considered as a directory for sowing barley; and as there is something extremely sublime and harmonious in the idea, we flatter ourselves an account of it here will be acceptable.
These trees were planted on low ground and were killed the first year by late spring frosts after leafing out twice.
For the experimenters, the McKinster seems to be about "average" in its time of leafing out.
Following this, leafing re-occurred, but at a slower rate and somewhat later than normal.
Then enters the element of suspense, between the time of leafing out and the time when the little nut clusters appear.
Leafing out starts about a week before the bloom appears.
Thus it seems evident that the McKinster tree has the fault, common in Carpathians, of leafing out too early and being injured by late spring frosts, especially when planted too far south.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "leafing" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
