Masses of brilliant flowers relieved the verdure of the level sward, fountains leaped and tinkled in sunny glades, and cut the shadow of leafy vistas with the flash of silver blades.
Captious critics affirmed that she held and twirled and gesticulated with the leafy scepter to attract admiration to her beautiful hands.
The black in the tree hastened down, but Tarzan stalked, after his own fashion, along the leafy way of the middle terrace.
Her thoughts were far away, in the dim, leafyfastness of a tropical jungle--and her heart was with her thoughts.
He bore the dead sentry into the midst of the leafy maze above.
And when finally she mustered courage to open her eyes, the sight that met them confirmed her fears, for she saw that she was being borne through a leafy paradise in the arms of her dead love.
Sometimes the green lanes are crossed by gates, over which the trees in the hedges each side form a leafy arch.
Tits have visited the apple tree over my head, a wren has sung in the willow, or rather on a dead branch projecting lower down than the leafy boughs, and a robin across under the elms in the opposite hedge.
Where leafy branches hung over the gully, I might expect to find a grand Ornithoptera at rest and an easy prey.
Perfect silence reigned; not only did the stately firs preserve their customary, dignified quiet, but even the leafy trees were too listless to-day to exhale their wonted 'murmur mixed with sighs.
The light flickered dimly through the leafy screen of the apricot tree before the open window that looked out upon the vegetable garden.
Paler and paler grow the blossoms of the sweet rocket, sweeter and sweeter their fragrance rises aloft, like a mute prayer,--twilight hovers over the meadows and the leafy summits of the lindens grow black.
A Spider Drawing up a Swathed Grasshopper to its Leafy Den, "Hand Over Hand.
He lifted Sophia from the ground as he spoke, carried her to the boat and laid her down in a leafy canopy or cabin.
They had little difficulty in mounting to the tower, but as they entered the leafy dome, they found themselves faced by the huge proportions of Shamrock, the tower-keeper.
They entered the leafy towers in search of lurking foemen, and finding none cut the binding threads and let the leaves unroll.
Swiftly the aranead sped from its pretty leafy tent along its trap line, and in a moment seized and began swathing its victim.
He peeped from beneath the leafy canopy under which he had slept sound and dry.
The solid prow of the ram had crushed through the leafy side of the Praise, as an iron steamship would run through a fishing schooner.
The leafy nature of the seed-bearing scale is an important and interesting feature.
The gametophyte generation (represented in the ferns by the prothallium on which the sexual organs develop) alternates with the large, leafy sporophyte.
Halfway down the slope was an old and leafy chestnut tree.
They were soon on the sere skirts of the woodland, prancing through leafy drifts.
Full of life they mounted their horses, and galloped in the wild exuberance of animal spirits with their dogs through the leafy arches of the forest, startling the red deer, the wolf, or the wild boar.
And then they rose up with a leafy hiss, And stood as if nothing had been amiss.
Then he climbed farther into theleafy branches, and went out of sight.
The old umbrellas swayed uneasily above the green domes below and they could catch glimpses of the gossamer-clad figures, including a generous exposure of bare feet and legs in the leafy gloom beneath.
Mr. Halford kept them trimmed up underneath, forming leafy aisles about three feet high.
The leafy crowns of the trees, scarcely two of which could be seen together of the same kind, were now far away above us, in another world as it were.
But after a moment's thought she went and delivered the information; and Grammer had the satisfaction of seeing Giles walk slowly to the bend in the leafy defile along which Grace would have to return.
The sunny, leafy week which followed the tender doings of Midsummer Eve brought a visitor to Fitzpiers's door; a voice that he knew sounded in the passage.
Here six long, bright weeks of the Springtime had passed, each day finding them lingering longer among the leafy shadows, and drawing closer about them both the cords of a destiny sad for one, fatal for each.
Madeline Payne sat long on her leafy perch, thinking fast and hard, the expressions of her face changing rapidly as she revolved, in her mind, different phases of the situation.
The leafy wood seemed one of her oldest, truest friends.
She had her pet books and music, and she read and played a great deal; she had her long, solitary rambles through the leafy lanes and quiet roads, her long drives in the little pony phaeton her future husband had given her.
And the lark, singing and soaring above the minstrel, sank mute and motionless upon his shoulder, and from all the leafy woods the birds came thronging out and formed a fluttering canopy above his head.
Enda once more ascended the rock, and without meeting or seeing anything he passed over the stony waste, and at last he came to a leafy wood.
Wherever his hoofs struck the ground, grass and flowers sprang up, and great trees with leafy branches rose on every side.
I was led into a forest where I found at least 40 living chestnuts, some of which were in good condition, and one particularly was leafy nearly to the top.
They stretched out on their leafy couches and went fast to sleep, while the storm raged and howled around them and the rising water crept slowly up on their little island.
There, they broke off small leafy branches and thrust the stems down the backs of their shirts so that the leaves would tower above, and shade their heads.
This last task completed, the boys stretched themselves on their soft couches before the cheery fire whose rays danced and flickered amongst the leafy greenness of their shelter.
When Justin returned, ropes were passed round the leafy bier and the body was lowered by concerted effort.
Once behind the thick leafy screen, he would be safe for the time.
They left the outhouse together, and entered an avenue of leafy lime-trees, which skirted the banks of the stream.
He could just distinguish, between the leafy branches, Reine's black gown, as she walked rapidly along under the ashtrees.
The refreshing solitude of the valleys, watered by living streams, acted as a strengthening balm to her irresolute will; her soul inhaled the profound peace of these leafy retreats.
Two trees, amid whose leafy shade The warbling birds their vigils paid, Stood neighbours--each as noble tree In height and girth as one might see.
There was a great symposium at Counselor Stillwell's residence by the leafy borders of the park.
The crew crouched along the broken plank, every muzzle converged on to a patch of leafy concealment a fathom square, and the skipper barked: "Fire!
There the launch was moored, and the last trace of fire danger was beaten out with wet grasses and leafy branches.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "leafy" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
