When the sere leaves fall and you come one To find me under the graveyard stone, It will be in a corner hidden away, With beds of flowers about it grown.
I keep the flower you braided Among those waves of gold, The leaves are sere and faded, And like our love grown old.
We who have wept, we who have lain together Upon the green andsere and white of every season, We who have loved the sun but for the weather Of our own hearts have found no constant reason, What is your part, now we have come together?
Her dress brushed against the brittle grasses and sere ferns, and the moist night wind, loosed from wild places far away, blew her hair about her face.
A weird, dreamy stillness had fallen upon the purple earth, the windless woods, the rain of the valleys, the sere meadows.
Thus employed the weeks passed with incredible swiftness, the monotony broken by an occasional visit from Mr. Britton, until August came, its hot breath turning the grasses sere and brown.
Patches of sage-brush and bunch grass, burned sere and brown, alternated with barren stretches of sand from which piles of rubble rose here and there, telling of worked-out and abandoned mines.
You're none of you in the sere and yellow," declared Eunice, laughing at the idea.
A poor wood-sere land very natural for the production of oaks.
It is a wood-sere country abounding much with sour and austere plants.
See page 48, note 4, the opinions held bySere de Rieux.
All the airs of the Chasse du cerf by Sere de Rieux (1734) are Handel airs adapted to French words.
Ah--my sign was, the sun Inflamed the sere side of yon chestnut-tree Nipped by the first frost.
The year Began to find its early promise sere As well.
This sacred twist of bay-leaves dead and sere Must be that crown the fine work failed to catch,-- No wonder!
The pale grass lay with its long looks sere On the breast of the open plain; She loosened the matted hair of the slain, And cried, as she filled each juicy vein: "Awaken!
With true philosophy, they had accepted the sere and yellow leaf; because nobody came to make them sweep it up.
Cattle in the meadows ceased from browsing, and looked up as if they were called, birds made wing for the distant wood, and sere leaves in the stillness rustled, as the solemn thrill trembled in the darkening air.
Ballade Mystique The big, red-house is bare and lone The stony garden waste and sere With blight of breezes ocean blown To pinch the wakening of the year; My kindly friends with busy cheer My wretchedness could plainly show.
Blackthorn is now mixed in the bare purple hedgerows, and almond blossom, here and there, whitens the sere oak, and the black rocks above.
His long gray mustache hung far below his stubble-covered chin; there was a pallor of a lingering sickness in his skin, which the hot sun could not sere out of it.
Grass had grown on the roof, for it was made of strips of sod, also, and turned sere and brown in the sun.
Glides through the valleys with an unheard tread, And haunts the woodlands, where the wild winds moaning Wails o'er the leaves of Autumn, sere and dead.
Withered now and strewn Upon the walks, all sere and dead they lie.
Only, it may be, a lock of hair, Or a flower sere and dry; Only a pictured face, how fair In the light of the times gone by!
And as sweet flowers, tho' sere and dead, Can by their fragrance bring Remembrance of the days long fled Again on Memory's wing.
He explained this to her in a sere reach of the garden.
He was not running from anything the charcoal burner might say, do, but from a terrifying spectacle of himself; from the vision of a body shot through the breast, huddled in the sere underbrush.
Felix Winscombe was a sere figure, yet he was extraordinarily full of a polished virility, rapier-like.
The ledger slipped to the floor, tearing the spongy leather and crumbling the sere leaves.
It might be that he was only a sere husk, a dry bundle of inhibitions, insensible to the green humanity of life.
The sere leaves make a music vain, With melancholy chords; Like cries from some old battle-plain, Like clash of phantom swords.
Wither away yourself," was the contemptuous reply; "you are already in the sereand yellow leaf; while I seem to have a green old age before me.
A fresh north-west breeze was blowing outside, and the sere woodbines and honeysuckles that filled the house with fragrance, and gave it such a rural look in summer, startled me with their struggles to escape from bondage.
Each one of them was as a dagger stuck into thatsere heart.
He swept on over the sere fern, with the soft song of the dead heather bells in his ear; but the message of stone and heath was one: She had asked the other man not to go.
I shall do my best to entertain two callers charitable enough to penetrate a sere and yellow bachelor's quarters.
Gordon will finish his picture and she will return to keeping accounts and advising anxious ladies as to the possibilities of renovating sere and yellow waists and skirts.
Your many sere and yellow years have brought you to a period in the world's history when the joy of the would-be young lies chiefly in wild contortion to the rhythm of barbaric tunes.
Armored in ice the sere stems arch to-day, Each tiny thorn encased and argent bright; Where clung the birds that long have taken flight, Dead songless leaves cling fluttering on the spray.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "sere" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
