Leaves

Examples

• Amy stood a minute, turning the leaves in her hand, reading on each some sweet rebuke for all heartburnings and uncharitableness of spirit. Louisa May Alcott. Little Women.
• An inking roller, charged with an oily ink, is then passed over the stone and inks the drawing, but leaves all the other parts of the stone quite clean. Frederick C. Bakewell. Great Facts.
• There were villas with iron fences and big overgrown gardens and ditches with water flowing and green vegetable gardens with dust on the leaves. Ernest Hemingway. A Farewell To Arms.
• Inasmuch as the nitrogen of liquid air evaporates first, and leaves nearly pure liquid oxygen, it may also be employed as a means for producing and applying oxygen. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
• The Jarndyce in question, said the Lord Chancellor, still turning over leaves, is Jarndyce of Bleak House. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
• If she leaves no children---- Which she is likely to do? Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
• The kernels were in the milk and the leaves were entirely green. William K. David. Secrets of Wise Men, Chemists and Great Physicians.
• Free chlorine is heavier than air, and hence when it leaves the exit tube it settles at the bottom of the jar, displacing the air, and finally filling the bottle. Bertha M. Clark. General Science.
• Everybody leaves here. Charles Dickens. Little Dorrit.
• Suddenly, with a plunge, as of the swimmer who leaves the bank, she hurried across the road, and we heard the sharp clang of the bell. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes.
• The gentleman in the bag wig laid bundles of papers on his lordship's table, and his lordship silently selected one and turned over the leaves. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
• He leaves out half his words, and blots the rest. Jane Austen. Pride and Prejudice.
• We have rain, and our leaves do fall, and get sodden: though I think Helstone is about as perfect a place as any in the world. Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell. North and South.
• I know the deep indentations round the leaves. Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell. North and South.
• I look back, once more--for the last time--before I close these leaves. Charles Dickens. David Copperfield.
• Her sharp Damascus blade seemed out of place, and useless among rose-leaves. Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell. North and South.
• We feel joy and peace when he comes into a room; we feel sadness and trouble when he leaves it. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
• So, the sunrise came, and the shadows of the leaves of the plane-tree moved upon his face, as softly as her lips had moved in praying for him. Charles Dickens. A Tale of Two Cities.
• When he leaves go of his hat to use his telescope, his hat flies off, with immense applause. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
• On the walks, swept that morning, yellow leaves had fluttered down again. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
• Priscilla leaves him out the loaf and some milk, when there is any, overnight. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
• Upon this lay a thick layer of moss, leaves, or sawdust. William K. David. Secrets of Wise Men, Chemists and Great Physicians.
• One said: Oh, the Virgin's face is full of the ecstasy of a joy that is complete --that leaves nothing more to be desired on earth! Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
• Holmes hunted about among the grass and leaves like a retriever after a wounded bird. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Return of Sherlock Holmes.
• At the shore, where the ice has been partly forced out along the banks, it will be full of grass, leaves, pebbles and sticks, and presents a broken and frosted appearance. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
• Yet, the smell of a _Yahoo_ continuing very offensive, I always keep my nose well stopped with rue, lavender, or tobacco leaves. Jonathan Swift. Gulliver's Travels into Several Remote Nations of the World.
• The air, entering, rises within, and carries up dust, leaves, and even heavier bodies that happen in its way, as the eddy or whirl passes over land. Benjamin Franklin. Memoirs of Benjamin Franklin.
• His mother was snipping dead leaves from the window-plants. Thomas Hardy. The Return of the Native.
• It was rather a singular one,--a brilliant scarlet geranium, and one single white japonica, with its glossy leaves. Harriet Beecher Stowe. Uncle Tom's Cabin.
• But each of such swarmings still leaves a tribal nucleus behind to supply fresh invasions in the future. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.

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