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"Leavelet" in a Sentence (22 examples)
Go to a garden—go, and see, / Some rose-branch blushing on the tree; / And from that branch a rose-flower tear, / Then place it on thy bosom bare; / And as its leavelets fade and pine, / So fades my sinking heart in thine.
This tree, which flowers, according to Jacquer, in July, is represented by him as one of great beauty, attaining a height of 40 feet, with a trunk of six feet, divided above that into numerous branches, finished with abundance of shining opposite pinnate (or winged) leaves, consisting of 6 or 7 pair of oblong entire obtuse sessile alternate leavelets, without a terminal one, foot stalk of five inches in length; […]
Time may my rich dark leavelets blanch, / They shall wither;—my cherishing sap shall fail— / Though now I am proud, and each stalwart branch / Scarce bendeth a twig to the blustering gale.
The April showers have augmented into heavy rains, as if they had grown by what they fed on. They beat out, as with a mallet, the twigs into leavelets, & the buds into blossoms.
The nodding foliage, where ye lately found / A couch aye yielding to your gentleness— / Whiles it did leap with joy to hear your song, / And waved responsive to its symphonies— / These will return as plenteously as erst: / The morning wear again its old delight; / The eve all readily its golden death / Embrace; again be heard the babbling stream / As sweeps it on its way rejoicing; / Again among the various leavelets / Play wantonly will ye; and then forgot / Will be your song, when sorrowing ceases.
Dead leaves/caught among the leavelets
Live out, pale flower; yellow leavelets play; / And you, ye trembling lingerers in the wood, / That wail of olden summer, to you I hie; / Together we will sigh the time away.
Thus, the gills may be exposed in tufts upon the back, as in Doris; or arranged on either side of the body, in a furrow between the mantle and the foot, transversely, in a single row, as in Phyllidia; or composed of divided lamellæ resembling divided leaves, as in Aplysia (sea-hare); or foliaceous, or pyramidal, arranged in rows on either side under the margin of mantle, as in Chiton; or composed of numerous leavelets, arranged parallel, like the teeth of a comb, as in Paludina (fresh-water snail).
Still I hear the river babble, / As it stops perchance to dabble / With the pebbles, or the rabble / Of conglomerating stones; / Hear it murmur sweetly singing, / With the water-plover winging / O’er its waves, these silver ringing, / Clear wild monotones— / Gurgling, babbling, singing, / Rolling on; / Flowers and leavelets bringing, / Rich in song: / Through the grey and marshy flats, / And the rye and barley plats, / Swiftly winging!
Give the Latin official name for three official barks, five official leaves, two official leavelets, four official rhizomes, six official roots, two official resins, three official gum-resins, two official gums, two official flowers, five official fruits, four official seeds, and three official woods.
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The leaves of the vetches and vetchlings are pinate^([sic])—they bear a number of opposite ovate leavelets.
Of the Chara and Nitella, closely allied to the filamenteous algea,^([sic]) but distinguished therefrom in their resemblance to the higher plants by having stems, branches, leavelets, etc.
[…] order are closely allied to the filamentous algæ, but are distinguished therefrom in their resemblance to the higher plants by having stems, branches, leavelets, etc.
The so-called Ginkgo sandstone is however, of more doubtful age, “being characterized by numerous Psygmophyllum-like leavelets of unknown affinity and containing for the rest only little significant species of Tæniopteris and Baiera.”
The blossom emerges from a long, etched gold stem from which spring three leavelets or spathes rendered in demantoid garnets mounted à jour in gold frames.
It started with a swelling in the flower bed; by the arbor vitae, the newly moistened mulch quickened, swelled, and extruded tiny leavelets, olive with a tinge of purple that balked at the unusual sun.
And the half-unclenched leavelets shiver, baring cold green in warm breezes, till from the river’s mirror ray-drawn rises mist, and in folding showers dry searchings cease.
According to the shape and the insertion of the pinnules, a special movement of the leavelets results.
Among the different types of Plantz are ‘stem-laces,’ ‘leavelets,’ and ‘twig rings.’
Our industries took leave; the Cobden Club published leavelets.
And hope from my heart you won’t be called on to bear a quarter of what we did in the year following the collapse of France, etc. I can hardly think it possible, with your great distances, though you may come in for some sporadic raids. Or showers of leavelets, urging you to become Japanese! Oh what fools these orientals be!
We handle preparations of adverts, leavelets, newsletters, brochures, letterheads etc. from design and layouts, writing copy, typesetting and supplying proofs.
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