67 Metaphors for leaves

Perhaps the beech leaves are the most beautiful; two or three tints are blended on the topmost boughs.

Thus, human love is symbolic of divine love, because, although working in another plane, it is governed by similar laws and gives rise to similar results; or falling leaves are a symbol of human mortality, because they are examples of the same law which operates through all manifestation of life.

A curious prickly plant grows about here, something like a dwarf broom, if its leaves were sharp thorns, it is called Kardert.

And all those leaves, that jump and spring, Were each a joyous, living thing.

The lower leaves of the common field daisy are examples.

"Physiologically, leaves are green expansions borne by the stern, outspread in the air and light, in which assimilation and the processes connected with it are carried on.

The foliage of the ash is entirely different, as it has pinnate leaves, which means leaves arranged in two rows, one on each side of a common stem, or petiole, likeWhat, Clara?" "Rose-leaves," was the prompt reply.

P. cerasifera Pissardii, the purple-leaved Cherry plum, is a remarkable and handsome variety, in which the leaves are deep purple, thus rendering the plant one of the most distinct and ornamental-foliaged of the family.

Left of the slide was a patch of cedars.

I am come to autumn, When all the leaves are gold; Grey hairs and golden leaves cry out The year and I are old.

These bright leaves which I have mentioned are not the exception, but the rule; for I believe that all leaves, even grasses and mosses, acquire brighter colors just before their fall.

Journey Down the ValleyThe Plague of GrasshoppersA DefileThe Town of TaushanlüThe Camp of FamineWe leave the RhyndacusThe Base of OlympusPrimeval ForestsThe Guard-HouseScenery of the SummitForests of BeechSaw-MillsDescent of the MountainThe View of OlympusMorningThe Land of HarvestAineghiölA Showery RideThe Plain of BrousaThe Structure of OlympusWe reach BrousaThe Tent is Furled Chapter XXV.

Now the hips burned red in the tangled thickets and the hews waxed black in the hedgerows, the stubble lay all crisp and naked to the sky, and the green leaves were fast turning russet and brown.

I know my people, monsieur, and I tell you that the woods are full of murder, and that it is not for nothing that the leaves are the colour of blood, for death lurks behind every tree.

In Eden's green retreats, A water-brookthat played Between soft, mossy seats, Beneath a plane tree's shade, Whose rustling leaves Danced o'er its brink Was Adam's drink, And also Eve's.

" "'Through all the palm tree's leaves there went A tremor as of self-content.

The leaves of land-vegetation have also thousands of little breathing-pores, principally on the under side: the apple-leaf, for instance, has twenty-four thousand to a square inch.

And all was indeed over, the irrevocable had begun; he was filled with fear for Clotilde, so young and so beautiful, and all there was left him now was the duty of saving her from himself.

Mrs. Love rocked herself in the rocking-chair in a contented, easy way; and Aunt Patience, who liked to do such things, helped Miss Joy to find the leaves of her reportwhich might have been rose-leaves, they were so small.

The young leaves, when cooked, are a substitute for spinach; they are also useful for mixing with sorrel, to lessen its acidity.

The leaves are only by the way,an outgrowth of the same vitality, and a process toward the end; but never, in any living thing, the end itself.

But they must come into it in time, or their leaves be waste paper.

The leaves are pinnate, and the flowers white and fragrant.

After having been admired and valued as if its leaves were all emeralds and its buds apples of gold, it was spurned and ridiculed and everywhere cut down as a cumberer of the ground.

In the Sunflower the true leaves are nearly the same shape as the cotyledons, so that this is an especially good illustration for the purpose.

67 Metaphors for  leaves