Lexicographical Neighbors of Leafery
Literary usage of Leafery
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Primitive & Mediaeval Japanese Texts by Frederick Victor Dickins (1906)
"There is here an allusion to a dress of the colour of autumn leafery, but the
leaves themselves are also regarded as a sort of vestment. ..."
2. English Hunger and Industrial Disorders: A Study of Social Conflict During by Walter James Shelton (1922)
"... leafery new and soft, Seem caught from the immediate season's yield I saw last
noonday shining over the field, By rapid snatch, while still are ..."
3. Ainsworth's Magazine: A Miscellany of Romance, General Literature, & Art by William Harrison Ainsworth, George Cruikshank, Hablot Knight Browne (1849)
"One shot to Heaven, a young Oak tree, Its stem was as a lance to see, And with
its crested leafery there, Waved like a helmet's plumes in air ; The other, ..."
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