leavelet

Example Sentences

• "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"