All 5 Uses of
foliage
in
Far from the Madding Crowd
- From the recesses of this knot of foliage the loud notes of three cuckoos were resounding through the still air.†
Chpt 19-21 *
- By reason of the density of the interwoven foliage overhead, it was gloomy there at cloudless noontide, twilight in the evening, dark as midnight at dusk, and black as the ninth plague of Egypt at midnight.†
Chpt 22-24
- Nothing was said until, against a shady background of foliage, five white bars were visible, crossing their route a little way ahead.†
Chpt 31-33
- Tufts and garlands of green foliage decorated the walls, beams, and extemporized chandeliers, and immediately opposite to Oak a rostrum had been erected, bearing a table and chairs.†
Chpt 34-36
- They continued playing for a quarter of an hour or so, when the game concluded abruptly, and the players leapt over the wall and vanished round to the other side behind a yew-tree, which was also half behind a beech, now spreading in one mass of golden foliage, on which the branches traced black lines.†
Chpt 43-45
Definition:
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(foliage) plant leaves