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  • Tim Johnson was advancing at a snail's pace, but he was not playing or sniffing at foliage: he seemed dedicated to one course and motivated by an invisible force that was inching him toward us.   (source)
  • Redd tried to pinpoint Alyss' location in her imagination's eye, saw a confusion of foliage and trees.   (source)
    foliage = plants
  • He put on his glasses, waded away from Ralph, and crouched down among the tangled foliage.   (source)
    foliage = plant leaves
  • I felt absurd hiking through the ferns and foliage hefting a carpetbag with a rose pattern on the outside.   (source)
  • Then I saw them--two burning, yellow eyes--staring at me from the shadowy foliage of the tree.   (source)
  • A sloth's hairs shelter an algae that is brown during the dry season and green during the wet season, so the animal blends in with the surrounding moss and foliage and looks like a nest of white ants or of squirrels, or like nothing at all but part of a tree.†   (source)
  • It was the day after Juli had rescued my kite from its mutant toyeating foliage.†   (source)
  • The front windows looked out through the foliage of a magnificent oak into the square.†   (source)
  • Marie-Laure is rereading Twenty Thousand Leagues—I could make out long ribbons of sea wrack, some globular and others tubular, laurenciae, cladostephae with their slender foliage—not far from the rue Cuvier gate when a group of children comes tramping through the leaves.†   (source)
  • The foliage a blur of green and brown and mossy gray.†   (source)
  • As another surprise, Lorenzo from Bakersfield Electric brings a set of solar-powered lights, which at night will send shafts up through the foliage into the starry sky.†   (source)
  • The vase was respected not for Horoldt's mastery of polychrome enamels or the blue and gold interlacing strapwork and foliage, but for Uncle Clem, and the lives he had saved, the river he had crossed at midnight, and his death just a week before the Armistice.†   (source)
  • Every so often Alex's flashlight is reflected for a brief second in a pair of bright wide blinking eyes, which watch us solemnly from within the mass of foliage before vanishing once again into the dark.†   (source)
  • ALBUS hands SCORPIUS some green foliage in a bag.†   (source)
  • It had a high collar, short sleeves, and was woven in the colors of summer foliage, lilac for the body and leafy green for the trim and frog clasps.†   (source)
  • The basket stopped in a maze of foliage and the treeship captain led the way up a wooden escalator worn with age.†   (source)
  • All around us were low tree stumps and thick foliage.†   (source)
  • This, he wrote, made it more important than ever to provide a counterbalance of "dense, broad, luxuriant green bodies of foliage."†   (source)
  • There, amid a pastel bouquet of coral and flowing fronds of blue seaweed, she saw hundreds, maybe thousands, of tiny beings, no bigger than the fingers of a child, hiding in nooks, clinging to the foliage.†   (source)
  • Her eyes were still puffy from crying, but she had beautiful irises the color of new foliage.†   (source)
  • Hiro aims one shoulder at the ground, buries himself in soft earth and foliage for a few seconds.†   (source)
  • I climbed up a sidewalkless street and entered the foliage which shielded the shacks and houses on stilts and cars being worked on.†   (source)
  • He left the village and the road behind, dodged under some trees, ran through wild grass, plunged in among the mustard-yellow bramble bushes, let the silvery foliage of the olive trees hide him…… He had to get away from the houses, away from the paved roads.†   (source)
  • Another low door led to a backyard, where there were more banana trees, beyond which the river glimmered through the foliage.†   (source)
  • The dense foliage came right up to the window ledge, and although there was no glass in the opening, none of the myriad bugs that flitted through the late-evening air entered the room.†   (source)
  • The foliage partially hid her view of the street, where a police car, its blue-and-white light bar flashing, was pulled up to the curb, siren wailing.†   (source)
  • I could sense the steep drop to my left, though I could not see it due to the trees and thick foliage that lined the roadside.†   (source)
  • And in fact Dr. Urbino looked for him in the foliage, but there was no response in any language, not even to whistles and songs, so he gave him up for lost and went to sleep when it was almost three o'clock.†   (source)
  • In Florida, trees did not shed their leaves in the fall, and Marley was positively convinced the foliage drifting down from the skies now was a gift meant just for him.†   (source)
  • …man stepped out onto the balcony of his little flat, one of the dozens into which what had been a pair of centuries-old canal houses and former warehouses had been converted, these flats looking out into a courtyard that was as lush with foliage as a tropical jungle, wet with greenness, in this city of water, and moss grew on the wooden edges of his balcony, and ferns also, and tendrils climbed up its sides, and there he had two chairs, two chairs from ages ago when there were two…†   (source)
  • Over Nobu's shoulder I could see the eaves of the inn protruding above the foliage.†   (source)
  • Farmer remembered admiring the trees and foliage there and the rushing river.†   (source)
  • It was a plant about four inches high with small, heather-like foliage and a white flower with five petals about one inch across.†   (source)
  • Squirrels darted along the branches of hickory trees, chattering a warning, while shafts of fractured sunlight cut through the foliage, lending her surroundings a dreamlike quality.†   (source)
  • There were three bushes in a rock bed directly below, all their foliage gone since autumn.†   (source)
  • Above the hazy mounds of foliage, Eragon glimpsed the crumbling walls of a long-abandoned building, constructed by some race in ages past.†   (source)
  • He wanted to tidy up his mother's flower garden, a treasured patch of disheveled foliage that grew beneath her bedroom window.†   (source)
  • She opened up before him, yet fell back before him, too, he felt that he was traveling up a savage, jungle river, looking for the source which remained hidden just beyond the black, dangerous, dripping foliage.†   (source)
  • "I don't have those urges anymore," Caroline said, looking out into the dark garden, the scattering of city lights and the dark red letters of the Foodland sign, mosaic pieces amid the dense summer foliage.†   (source)
  • On the pasture nearby Hazel could see scattered, russet-and-orange-colored fragments, some with feathery light green foliage showing up against the darker grass.†   (source)
  • A second later, he pulled another guy, this one shorter and chunkier but dressed identically, out through the foliage.†   (source)
  • High up on the road he had noted a small moving speck that appeared and disappeared as the foliage hid it, or gaps in the trees revealed it.†   (source)
  • "Yeah, they're going to do some foliage stuff too, so I actually told them to go ahead and book the inn where they want to stay.†   (source)
  • They drove a couple of miles past the store and then turned off onto a gravel road that wound up a small hill through thick foliage.†   (source)
  • The creek bottom was nearly bare of foliage.†   (source)
  • Smith led Seabiscuit down the gangplank, past lines of trees heavy with spring foliage, around the walking ring, then toward the barns.†   (source)
  • Casanova and I added natural foliage from knee level or lower, which is where a sniper moves.†   (source)
  • The Japanese were concealed by dense jungle foliage that spilled all the way down to the waterline.†   (source)
  • To be whole and safe I must hide in the foliage, odorless as a newborn fawn.†   (source)
  • It was as if we were black insects utterly camouflaged in the night, watching the slaves move, oblivious to us, discover the wounded man, drag him back, fan out in the foliage searching for the attacker.†   (source)
  • He heard loud, wild peals of derisive laughter crashing all about him and caught blurred glimpses of wicked, beery faces smirking far back inside the bushes and high overhead in the foliage of the trees.†   (source)
  • A lot of the foliage was brownish-gray, prickly as vineyards in the Napa Valley.†   (source)
  • My love for Toby is like the foliage in the woods.†   (source)
  • The foliage to his left suddenly rustled and Tom stopped.†   (source)
  • Ian drove on, smiling at the foliage and dreaming of a better life.†   (source)
  • Tears filled my eyes, and the walks and buildings flowed and froze for a moment in mist, glittering as in winter when rain froze on the grass and foliage and turned the campus into a world of whiteness, weighting and bending both trees and bushes with fruit of crystal.†   (source)
  • On the day he had followed the boys, Mau had sat and watched from the thick foliage of a grass tree as they dared one another to go near the stone, to touch it, to give it a little push—and then someone had shouted that he'd heard something, and within seconds they'd vanished into the trees, running for home.†   (source)
  • Without sound or warning, a black Doberman crashed through the dense foliage, its frenzy in full force.†   (source)
  • He looked away from her, toward the trees along the northern edge of the field, and he realized that in the fire-blasted aspen cluster was a sole survivor, reclothed in foliage.†   (source)
  • The cold forest where Jared and Jamie would hide and wait had felt safer in some ways–because the branches were thick and concealing, unlike the spindly desert foliage that hid little–but also more dangerous in its unfamiliar smells and sounds.†   (source)
  • When Brienne peered more closely, she saw creatures in the foliage: a sly red fox, two sparrows on a branch, and behind those leaves the shadow of a boar.†   (source)
  • Max watched her go; her figure grew smaller with every step until she disappeared into the dark green foliage.†   (source)
  • WE MOSTLY have evergreens in California, but there's enough fall foliage that covers the forest.†   (source)
  • Hanging strands of moss and clots of waxy foliage made the thick vegetation look as if it were drooling; the too many draperies, hanging in the stagnant air of a small room, had the same look.†   (source)
  • I sank down into the green depths of the azaleas, and breathing hard, I watched through the foliage as they peered into the black night.†   (source)
  • Here are majestic palms with their towering stems and graceful foliage, the shoe flower, the eatable passion flower.†   (source)
  • As she examined the foliage and flowers on either side of the front entrance, I found myself regarding her.†   (source)
  • Then, safe from the carabinieri, Alessandro would speed through the foliage, enchanted by the dark leaves and the wind in the pines until he emerged from the forest at the coast, onto an empty white beach with the sound of the waves obliterating his hard breathing and the wind cooling his sweat-drenched horse.†   (source)
  • This was not the rain he and Josiah had prayed for, this was not the green foliage they sought out in sandy canyons as a sign of a spring.†   (source)
  • Not like the old-time Novembers along the Des Moines River, no lingering foliage.†   (source)
  • He was knocking them clear of clods, on the front steps, when he was attracted by movement in the foliage behind Florence Wechek's house.†   (source)
  • I cupped my hands to the window but could see only black masses of foliage against a dark sky.†   (source)
  • What voices overheard, flinders of luminescent gods glimpsed among the wallpaper's stained foliage, candlestubs lit to rotate in the air over him, prefiguring the cigarette he or a friend must fall asleep someday smoking, thus to end among the flaming, secret salts held all those years by the insatiable stuffing of a mattress that could keep vestiges of every nightmare sweat, helpless overflowing bladder, viciously, tearfully consummated wet dream, like the memory bank to a computer of…†   (source)
  • The ground is damp and chill, she smells woodsmoke, and through her eyelids' translucency is filtered the incredible radiance of the foliage afire.†   (source)
  • In the short time since I had passed, the foliage of the White Mountains had changed and tattered.†   (source)
  • The foliage grew denser, however, and I finally lost sight of it completely.†   (source)
  • Beneath the thick, closely-woven foliage the shade was deep: a striking contrast to the glare of the bush.†   (source)
  • Terraces and staircases of them there were, smooth water green from rich foliage overhead and water white as whipped cream as it splashed into dense foam.†   (source)
  • It seemed as though with outstretched arms they were fending off Pamphil, who had cut them down, and that their tangled green foliage was barring his way to his tent.†   (source)
  • The extravagant foliage which had been wrought into them by machinery showed even more sharply white where the light touched, and elsewhere was black in the limp cloth.†   (source)
  • Sometimes he swung in the trees; Nina Cacmichael in particular would hear him crashing in the foliage somewhere when she was lying rigid in siesta.†   (source)
  • And the thing that be wanted was Mars grown green and tall with trees and foliage, producing air, more air, growing larger with each season; trees to cool the towns in the boiling summer, trees to hold back the winter winds.†   (source)
  • But she shaded her eyes and gazed across the vleis, finding it strange and lovely with the dull green foliage, the endless expanses of tawny grass shining gold in the sun, and the vivid arching blue sky.†   (source)
  • They settle down into the darkening foliage, croaking and squabbling.†   (source)
  • I look up at the ceiling, tracing the foliage of the wreath.†   (source)
  • We did not have a shovel, and Mikey and Axe had to cover the rope with trees, weeds, and foliage.†   (source)
  • When she was ready, she'd slip through a reconforming doorway concealed behind dense foliage.†   (source)
  • I stare into the foliage trying to will myself to rest, but the burns forbid it.†   (source)
  • The woman's shrieks emanate from somewhere in the foliage, but the jabberjay's concealed.†   (source)
  • From somewhere in the foliage, gunfire riddled the side of the vehicle.†   (source)
  • Maybe this one had followed us across the island, invisible in the foliage.†   (source)
  • The foliage here was very dense; he couldn't see more than six or seven feet ahead of him.†   (source)
  • "I've read up on it, actually," she said briskly, wacking away foliage with her furled parasol.†   (source)
  • There's the sound of insects, birds, the breeze in the foliage.†   (source)
  • They'd feel at home there, and certainly there would be lots of edible foliage.†   (source)
  • My eyes follow the line of her finger up into the foliage above me.†   (source)
  • Tim hurried across it, moved through an area of dense foliage, and came out onto the main road.†   (source)
  • Alongside the apatosaurs, the smaller hadrosaurs stood on their hind legs to get at foliage.†   (source)
  • By ten she'd be peeping out from behind the foliage to see if I was coming.†   (source)
  • He jumps back, flinging a handful of berries into the foliage.†   (source)
  • Gennaro crouched in the foliage, listening.†   (source)
  • The foliage was so high and thick now I couldn't see the sky.†   (source)
  • The Land Cruisers started up, and moved silently off, through the foliage.†   (source)
  • I turned back and could no longer see the bluff—the foliage was too dense.†   (source)
  • I lost sight of it above the dense foliage of the island.†   (source)
  • Several heads poked slowly out of the foliage.†   (source)
  • Near the end of the dock, a wooden shed was painted green to blend with the foliage.†   (source)
  • The animal was slinking along the foliage that lined the banks of the river, going north.†   (source)
  • A moment later, a second head rose above the foliage, and then a third, and a fourth.†   (source)
  • Gennaro set out, leaving the path, plunging into the foliage.†   (source)
  • Tim turned to look at the foliage at the side of the road.†   (source)
  • At first he saw only dense foliage, moving in the wind.†   (source)
  • The first animal charged from the foliage at the base of a tree to the left.†   (source)
  • He made a lot of noise as he ran, but even so he could hear the animal crashing through the foliage.†   (source)
  • It was coming from the foliage directly ahead of him, by the side of the road.†   (source)
  • The Land Cruiser stopped on a low rise, where a break in the foliage provided a view to the east.†   (source)
  • Tim again scanned the foliage, but saw nothing.†   (source)
  • The raptor turned, and ran off into the foliage.†   (source)
  • The Land Cruiser moved slowly among the foliage.†   (source)
  • They were angled around a focal point, and the trellis gleamed with light and colored foliage.†   (source)
  • In the darkness, Gabby could hear the crickets calling from the foliage.†   (source)
  • The constant chirping of insects hidden in the dense foliage that bordered the large lot.†   (source)
  • She struggled to free herself, her dress tangled in the foliage.†   (source)
  • They were lost in the foliage, and it took a few agonizing moments, but she found them again.†   (source)
  • As she turned, Isabelle saw the monastery behind her, rising out of the dull foliage.†   (source)
  • The foliage had thickened since she'd last been out here, or at least it seemed that way.†   (source)
  • Bourne and Marie remained in the shadows of the foliage at the side of the inn until it disappeared.†   (source)
  • Green foliage was plastered against the windows.†   (source)
  • With the foliage all gone, the stone was the only cover the hill provided.†   (source)
  • Through the foliage, he spotted the top of the chimney and he bent over, stepping carefully.†   (source)
  • Shaggydog was the first to flee, slinking back into the foliage with a final snarl.†   (source)
  • Also, if your fall foliage leaf or your pumpkin is not symmetrical, Miss Lumley won't put it up.†   (source)
  • At that moment, Ratatosk broke through foliage above.†   (source)
  • It clicked in and he shot upward just as his body swung into the thick foliage of the trees.†   (source)
  • He stood motionless, watching for men concealed in the foliage or in the shadows of the building.†   (source)
  • The foliage slowed them down, forcing them to hack their way through vines and underbrush.†   (source)
  • The dog lunged through the foliage, its teeth bared, the snarls now the throated growls of a kill.†   (source)
  • The ground is mostly level on the trail and there is far less foliage on it.†   (source)
  • Jason spun around and retraced the path he had made through the drenched foliage.†   (source)
  • The rain, the warmth bring to bloom the wildflowers that hide beneath the foliage.†   (source)
  • The nights grow colder, and a little foliage helps to keep your face warm.†   (source)
  • There were flashes, shreds of foliage, a bright glare.†   (source)
  • On the sloping, wooded bank that led to the river, the foliage took on a deep green vibrancy.†   (source)
  • As I passed under the branches of the bur oak tree, I looked up into the dark foliage.†   (source)
  • The foliage was a mix of reed grass and bushes, thanks to a creek that gurgled thirty yards off.†   (source)
  • My love for Linton is like the foliage in the woods.†   (source)
  • His lips were curled back and he snarled as he stared into the dark foliage of the tree.†   (source)
  • The squatness of the trees, the way foliage seemed to grow outward rather than upward.†   (source)
  • He reached the south leg of the paved drive and, racing across it, dived into the foliage.†   (source)
  • He pulled the corpse deeper into the foliage, away from the path, and began searching the pockets.†   (source)
  • The contact approached the foliage; he was an arm's length away.†   (source)
  • Bourne snapped his head back towards the gate, lurching into the nearest foliage.†   (source)
  • Insects buzzed and sang and strummed, foliage rustled and whispered, something coughed below him.†   (source)
  • He tied the sleeves of Jim's shirt to it, then worked down, cutting foliage away as he went.†   (source)
  • After a while a light flickered among the foliage.†   (source)
  • Following the lines of underground foliage, the two boys worked gradually away from the billabong.†   (source)
  • And, more by luck than judgement, they found a cluster of the yams-with-foliage-underthe-ground.†   (source)
  • The foliage has hidden the wheel from sight, so I scale a tree with rubbery limbs to get a better view.†   (source)
  • They marched around the back yard, slashing at foliage, occasionally pausing to pick off a stray elephant or fight a tribe of cannibals.†   (source)
  • The three hundred lucky guests culled from 13 and the many refugees wear their everyday clothes, the decorations are made from autumn foliage, the music is provided by a choir of children accompanied by the lone fiddler who made it out of 12 with his instrument.†   (source)
  • On one side of the road, thickets and small trees rose steeply, while on the other I could now glimpse through the foliage the distant countryside.†   (source)
  • There was a grandeur about the day, about the colossal, barely stirring beeches and oaks, and the light that dropped like jewels through the fresh foliage to make pools among last year's dead leaves.†   (source)
  • The light itself is yellow, rich as liquid butter, filtered as it is through foliage and fronds eighty meters above the brown surface of the Kans.†   (source)
  • Let us as much as possible, train out creepers, and branches of trees, upon bridges, pulling down and nailing the branches, aiming to obtain shade and reflection of foliage and broken obscuration of water.†   (source)
  • While I was explaining this, Pumpkin had noticed the Minister waiting in another covered walkway through the foliage.†   (source)
  • In the next instant the wall of foliage vanished and one of the many winding paths leading to Mount Tamalpais appeared.†   (source)
  • The first thing Florentino Ariza observed in the living room was that the door to the only bedroom was open, and that the bed was huge and luxurious with a brocaded quilt and a headboard with brass foliage.†   (source)
  • But now it's the rooms themselves I miss as well, even the dreadful paintings that hung on the walls, landscapes with fall foliage or snow melting in hardwoods, or women in period costume, with china-doll faces and bustles and parasols, or sad-eyed clowns, or bowls of fruit, stiff and chalky looking.†   (source)
  • There was an occasional produce stand by the side of the road and a few cottages set into the foliage, but nothing resembling urban sprawl.†   (source)
  • I believe I had walked a little way along the roadside, peering through the foliage hoping to get a better view, when I heard a voice behind me.†   (source)
  • IN THE EARLY evening, high-altitude clouds in the western sky formed a thin yellow wash which became richer over the hour, and then thickened until a filtered orange glow hung above the giant crests of parkland trees; the leaves became nutty brown, the branches glimpsed among the foliage oily black, and the desiccated grasses took on the colors of the sky.†   (source)
  • Supervisor Orlandi came to the end of the road and waved as we entered the narrow lane hacked into the aureate foliage.†   (source)
  • We changed into our cotton gowns and made our way along a succession of covered walkways, leading through the dense foliage to a luxurious hot-springs pool at the other end of the inn.†   (source)
  • …in New Orleans had exterminated the alligators that, with yawning mouths, had played dead for hours on end in the gullies along the shore as they lay in wait for butterflies, the parrots with their shrieking and the monkeys with their lunatic screams had died out as the foliage was destroyed, the manatees with their great breasts that had nursed their young and wept on the banks in a forlorn woman's voice were an extinct species, annihilated by the armored bullets of hunters for sport.†   (source)
  • "I think more than ever of the value of the island," he wrote to Harry Codman, "and of the importance of using all possible, original means of securing impervious screening, dense massive piles of foliage on its borders; with abundant variety of small detail in abject subordination to general effect….†   (source)
  • This was to be accomplished, Olmsted wrote, "through the mingling intricately together of many forms of foliage, the alternation and complicated crossing of salient leaves and stalks of varying green tints in high lights with other leaves and stalks, behind and under them, and therefore less defined and more shaded, yet partly illumined by light reflected from the water."†   (source)
  • Most of them had been dismantled for materials to be used in building other boats, but many were in such good condition that it seemed possible to give them a coat of paint and launch them without frightening away the iguanas or disturbing the foliage of the large yellow flowers that made them even more nostalgic.†   (source)
  • " "Well, the foliage is thick.†   (source)
  • Halfway across the grounds he stops, takes one last backward look at Paradice, swelling up out of the foliage like a lost balloon.†   (source)
  • Above them the stars burned, rotating occasionally as the treeship changed its pitch or yaw, while to either side a solid sphere of foliage curved away like the green skin of some great fruit.†   (source)
  • There was a light frost covering the ground and much of the foliage, but it was a mild day for that time of the year.†   (source)
  • It's easy to see the direction I came from by the path of destruction my crazed body made through the foliage.†   (source)
  • I found myself in a narrow lane, hemmed in on either side by foliage so that I could gain little idea of what was around me.†   (source)
  • I don't know how long we might have sat here if it weren't for the arrival of the silver parachute, which glides down through the foliage to land before us.†   (source)
  • At times, the foliage on either side became so thick as practically to blot out the sun altogether, and one found one's eyes struggling to cope with the sudden contrasts of bright sunlight and deep shade.†   (source)
  • It's right at the edge of the wood, but the bushy foliage is so thick down low I can easily observe the Career camp without being spotted.†   (source)
  • Then when I sensed that the road had ceased to climb, but was beginning to curve slowly down in a direction /away /from the village - the lights of which I could glimpse regularly through the foliage - I was overcome again by a sense of discouragement.†   (source)
  • I peered up into the verdant foliage.†   (source)
  • We watched as the silvery creature got farther and farther away and then dropped out of sight altogether in the distant foliage.†   (source)
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