All 8 Uses
foliage
in
The Call of the Canyon
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- When at length she looked out instead of down she could see nothing but a mass of green foliage crossed by tree trunks and branches of brown and gray.†
Chpt 2 *foliage = plant leaves
- Small gray sheath-barked trees with clumpy foliage and snags of dead branches, Glenn called cedars; and, grotesque as these were, Carley rather liked them.†
Chpt 3
- Maples and sycamores and oaks were in full foliage, and their bright greens contrasted softly with the dark shine of the pines.†
Chpt 6
- The road was of soft yellow earth flanked with green foliage and overspread by pines.†
Chpt 6
- The red walls seemed to dream and wait under the blaze of the sun; the heat lay like a blanket over the still foliage; the birds were quiet; only the murmuring stream broke the silence of the canyon.†
Chpt 7
- They had been ringed deeply at the base by an ax, to kill them, and so prevent their foliage from shading the soil.†
Chpt 7
- The beauty of green foliage and amber stream and brown tree trunks and gray rocks and red walls was there; and the summer drowsiness and languor lay as deep; and the loneliness and solitude brooded with its same eternal significance.†
Chpt 7
- Rich thick foliage overspread the winding road of sand.†
Chpt 12
Definitions:
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(1)
(foliage) plant leaves
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(2)
(meaning too rare to warrant focus) Much less commonly, foliage can reference architectural ornament consisting of leaves and the stems to which they are attached.