fern-leaf

Kellen came back with the fern-leaf and, jaw set, knelt beside the pool.

Tran Siberian Michael J. Solender 2010

Kellen came back with the fern-leaf and, jaw set, knelt beside the pool.

The Outstretched Shadow 2003

But a fern-leaf cannot grow into a mighty hemlock-tree.

The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 06, No. 34, August, 1860 Various

Almost equally striking is the improvement in the foliage, especially the introduction of the fern-leaf, with its diverse shades of green and richly toned under-surface.

The Culture of Vegetables and Flowers From Seeds and Roots 16th Edition Sutton and Sons

He was grave, like nodding fern-leaf, gently by the breezes fanned,

Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 11, No. 25, April, 1873 Various

From the cliff he looked down at the long bunk-house, saw the blue smoke rising straight, curled at the top like the uncoiling frond of a new fern-leaf.

O. Henry Memorial Award Prize Stories of 1921 Various

He did not at that time see that mediaevalism was as dead as a fern-leaf in a lump of coal; that other developments were shaping in the world around him, in which Gothic architecture and its associations had no place.

Jude the Obscure 1896

He did not at that time see that mediaevalism was as dead as a fern-leaf in a lump of coal; that other developments were shaping in the world around him, in which Gothic architecture and its associations had no place.

Jude the Obscure 1894

Because the fern-leaf is the symbol of the hope of exuberant posterity: even as it branches and branches so may the happy family increase and multiply through the generations.

Glimpses of Unfamiliar Japan Second Series Lafcadio Hearn 1877

Each day she had some new thing in her hair, – now a feathery fern-leaf, and anon some wild red berry, whose presence just where she placed it was as picturesque as a French lithograph; and we boys were in the habit of looking each day to see what she would wear next.

Oldtown Folks 1869