leaf-buds

And in the world of ideas, are not opinions and feelings expelled by new feelings and opinions, much as withered leaves are thrust forth by the young leaf-buds in the spring? — all in obedience to the immutable Scheme; all to some end which God alone knows.

A Woman of Thirty 2007

Yet it was spring, and the bluebells were coming in the wood, and the leaf-buds on the hazels were opening like the spatter of green rain.

Lady Chatterley's Lover 2004

Limbs lopped off, they stand gaunt and grotesque, with few evidences of life save a profuse crop of leaf-buds, soon to develop into what at first glance seem artificial rosettes of leaves along the stumps of branches.

Last Leaves from Dunk Island 2003

Crocuses blossomed in purple, white and yellow, and trees were hazed with leaf-buds.

Kushiel's Avatar Carey, Jacqueline, 1964- 2003

Over a fair extent of country not a single instance of an uprooted tea-tree is to be seen, save where the tidal surges had attacked its base; and hundreds exultingly display clean trunks and limbs and all the elaborate and beautiful complexity of branches and twigs, now glistening with silvery leaf-buds.

Last Leaves from Dunk Island 2003

Young, tender leaf-buds in fresh greenness swelling,

Godey's Lady's Book, Vol. 42, January, 1851 Various

He personifies the change of seasons, and that process of transformation in nature by means of which the leaf-buds become developed into blossoms, and the blossoms into fruit.

Myths and Legends of Ancient Greece and Rome E.M. Berens

And it is even so with you: your leaf-buds of the future are frozen, but not killed; the soil of your heart has many flowers under it cold and still now, but they will yet come up and bloom.

The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 15, No. 87, January, 1865 Various

If, for example, the leaves are so arranged in a plant that every fifth leaf recurs on the same side of the stem, while the spiral connecting the five successive leaf-buds winds twice round the stem, this is expressed in botany by the fraction 2/5.

Man or Matter Ernst Lehrs

The favorite food of the squirrel is acorns, nuts, and seeds and grain of all kinds, and it will sometimes nibble leaf-buds and tender shoots of young trees in the spring.

Harper's Young People, January 6, 1880 An Illustrated Weekly Various