maple-leaves

One very fine morning, when the maple-leaves were tinted with the first scarlet of the fall, my friends took me to see Ancaster and Dundas; the former, an old place, very like some of our grey, quiet Lancashire villages — the latter a good type of the rapid development and enterprising spirit which are making Canada West to rival the

The Englishwoman in America 2007

It was very delightful to sit there in the crisp October air, with the brook seemingly humming tender legends of the woods, which witless men could not translate, with an uncertain breeze playing through the newly fallen maple-leaves, now turning them one by one in lazy curiosity, then of a sudden making them caper and swirl in a scarlet merry-go-round.

Camp and Trail A Story of the Maine Woods Isabel Hornibrook

The brilliant scarlet and the brilliant yellow are different hues of the maple-leaves, and the first changes into the last.

The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 17, No. 104, June, 1866 Various

To match the coat, there was a velvet waistcoat of very ample size, and formerly embroidered with foliage, that had been as brightly golden as the maple-leaves in October, but which had now quite vanished out of the substance of the velvet.

The International Monthly Magazine - Volume V - No II Various

To match the coat there was a velvet waist-coat of very ample size, and formerly embroidered with foliage that had been as brightly golden as the maple-leaves in October, but which had now quite vanished out of the substance of the velvet.

Short Stories of Various Types Various

And above them a furtive wind began to rustle in the torn, discolored maple-leaves.

Figures of Earth James Branch Cabell 1918

Purple asters and red maple-leaves filled the jar on the table; on a shelf against the wall stood a lamp, the kettle, a little pile of cups and saucers.

Summer; a novel 1917

The first crisp maple-leaves began to spin across Miss Hatchard's lawn, and the Virginia creeper on the Memorial splashed the white porch with scarlet.

Summer; a novel 1917

I am convinced that the fundamental type of all the three Tolstoy brothers was identical, just as the type of all maple-leaves is identical, despite the variety of their configurations.

Reminiscences of Tolstoy 1914

I am convinced that the fundamental type of all the three Tolstoy brothers was identical, just as the type of all maple-leaves is identical, despite the variety of their configurations.

Reminiscences of Tolstoy Tolstoy, Ilya, graf 1914