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  • verb Present participle of unleave.

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Examples

  • Back when he crossed in the dark from a country he can no longer name at the border they stripped his tongue from him like contraband leaving him speechless on this fall day before the mere underfoot of careless unleaving:

    Emigre' David Ackley 2011

  • I thought it was my excitement about spring finally getting it together around these parts Goldengrove is leaving, at present, but you're probably right that it's the unleaving I was subconsciously meditating on.

    Ferule & Fescue Flavia 2009

  • In plain fact, only the opening and concluding lines of “Spring and Fall” are directly relevant: “Margaret, are you grieving Over Goldengrove unleaving?”

    Goldengrove 2008

  • Goldengrove is a literary dimension, a world made of books, where it is not the trees whose “unleaving” is the occasion for grief.

    Goldengrove 2008

  • In plain fact, only the opening and concluding lines of “Spring and Fall” are directly relevant: “Margaret, are you grieving Over Goldengrove unleaving?”

    Archive 2008-12-01 2008

  • Goldengrove is a literary dimension, a world made of books, where it is not the trees whose “unleaving” is the occasion for grief.

    Archive 2008-12-01 2008

  • Addressed "to a young child," it begins: "Margaret, are you grieving/Over Goldengrove unleaving?"

    Goldengrove 2008

  • It was a grove in the center of the haunted circle, a grove in which the noon sun did not even penetrate the unleaving branches of the trees.

    In Celebration Of Lammas Night Lackey, Mercedes 1996

  • He writes about "… grieving/over Goldengrove unleaving."

    Countercurrents.org 2009

  • grieving over goldengrove unleaving, unlike Horatio I am not an antique Roman

    Archive 2009-11-01 Kat Howard 2009

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