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  • Suddenly a funnel of light flared into the darkness, intensifying it, waking into vivid green a full-foliaged holly; a rain of blows echoed back and forth through the night, a whirr of bewildered wings mingled with it, a frantic piping that was drowned in the clamour even as it burst forth.

    Secret Bread F. Tennyson Jesse

  • See how full-foliaged he is -- how he stands over most of the others, but not so much over these four next to him.

    The Man of the Forest 1919

  • A full-foliaged tree of vivid green, its round surface crowded with these birds, as if it had suddenly blossomed with huge white flowers, is a sight worth seeing.

    II. Up the Paraguay 1914

  • He admired Helen because she was beautiful, yet the feeling was much the same he might have experienced for a graceful deer, a full-foliaged tree, or a dark mossy-stoned bend in a murmuring brook.

    The Last Trail Zane Grey 1905

  • See how full-foliaged he is -- how he stands over most of the others, but not so much over these four next to him.

    The Man of the Forest Zane Grey 1905

  • Bright shop-windows, before which little Wiedemann would scream with pleasure, restaurants and dinners a la carte, full-foliaged trees and gardens in the heart of the town were a not unwelcome exchange for Italian church-interiors and altar-pieces.

    Robert Browning Dowden, Edward 1904

  • This full-foliaged land has its harsh and stern localities.

    Saint Augustin Louis Bertrand 1903

  • It stood nakedly amidst the bare, bleak meadows glittering with pools of still water, with not even the leaf of a creeper to soften its menacing walls, although above them appeared the full-foliaged tops of trees planted in the barrack-yard.

    The Green Mummy Fergus Hume 1895

  • She had come to him extending, as it were, an olive branch -- living, lustrous, full-foliaged; and in return he seemed able to offer nothing beyond a mere splinter-like twig -- dry, sapless, unpliant.

    With the Procession Henry Blake Fuller 1893

  • A full-foliaged tree of vivid green, its round surface crowded with these birds, as if it had suddenly blossomed with huge white flowers, is a sight worth seeing.

    Through the Brazilian Wilderness Theodore Roosevelt 1888

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