frondage

These nooks have all been taken possession of by fishermen, and their conically beehive-shaped huts always peep from under the frondage.

How I Found Livingstone Henry Morton 2004

We admire them for their beautifully compounded leaves, and their colors of red, orange, and russet that variegate our meadows in June, their garlands of verdure upon the rocky hills in winter, and the profusion of their frondage in the shady glens in summer.

The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 08, No. 46, August, 1861 Various

He flung himself down in the frondage, and the spice of it in his nostrils was as if he were feeding upon summer.

The Altar Steps Compton MacKenzie 1927

Soft through the frondage the shades of the sunbeams melt,

A Nympholept 1917

Thus every limb, and branch, and twig, and every delicate, perennial frondage of fir and hemlock, gathered an ever-increasing adornment of clearest crystal.

The Watchers of the Trails A Book of Animal Life Charles George Douglas Roberts 1901

Along this low rim its whitish opalescent waters mixed smoothly with the roots and over-hanging blades of the long grasses, with the cloistral arched frondage of the ferns, and with here and there a strayed spray of purple wild-pea.

Earth's Enigmas A Volume of Stories Charles George Douglas Roberts 1901

Little green ferns grew thickly out of the stone crevices, and a minute runlet of water trickled slowly down from above, freshening the delicate frondage as it fell.

Thelma Marie Corelli 1889

What a strange, unsightly thicket of rank verdure was here, thought Theos! ... it was as though Nature, grown tired of floral beauty, had, in a sudden malevolent mood, purposely torn and blurred the fair green frondage and twisted every bud awry!

Ardath Marie Corelli 1889

We came to the domed hall where the fountain played, and this was illumined by the same strange all - penetrating light I had previously noticed, -- the lovely radiance played on the spray of the fountain, making the delicate frondage of ferns and palms and the hues of flowers look like a dream of fairyland.

The Life Everlasting; a reality of romance Marie Corelli 1889

Does it go on existing viewlessly, like the forces that shape spectres of frondage in the frost upon a window-pane?

Kokoro Japanese Inner Life Hints Lafcadio Hearn 1877