Word: leafless
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...curtain, dropping back to him from the library's front. He stood a moment, hearing the whole church catch up a hymn and call back to the choir. There was no money here, no colored lights, no tinsel; Vag had the Yard to himself for a time, alone with leafless trees and space and darkness...
...students since he first began to prey on the College's pigeons. She got no pictures yesterday. She stood high on the platform of a Cambridge Electric Company streetlamp repair truck behind University Hall and focussed her telephoto camera on the tree where the owl was sitting, hidden behind leafless branches...
...leafless little parks of Vichy seemed even more forlorn than before. The name Pétain might keep for many a touch of magic-a legendary gleam that shone out of the mud of Verdun. But the man Pétain, watery-eyed and old, and his regime, for months largely fictional, seemed indisputably through...
...Committee put 90 of them on exhibition in Manhattan, asked the public to help a gilt-edged jury pick the winners. On their choice for first prize both public and jury agreed. It was a picture of a bleak, bare no man's land on which a solitary, leafless tree stood silhouetted. Its simple motto: "Lest we regret. . . ." Its painter: Manhattan freelance Commercial Artist Arthur Hawkins...
...never travelled much, and she was seldom in London. Her story is of the small details of life in the country and the short excursions and walks she and William and Samuel Coleridge would make of impressions of the fugitive beauty of a scene, or of the way the leafless branches looked against the moon. These Mrs. MacLean has gleaned from the voluminous Journal and the letters, and presented them so that they give a vivid impression of Dorothy's life and personality...