Frondage

These nooks have all been taken possession of by fishermen, and their conically beehive-shaped huts always peep from under the frondage. ❋ 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. ❋ Various (N/A)

He flung himself down in the frondage, and the spice of it in his nostrils was as if he were feeding upon summer. ❋ Compton MacKenzie (1927)

Soft through the frondage the shades of the sunbeams melt, ❋ Unknown (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. ❋ 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. ❋ 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. ❋ 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! ❋ 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. ❋ Marie Corelli (1889)

Does it go on existing viewlessly, like the forces that shape spectres of frondage in the frost upon a window-pane? ❋ Lafcadio Hearn (1877)

Huge masses of frondage, catching the failing light, take strange fiery color; -- the sun's rim almost touches one violet hump in the western procession of volcanic silhouettes .... ❋ Lafcadio Hearn (1877)

The more the sun ascends, the more rapid the development of the landscape out of vapory blue; the hills all become green-faced, reveal the details of frondage. ❋ Lafcadio Hearn (1877)

Then, black-towering into the golden glow of sunset, the land loses all its color, all its charm; forms of frondage, variations of tint, become invisible. ❋ Lafcadio Hearn (1877)

The brilliancy of colors that seem almost preternatural; the vastness of the ocean of frondage, and the violet blackness of rare gaps, revealing its in conceived profundity; and the million mysterious sounds which make up its perpetual murmur, -- compel the idea of a creative force that almost terrifies. ❋ Lafcadio Hearn (1877)

And the summits of some are domed like the head of Shaka, and the dark bossy frondage that clothes them might seem the clustering of his curls. ❋ Lafcadio Hearn (1877)

Athwart the stillness of the frondage-towers! xiii. ❋ Eric Mackay (1874)

And sit beneath the frondage of an elderberry tree, ❋ Unknown (1873)

Its dark-hued, dome-shaped frondage contrasted strangely with the paler green foliage of the eucalyptus trees that surrounded it. ❋ Ernest Giles (1866)