Word: leafless
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...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...
Verano, the dry, summer season of Spanish-America, left its mark in parched river beds and many leafless trees, some bearing weird green fruits, others ablaze with blossoms, yellow, white or pink. These conditions in the lowlands made plant hunting not as favorable as in the hills, for there vegetation grew thickly because of the continual moisture, supplied by low-lying clouds. Here scores of odd lichens, curious, climbling epiphytic plants, growing on all available tree trunks in the darkly forested places gave witness to the unending persistency of jungle life, besides affording rich material for the steel cases...