brown-leaved

There are two sorts of it: the leaf of one is green, even when dry; this is called ribbé, and comes from Upper Egypt: the other is brown-leaved, the best sort of which grows about Tahta, to the south of Siout.

Travels in Arabia 2003

The arrivals and departures of half the well-known families of the South are recorded in the mottled-backed, musty, brown-leaved old registers.

My beloved South, Mrs. T. P. O 1914

Red or brown-leaved varieties of trees and shrubs also occasionally produce green-leaved branches, and in this way revert to the type [181] from which they must evidently have arisen.

Species and Varieties, Their Origin by Mutation Hugo de Vries 1891

They had scarcely gone a mile before the head-light fell upon a moving form half walking, half crawling among some stunted brown-leaved bushes by the side of a broad, stagnant stream.

A Honeymoon in Space George Chetwynd Griffith 1881

The frost on the edges of the brown-leaved bracken gave a faint colour.

Sandra Belloni — Volume 7 George Meredith 1868

The frost on the edges of the brown-leaved bracken gave a faint colour.

Complete Project Gutenberg Works of George Meredith George Meredith 1868

The frost on the edges of the brown-leaved bracken gave a faint colour.

Sandra Belloni — Complete George Meredith 1868

Far and wide, alas, like a brown-leaved Vallombrosa; which waits but one whirlblast of the

The French Revolution Thomas Carlyle 1838

Church, and Church Formulas seemed to flourish, a little brown-leaved or so, but not browner than of late years or decades; to flourish, far and wide, in the sympathies of an unsophisticated People; defying

The French Revolution Thomas Carlyle 1838

Day, Brunswick has come, and the Emigrants, and La Vendee, and eighteen months of Time: to all flourishing, especially to brown-leaved flourishing, there comes, were it never so slowly, an end.

The French Revolution Thomas Carlyle 1838