What is "leafless"

Usage examples of "leafless".

Now I found myself upon an apparently abandoned road which I had chosen as the shortest cut to Arkham, overtaken by the storm at a point far from any town, and confronted with no refuge save the antique and repellent wooden building which blinked with bleared windows from between two huge leafless elms near the foot of a rocky hill.

The two moved easily among the gray, leafless trees, Daile every bit as silent as the lean and powerful barbarian.

This road was lined on both verges with immense chestnut trees, leafless now, so their limbs meeting above the road resembled the ogive arches and groins of some kind of churchly edifice.

Looking up, she noticed leafless trees surrounding their exit portal, producing dark, scary silhouettes pitted against an orangey, reddish-tinged night sky.

He moved a little, lifting his head in restless query, like a wolf scenting the wind, but no message reached us save a distant rattling of leafless branches.

Leafless herbs like beechdrops, lavender toothwort, and various bright-flowered small orchids, often without green leaves, were everywhere, growing from the roots of other living plants or their decaying remains.

There were diseased trees, leafless and gaunt and sprouting contagious-looking boles on their trunks, and there were the unsanctioned scrub oaks the landscape architect had disparaged, and pear trees whose fruit progressed from unripe on the limb to rotten on the ground in a single night and then harbored wasps in the holes in their seepy, sticky sides.

The weak winter light falls everywhere in his yard, webbed by the shadows from leafless twigs.

Ships innumerable nuzzled at the endless line of docks, mast overspiring mast, and bowsprit overlapping bowsprit, till the eye was bewildered, as if by the confusion of branches in a leafless forest.

The evening vapours rose between the leafless poplars, touching their outlines with a violet tint, paler and more transparent than a subtle gauze caught athwart their branches.

The leafless maples and birches did not exactly resemble trees but might have been the fossilized skeletons of an ancient prehuman race.

And all this leafless and uncoloured scene Shall flush into variety again, Now spread their wings, and throng around To the glad mournful sound.

Tall trees, now almost leafless, towered above roofs and pointed gables, and there were mature unpollarded trees growing in the pavements.

Leafless herbs like beechdrops, lavender toothwort, and various bright-flowered small orchids, often without green leaves, were everywhere, growing from the roots of other living plants or their decaying remains.

The quince and apple trees stood almost leafless now, the pear boughs had long since stretched naked against the sky, but beside them, as a windbreak, stood a line of ancient candlebark gum trees, as green as ever.