...The heavens spread their fiery veils as if to stifle all noises, to envelop all existences; the rabbit under the broom, the fly under the leaf, slept as the wave did beneath the heavens...
Alexandre Dumas, Pere 「The Man in the Iron Mask」
...He would take a leaf out of the book of Morgan and those other robbers of the sea, and make a punitive raid upon an English settlement...
Rafael Sabatini 「Captain Blood」
... Here theyhalted, while Tarzan examined every branch and leaf which might havebeen touched by the fleeing ape...
Edgar Rice Burroughs 「Jungle Tales of Tarzan」
...She is a miserable old woman,” said the girl, throwing the leaf from her; “but I intend to go to school...
(AKA Ralph Iron) Olive Schreiner 「The Story of an African Farm」
... You care nothing that this is ragged and ugly,” she said, putting her little finger on his sleeve; “but you strive mightily to make an imaginary leaf on an old stick beautiful...
(AKA Ralph Iron) Olive Schreiner 「The Story of an African Farm」
...He himself applied the leaf of a plant called cathory, famed among the natives as an excellent remedy for ulcers...
David Livingstone 「Missionary Travels and Researches in South Africa」
...The clammy fluid is intended to entrap insects, which, dying on the leaf, probably yield nutriment to the plant...
David Livingstone 「Missionary Travels and Researches in South Africa」
...It was mixed with quantities of another aquatic plant, which the Barotse named "Njefu", containing in the petiole of the leaf a pleasant-tasted nut...
David Livingstone 「Missionary Travels and Researches in South Africa」
...They are of plaited palm leaf - that’sall you can safely generalise regarding them - for sometimes they havebroad brims, sometimes narrow, sometimes no brims at all...
Mary H. Kingsley 「Travels in West Africa」
...It grows very rapidly, and hasgreat leaves something like a sycamore leaf, only much larger...
Mary H. Kingsley 「Travels in West Africa」
...He took apiece of plantain leaf and tore it up into five different sized bits...
Mary H. Kingsley 「Travels in West Africa」
...It is theninclosed in a blank leaf or sheet of paper, withoutany address, and not sealed...
Abd Salam Shabeeny 「An Account of Timbuctoo and Housa Territories in the Interior of Africa」
...Sheeats everything, covers herself with a mat to sleep, and makes a nest ofgrass or leaves, and wipes her face with a leaf...
David Livingstone 「The Last Journals of David Livingstone, in Central Africa, from 1865 to His Death, Volume II (of 2), 1869-1873」
...A large leaf was then bound round the fractured thigh, and earththrown in, so that the patient was buried up to the chest...
David Livingstone 「The Last Journals of David Livingstone, in Central Africa, from 1865 to His Death, Volume II (of 2), 1869-1873」
...Piles of cocoanuts lay on the ground, covered each with a leaf plaited in a peculiarly individual manner to indicate ownership...
Stewart Edward White 「African Camp Fires」
...If the vegetation were all in leaf,the scenery would be quite cheerful and happy-looking...
James Richardson 「Narrative of a Mission to Central Africa Performed in the Years 1850-51, Volume 2」
...Amongst the plants observed yesterday was thecactus, with a smooth leaf...
James Richardson 「Narrative of a Mission to Central Africa Performed in the Years 1850-51, Volume 2」
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