downiness

Example Sentences

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You shall receive it, Miss O'Carroll, with all the gloss of novelty; fresh as a ripe green-gage in all the downiness of its bloom.

From Nightmare Abbey by Peacock, Thomas Love

The habit of the shrub is densely bushy, and the foliage has a greyish green colour from its downiness.

From Hardy Perennials and Old Fashioned Flowers Describing the Most Desirable Plants, for Borders, Rockeries, and Shrubberies. by Wood, John

The downiness noticed on the underside of the Bullace leaves is here restricted to the ribs of the leaf.

From Wayside and Woodland Trees A pocket guide to the British sylva by Step, Edward

The poplar foliage had the downiness of a Corot arbor; the green and silver trunks were as candid as the birches, as slender and lustrous as the limbs of a Pierrot.

From Main Street by Lewis, Sinclair

And above the organ rose the notes of a voice; high, soft, enveloped in a kind of downiness, like a cloud of incense, and which ran through the mazes of a long cadence.

From Hauntings by Lee, Vernon