leaves
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It is lovely to look at�Cameraman Henri Deca� laves his park and his pond and his wandering darlings in a Proustian pallor of times lost.
From Time Magazine Archive
Shorn of their crests the blighted waves With driven foam the offing fleck: The ebb is low and barely laves The red rust of the giant wreck.
From The Poetical Works of Robert Bridges by Bridges, Robert
The valiant John, begirt with warlike state, Now leads his bands from fair Abrantes' gate; Whose lawns of green the infant Tagus laves, As from his spring he rolls his cooly waves.
From The Lusiad or The Discovery of India, an Epic Poem by Camões, Luís de
A dolphin now, his scaly sides he laves; And bears the sportive damsel on the waves; She strikes the cymbals as he moves along, And wondering Ocean listens to the song.
From Heathen Mythology by Various
The grounds which on the right aspire, In dimness from the view retire: The left presents a place of graves, Whose wall the silent water laves.
From English Verse Specimens Illustrating its Principles and History by Alden, Raymond MacDonald
