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Synonyms for leaf

page

leaf through something

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turn over a new leaf

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Synonyms for leaf

to look through reading matter casually

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Synonyms for leaf

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She led him around the room, presenting him to each new-arriving Clover Leaf. Almost was she pretty now, with the unique luminosity in her eyes that comes to a girl with her first suitor and a kitten with its first mouse.
The girls besieged her for introductions to her "fellow." The Clover Leaf young men, after two years of blindness, suddenly perceived charms in Miss Toole.
But the last leaf of the row of plants seized the beast even as he ran and instantly he disappeared from sight.
Then he felt himself gently lifted until he was swaying in the air, with the folds of the leaf hugging him on all sides.
The old toad was down under the marsh, decorating her room with rushes and yellow marigold leaves, to make it very grand for her new daughter-in-law; then she swam out with her ugly son to the leaf where Thumbelina lay.
The whole tree itself is but one leaf, and rivers are still vaster leaves whose pulp is intervening earth, and towns and cities are the ova of insects in their axils.
"I am covered with fine gold," said the Prince, "you must take it off, leaf by leaf, and give it to my poor; the living always think that gold can make them happy."