Sue told him about Johnsy and how she feared that her friend would float away like a leaf.

VOA: special.2009.08.01

Sue obeyed. After the beating rain and fierce wind that blew through the night, there yet stood against the wall one ivy leaf.

VOA: special.2009.08.01

The tree sap in early spring; the new-born green leaf, soft and fresh as skin;

VOA: special.2010.02.27

The main ones include head lettuce, such as iceberg, leaf lettuce, Boston,bibb and romaine.

VOA: special.2009.04.28

And look out the window,dear, at the last ivy leaf on the wall.

VOA: special.2009.08.01

But by the 1960s, cigar manufacturing had become highly mechanized, the government was heavily taxing tobacco products, and the importation of fine-leaf tobacco from Communist Cuba was forbidden.

VOA: standard.2010.04.15

Locals joke that Yemeni trees are actually blue and red, the color of the plastic bags that you get when you buy qat, a mildly narcotic leaf, and the Yemeni national past time.

VOA: standard.2010.04.01