The phrase "a leaf from a" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when referring to a specific excerpt or piece of information taken from a larger work, such as a book or document.
Example: "In her latest novel, she included a leaf from a historical manuscript that added depth to the story."
Alternatives: "an excerpt from a" or "a snippet from a".
A leaf from a Carolingian folio of a major patristic text.
He plucks a leaf from a nearby pot-plant, wipes himself off, and drops it behind the bed.
A street vendor selling fermented soya bean wraps his produce inside a leaf from a fig tree.
He sent his brother to snip a leaf from a Caribbean laundry next door, and started growing that, too.
In some respects, he wrote, "extracting a gene is akin to snapping a leaf from a tree".
But then, the work is a little muted: as dated as a leaf from a Victorian scrapbook and dismissed by its composer as a "worthless occasional piece".
Written in dozens of miniature books, these manuscripts – with curious, secretive titles such as A Peep into a Picture Book, The Spell, A Leaf from an Unopened Volume – are not only an astonishing example of craftsmanship, but contain extraordinary, uncensored content.
A leaf from an eighth-century manuscript of the Koran reputed to be from the Hijaz and another in gold lettering on blue ground from a ninth-century manuscript likely to be from the east-Iranian province of Khorasan had nothing in common with the north-Iranian bowl painted with a bold stylized bird in the 10th-11th century. 10th-11th century
Never so Good finds a bespectacled Irons presiding over a half-century or more of Macmillan in and away from the spotlight, the actor's unexpectedly touching presence joining with Brenton's own sympathies to animate what could have been (to take a leaf from an earlier National play, The History Boys) merely a view of history as 'just one fucking thing after another'.
Davis Logsdon, who teaches at the University of Minnesota's School of Film and is considered the world's foremost expert in the cinema of Goldie Hawn, said that in choosing Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin to be his running mate Sen. John McCain was taking a leaf from an unproduced Hawn vehicle from 1984 titled "Contestant in Chief".
Remove a leaf from an aloe vera plant properly.
