Sentence examples for leafy forests from inspiring English sources

"He invited me up to his manor, and I couldn't believe how much the rolling hills and leafy forests reminded me of where I grew up in Czechoslovakia".

In presenting this great Czech opera, first performed in Brno in 1924, most companies seize on the chance to create fanciful animal costumes and beguiling sets that evoke leafy forests.

Bisecting the Pindos is the stunning 12km-long Vikos Gorge - probably the world's deepest - and now a national park filled with leafy forests, waterfalls and ice-cold mountain lakes, and surrounded by immaculate traditional stone-and-slate villages, the Zagorohoria.

I lounged on a beach in Thailand, trekked high into the snowy Himalaya, ran through the leafy forests of Germany, rode a camel through the ancient city of Petra, and peeked down into the depths of the Grand Canyon.

It looked so pretty before it went into the oven, like a lacy, leafy forest.

The French came here early, and Madagascar's first church, built in 1837, still stands, its red bell tower rising out of the leafy forest.

Dancers perform in front of and behind screens, transporting characters from a leafy forest to city streets and, finally, an office.

"Gaming involves combining skilled engineering with a creative atmosphere," said Mr. Begemann, 36, in the start-up's five-story office where programmers share ideas in an open-plan kitchen that has been designed to look like a leafy forest.

"It's still a vibrant, vital postal facility," said Sylvester Black, the district manager and postmaster of New York, whose office overlooks Eighth Avenue through a leafy forest of gigantic Corinthian capitals.

The grounds are nestled between rice paddies and a leafy forest, and the center's brightly painted temple sits several stone steps up from a gentle brook and a small pond stocked with lotus flowers and koi.

Still, this is a "Ring" in which Valhalla is a true fairy-tale castle in the sky, with a rainbow bridge for the gods who dwell there; in which Brünnhilde, after being laid to rest in a sleeping spell by Wotan, is engulfed by lapping flames and clouds of smoke; in which Siegfried forges his sword on a makeshift anvil in a leafy forest, not at some steamy modern-day steel plant.