Green trees and emerald vines wove a canopy overhead, swaying and cascading in uneven strands.
They went up to Aunt Elizabeth's big, sombre bedroom where there was dark, grim wallpaper that could58 never be transformed into a fairy curtain, a high black bureau, topped with a tiny swing-mirror, so far above her that there could be no Emily-in-the-glass, tightly closed windows with dark-green curtains, a high bedstead with a dark-green canopy, and a huge, fat, smothering feather-bed, with high, hard pillows.
" Then they were off in the double-seated buggy with its fringed canopy, always affected by the Murrays of New Moon.
" "What under the canopy did they want of a lamp, and where did they get the money to pay for it?
The canopy of entwined trees held out shadow, the night whispered a pledge of protection, and an officious lamp flashed just one beam to show me an obscure, safe seat, and then vanished.
Three fine tall trees growing close, almost twined stem within stem, lifted a thick canopy of shade above a green knoll, crowned with a seat—a seat which might have held several, yet it seemed abandoned to one, the remaining members of the fortunate party in possession of this site standing dutifully round; yet, amongst this reverend circle was a lady, holding by the hand a little girl.
And now all was prepared: but one compartment of the hall waited to be filled—a compartment covered with crimson, like the grand staircase and doors, furnished with stuffed and cushioned benches, ranged on each side of two regal chairs, placed solemnly under a canopy.
The light beat upon him where he stood, but long shadows trailed down the walls and hung like a black canopy above him.
Never had bride a more magnificent canopy.
Peter's, the huge bronze canopy, the excited intention in the attitudes and garments of the prophets and evangelists in the mosaics above, and the red drapery which was being hung for Christmas spreading itself everywhere like a disease of the retina.
The Birch Path was a canopy of yellow and the ferns were sear and brown all along it.
What under the canopy is the Haunted Wood?
She had been wondering what under the canopy she should do if Anne did not give in.
Overhead was one long canopy of snowy fragrant bloom.
When Changi's new Jewel terminal opened in April, it made headlines around the globe for its 40-meter waterfall (the world's largest indoor one), a 14,000-square-meter Canopy Park, complete with a suspension bridge, topiary and mazes, and one of Asia's largest indoor gardens with 3,000 trees and 60,000 shrubs.
" 'Due to the age and size structure of the existing canopy, efforts to aid in the establishment and preservation of tree health are imperative for increasing urban tree cover and maximising the wide range of ecosystem services provided by the urban canopy.
And over all, the dull, murky sky stretched like a dark canopy, a vast infinity of greyness.
Here thick black trunks crowded close together , while twisted branches wove a dense canopy overhead and misshappen roots wrestled beneath the soil.
Remove all of these shoots up to the base of the main canopy of the tree to encourage a good shape.
"So it's an absolute privilege to see something as special and as rare as a gibbon in a canopy in a Chinese rainforest and especially when it turns out that the gibbons are actually a new species previously unrecognised by science.
