A cheer rose from the crowd whose spirit was as vagrant and changeable as a leaf tossed in the wind.

She uses Burmese green tea leaves to make a complex, pungent salad ($6.75) in which the leaves are fermented and tossed with fava beans and a garlic dressing.

Now he might feel insignificant as a leaf tossed before the winds of a storm; but one day he vowed his fate would no longer be commanded by the whims of enchanters.

It took shape under their eyes, a shadowy outline becoming steadily more solid and real; it rose and filled out and its broad leaves rustled and tossed in the wind.

Here and there golden leaves tossed and floated on the rippling stream.

Through watery blurs he made out the Throg ship, not swinging now in serene indifference to Warlock's gravity, but whirling end over end across the sky as might a leaf tossed in a gust of wind.

He was bare-headed, and the leaves had tossed his rebellious curls and tangled all their gilded threads.

Alberto Solis, a character often seen as Azuela's spokesman, answers the same question by comparing the Revolution to a hurricane: "The man who surrenders to it is no longer a man but a miserable dry leaf tossed about by the storm."

Cyprus, the island of Aphrodite, or in the words of the modern poet, 'the golden green leaf tossed into the sea'.

As for our beloved, long-suffering Cyprus, the green and golden leaf tossed into the sea, the island of Aphrodite, we all welcome it, as I do, as a Greek.