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The branches of the old trees, which had been familiar to me either half-denuded or completely gaunt during the winter terms at Devon, now seemed about to break from their storms of leaves.

From "A Separate Peace" by John Knowles

Through the half-denuded trees he made out two mounted figures, riding side by side; and from the fact of there being two, he adduced that this could not be Joseph returning.

From The Tavern Knight by Sabatini, Rafael

She noticed that the locust leaves, first of all to show the changing season, were yellow on the ground; a half-denuded limb was visible in the haze.

From The Prophet of the Great Smoky Mountains by Murfree, Mary Noailles