All the morning I've been wandering about the hill of bush behind our camp gathering flowers and delicate ferns to plant in our little summer house close by.

He picked a bug off a delicate fern and accidentally took the leaf with it.

Some appear like beautiful, delicate ferns; still others look like prehistoric sprays of long, spiny foliage.

The icy moonlight filtered into the lobby area, which had thick, new carpet, furniture covered in pale velveteen, mirrored counters, and huge, delicate ferns.

When the greenhouses was being cleaned out my dear friend Lois Himes, who worked with Mr. Epstein's plants, made sure I got some of those delicate ferns.

(Trying to revive a particularly delicate fern, he decides on "shock therapy" - that is, a lethal stint in the refrigerator.)

This delicate fern is preserved in a very fine-grained sandstone, which fractures rather irregularly.

"Only about twenty miles, then take car and whisk back to my work," he answered, breaking a delicate fern for her.

Even here, in every crevice where a few grains of soil had collected, delicate little ferns might be seen struggling for life, and thrusting out their green fronds towards the light.

And on the back porch above, I want ferns, all manner of delicate ferns.