Bough

Examples

• To her there were not, as to Eustacia, demons in the air, and malice in every bush and bough. Thomas Hardy. The Return of the Native.
• They fall off from me, he said to himself, they hold no more by me than a withered leaf by the bough when a breeze blows on it! Walter Scott. Ivanhoe.
• Frazer's _Golden Bough_ about the ancient use of human beings as well as statues to represent gods. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• I alight here and there, but fly when I am weary of the bough. Fergus Hume. The Island of Fantasy.
• Else it would seem as if I had forgotten him, said Thomasin, tossing out a bough. Thomas Hardy. The Return of the Native.
• Luckily the punt drifted so that he could catch hold of a willow bough, and pull it to the island. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
• Brown, soft-eyed children ran out from the quaint stone hovels to offer nosegays, or bunches of oranges still on the bough. Louisa May Alcott. Little Women.
• Perhaps myself--more likely a bat or a tree-bough. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
• Frazer's _Golden Bough_. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• The savage who seizes hold of a broken bough is in possession of the _lever_, the uses of which he learns by the facility it affords in moving other objects. Frederick C. Bakewell. Great Facts.
• When D'Arnot regained consciousness, he found himself lying upon a bed of soft ferns and grasses beneath a little A shaped shelter of boughs. Edgar Rice Burroughs. Tarzan of the Apes.
• Lunch was served on the lawn, under the great tree, whose thick, blackish boughs came down close to the grass. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
• Perhaps there would be rude wind shelters of boughs on one side of the encampment. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• I saw her through a space in the boughs overhead. Charlotte Bronte. Villette.
• He smelled the odor of the pine boughs under him, the piney smell of the crushed needles and the sharper odor of the resinous sap from the cut limbs. Hemingway, Ernest. For Whom The Bell Tolls.
• Loaves stuck on the points of bayonets, green boughs stuck in gun-barrels. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• The trunks remain still and firm as pillars, while the boughs sway to every breeze. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
• She stood quietly near the window, looking at the grand cedar on her lawn watching a bird on one of its lower boughs. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
• As he approached the window nearest the door he saw that the cabin had been divided into two rooms by a rough partition of boughs and sailcloth. Edgar Rice Burroughs. Tarzan of the Apes.
• Through the boughs of the long avenue beyond the gardens she caught the flash of wheels, and divined that more visitors were approaching. Edith Wharton. The House of Mirth.

Edited by Bryan