Up to a certain period of growth they are eminently beautiful, their boughs disposed in the most graceful pagoda-like series of close terraces, thick and dark with green crystalline leaflets.
Last night As I did walk beneath our orchard trees, The apple boughs dishevelled thus my hair, And then I breathed the orange blossom scent, Until their fragrance almost made me faint.
The two thereupon began to go through the maze of the Kolo, and, as he twisted her round, they both moved so gracefully, keeping time to the music, that they looked like feathery boughs swayed by the summer breeze.
Then we could see no more, but remained there clinging to the boughs as if part of the tree itself, wondering what was to come.
Mr. Laudersdale scorns to secure the sketch; and holding back the boughsfor Miss Heath, and assisting her down the steps, quietly follows.
When from the wattle-woven house Nial the Mighty softly stepped, And peered beneath the ashtree boughs To where he thought the white-robe slept, He heard the monk's words rise in prayer.
Christmas garlands of myrtle hung on the walls, and a great pile of freshly cut laurel boughs lay on a bench, ready for the morrow's arranging.
I heard her voice; my heart was rent, My boughsbegan to shiver, And age on age, in punishment, My sorrowing leaflets quiver.
A robin, who had fluttered in at dusk, and found Christmas cheer on the holly boughs and warmth for his numbed little feet, trilled a song of gratitude that winter had made such speed to be gone.
The clump of golden willows looked beautiful that morning; the yellow boughs and twigs glanced in the sunshine, and the thick leaves were all in a quiver under the kisses of the wind.
The mouse-gray goldenrod nodded approval of his mood, and the oak-trees swung their yet green boughs in sympathy with his light-hearted onward rush.
Then the women came forward and covered the mound with boughs of green, and clusters of flowers, and sprays of bright leaves, and Sydney laid about the whole grave a garland of feathery aster and delicate fern.
But as she rode on in sinuous avoidance of protruding boughsand upstart bushes, she was seized by a shyness quite new to her.
The trees had been trimmed so that the boughsoverhead were interlaced and it went for about half a mile into the forest, like the vaulted aisle of a church.
I told him it was a lot of withered old boughs on the great tree of the Canadian Expeditionary Force--a description which was naturally much resented by the other members.
The men, over a hundred in number, stood in a semi-circle in front of me, and the bright sunlight beyond the rim of overhanging boughs lit up the green grass around.
On the wide lawn in front of the Château a huge chestnut tree stood, rich in leaves, with low boughs branching in all directions and covering a wide radius, and with their tips almost touching the grass.
My hut was comfortable, and the tree that grew beside it stretched its thickly-leaved boughs over it, as though wishing to protect it from the sight of enemy planes.
Such as deal in them endeavour to persuade strangers that they have no feet, and that they hang themselves, when they sleep, to the boughs of trees by means of their feathers.
Frank did as requested, but it showed only a half-frozen and dripping boy clinging to the boughs of a tree which was already beginning to drop down beneath his weight.
As well with orange-boughs for bearing orange-buds, or water upon its boiling-point!
The white peonies and the iris flowers were long since gone, and on the Harvest apple trees and the Sweet Boughs the fruit hung ripening.
I put them in the carryall, my dear, Sweet Boughsand Harvest apples.
Franklin followed it on horseback, and saw it enter a wood, where it twisted and turned round large trees: leaves and boughs were carried up so high that they appeared to the eye like flies.
The ourang-outang, that makes a nest of the boughs of trees, is said to construct a fresh one every night.
Get some boughs to put inside," suggested their leader.
They cut some cedar boughs which they laid on the ground to keep off the dampness, making several layers until Fenn, who tried it, said it was every bit as good as his spring bed at home.
They did not undress, but stretching out on the cedar boughs pulled the blankets over them and prepared to sleep.
Chopped boughs of fir are strewn about the rooms, and leaves are stuck in the roofs.
A woman in such a condition has boughs of some tree of her totem tied round her loins, and is constantly watched and guarded, for it is thought that should any male be so unfortunate as to see a woman in such a condition, he would die.
As the flames rise the peasant women throw birchen boughs into them, saying, "May my flax be as tall as this bough!
A rough shelter of boughs is then built over her, and thus she remains lying for a few hours.
Her bottles on the table lay, Stoppered yet sweet of violet; Her image in the mirror stooped To view those locks as lightly looped As cherry-boughs in May.
Then Lucy sees in clouds of gold sweet cherry-trees upgrow, And bushes of red roses that bloomed above the snow; She smells all faint the almond-boughs that blow so wild and fair, And doves with milky eyes ascend fluttering in the air.
Tis silent in the avenue, The sombre pines are mute of song, The blue is dark, there moves no breeze The boughs among.
Here again were oxen, mules and asses, or great bucks such as we now know as eland or kudoo, carried in on rough litters of boughs to be disposed of by parties of savage huntsmen who had shot them with arrows or trapped them in pitfalls.
When he saw her again she was speeding towards the figure of a man who stood in the open, about ten paces from the outer boughs of the tree.
O how will your country show next week, When all the vine-boughs 130 Have been stripped of their foliage to pasture The mules and the cows?
Fix his heart's fruit for thy garland-crown, Cling with his soul as the gourd-vine cleaves, Die on thy boughs and disappear 640 While not a leaf of thine is sere?
I cannot bear all this: There also advance the officiators from the Temple of Libitina; they have their cypressboughs ready in their hands.
In this it was easy to gratify him; for there was an old willow just a few yards off, and its boughs were so dry with age, that I soon abstracted a very proper wand for him.
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