Protestantism is the grand root from which our whole subsequent European History branches out.
I bend branches and scatter flakes of parched leaves all over the sod .
I asks Johnnie when he'd got through squinting up the tree branches to the sky.
It was autumn, and in that high land the few trees were already bare; before the high wind the bare branches swayed.
The minute we get home, you hack off one of the bottom branches of that cedar tree outside the gate; a good bushy one about three feet high.
Through the wood there ran a perpetual ghostly murmur, a sound of sighing, groaning, struggling, as the branches beat to and fro and rubbed against each other.
After two nights of horror, during which hundreds clung to housetops calling for help until their voices gave way, while dozens perched in the branches of trees, many were still beyond the reach of rescuers.
The upper floors of houses not torn from their foundations look all right, but it fairly makes you sick to see the waves of turbid water lapping at second floor sills, with tangled tree branches and broken furniture floating about.
The shade trees that stood in the streets so trim and beautiful are all bedraggled and bent, their branches festooned with floating wreckage and all manner of offensive things, their leaves sodden, their trunks caked with mud.
The last I saw of him he was trying to get into the window of an abandoned house by way of one of the branches of the tree," said Frank Stevens, a fellow employee of Scott.
With the exception of the live trees which were blown over, these forms of impediment to travel were not especially menacing; the dead branches crumbled before an ax.
It was all the scattered communities could do before this period to keep the falling trees and branches from blocking the old roads.
A faint breeze moved the branches of the apple tree over our heads.
Much pleasanter to skim over the water, mindful only of the waving branches of the great elms overhead and the grassy bankings dotted with the yellow blossoms of the arnica.
Its branches are within easy reach, and its tender buds would be nipped off by sheep and cattle if it were not for these sharp thorns.
The root branchesout all at once in the maize seed.
The horse-chestnut and beech have tall, stout stems, which rear up their branchesfar out of the reach of grazing animals.
But although America enjoys all these advantages, it can not be denied that her social condition presents impediments of a formidable character toward the cultivation of the higher and more refined branches of literature.
Branches of fruit are much worn upon these last-mentioned bonnets.
From these rude snatches of song sprung to life the fire of poetic genius, and at Mentz was first established that celebrated guild, branches of which soon after extended themselves to most of the provincial towns.
The tree was mounted on a timber-carriage, and, with its branches lashed to prevent damage to windows, passed through the streets, a singular but beautiful sight.
Wreaths are worn very full, composed of flowers and fruits of every kind; they are placed on the forehead, and the branches at the end of them are long, and fall on the neck.
There were also two branches with clustering, red-gold oranges lying among the flowers.
By the side of the path, growing among pointed rocks, there was a gnarled olive-tree, whose branches projected towards her.
The night had grown black, the branches tossed, and the leaves fluttered audibly in the darkness over them.
The bare branches of the maples creaked, and the dead leaves fled up the road in a whirl of dust.
The gutters were slushy running streams, the elms shook their branches restlessly, as if full of the sweet pains of stirring sap and the coming birth of leaves.
We are at present on a small scale, but we are making arrangements to enlarge our number and our branches of industry.
The most imminent of these is the birth of a commercial feudalism or the monopoly of commerce and industry by joint-stock companies, leagued together for the purpose of usurping and controlling all branches of industrial organizations.
New groups and series may be formed from time to time for the prosecution of different and new branches of industry.
The infant school was for children under six years of age; the primary school, for children under ten; the preparatory school for pupils over ten years of age, intending to pursue the higher branches of study in the institution.
In fine, have you confidence that by your manual labor in the branches you have mentioned, you could do more than earn your living in Association?
I am at present situated as foreman of a daily paper in Bangor, and previous to this time, have had a somewhat varied experience in other branches of the business.
There is a gnarled old apple-tree, and on its branches grow the most beautiful red-cheeked apples you ever saw.
In those days, folk say, there was a mighty ash-tree named Yggdrasil, so vast that its branches shaded the whole earth and stretched up into heaven where the AEsir dwelt, while its roots sank far down below the lowest depth.
In the branchesof the big ash-tree lived a queer family of creatures.
Quickly gliding beneath the drooping branches of one of the cypress trees, she fell on her knees before the frowning pillar of stone.
The only thing these Normans will respect is the broadsword, as it flashes at their breast, or the arrow, glancing unerringly through the branches of the trees in the forest fastnesses.
Suddenly Badger diverged from the path, and, dismounting, led his horse through the thicket, putting aside the branches as he passed.
The low branches are put aside, and the burly form of Sigurd, the dispossessed viking chieftain, emerges before them.
So the three dismounted, and began slowly to thread their way by a path, winding and difficult, with branches hanging low, and brushwood closing up, so as to make progress impossible except in single file.
This was greatly intensified along the forest path by the lofty and overhanging branches of the trees.
Not a sound fell on the stillness of the night air, saving the horrid braying of a stag in the distant wood, and the screeching of owlets as they fluttered amid the branches of the trees in quest of prey.
Upon this framework of oaken branches the roof and sides were dexterously thatched by heather from the neighbouring moor, and over all a rude daubing of mud and lime mixed; the whole making a rude, but, nevertheless, a warm and dry abode.
Overhead the bats are flitting in and out amongst the branches of the trees, followed by the heavy beat of the owlet's wing, whose eyes, catlike, are gleaming like live coals in the darkness.
By a Carnac family I was afterwards given a sprig of such blessed box-wood, and was assured that its exorcizing power is still recognized by all old Breton families, most of whom seem to possess branches of it.
Especially in Ireland, the gentry live inside the mountains in beautiful castles; and there are a good many branches of them in other countries.
Anwyl, The Four Branches of the Mabinogi, in Zeit.
Both branches of this common Celtic ancestral stock held the re-birth doctrine.
Both schools include men eminent in allbranches of biological sciences.
Grizel agreed cheerfully, casting a roving eye over the branches of greenery, scattered intermittently with daffodils which had had their day.
The gardeners were busy pruning and training, cleverly inserting new branches among the old.
Green branches on the larches, shimmers of green on oak and ash, swelling of buds on the great chestnuts, and through the bare brown of the earth the shooting of living things.
Any such attempt would be checked by the judges, who are designed by the constitution to keep the different branches of the government within the spheres of their respective orbits, and say thus far shall you legislate, and no further.
And where its blue streak is displayed, Branches their emerald net-work braid So high, the eagle in his flight Seems but a dot upon the sight.
It is straight as an arrow, and has no branches but very near the top.
The bark wept little sickly tears of gum, and the branches grew awry, as if they felt the continual discord, and made sorry faces at each other behind their owner's back.
The only sounds that disturbed the quiet of this buried city, were the noise of monkeys moving among the tops of the trees, and the cracking of dry branches broken by their weight.
Oh, when its aged branches throw Thin shadows on the sward below, Shall fraud and force and iron-will Oppress the weak and helpless still?
These overhanging branches protected one side of the triangle, and Tommy suggested that they could be employed as a framework upon which they might spread mats woven from the grasses on the bank of the stream.
Some were cracked and broken, but others had merely bent to the blast, while the ground was strewn with the more massive trunks, and with innumerable small branches and twigs.
Here they laid the canes across the projecting branches of the three trees, binding them firmly in place with strong tendrils of a creeping plant.
Those three trees can be the corner posts of our hut, and we can use the branches to make a roof.
Our agricultural college staffs, the highway department and several other branches of the Michigan government, are heartily and enthusiastically co-operating in this work.
With this walnut tree with branches low down the corn seemed to be stunted where it grew a little way under the branches.
On the other hand I saw another one where the branches were high up and cabbages growing almost up to the tree and about as luxuriantly as outside of its branches.
It gripped the oak by its branches and tore it from its roots.
It is a garden full of flowers in the heart of winter; a nest among the branches of a great tree shaken by the winds; a still haven on the edge of a tempestuous sea.
Not a beam of it sifted downward through the branches of the oak.
Gods, they called them, and told strange tales of their dwelling among the impenetrable branches of the oldest trees and in the caverns of the shaggy hills; of their riding on the wind-horses and hurling spears of lightning against their foes.
Gnarled oaks, with branches twisted and knotted as if in rage, rose in groves like tidal waves.
Now I shoe my feet with the toughest hides, hard as iron; no rock can cut them, no branches can tear them.
They kindled lights among the branches until it seemed to be tangled full of fire-flies.
I see no objection, but many advantages, in adopting this feature, which has operated so beneficially in our Navy Department, as well as in some branches of the Army.
There shall be three branches of the classified civil service, as follows: 1.
Most of its branches were presided over by officers holding the commissions and clothed in the uniform of the United States.
The report of the Secretary of the Treasury exhibits in detail the condition of the public finances and of the several branches of the Government related to his Department.
These boards shall conduct such examinations for admission to and promotions in the classified railway mail service and such examinations for the other branches of the classified service as the Commission may direct.
In the report of the Secretary of the Interior, which will be laid before you, the condition of the various branches of our domestic affairs connected with that Department and its operations during the past year are fully exhibited.
This leads me to suggest that the improvement of all the bridges crossing the Potomac and its branches from the city of Washington is worthy the attention of Congress.
The Commission shall have authority to prescribe regulations under and in accordance with these general rules and the rules relating specially to each of the several branches of the classified service.
Its provisions have been much discussed in both branches of Congress and have received emphatic legislative sanction.
The report of the Secretary of the Treasury fully exhibits the condition of the public finances and of the several branches of the Government connected with his Department.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "branches" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
