Fleming, turning down towards the osier beds, without any compassion for the gentleman’s boots or olfactory nerves.
Over some of the boldest streams it was necessary to construct suspension bridges, as they are termed, made of the tough fibres of the maguey, or of the osier of the country, which has an extraordinary degree of tenacity and strength.
This will do," he said, crouching down behind a spreading osier dogwood.
Their camp-fires were supplied with the shafts of broken lances, and they found ample use for the cords and osier bands which the Moors had provided to bind their expected captives.
It is even said that he ordered great quantities of cords to be brought from the city, and osier bands to be made by the soldiery, wherewith to bind the multitude of prisoners about to fall into their hands.
You have a better chance than the lady who drew the osier basket has of keeping hers," said Mr. Winton.
There was another," explained Douglas as he again described the osier basket.
Then she found two candles and lighted them, placing them on the mantel, and turning to the crasset hanging by its osier rings from a beam, slowly lighted it.
Owlet wore rags for choice and he picked up a living making clothes-pegs and weaving osier baskets.
But the keepers hated Owlet poking about, because they said he took more than withies from the osier beds.
There was a great struggle, an absolute effort for life, and but for the osier stump Ambrose would certainly have been dragged into the water, when the man had worked along the pole, and grasping his hands, pulled himself upwards.
They are close to the two or three farms that employ them, close to the osier beds which give them extra earnings in the spring.
When he had exhausted all his resources, he cried with rage; and, with the fierce pallor of a man who is resigned to suicide, he went to look for the bundle of osier that he had forgotten in some corner for a quarter of a century past.
Antoine's work would not have sufficed to pay for his drinking bouts if he had not contrived a means of procuring his osier at low cost.
Then, when he had fasted a whole day, he would once more take up his osier with a low growl and revile the wealthy who lived in idleness.
He kept, under a couch, a bundle of osier which he did not use up in twenty years.
The donkey ran ahead kicking at pebbles, bucking, trying to shake off the big pear-shaped baskets of osier he had either side of his pack saddle, delighted with smooth dryness after so much water and such tenuous stony roads.
Thus the negroes of the Gold Coast made their shields of osier covered with leather.
I wrangled with that invalid to his heart's content, I worked all day on my osier cage, I hunted the thimble in the moonlight with the pretty nurse.
She and I placed the osier cage aboard, securing it firmly, and then, throwing tablecloths over the auks' heads, we led those simple and dignified birds down the path and across the plank at the little wooden pier.
Ships of light timber, wickered with osier between, and covered over with leather.
Osier bed, or Osier holt, a place where willows are grown for basket making.
The oak for nothing ill, The osier good for twigs, the poplar for the mill.
An American shrub (Cornus stolonifera) which has slender red branches; -- also calledosier cornel.
A flexible, slender twig or branch used as a band; a willow or osier twig; a withy.
The huts of the earliest settlers in Rome and in western Europe generally were made of osierwork plastered with clay.
She opened the gateway in an outer defence of osier work and ditch which encompassed the little settlement.
Around the sides of the amphitheatre were twenty to thirty low huts of osier work, twined around tall posts driven into the ground and cunningly daubed with stiff clay.
Those spreading, pointed fingers of coral with a background of dazzling white are the topmost twigs of the red osier dogwood.
He consented, however, to a proposal that animals might be sent up in the first instance, by way of experiment, suspended in an osier cage attached to the neck of the balloon.
The osiercage of Versailles very soon transformed itself into a car, bearing human passengers, and the age of the "Thousand and One Nights" was expected to come back again.
His robe, very long and very large, and of which the flaps were extended on an osier frame, preserved him from suddenly falling.
Now this osier bed was a favourite game covert for the sportsmen of the chateau; and what was my delight and astonishment when one morning I found a dead hare with its head under the fallen brick of my trap.
Not far from the chateau was a large osier bed, resorted to by flocks of the common sparrow.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "osier" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
