Others have figures of vast size, the limbs of which formed of osiers they fill with living men, which being set on fire, the men perish enveloped in the flames.
This latter part is accomplished by sharpening the large ends of as many long and stout osiers as may be necessary to form the stakes or skeleton.
There are reeds and rushes and osiers in the valley.
After Easter, Cozonac began to clear the pools of osiers which the priest wove into baskets.
Down in the valley where there are numerous pools, not only willows and osiers grew, but here and there were to be found sedges and rushes, cat's-tail and a species of reed.
The priest drove four posts into the ground at one end of the house, two long ones and two short, and he made three sides of plaited osiers and a roof of rushes, and there was the stable all ready.
And instead of corn, osiers and interlacing willows grew by the side of its pools.
On lavender and saffron buds they feed, On bending osiers and the balmy reed, From purple violets and the teile they bring Their gathered sweets, and rifle all the spring.
Looking up the river, they could see Otter start up, tense and rigid, from out of the shallows where he crouched in dumb patience, and could hear his amazed and joyous bark as he bounded up through the osiers on to the path.
In the osiers which fringed the bank he spied a swallow sitting.
A few nights after, having removed to a distance, he went to an osier car in order to steal some osiers for his basket-making, for he never bought any.
Old Fulcher had frequently stolen osiers out of the car, whilst in the neighbourhood, but during his absence the property, of which the car was a part, had been let to a young gentleman, a great hand for preserving game.
The farmer sat down upon a joist beside a vat in which a bundle of osierswere steeping, his face turned towards the farmhouse.
The farmer threw back a handful of osiers into the vat, saying: "Let us go in.
At times an expression of anguish crossed the face of Toussaint Lumineau as he followed with his eyes the quivering points of the osiers Rousille held out to him, as though they had been the masts of ships labouring in the ocean.
But the compound subject is really equivalent to "the willow with its osiers dank," osiersbeing water-willows or their branches.
A vessel made of osiers or other twigs, cane, rushes, splints, or other flexible material, interwoven.
David Helmsley, weaving his baskets day by day, began to weave something more delicate and uncommon than the withes of willow,--a weaving which went on in his mind far more actively than the twisting and plaiting of the osiers in his hands.
And he bent and twisted theosiers in his hands with a sudden vigour that almost snapped them.
Helmsley was silent; and after his kindly visitor had left him that day sat for a long time absorbed in thought, his hands resting idly on the osiers which he was gradually becoming too weak to bend.
Helmsley, who was bending some stiff osiers in his hands, paused to listen.
So he took her along the slow course of the inland water through the osiersand the willows, down to where the slow river ripples would meet the swift salt waves.
Most of them carried shields made of platted osiers covered with skin.
Bending the yielding osiers aside, he drew out the ducks one by one, wrung their necks, and passing their heads through his girdle, made his way again to the coracle.
Right under Koerber's eye, the match was applied in several places, and almost before he smelled smoke the canes and osiers were on fire.
Osiers and strong withes took the place of nails, and the chinks were stopped with moss.
But where the lake slept deep and still Dank osiers fringed the swamp and hill; And oft both path and hill were torn Where wintry torrent down had borne And heaped upon the cumbered land Its wreck of gravel, rocks, and sand.
She spins her hemp and weavesosiers into baskets and changes them for goats' hams.
In a verse which is not original, but which is more descriptive than usual, Pope speaks of the breezes which, in spring, blow gently among the osiers: Let vernal airs through trembling osiers play.
Where winds with reeds and osiers whisp'ring play.
Eyelets of osiers set in the wall are also exceptional, and their use is problematical.
The osiers are confined to a fraction of the island; on the remainder is a prettily-built house of a fair size, with the very best sort of river-lawn, on which grow various fine and regular trees.
On some of the lower islands osiers grow, and there are one or two neat boat-houses.
One pictures a tangle of wild trees, a mass of rushes, osiers perhaps, and general grimness.
We round a great curve which encloses an osier bed; here, in early spring, the osiers may be seen lying in great bundles, shaded from olive-green to brown madder.
West of this place, down in the neighbour bottom; The rank of Osiers by the murmuring stream Left on your right hand, brings you to the place.
These thoughts to me were Oaks, to thee like Osiers bow'd.
Though to myself forsworn, to thee I'll faithful prove; Those thoughts to me were Oaks, to thee like Osiers bow'd.
The rank of osiers by the murmuring stream Left on your right hand brings you to the place.
Though to myself forsworn, to thee I'll faithful prove; Those thoughts to me were oaks, to thee like osiers bowed.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "osiers" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
