They never taste any other kind of food but the juice from the leaf or twig or golden orange on which they live.
She plucked a twig from a near-by tree and cast it upon the ground at her feet.
Again she waved her wand--and the twig turned to a gleaming sword, richly engraved, that seemed to the silent watchers to tremble slightly in its sheath, as if its heart of steel throbbed with hopes of battles to come.
On the ground lay a sheet of bark and a twig from a tree, and beside them was Lady Seseley's white velvet cloak.
And still one ought not to be fatalistic about the twig: for the tree, indeed, it is too late, but that means nothing, if not that for the twig it is yet time.
As the twig is bent the tree's inclined" is felt to be peculiarly applicable in his case.
So he bought beautiful dresses, pearls and jewels for his two step-daughters, and on his way home, as he was riding through a green thicket, a hazel twig brushed against him and knocked off his hat.
The soldier thought, "I must carry a token away with me," and broke off a twig from one of them, on which the tree cracked with a loud report.
A twig from a tree near caught her cloak; she turned petulantly, broke it off, and threw it on the ground.
At the foot of the house-steps he stopped again; plucked a twig from a plant near him; broke it in his hand; and looked about him uneasily, on this side and on that.
I remember that there had once come to the office a blind man with a knotted twig and a piece of string which he wound round the twig according to some cipher of his own.
An elderly man was moving slowly up and down the road, holding with both hands a forked twig of hazel, shaped like the letter Y inverted.
And does not one magnify thereby a twig of history, on which the accident of birth has deposited the young barkchafer, most disproportionately into a tree of consanguinity?
Nothing less than a birch-twig bridge over a rushing stream which filled up the bottom of a wide rift or chasm in the upland.
Now a birch-twig bridge is a very terrifying thing to anybody who is not accustomed to them.
For a while she stood there, the dew gathering on stone and twig and leaf.
She picked up a twig and broke it in her fingers; and looking down I saw that she wore on her left hand an emerald ring identical with the one worn by her aunt.
Helen threw away the bits of twig when we came to the wall, and, as I swung the gate open, paused mockingly with clasped hands and peered inside.
Not a word was spoken, their tread was noiseless, and the greatest pains were taken to avoid stepping on a twig or dried stick.
A broken twig or withered leaf would be quite enough to tell the Indians that we came along this way," he said.
As they led the way Peter and the Seneca carefully removed from before them every dried twig and threw it on one side.
We crept in there, taking great pains not to break a twig or disturb a leaf.
It is not yet mid-April, but the Spirit of Life has stirred in every bole and bough; every twig and tendril.
The pure white flowers, yellow-hearted, gleaming against the mass of crimson blooms which clung closely to twig and limb, produced a remarkable effect.
But ah,--here is a green twig which you can use as an arrow, and I will guide your arm, poor fellow.
It was the old woman--the evil old woman, who stood at my elbow and gave me a little twigto throw," gasped Hoed.
And when it was Hoed's turn to throw his weapon, the old woman stood at his elbow and guided his big arm as it hurled the twig of mistletoe towards where Balder stood.
It's very kind of you to take it that way, but lots of women wouldn't have liked it.
Thereupon the feeble but kindly magistrate began to act afresh the role of the twig in the mountain stream.
The mayor tossed upon the human inundation as a twig on a mountain stream, and with him for the nonce struggled helplessly the police power of the town also.
How do you know that she may not know What the robin sings on the twig above?
There is one twig broken among the stems of that clump of shrubs.
Thence I went on cautiously, taking my bearings from one great tree on the ridge that lifted its bulk against the sky; slower and slower, till, just this side of a great windfall, a twig cracked sharply under my foot.
The little ones were already wild; they had forgotten all about our first meeting, and when I showed myself, or cracked a twig too near them, they would promptly bolt into the brush.
As I climbed the last ridge on my way back to the lake, I heard rustlings in the underbrush, and then the unmistakable crack of a twigunder a deer's foot.
Powdered arsenic or some other preservative should be put in the body of the larva with the cotton used in stuffing it, and the slit closed by a few stitches, when the larva may be dried and mounted on a twig or leaf.
For the biological-display collection, larvae may be blown in various natural positions, to be subsequently fastened on leaf or twig or in burrows which they have occupied.
He says they never want anything to eat, because they have a kind of a twigthat they chew, and then all they have to do is to keep tightening their belts.
Tommy gave me some of the twig they chew; it tasted like cabbage.
Kreta came in last, carefully examining the bush before he did so, to see that no twig was broken or disarranged.
In a short time the sap in the twig commenced to exude from both ends.
