One of the party prepared for the Prime Minister the tenderest twigs of the tree, plucking off the points of even the softest leaves.
Deer lift heads often to listen and look and sniff the breeze between mouthfuls of the tender twigs they love.
While he stood looking, the ravaging flames had devoured leaves and twigs and a dead branch or two, and left the bush a charred, smoking, dead thing that waved its blackened stubs of branches impotently in the wind.
Some of these wasps make their nests in twigs of various plants, especially those with pithy centres in the stems.
The top of this door is always covered with soil or bits of leaves or twigs so that it is nearly indistinguishable from the surface of the ground about it.
The nesting habits are simple, the nests being roughly made of any sort of twigs and stems mixed with hair and feathers and placed in cornices or trees.
This he did with the greatest circumspection, scarcely raising his head above the grass and heather; and then, when he had joined Roderick, he began to peer through the waving stalks and twigs just before his eyes.
A sodden carpet of fallen leaves muffled the clatter of the horse-hoofs; and no sound was heard but the bubbling of the rivulet, and the steady plash of the bloated raindrops that had gathered on the twigs of the trees.
I have not witnessed any bad effects of venesection attributable to puncture of the tendon or fascia, or to partial division of twigs of the cutaneous nerves.
Though they had plenty of flowers, both as ornaments and arranged as wreaths, they left on their way no shrub lovely by its flowers, nor tree with its waving twigs without stripping them, out of cupidity.
Disregarding the entreaties of the female servants, they greedily laid hands upon the lovely flowers and twigs of the trees within their reach, prompted by their petulance.
Other decorations found are necklaces and bracelets, fillets, combs, hair ornaments made of twigs and flowers, and the like.
In more restricted localities we find also earrings and nose-rings, the boring through of the lips, and combs to which twigs and leaves are attached.
She would have the garden railings hung with white, and the body might be laid out under the lilac trees, whose twigswere already tipped with green.
The icy north wind had transformed the trunks into columns, over which waved downy boughs and feathery tufts, an exquisite tracery of black twigs edged with white trimmings.
Those flowers are rather high," she declared, and calling upon Milly for help, she began rearranging the roses, and laying the twigs of holly upon the cloth in bolder patterns.
Twigs marine He likewise strews, and rests Medusa there.
The fresh green twigs as though with life endow'd, Felt the dire Gorgon's power; their spongy pith Hard to the touch became, the stiffness spread Through every twig and leaf.
I once had a real winter garden in miniature set in twigs of cedar and spruce, and frozen into a fairy garden.
More subtle was the charm of shaping certain things from dried twigs and evergreen sprigs, and pouring water over them to freeze into a beautiful resemblance of the original form.
The snow is gone from the garden walks and some of the open beds; you walk warily down the softened path at midday, and you smell the earth as it basks in the sun, and a faint scent comes from some twigs and leaves.
While Cancut peeled the hemlocks, Iglesias and I stripped off armfuls of boughs and twigs from the spruces to "bough down" our camp.
On the margin of some quiet swamp a myriad of bare twigs seem suddenly overspread with purple butterflies, and we know that the Rhodora is in bloom.
The embers were beaten up easily into glowing coals and twigs and dry dead limbs cast upon them made soon a roaring flame.
Dry twigs made the slight flame a greater one and then, at a dozen different points, the wall which Ab had built was fired.
He had nothing to distract him, unless it might be the breaking of twigs again.
Each plaited a withe of twigs with which to be tied to the tree or limb, and resting in the hollow nest where some great limb joined the bole, slept as sleep tired children, until the awakening of nature awoke these who were nature's own.
The elder twigs finally gave way where Steyning was one day to be and here Cuthman decided to halt and build a shelter for his mother and himself.
How oft among thy broken turf With what delight I trod, With what delight I placed those twigs Beneath thy maiden sod.
The Intercostal and Spinal are not Pairs of Nerves, but only Branches or Twigs of other Pairs.
It is frequently taken, too, in the nets spread for Larks, or inveigled into the snare of the fowler who pursues his craft with limed twigs and the imitated cry of the Owl.
Their food consists of the insects which infest the leaves and twigs of trees; and I have seen them capture small moths on the wing.
It is composed externally of a framework of light twigs and roots, interleaved with moss and wool, to which succeeds a denser layer of the same materials lined with hair.
The nest of the Crossbill is constructed of slender twigs of fir and coarse dry grass, and lined with fine grass and a few hairs, and concealed among the upper branches of a Scotch fir.
It has never been observed to perch on the twigs of trees, but it has been noticed running along the stumps and projecting roots of trees.
When not placed in a fruit tree, it is attached by a kind of cordage to the twigs of a poplar or birch tree, or even to a bunch of mistletoe, hanging in mid-air like the car of a balloon.
It is encircled by upwards of a dozen leafy twigswhich unite beneath its base, and form both a firm support and effectual shelter.
The Grey Hen constructs a rude nest of withered grass and a few twigs in the shelter of some low bush, and lays from five to ten eggs.
Ptarmigans pair early in spring, and build their nest of grass, bents and twigs in a slight hollow behind a stone or bush, and lay from seven to twelve eggs.
Here a shallow nest is made on the ground, composed of bents, rushes, and twigs of heath, loosely put together.
The nest is loosely constructed of straws and twigs which may chance to lie about near the selected spot.
Finally, there was the fox, the stealer of dead crows, to be guarded against; and again at eventide Giles must trudge round to gather up his dead and suspend them from twigs out of reach of hungry night-prowlers.
The tits and wrens were moving quietly about in the bush; others were sitting idly or preening their feathers on the twigs or the ground.
A musical tinkle accompanied every movement as I brushed the twigs and grasses along the way.
In the better-grade cinnamons the bark from the youngertwigs only (1-1/2 to 2 years old) is collected.
The nest is constructed of sticks and small twigs and lined with grass, moss, feathers or other soft materials.
Sir ROGER was proceeding in the Character of him, when we saw him make up to us with two or three Hazle-Twigs in his Hand that he had cut in Sir ROGER'S Woods, as he came through them, in his Way to the House.
Well then, there's very pretty forest land around my home in Cornwall, with undergrowth and dropped twigs to last you till Michaelmas term.
It is formed of a few twigs making a slender platform, on which the glossy white egg is laid, and where the bird will sit till you literally thrust her off her nest with your walking-stick.
When the pigeon or dove builds in the more exposed hedgerows the nest is stronger, and more twigs seem to be used, so that it is heavier.
Wolf) Makes a sudden Crackling sound (by alighting on twigsor branches).
Cedar twigs are still dropped on the hot stones to cause a perfume.
While Joe was getting supper, the three tourists gathered balsam boughs for beds, following Mills' orders to take only a few twigs from any one tree.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "twigs" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
