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Example sentences for "willow"

Lexicographically close words:
willinger; willinglie; willingly; willingness; willna; willowed; willows; willowy; willpower; wills
  1. They had drawn the stem of a willow branch through a loop of flesh cut on their left arm, and their blood dripped upon the green leaves and fell in drops to the ground.

  2. The rhythm was accented by each singer beating together two small willow sticks.

  3. All that night Thor and Iskwao kept by themselves in the buffalo willow thickets and the balsams of the creek-bottom.

  4. Between these two lines of forest lay the open valley of soft and undulating meadow, dotted with its purplish bosks of buffalo willow and mountain sage, its green coppices of wild-rose and thorn, and its clumps of trees.

  5. Again willow rods are used without the bark, only this time they are cut short enough to be rigid, and they drive them with great velocity up an inclined board.

  6. The Indian boy prepares willow sticks, peels off the bark, then rolls the wet clay into balls, and, sticking the ball on the end of the twig, he throws it at a mark with great speed and accuracy.

  7. It was about six times we had to cut willow sticks, because we kept finding men all along the ridge.

  8. A lattice-work of slender willow rods passed down the front, which is covered by a long strip of buffalo hide.

  9. He then turned to leave the lists, but returned almost instantly with a willow wand about six feet in length, perfectly straight, and rather thicker than a man's thumb.

  10. The archer vindicated their opinion of his skill; his arrow split the willow rod against which it was aimed.

  11. The leaves of the willow represent the lips, with which man may serve the Eternal and thank Him.

  12. The willow of the brook has neither fruit nor odor; it is, therefore, compared to the people who have no knowledge and who perform no good deeds.

  13. In answer to this command, the Levites hung their harps upon the willow trees near the banks of the river, as it is written, "Upon the willows in her midst had we hung up our harps.

  14. On the east I sate that day, up against a willow grey: Toll slowly.

  15. Some boil their traps in willow bark; others dip their traps in melted tallow or beeswax.

  16. To make these, cut osier, willow or hickory switches, straight and thick as the finger, about four feet long; cut two short pieces for rats 4 and 6 inches long and carefully bending the long piece.

  17. Have a wire from this to the shore tied to some willow or root, and if anything is caught, with the wire you can drag everything ashore.

  18. I have had a number blunder into rat traps, chew the soft popple or willow stake all to pieces and go off with the trap.

  19. Eighteen Willow Court--" grumbled the cross old woman sliding a card with the address across the littered counter to Felice.

  20. One comfort was, Willow Court was not far and the "Eighteen" was emblazoned in enormous gilt letters over an elaborate plate-glass entrance.

  21. He's to wait every night by the willow woods.

  22. They've all left the barn and gone to the willow wood.

  23. I'll be waiting every night with a rowboat by the willow woods three miles south of the light-house station.

  24. Anastasius relapsed into English at the last, but Grigge understood about the willow woods and the boat.

  25. On the 4th of December, Elder Woodruff visited Willow Creek, now Willard.

  26. After traveling alone several miles, Brother John Brown came up, and we rode on together over a sandy, barren, sage country to a creek of good water about ten miles west of the Willow Spring.

  27. I then concluded that our camp had stopped at the Willow Spring.

  28. This was on the Willow Spring branch, about three miles from the head.

  29. For a moment, we listen and catch the musical ripples of a stream hidden beneath an irregular line of willow and squaw bush, extending from the north of the canyon to the Lake.

  30. Yet that she took some interest in what was going on appears likely from her flying up twice into the willow tree during its continuance, and being with the two rivals at the end of the day.

  31. The hen then flew to a stunted willow in the neighbourhood, where she sat perched amongst the topmost twigs, the males not following her, but continuing to hop about in each other's vicinity as before.

  32. When he arrived near the willow that served for his bridge across the river, he was surprised to see neither shepherdess nor flock in the field.

  33. In casting his eyes all round in search of a passage, he perceived an old willow half thrown across the stream.

  34. Kincaid, the beams being taken from willow trees felled in the rincon.

  35. Woodcutters frequently come up the river thus far to procure the red willow timber.

  36. O silvery weeping willow tree With all leaves shivering, Have you no purpose but to shadow me Beside this rippled spring?

  37. I hang my harp upon a tree, A weeping willow in a lake; I hang my silenced harp there, wrung and snapt For a dream's sake.

  38. Have you no purpose in the world But thus to shadow me With all your tender drooping twigs unfurled, O weeping willow tree?

  39. The weeping-willow shook its head And stretched its shadow long; The west grew crimson, the sun smouldered red, The birds forbore a song.

  40. I sat beneath a willow tree, Where water falls and calls; While fancies upon fancies solaced me, Some true, and some were false.

  41. Slow wind sighed through the willow leaves, The ripple made a moan, The world drooped murmuring like a thing that grieves; And then I felt alone.

  42. All day the cannons spoke to the burghers from Willow Grange, all day long the rifles rippled their leaden waves of death.

  43. Thick, thick, The willow trees in the garden.

  44. Don't go singing the Song of the Willow Branches,[93] When there's no one here with a heart for you to break!

  45. It touches the willow leaves and scatters the fragrant herbs.

  46. The biggest of the old trees, which I shall describe first, was a red willow growing by itself within forty yards of the house.

  47. A second red willow was the next largest tree in the plantation, but of this willow I shall have more to say in a later chapter.

  48. My favourite red willow was also the chosen haunt of another being, a peregrine falcon, a large handsome female that used to spend some months each year with us, and would sit for hours every day in the tree.

  49. It was at the far end of the plantation, adjoining the thicket of fennel and the big red willow tree on the edge of the moat described in another chapter.

  50. Her beautiful young figure bent and trembled like a willow in the wind, and the soft white throat swelled with the choking sob she kept down so bravely.

  51. Don Pietro Casale has been seen to sweep his pig with a broken willow broom, after it has rained.

  52. A cougar raided a camp one night, sprang upon the sheep from a willow thicket and killed three within twenty yards of the sleeping herder.

  53. One night a lion sneaked up through a willow thicket to the nearest sheep camp and killed three sheep.

  54. The belated searcher for bear signs skirted a dense willow thicket, and brushed against the bushes with his elbow.

  55. Once or twice during the day I brought my guards in with fear on their faces, the large fat man more distorted than his fellow, by the lamentable sounds I made with my willow toys.

  56. The rest of the day I spent in my room fashioning strange toys out of willow rods.

  57. It frequently builds its nest in the alder and willow bushes, on the banks of the brooks or rivers.

  58. No matter what the tree is, the poplar of France, or the brookside willow or oak coppice of England, or the chestnuts or mulberries of Italy, all are interesting when being pruned, or when pruned just lately.


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    Other words:
    ebony; oak; tree