A sweet, gentle quiet seemed to fall down from on high, soothing to sleep the Clos-Marie, whose willows were lost in the dusk.
Thus shut in on all sides, the Clos-Marie slept in the quiet peace of its abandonment, overrun with weeds and wild grass, planted with poplars and willows sown by the wind.
She also fancied that the Chevrotte had never chattered so gaily over the pebbles among the willows on its banks.
The silvery mists, ever lurking among the fringing willows of the stream murmuring through the meadows, were already rising to cloud the lowlands with fleecy whiteness, radiantly starred with fireflies.
He knew that a bear had hit at him and missed him, and hit the horse, and the horse went flying out of the willows into the open grass with the bear charging at his heels.
Along the border of the stream was a growth of rather tall willows two or three years old, and Jack soon cut half a dozen long and rather slender shoots.
The willows distilled their delicious manna, the fountains smiled, the brooks murmured, the woods and meads rejoiced at her approach.
We left the Willows behind and traversed open country, heading up the San Pedro Valley.
The work was not confined to excavation, but involved the cutting down of the large cottonwoods and the clearing away of the dense masses of willows that covered the low ground and matted the heavy soil with their tangled roots.
Here and there a tuft of dewy broom-sedge held up to her vision a sheaf of green hung with sparkling diamonds, emeralds, and rubies, and far ahead ran a crystal creek in and out among gracefully drooping willows and erect young reeds.
That The Willows should still be in Everard's life, and actively so, not just lingering on while house agents were disposing of it, but visited and evidently prized, came upon her as an immense shock.
He accordingly proceeded to make all the necessary arrangements for being married in March, for going for a trip to Paris, and for returning to The Willows for the final few days of his honeymoon on the very day of his birthday.
Yet The Willowshaunted her, and what a comfort it would have been to tell him all she felt and let him help her to get rid of her growing obsession by laughing at her.
He had naturally taken it for granted that he would spend Christmas with his little girl, and of course as he always spent it at The Willows she would spend it there too.
If anybody was justified in shrinking from The Willows it was Everard, not herself.
He was one of those guests who used to dine at The Willows in the early days of Wemyss's possession of it.
With almost the same eagerness as that which had so much enchanted and moved her before their marriage when he talked of their wedding day, he now talked of The Willows and the day when he would show it to her.
Lucy, trotting after him as he on his big legs pursued the retreating conductress, and anxious to show him, by eagerness to go sooner to The Willows than was arranged, that she wasn't being morbid.
They got up very late--breakfast on Sundays at The Willows was not till eleven--and went and inspected the chickens.
He passed Anderson, out of pistol range, flew down to the meadow and raced straight for the willows that bordered Stone Creek.
With the others at his heels, he crossed the meadow and plunged among the willows some four hundred yards upstream from the spot where Allen had entered.
In early May they drew up their canoes for the night at the mouth of a bold, beautiful stream, and in the abundant timber found feeding on the young willows so many clumsy porcupines that they called it Porcupine River.
And then we strolled forward again along the banks of a small rippling brook overhung by willows and hawthorns.
Turning in the direction of the Green River bluffs, the men rode into a small clump of willows by the stream, and decided to get some sleep before proceeding further.
John sped away between the high sagebrush and willows which skirted the stream running along west from camp.
The country was wild and barren, except that here and there along the course of a stream the willows and brush gave a little protection to man and beast.
The pale foliage of the willows shivered in the breeze, which ruffled the leaves without bending the branches; the long fine grass of the meadow was seen through a veil of fog, as yet undispelled by the sun.
Or do you sleep, dreaming of the old willows in the meadow, hearing the waters murmur through their branches, and the voice of Christine promising her return?
Have you forgotten our tender meetings, the willows bending over the stream, the boat in which we sailed a whole night, dreaming the joy of eternal union?
If this little corner of earth were our last trysting-place--these melancholy willows the witnesses of our eternal separation!
The barrier of reeds and willows opened before the young girl.
There nature resumed her rights; the willows grew free and unrestrained, stretching out from the land and drooping into the water; their inclined trunks forming flying-bridges, supported but at one end.
How you dragged Jake Houck into the willows right spang from among the Utes?
Those bushes--were they really willows or Indians waiting to slay him when he got closer?
From the north end of the willows they crept into a small draw that led away from the river toward the hills beyond the mesa.
Out of the precarious safety of the willows he crept on hands and knees, still shaking in an ague of trepidation.
The willows moved, opened up, and a blond, curly head appeared.
Whether from here they continued to the valley the punchers in the willows could not tell.
Bob could see them breaking through the willowstoward the river.
Nevertheless he crept out from the willows into the sage desert.
Evidently he had run out of the back door and made for the willows by the river.
We'll snake Houck outa the willows an' make a getaway sure.
The mesa bench dropped sharply down a bare shale scarp to the willows growing near the river.
A crowd of armed men beat the willows on both banks for a distance of a mile both up and down the stream wherever there was cover.
In the valley, as they dashed across to the willows where Bob had left Houck, they were again under fire.
Perhaps he could creep through the willows and escape up the river without being seen.
I'll get you into thewillows if I can," he called in a sibilant whisper.
Their white cottages dot the banks like an endless string of pearls, their willows shade the hamlets and lean over the courses of brooks, their tapering parish spires nestle in the landscape of their new-world patrie.
Beneath a shade of willows and of elms The river slumbers in this meadowy lap.
The river winds among the leafy hills Adown the meadowy dale; a shade of elms And willows fringe it.
To see pollard willows in perfection she spent six weeks last spring in the flattest parts of Holland, and thought it lovely--'the willows so fine and the boat-life so healthy.
His house is very attractive; the court, full of flowers mixed with carvings and Celtic remnants, borders on the willows which fringe the Odon, and the rooms are crammed with curiosities and pictures relating to Caen history.
The dear Grandfather's funeral was very different from that which I had attended last year, and I shed many tears by his grave in the churchyard looking out upon the willows and the shining Terne.
O ye that sang in Babylon By foreign willows cold and grey, Fall'n are the harps ye hanged thereon, Dead are the tunes of yesterday!
They were certain that a ride of an hour or two would bring them to the willows that skirted their base.
The pussywillows put on their silvery furs, the birches and elders unfurled their catkin tassels.
Then one day when I was camp keeper, at the upper end of our long meadow, a number of men emerged from the willows and hesitated uncertainly.
I raced down to my companions again; and we hastily took refuge in the only cover near enough to conceal us--a little clump of willows in a small, damp watercourse.
He selected some of the best willows of small size, and made several beautiful work-baskets, of various sizes and colors.
What was his delight on going out one night, after supper, to get some willows he had put to soak in the brook, to see a company of swallows he disturbed fly off in the direction of the barn, with their bills full of clay!
The hoof-cut soil was warm and soft to his bruised feet; the bitter scent of the willows was strong on the cooling night as he brushed among them.
Only the shelter of cyclone cellar, sequestered patches of corn, the willows along the distant river, would give them the respite from the terror of this outreaching hand necessary to a full, free breath.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "willows" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
