The skeuomorph consists of a withy wound upon itself.
It is evident that the withy skeuomorph (Plate IV.
But I alone am left to pine, And sit beneath the withy tree; For truth and honesty be gone, And my false love hath fled from me.
Then he would give the withy beckets a thoughtful overhaul, and by the time he had got his paddles shipped again and in the water, he had usually earned a good twenty minutes' shirk.
Rise," said Medb, "and take a withybetween each two of you.
And Ailill took the withy in his hand and placed it in Fergus' hand, and Fergus read the ogam script graven on the plug of the withy, and made known to the men of Erin what was the meaning of the ogam writing that was on it.
He might as well have bound the oxen wild; The withy bands, though starkly interknit, Fell at the feet of the immortal child, Loosened by some device of his quick wit.
He spoke, and bound 545 Stiff withy bands the infant's wrists around.
The willow, or withy as it is usually called, is remarkably pliant, and can be twisted into any shape.
With a wire there is little risk of that; but then the withy does not cut its way into the fish.
When near the bank two may even be captured with a good withy noose: with a wire a clever hand will make a certainty of it.
Two long poplars are then slung side by side between the ends of the converging brackets, and a floor of withy hurdles makes the bridge complete.
My only danger now lay in blundering against the coastguard: but by dodging from one big boulder to another and listening all the while for footsteps, I gained the withy bed at the foot of the meadow.
Half-way between this and the bottom a band of mosaic is arranged in light and dark strips of withy and hazel.
Country carpenters have a saying that withy lasts twice as long without its bark as with it; and in this there is much truth, for the loose bark holds the wet to the wood and causes it to rot.
So much white will not look amiss in this place, and withy is easily worked.
Sometimes Peter came there and read to her, often the old herbalist Timothy Hadwin accompanied him, and the two men would talk, while she listened, weaving withy baskets, but weaving into her own mind many a wonderful thought.
As she sat in silence, her fingers busy making a withy basket, and her mind active, there came from over the tarn a sudden burst of melody, ethereal as elfin music.
The very idea of my giving up Louis is absurd," was Harriet's rejoinder, as they came out of thewithy walk.
Would you mind taking a turn with me in the withy walk, Harriet Roe?
Amidst the shadows of the withy beds, under the silent stars, Maria spoke, dropping her voice to a whisper.
Emerging into the spring sunshine from the withy walk, came the gentleman in question; Harriet Roe in her gay ribbons at his side.
Maria, in low, subdued, sad tones, as they went towards the withy walk.
Presently, as I was sitting on a gate watching the sunset, Harriet Roe passed towards the withy walk, and gave me a nod in her free but good-natured way.
As she was passing the top of the withy walk, their voices reached her ear.
So round his limbs they fastened stout withy bands, but they fell from off him as withered leaves fall from off trees in autumn, and a careless smile played on his face as he sat down and looked calmly on the robbers who stood before him.
The withy bands were but weak; it is no great marvel that he shook them off.
Withy Grove was in truth a group of withies, the old “Seven Stars,” and a few other dwellings, being all that existed to give the character of street.
The picturesque old black and white houses that bordered each side had their pleasant gardens in rear; and beyond, towardsWithy Grove in one direction and Deansgate in the other, were meadows and pasture fields.
The Crack Willow or Withy (Salix fragilis) is one of the two most considerable of our tree Willows.
The dog gave chase--I rushed for my gun, which was some yards off, placed against a hollow withy tree.
We then tried a corner where two of these large mounds, meeting, formed a small copse in which grew a quantity of withy and the thick grasses that always border the stoles.
Some of the lesser birds have crept into the ivy around the elms, and which crowns the tops of the withy pollards.
We did not see much of Southlands, because the withy-beds were on the lowest ground; but there were six jacks strung on a twisted withy when we got back to the stunted oak and rested there tasting acid sorrel leaves.
A low fence of withy had long since decayed, nothing but a few rotten stakes remaining at the very verge of the precipice.
The level white plain of ice behind stretches away, its real extent concealed by the islands of withy and the dark pines along the distant shore; while elsewhere the ice is not distinguishable from the almost equally level fields that join it.
I leaned mine against a hollowwithy pollard, and called 'ready.
This mode is very similar to that in common use among blacksmiths for their chisels and swages, which are held by means of a withy twisted round them, and secured in its place by a ring.
A “fancy sketch” of a celt in a withy handle will be found in the Archæologia.
The Furness Withy Company, which has its agency here, also have been trading for some time between Montreal and Manchester, and the east coast of England.
In the lake there are several acres of withy bushes which when the water is low are on dry land, but in spring and early summer stand five or six feet deep.
The osier-bed in the angle where the brooks join is on slightly higher ground, for although the withy likes water at its roots it should not stand in it.
Some information picked up caused them to turn into Withy Grove, and they had just tracked that thoroughfare, and were debating whether they should go on to Shude Hill, when the noise of a conflict was heard in the field on the right.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "withy" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
