branchlet
Example Sentences
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The girl is soft of speech, fair of form, like a branchlet of basil, with teeth like chamomile-petals and hair like halters wherefrom to hang hearts.
From The Book of the Thousand Nights and a Night — Volume 05 by Sir Richard Francis Burton
One single lateral branchlet of a tendril, estimated to be at least ten years old, was still elastic and supported a weight of exactly two pounds.
From The Movements and Habits of Climbing Plants by Charles Darwin
The trees, ashes and elms, that bordered a field adjoining the kail-yard, stood strangely out against this glow; every branchlet and twig seemed traced in ink—the blackest of the black.
From Kenneth McAlpine A Tale of Mountain, Moorland and Sea by Gordon Stables
The bud spreads into a little branchlet and bears the flowers at the tip.
From Among the Trees at Elmridge by Ella Rodman Church
He who took a branch from off it, Took prosperity unceasing, What was broken from the summit, Gave unending skill in magic; He who broke a leafy branchlet, Gathered with it love unending.
From Kalevala, Volume I (of 2) The Land of the Heroes by W. F. (William Forsell) Kirby
