branchlet

Example Sentences

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I separated the branchlet into two equal parts: one I placed in my bosom; the other, having fervently kissed, I enclosed in a folded sheet, upon which I wrote the words— “Tuyo—tuyo—hasta la muerte!”

From The War Trail The Hunt of the Wild Horse by Reid, Mayne

The leaves are little evergreen scales, which overlap, and being closely pressed to the branchlet, completely clothe and hide it.

From Wayside and Woodland Trees A pocket guide to the British sylva by Step, Edward

She felt among the wood piled ready, found a slender sliver of a cleft branchlet, and methodically ploughed the ashes across and across.

From The Unwilling Vestal by White, Edward Lucas

The branchlet furnishes evidence of the section to which the species belongs, for the bract-bases persist after the bracts have fallen away.

From The Genus Pinus by Shaw, George Russell

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 Kirby, W. F. (William Forsell)