branchlet

Example Sentences

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Very weird pines these were, chiefly covered with closely-packed dead foliage, with a living tuft of dark green at the end of each branchlet.

From Two Summers in Guyenne by Barker, Edward Harrison

Then stretched I forth my hand a little forward,   And plucked a branchlet off from a great thorn;   And the trunk cried, "Why dost thou mangle me?"

From Divine Comedy, Longfellow's Translation, Complete by Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

Nancy's skirts rustled among the greenery; her cheeks were touched, as if with a caress, by many a drooping branchlet; in places, Tarrant had to hold the tangle above her while she stooped to pass.

From In the Year of Jubilee by Gissing, George

Gradually the most obstinate branchlet with its spray of leaves is drawn into juxtaposition with the main part of the mansion.

From Confessions of a Beachcomber by Banfield, E. J. (Edmund James)

The presence of wax, as a bloom on the branchlet, is associated with trees in arid localities, especially Mexico, where it is very common.

From The Genus Pinus by Shaw, George Russell