branchlet

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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 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 Burton, Richard Francis, Sir

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

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

Then I stretched my hand a little forward and plucked a branchlet from a great thorn-bush, and its trunk cried out, "Why dost thou rend me?"

From Divine Comedy, Norton's Translation, Hell by Norton, Charles Eliot