branchlet
Example Sentences
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The bark utensils will wear longer if a slender rootlet or branchlet of pliable wood is sewed, with the "over-and-over" stitch, to the edge of the article.
From On the Trail An Outdoor Book for Girls by Beard, Lina
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
A maiden shining bright of blee, As Myrtle branchlet Asia bred, Which Hamadryad deity As toy for joyance aye befed 25With humour of the dew.
From The Carmina of Caius Valerius Catullus by Burton, Richard Francis, Sir
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
The workman, placing the gimlet above the long, slender branchlet of wood, bores half the length, and then reverses the position to operate upon the other half.
From Tobacco; Its History, Varieties, Culture, Manufacture and Commerce by Billings, E. R.
