branchlet

Example Sentences

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King they hailed a branchlet, shaped to fare, Weighted so, like quaking shingle spume, When his blood's own heir Ripened in the womb!

From Poems — Volume 2 by Meredith, George

The bud spreads into a little branchlet and bears the flowers at the tip.

From Among the Trees at Elmridge by Church, Ella Rodman

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

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 Darwin, Charles

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 Stables, Gordon