branchlet
Example Sentences
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Nothing stirred; each leaf hung motionless from its branchlet as they passed.
From Anne by Constance Fenimore Woolson
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 Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Or a summer-shoot may appear on vigorous branches of any species with the result of converting a uninodal spring-shoot into an imperfect multinodal branchlet.
From The Genus Pinus by George Russell Shaw
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 Mayne Reid
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 E. R. Billings