branchlet
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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 Charles Eliot Norton
Nothing stirred; each leaf hung motionless from its branchlet as they passed.
From Anne by Constance Fenimore Woolson
P. koraiensis resembles P. cembra in leaf and branchlet but not in the cone.
From The Genus Pinus by George Russell Shaw
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 Edward Step
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 Sir Richard Francis Burton
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