branchlet

Example Sentences

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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

She felt among the wood piled ready, found a slender sliver of a cleft branchlet, and methodically ploughed the ashes across and across.

From The Unwilling Vestal by White, Edward Lucas

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

From Among the Trees at Elmridge by Church, Ella Rodman

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 color of the branchlet, its lustre, the presence of minute hairs, etc., are often suggestions for determining species.

From The Genus Pinus by Shaw, George Russell