branchlet

Example Sentences

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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

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

The fungus of the Poppy is very much more branched than that of the Potato, and every minute branchlet carries a spore.

From The Culture of Vegetables and Flowers From Seeds and Roots 16th Edition by Sutton and Sons

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

From Among the Trees at Elmridge by Church, Ella Rodman

The girl is soft of speech, fair of form, like a branchlet of basil, with teeth like chamomile-petals and hair like halters wherefrom to hang hearts.

From The Book of the Thousand Nights and a Night — Volume 05 by Burton, Richard Francis, Sir