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

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

The length of the branchlet is much influenced by different soils and climates.

From The Genus Pinus by Shaw, George Russell

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

Each branch and branchlet is terminated by a lengthening raceme of flowers.

From Garden and Forest Weekly, Volume 1 No. 1, February 29, 1888 by Various