sprig

She had folded her fan; she stretched out her arm mechanically and plucked a sprig of azalea.

The two city-bred artists knew a wall-flower from a cabbage and a rose from a sprig of asparagus, and that was all.

This he presented to me with a grace that dignified the sprig into a bouquet.

Well I should say some where near ten thousand; that sprig in her hair cost a clean five.

His smart blue bonnet, with sprig of holly and eagle's feather, was already recognised as the Scottish headgear.

So thinking to start with a known specimen, she picked a sprig of sea-lavender, and stepped into a remarkably deep bog-hole.

Chop very finely two shalots, a sprig of parsley, and eight flap mushrooms, and fry in butter.

Well, its a big shame you didnt bring a sprig of it East with you, you lazy lummox!

Lay them on a hot dish, and, at the thicker end of each carrot stick in a sprig of parsley to look like the stalk.

Scarcely a sprig of green showed in the wide landscape, except where the pines stood in a long blur against the gray sky.