Sentence Examples
The cracking of an old bough, or the hooting of the owl, was enough to fill me with alarm, and try my strength in a precipitate flight. |
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Perched on an exposed bough overhanging the water, he gazes unwinkingly at the water below. |
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The beech bough across the clearing soughed in the gentle wind and I saw the silver chain glitter upon it. |
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Loveliest of trees the cherry now is hung with bloom along the bough and stands along the woodland ride wearing white for Eastertide. |
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Sauntering along, the boy looks up and sees a tree filled with angels, bright angelic wings bespangling every bough like stars. |
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A thrush had lighted on a bough not five meters away, almost at the level of their faces. |
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During warm months the Ojibwa slept on cedar bough mattresses, each person wrapped in a bearskin or deerskin robe. |
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He took hold of the tree bough and jumped up, heaving himself onto the branch and disappearing among the leaves. |
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In Woodlore, for instance, the bough of a tree spreads its yellow branches against a green background. |
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It looked rather like someone had chopped off a tree bough and roughly hewn off all the twigs and leaves. |
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I saw this bird feeding, its head concentrated on the bough of a beech tree. |
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I'd been here three weeks and hadn't even bough one lousy souvenir. |
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They stopped in front of the bell-pull on the bough of the birch tree. |
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From the corner of my eye, a pine bough appears to ripple as a red squirrel skitters along. |
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When the bough breaks, the cradle will be safe because the tree has undergone a health and safety assessment. |
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In the case of pine-tree needles, this allows us to compute cheaply the total light reflected by a bough of needles. |
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Hide you in your housen! Hang above your Portals The shielding quicken bough! |
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His squirrels have led an enviable existence, bouncing around Yorkshire, scampering from branch to bough unburdened by traffic pollution and vicious dogs. |
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The CMFO is asking the City to assume these fees until the project can generate revenues during the three-year provisional period or until the land is bough back. |
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A recent poem of unknown origin, a favourite of English language teachers who want to amuse their students, contains tongue twisters such as: I take it you already know of tough and bough and cough and dough? |
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After they are shot up thirty feet in length, they spread a very large top, having no bough nor twig in the trunk or the stem. |
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Using my natural sense of direction and the odd road sign instead of the map, I suddenly found myself right outside Château Bel-Air La Royère, the wine highly recommended by Oz and of which I'd just bough a bottle. |
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A pair of birds settle on the bough above them, murmuring together, ready to roost. |
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The bough certainly breaks during Jupiter Ascending, a bombastic space opera with a muddled narrative glued together by jaw-dropping digital trickery. |
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The pigeon rocked itself backwards and forwards on the bough, swelling out its breast feathers and laying its coralline beak upon them. |
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The Vicar leads a procession through the village, he is followed by the Tower Captain holding the Oak bough. |
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He received some instruction in drawing from Robert Bough, a road surveyor, who was working under Thomas Telford. |
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Examples from Classical Literature
The birds hopped fearlessly from bough to bough, as if this sweet spot were all their own. |
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When his eyes closed and he floated away to slumberland it was to the thrilling song of a bird on a bough above his head. |
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The bough was stuck between two of the bars of the jalousie, and the girl withdrew to the end of the balcony. |
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This attractive peculiarity was more apparent than ever to-day, the frizette having been caught by a bough in the woods. |
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They bent down the bough and picked it, and then allowed it to fly up again. |
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Calote had caught the withered bough when it fell, and made off with it under the alewife's very nose. |
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So he took a bough of fir, thick-set with little twigs, and tied the kill on that. |
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That bough there tires me with its waving and its rising, as if it was alive. |
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And from tree to tree, and from bough to bough, vine branches hung in confusion. |
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Sometimes his descending bough hit the fire and sometimes it struck the unignited leaves. |
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Mr. Pennypacker leaned with an air of satisfaction against the upthrust bough of a fallen oak. |
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The structure on the apple bough was the redstart homestead. |
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A small branch will become a bough, and a bough an arme in bignesse. |
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The seventh of these hath a bough which shoots over the boundary wall. |
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It matters not much what part of the bough the twig growes out of. |
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A great broken bough upon the grass showed whence he had gained his leverage to tilt over our bridge. |
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Never did bough creak so mysteriously, and never did the far-away howling of dogs send such a woeful presage through the night. |
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Graceful vines and creepers festoon themselves from bough to bough. |
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Alan disparted a bough of underwood which made an effectual screen. |
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The chirp of a robin on the bough above his head awakened him, and his awakenment was accompanied by a sigh. |
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Every leafless bough of yonder lofty elder-tree is thick with birds. |
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The vireo had stopped singing and was swinging on a bough above them. |
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He was very strong and clever with his knife and knew how to cut the dry and dead wood away, and could tell when an unpromising bough or twig had still green life in it. |
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Then she went softly out of doors, and plucking an orange from the low-hanging bough of a tree, threw it at Robert, who did not know she was awake and up. |
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The circular garden led to a long garden, where the gardener's shears had scarcely been, unless now and then, when he cut a bough of blossom for his beloved. |
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Luscious, sun-kissed fruits which hung far out upon the frail bough of the jungle's waving crest were brought to her by these tiny, nimble allies. |
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The bough of a broken pine tree lashed heavily in the blast against the windowpane behind them, as if in parody of a burglar, but they did not turn round. |
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We waded swiftly down it, in the dim forest light, for as much as three hundred yards, and then came across an oak with a great bough sticking out over the water. |
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She was a pretty creature, and she and her willow bough made a very pretty picture, and one which could not offend the modesty of the most fastidious spectator. |
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No one knew of it save Bough Van Busch and the draggle-tailed woman. |
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The jewel Bough had left on the veld had belonged to him once. |
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