| 单词 | willow |
| 例句 | She cannot tell how far it stretches, the size of the tent obscured by cascading willows and twisting vines. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z They chewed willow leaves, somehow extracting the sap, then blew tough-walled bubbles. Willodeen 2021-09-07T00:00:00Z The land was gentle enough, rolling hills and terraced fields interspersed with meadows and woodlands and little valleys where willows crowded close to slow shallow streams. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z Chester looked down at his two front legs, half expecting to find the willow leaf. The Cricket in Times Square 1960-01-01T00:00:00Z With a stick broken from a nearby willow she searched through the reedy water, poking around and around the spot where the bag had gone down, working in bigger and bigger circles. The Midwife's Apprentice 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z Merely because of the presence of the willows and the beavers that depended on them, the region was an attractive recreational area with excellent fishing and hunting. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z She found that mouse ear and willow can help stop bleeding and that a tea of anise and dill and bitter milkwort will help when milk will not come. The Midwife's Apprentice 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z She was sitting on the sand, with her feet out straight in front, arranging short willow twigs into bundles, tying them with fluffy cotton string that she had twisted by hand. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z A plume of red soared up in the middle of town, tendrils of fireworks drifting down like the leaves of a giant willow tree. Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z We settled on a bench beneath a great spreading willow, then abandoned it and found more comfortable seats on the ground at the foot of the tree. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z Before the axe could make contact, a whiplike willow branch smacked the weapon out of Sigurd’s hand. Anya and the Dragon 2019-09-24T00:00:00Z When nothing sinister leaped out at her, she hurried to the willow and spotted a branch she could tie her linen to. Anya and the Dragon 2019-09-24T00:00:00Z All day, Omakayas and her grandmother worked hard retying the intersections on last year’s willow frame. The Birchbark House 1999-07-21T00:00:00Z Bare willows clicked on the windowpanes like skeleton fingers. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z This book was bound in linen, silvery green like willow leaves. Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z “Well, there was an abandoned den there. Fox, maybe? Didn’t seem like it had been used in a while. But since it was near those willows, and sometimes I’ve seen screechers digging around their roots...” Willodeen 2021-09-07T00:00:00Z She stood with a motion like a willow wand bending to the wind and offered me her hand. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z The man didn’t have anything in his hands: no knife, no belt, no willow whip. Ship Breaker 2010-05-01T00:00:00Z In her mind she walks a path in the Jardin des Plantes, the air golden, the wind green, the long fingers of willows drifting across her shoulders. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z “But we were outnumbered. The train brings tourists. The blue willows bring hummingbears. Everybody should be happy. Only it doesn’t always work out that way.” Willodeen 2021-09-07T00:00:00Z Near the base of the willow was a smooth gray stone, half covered with leaves. Ruby Holler 2002-02-01T00:00:00Z Cap was doing his tai chi under the weeping willow when I maneuvered Dad’s Saab into the driveway. Schooled 2000-02-29T00:00:00Z He and Harry were building a little fence of sharp poles clear around the house, weaving it together with willow boughs that crissed and crossed and wound together. Miracles on Maple Hill 1956-08-01T00:00:00Z The willow is in full plumage and is no help, with its insinuating whispers. The Handmaid's Tale 1985-01-01T00:00:00Z They took him to the nearest town, where his tooth was pulled; but it was too late, and the blood-poisoning carried him off, black-faced and groaning, and they buried him beneath his favorite willow tree. American Gods 2011-06-21T00:00:00Z In the center, in the shade of the willows, was the clearing. A Thousand Splendid Suns 2007-05-22T00:00:00Z And, farther down, Winnie could see that it hurried into a curve, around a leaning willow, and disappeared. Tuck Everlasting 1975-01-01T00:00:00Z “A little farther. There’s a ditch and a pump house—and a willow tree. Do you remember the willow tree?” East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z By noon, we were back at the cottage, with the strange contraption Connor had created out of reeds and willow branches. Willodeen 2021-09-07T00:00:00Z He parked in the shadows of willow trees that spilled over the walls of the compound located on Street 15, Sarak-e-Mehmana, Street of the Guests. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z The sun was pushing against the gray horizon hills, sending yellow light across the clouds, and the yellow river sand was speckled with the broken shadows of tamaric and river willow. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z What a pity every child couldn’t learn to read under a willow tree, Kit thought a week later. The Witch of Blackbird Pond 1958-12-01T00:00:00Z Sigurd punched his other arm out the side, grabbed handfuls of willow branches, and ripped them away from his chest. Anya and the Dragon 2019-09-24T00:00:00Z A blue jay who flew into a willow when I sat down is right above me, a prisoner of the haze too. On the Far Side of the Mountain 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z Grandma made her way along i he willows weeping into the water. A Long Way from Chicago 1998-09-01T00:00:00Z We considered paying villagers to remove the peacock snails that were harming our willows. Willodeen 2021-09-07T00:00:00Z Then there had been a movement of willow branches twenty-five yards away and downwind, so that no odor of fear came to the rabbit. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z When I came to the place where the willows arched over a deep pool in the swift-running brook, I paused to tread water. Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z A long-fingered willow swept the top of the grass at the water’s edge. Homecoming 1981-01-01T00:00:00Z “At any moment dancers will unfurl from the tops of the willow’s boughs, lip-synching a reminder that the sun will shine again.” Love, Hate & Other Filters 2018-01-16T00:00:00Z The new shoots of the willows were a sharp yellow-green. The Witch of Blackbird Pond 1958-12-01T00:00:00Z As the seasons changed outside the windows, as the weeping willows shed their million leaves, as snow fell on the flat roof and the angle of sunlight declined, Desdemona remained in bed. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z He stopped in front of a gray blue house with a willow tree in the front yard. Eleanor & Park 2013-02-26T00:00:00Z The screecher sits near the base of the blue willow. Willodeen 2021-09-07T00:00:00Z I go along past the flower beds, the willow tree, aiming for the back door. The Handmaid's Tale 1985-01-01T00:00:00Z Pieces of the destroyed willow branches rained down around him. Anya and the Dragon 2019-09-24T00:00:00Z For him to attempt to bind Selitos by his name would be as fruitless as a boy attacking a soldier with a willow stick. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z She waited in the willow tree until her fear subsided. Frightful's Mountain 2001-05-21T00:00:00Z I walk along the gravel, between the slabs of overgreen lawn Serena Joy is sitting under the willow tree, in her chair, cane propped at her elbow. The Handmaid's Tale 1985-01-01T00:00:00Z “Cider. There’s a measure of willow bark in it, so drink it all.” Pax 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z When they had gone, I crept from the water and in the shelter of the willow boughs put on my sun-warmed clothes. Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z I imagined that should I look out through the shuttered window, I would see the willows that stood at the back of that desolate estate. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume I: The Pox Party 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z Down there on the lawn, someone emerges from the spill of darkness under the willow, steps across the light, his long shadow attached sharply to his heels. The Handmaid's Tale 1985-01-01T00:00:00Z Overhead the leaves whisked again and little puffs of willow cotton blew down and landed on the pool’s surface. Of Mice and Men 1937-01-01T00:00:00Z The long skirts of the willow hung down nearly to the ground. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z One day, tired and hot from the chase, she came upon a crystal-clear river deeply shaded by silvery willows. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z The hanging branches of a frosty white willow tree cascading around him. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z It caught the raft and pulled the nose around, so that it aimed downstream but along the edge, bouncing against the bank and sliding beneath overhanging willows and brush. The River 1991-06-01T00:00:00Z Meanwhile, Mama and Omakayas’s older sister tied together a frame of bent willow poles. The Birchbark House 1999-07-21T00:00:00Z He drove long strands of willow in all the seams to keep out waves, and ballasted with logs. The Odyssey 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z Bathroom paper hangs like ghosts from our willow. Inside Out and Back Again 2011-03-22T00:00:00Z The kids stumbled through the water, over and around boulders, through sand and muck and thick bank grass and willow thickets. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z I looked all around and then up into the willow that leaned toward the river. Walk Two Moons 1994-06-30T00:00:00Z He was careful not to snag them as he took them off the willows, and he folded them awkwardly before he took them back. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z She tucked the pouches of seeds and the small smooth stones between the folded clothes, and she rolled bundles of cattail reeds and willow twigs in a skirt. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z Clouds hid the moon, and the willow tree was shrouded in darkness. Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z A willow branch whipped over the water, then plunged into it where the magistrate had disappeared. Anya and the Dragon 2019-09-24T00:00:00Z Out of reeds and willow trees sped a flock of red-winged blackbirds. Frightful's Mountain 2001-05-21T00:00:00Z The willows and tamarics were almost bare then, except for the branches higher than a man could reach. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z We walk over the new cement footbridge, with the willow trees arching overhead, the sound of running water from the creek beneath. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z Soon, under an hour, there were thirty or forty small fish in the enclosure and Brian made a gate by weaving small willows together into a fine mesh and closed them in. Hatchet 1987-01-01T00:00:00Z “Actually, I’m here because last night I remembered a blue willow grove near the northwest ridge,” Connor said as I emerged from the coop. Willodeen 2021-09-07T00:00:00Z Then, coming out of a stand of thick willows, they found it. The River 1991-06-01T00:00:00Z Somewhere near at hand, though out of sight, there was a clear, slow-moving stream where dace were swimming in the pools under the willow trees. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z The leaves were soon torn from the date tree on the threshold and from the willow trees and the peach trees near the fields. The Good Earth 1931-03-02T00:00:00Z I used an old stage trick to keep myself from blushing, gave my best unconcerned shrug, and looked down at the willow wand I was peeling. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z Pa had told me that bubble nests only stuck to blue willow leaves. Willodeen 2021-09-07T00:00:00Z She had done her washing the day before and had spread the wet clothes over willows to dry. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z He looked up at the stars, through the top branches of the willows. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z It went wide, sinking into the trunk of the willow tree with a thump and a splash. Anya and the Dragon 2019-09-24T00:00:00Z The willow trees overhanging the path are the same. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z “A fortnight ago I saw two hummingbears. They were flying south. I watched them pass right over the riverfront willows and keep going.” Willodeen 2021-09-07T00:00:00Z I chewed bitter willow bark and bitter was my mood. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z When the sick feeling was gone I pulled into the willow bushes and rested again, my arms around some brush, holding tight with my hands to the branches. A Farewell To Arms 1929-09-02T00:00:00Z All through the late spring and early summer the water rose and at last it lay like a great sea, lovely and idle, mirroring cloud and moon and willows and bamboo whose trunks stood submerged. The Good Earth 1931-03-02T00:00:00Z They were called things like “icebox plum” and “whitening willows.” How to Disappear Completely 2020-04-28T00:00:00Z I heard her saying to me, in the candlelit darkness of my bedchamber, “‘By the rivers of Babylon, we sat down and wept....On the willows there, we hung up our harps…. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves 2009-10-13T00:00:00Z Back at the table, I started with the five riverbank willow leaf samples. Willodeen 2021-09-07T00:00:00Z Her mother was on her knees under the willow tree, hands over her face, bawling as Ivan’s mother, Marina, knelt beside her. Anya and the Dragon 2019-09-24T00:00:00Z It would’ve taken me till I was ninety to get the diamond willow posts and wire out to the field if I hadn’t. Hattie Big Sky 2006-09-26T00:00:00Z They gave themselves up to the spell and fell fast asleep at the foot of the great grey willow. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z He shoved past the willow branches and left, stomping in the field along the riverbank until he was out of sight. Anya and the Dragon 2019-09-24T00:00:00Z She was walking through the sunflowers, holding the blue silk shawl around her shoulders in one hand, carrying the long curved willow stick in the other. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z Feet and legs should be raised, massaged, and swabbed in a warm infusion of willow bark, camphor, and arrowroot. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z The broken stones of temples and palaces were sinking back into the earth, and gnarled old willows grew thick along the riverbanks. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z Like him, I’d seen screechers digging near blue willow roots now and then. Willodeen 2021-09-07T00:00:00Z It was quite dark under the willow tree now. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z I sat on a park bench near a willow tree. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z It doesn’t matter how skilled a fencer you are, you can’t help but lose when your opponent has a blade of Ramston steel and you’ve chosen to fight with a willow switch. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z The bubbles adhered to each other, and to the branches of the willows, with surprising strength. Willodeen 2021-09-07T00:00:00Z “And the bubbles wouldn’t stick, Connor! Not to any of the other blue willow leaves. Not to any of the other tree leaves. Just to the leaves from these two trees!” Willodeen 2021-09-07T00:00:00Z He paddled to the shore and jammed the raft into some willows and grass. The River 1991-06-01T00:00:00Z Connor had mentioned a small stand of blue willows up that way, and I thought I might find something there. Willodeen 2021-09-07T00:00:00Z Maybe I was even starting to bear a strong resemblance to our weeping willow trees. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z He followed the path in and out of the trees until it seemed to end beneath an overhanging willow. Ruby Holler 2002-02-01T00:00:00Z By the precise and delicate timing that is nature’s own, the emergence of one species of wild bees takes place on the very day of the opening of the willow blossoms. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z He looked like a weeping willow in soggy sandals. Schooled 2000-02-29T00:00:00Z Everything was overgrown, but it was really peaceful and Ruth had taken to doing a lot of her reading there, near the back railings, on a bench under a big willow. Never Let Me Go 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z When the river level drops, it exposes the lower branches of willows lining the banks. Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z Fifteen years after the eruption, the ravaged slopes were dotted with trees and woody shrubs: red alder, lodgepole pine, willow bush. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z I’d managed to find five of them by digging, with great effort, at the base of the blue willows Connor had told me about. Willodeen 2021-09-07T00:00:00Z Abra put her arms around his neck in the dusk under the willow tree. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z For fishing, we made our own poles out of willow branches. Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z The birdsong came from the top of the willow and I did not want to look too closely, because I wanted it to be the tree that was singing. Walk Two Moons 1994-06-30T00:00:00Z On the edge of the field stood a little pump house, and a willow tree flourished beside it, fed by the overspill of water. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z With no prying eyes around, I slipped off one of my petticoats, washed it in the water, and hung it over a willow branch to dry. Fever 1793 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z The biggest tree in the graveyard was a weeping willow—a crying tree. Ella Enchanted 1998-09-01T00:00:00Z I was riding with one of the mercenaries, absently peeling the bark from a willow switch. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z Abra parted the switches like a curtain and went into the house of leaves made against the willow trunk by the sweeping branches. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z Together, the Witchlings walked past the brightly colored flowers and enormous willow trees and to the Uncle’s door. Witchlings 2022-04-05T00:00:00Z It was as beautiful under the branches of the willow tree as anything in the world can be. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z “Beyond all other trees,” she said with a curl of a smile on her elegant mouth, “the willow moves to the wind’s desire.” The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z But a rowboat is floating, caught between our two houses and a bigger willow tree that kept it from floating down the street. Ninth Ward 2010-08-16T00:00:00Z The next week, another postcard: “The maples have turned to gold, and willow leaves float along the creek.” Ruby Holler 2002-02-01T00:00:00Z My father answered: “In evening when the light is dying My feet at last are homeward turning The wind is through the willows sighing Please keep the hearthfire burning.” The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z I hung to the willow branch and did not have strength to pull myself up but 1 knew I would not drown now. A Farewell To Arms 1929-09-02T00:00:00Z ‘Can’t go another step without rest. Must have nap. It’s cool under the willows. Less flies!’ The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z He thought of his meadow and the stump, the brook and the old willow tree. The Cricket in Times Square 1960-01-01T00:00:00Z Brian moved near some willows, his face down in the water, reaching with his left arm, and when he raised his head he was looking at the raft. The River 1991-06-01T00:00:00Z The raft had moved to the outside of a shallow curve and had glided back beneath some overhanging willows and low trees. The River 1991-06-01T00:00:00Z He swallowed, knew that all he had for a voice box was a little whistle cut from a willow switch. Slaughterhouse-Five 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z He carried one small willow stick in his hand. Of Mice and Men 1937-01-01T00:00:00Z Finally, as the light faded, they fastened the mats of bark onto the willow frame, a half skeleton of pliable saplings. The Birchbark House 1999-07-21T00:00:00Z I watched the leaves on the blue willows twirl, silver to blue, blue to silver. Willodeen 2021-09-07T00:00:00Z He cut a green willow fork and held the fish over die fire until the skin crackled and peeled away and the meat inside was flaky and moist and tender. Hatchet 1987-01-01T00:00:00Z Then I crawled out, pushed on through the willows and onto the bank. A Farewell To Arms 1929-09-02T00:00:00Z So Horatio related how he followed me to the brook where he watched me drink the potion and climb the willow tree. Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z But the year turned to spring and the willows grew faintly green and the peach trees budded pink, and Wang Lung had not yet found the one he sought for his son. The Good Earth 1931-03-02T00:00:00Z Some of them were in the wide arroyo that the creek cut through Gallup, but the others were in the salt-cedar and willow thickets that grew along the stream banks. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z Mama and Nokomis hung the smoky woven bags of rice and tools and medicines from the willow poles above. The Birchbark House 1999-07-21T00:00:00Z Thorn ran the few toadstools toward the Spector Lagoon, and as she entered through the curtain of the willows surrounding the area, what looked like hundreds of red eyes opened and blinked at once. Witchlings 2022-04-05T00:00:00Z Each Saturday afternoon Joe hiked the three miles into town with one or more of the enormous salmon slung over his shoulder on a willow switch, their tails dragging in the dust behind him. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z He looks around at the trees, the long frosted willow branches cascading down, the topiaries that line the nearby path like ghosts. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z We sit here under a huge willow tree that weeps down around us. I Am the Messenger 2002-01-10T00:00:00Z His icy eyes seemed to glow from the willow’s shadow. Anya and the Dragon 2019-09-24T00:00:00Z Passing through the willows’ leaves, it turned them a phosphorescent green. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z He then explained this affectionate apostrophe, by touching his brooch representing the lady and the weeping willow at the tomb with the urn upon it, and saying, “Had it made for me, express!” Great Expectations 1861-08-01T00:00:00Z The mare stopped, letting them survey the stones, the willow tree dangling its fingers over the rooftops of the two small mausoleums, the dusky grove of poplars beyond. Bone Gap 2015-03-03T00:00:00Z I sat next to the sole blue willow in the square that had come through the fire unscathed. Willodeen 2021-09-07T00:00:00Z The willow trees drop yellow catkins over the bridge; the maple keys fall twirling to the sidewalks and we split the sticky seed part and pinch the keys onto our noses. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z It took him a half hour to use some green willows and swatches of grass to arrange a crude awning over Derek. The River 1991-06-01T00:00:00Z After he was gone, Mariam would climb one of the willows with her treats. A Thousand Splendid Suns 2007-05-22T00:00:00Z He had Farhad and Muhsin dig a deep hole a hundred yards outside the circle of willows and built an outhouse over it. A Thousand Splendid Suns 2007-05-22T00:00:00Z I looked at the islands of vegetation fenced in within the clusters of willow trees creating the illusion of a heavily forested swampland. Summer of the Mariposas 2012-10-20T00:00:00Z I covertly used some sympathy to start the fire while Denna cobbled together a couple cooking skewers out of forked willow branches. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z He waved his whole body back and forth in place, like a round little willow tree bending in a gentle breeze. Lawn Boy Returns 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z I baked these and boiled mussels for breakfast, then I curled up behind a willow and watched the cliff. My Side of the Mountain 1959-01-01T00:00:00Z She laid the willow sticks she had tied inside the small square enclosure, and he laid a flat sandstone over the opening at the top. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z The sight was too terrible and beautiful for a cricket who up to now had measured high things by the height of his willow tree and sounds by the burble of a running brook. The Cricket in Times Square 1960-01-01T00:00:00Z Looking back, the last thing Bigwig saw was the face of General Woundwort staring out of the gap in the willow herb where the boat had lain. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z The willow pulled his sword from him and knocked him back, picking him up by his ankles a moment later and hanging him upside down. Anya and the Dragon 2019-09-24T00:00:00Z He threaded among willows and sycamores and wild blackberry vines in the riverbed, patted the trunks of live oak and scrub oak, madrone, laurel, toyon. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z While I've been concealed by darkness and the sleeping bag and the willow branches, it has probably been difficult for the cameras to get a good shot of me. The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z The night air was warm, and the willow whispered behind her, and the water whispered before her. Homecoming 1981-01-01T00:00:00Z There are paths for walking, a small exercise complex, a man-made pond surrounded by benches and willow trees. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z After the group calmed down, I explained, best as I could, how screechers and hummingbears and blue willows all needed each other, even if it wasn’t easy for us to see or understand. Willodeen 2021-09-07T00:00:00Z With a flick of Mama’s wrist, the willow’s graceful, slim branches jerked the magistrate, tossing him a few feet offshore. Anya and the Dragon 2019-09-24T00:00:00Z I took my samples from the riverside willows, the new blue willow grove, and the leaves I’d collected from random trees. Willodeen 2021-09-07T00:00:00Z Two enormous weeping willows, like woolly mammoths, on either side of the property. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z Leaving my basket at the base of the willow tree, I climbed onto a strong limb that grew aslant the brook. Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z Brian tried to move to the bank and run, but the brush was so thick and wild that it was like a jungle—grass, willows, and thick vines grabbed at him, holding him. The River 1991-06-01T00:00:00Z Anya threw herself away from the fight and turned to run when the willow tree moaned. Anya and the Dragon 2019-09-24T00:00:00Z It shakes the willow catkins; the leaves shine silver. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z The willow’s unharmed branches snaked toward Sigurd, keeping a distance from him but ready to whip at him if needed. Anya and the Dragon 2019-09-24T00:00:00Z The first time my brother says ain 't my mother pulls a branch from the willow tree growing down the hill at the edge of our backyard. Brown Girl Dreaming 2014-08-28T00:00:00Z Earth trees, great mimosas and weeping willows and magnolias and magnificent eucalyptus. The Martian Chronicles 1950-01-01T00:00:00Z We were pretty well camouflaged in the riverbank scrub—a tangle of willow and alder and poplar full of mistletoe. Code Name Verity 2012-05-15T00:00:00Z “The willow is green; flowers are red. The flower is not red; nor is the willow green.” Please Ignore Vera Dietz 2012-10-12T00:00:00Z The willow tree’s branches shifted in the soft breeze coming off the river. Anya and the Dragon 2019-09-24T00:00:00Z Beyond it, drooping willow trees presided like mourning gods over a tiny churchyard. Shadowshaper 2015-06-30T00:00:00Z And they were both gazing at the bright stars when four men wearing cloth bags over their heads jumped from the willows and attacked. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z The tules and grasses grew back, and willows straightened up with the flood debris in their upper branches. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z The bark of the willow tree is extremely bitter, but early humans learned to make tea from it anyway. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z She carried the cage outside and hung it from the willow tree beside the hut. Son 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z Dripping coolly onto her sandaled feet, the untidy bunch of rosebay willow herb and irises brought her to a better state of mind. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z “Somebody sent you,” she said, and he noticed she was holding a small willow staff, slightly curved at one end. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z The prentice struck again and again, swinging the heavy iron rod lightly as a willow switch. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z I clung to the willow branch but the mandragora that now filled my veins had stolen my strength. Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z Tally crouched and peered through the hanging willow leaves. Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z The air was fresh, with the sharp edge you felt only in autumn, though we didn’t see a single hummingbear when we passed the blue willows at the river’s edge. Willodeen 2021-09-07T00:00:00Z Grandma gave her the willow doll instead, told her to let the baby sleep, directed her to play with Little Pinch. The Birchbark House 1999-07-21T00:00:00Z In the mists rising from the water, he could have been a woeful little bush planted between the willow and the pine. Homecoming 1981-01-01T00:00:00Z He cruised casually about until he saw the willow with a start of surprise. Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z Jefferson, she explained, was like a willow who bent with every political breeze. Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z Grandma was completing the edge of a great round box of birchbark, one that she would use to store her red willow kinnikinnick. The Birchbark House 1999-07-21T00:00:00Z Others chimed in with more suggestions: a new roof for the village hall, food for families whose crops had failed, a fresh planting of blue willows to attract more hummingbears. Willodeen 2021-09-07T00:00:00Z They spread their blanket under a willow tree next to a pond. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z In this case, that meant the two weeping willow trees and the mulberry growing against the front of the house. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z The willow tree overhanging the brook shielded us from all eyes, and the maze kept our secrets. Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z Tally crept along the river until she reached a pleasure garden, and slipped into the darkness beneath a row of weeping willows. Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z “You have your mother’s eyes. It seems only yesterday she was in here herself, buying her first wand. Ten and a quarter inches long, swishy, made of willow. Nice wand for charm work.” Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone 1997-06-26T00:00:00Z The weeping willows were bare but still massive and threw up their twisted arms like women in grief. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z In Carmel Valley the artichoke plants stood gray green, and the willows were lush along the river. Cannery Row 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z It was at the beginning of time, and a river ran outside Yo's window, bordered by cypresses, willows, great sweating ferns, thick stalks and palms. How the García Girls Lost Their Accents 1991-01-04T00:00:00Z Two hundred yards upstream, toward the mountains, there was a circular grove of weeping willow trees. A Thousand Splendid Suns 2007-05-22T00:00:00Z “Keep icing it on and off. I want the swelling down some so I can set that bone tonight. Mix a spoonful of willow bark in water every few hours for pain.” Pax 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z Next I tried the new willow grove samples. Willodeen 2021-09-07T00:00:00Z She was still there when the snow melted and the willows budded again. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z The prince wouldn't know his lessons, the royal tutor was quick as a flyswatter with his willow switch— and Jemmy would be back in rags. The Whipping Boy 1986-04-01T00:00:00Z Game would be more abundant in the dwarf willows that bordered the waterways. Julie of the Wolves 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z A little way off, along the river bank, willows were growing. The Magician's Nephew 1955-05-02T00:00:00Z With fresh water and food, we could stay under the willow until he regained his strength, then head back to the city. Fever 1793 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z It was very small, encased in a cunningly crafted willow bark sheath. Redwall 1986-10-23T00:00:00Z It was much cooler under the willow than it had been under the chestnut tree. Fever 1793 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z Red oaks lead long lives, longer than our daintier friends black willows, persimmons, apples, and redbuds. Wishtree 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z I will climb the bank where the willow never dies. Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z Jackson Park was one square mile of desolation, mostly treeless, save for pockets of various kinds of oak—burr, pin, black, and scarlet—rising from a tangled undergrowth of elder, wild plum, and willow. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z He stayed a week, mostly puttering around with the willow whistles. My Side of the Mountain 1959-01-01T00:00:00Z Tonight the red bird perches in the willow tree. Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z The branches of the willow began to sway violently. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z “This is a willow,” she said, running her hand along a thick, tall tree trunk, “the goddess tree. The bark has been used to heal for many, many years. It’s sometimes called ‘nature’s aspirin.’” The Science of Breakable Things 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z And he said, “I want you to go inside the willow tree with me. That’s what I want to do.” East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z Both warriors struggled in the air, but the willow reinforced their leafy bonds as they squirmed. Anya and the Dragon 2019-09-24T00:00:00Z The heat had gone, but there was still no breeze to lift the hair of the willows. Sula 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z Roza rubbed her head, wished she had some willow bark, decided there wasn’t enough willow bark in the world. Bone Gap 2015-03-03T00:00:00Z They watched him weave unsteadily through the salt bush down to the river willows and tamarics, growing along the river, all the while clutching his brown shopping bag close to his chest. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z In the midst of it there wound lazily a dark river of brown water, bordered with ancient willows, arched over with willows, blocked with fallen willows, and flecked with thousands of faded willow-leaves. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z It was cold then, and when the sun went down they built small fires from broken crates they found in the alleys and with branches they tore from the tamaric and willow. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z She found the path easily, passed the dark clump of willows, and saw ahead the deep shining pool that was Blackbird Pond and a faint reddish glow that must be Hannah’s window. The Witch of Blackbird Pond 1958-12-01T00:00:00Z When we finally reached the hidden grove, I tied Quinby’s rope around a blue willow trunk. Willodeen 2021-09-07T00:00:00Z “But first, I wanna grab a bit of that willow bark.” Stella by Starlight 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z Would he be strong enough to walk as far as the willows? Fever 1793 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z “A willow blossom,” she said without a second’s hesitation. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z Moments later she emerged, skirted around the house and entered the sagebrush, heading for the few silvery cottonwoods and willows growing along the Rio Lucero. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z For a few seconds, all she heard was the warm night wind shushing through the willows. Shadowshaper 2015-06-30T00:00:00Z I pulled off a couple blue willow twirls and gave them to Duuzuu. Willodeen 2021-09-07T00:00:00Z In his dream he was sitting on top of his stump back in Connecticut, eating a leaf from the willow tree. The Cricket in Times Square 1960-01-01T00:00:00Z On her way to the stream, she saw Nana sitting on a chair, in the shade, beneath the domed roof of a weeping willow. A Thousand Splendid Suns 2007-05-22T00:00:00Z Who had inveigled the child with promises, and thought of the hiding place under the willow tree, and persuaded her — no dragged her against her will — to meet Hannah? The Witch of Blackbird Pond 1958-12-01T00:00:00Z “All we need now are the weeping willows and the tombstones.” One Hundred Years of Solitude 1967-05-30T00:00:00Z Anya hid behind the willow tree and watched the two giants hack and swing at each other. Anya and the Dragon 2019-09-24T00:00:00Z Finally, with a last burst of energy, she drove the craft toward a stand of reeds and stood up to catch an arm of willow protruding from the water. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z “That’s not fair!” he calls as she disappears behind the hanging branches of a willow tree. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z One day Mr. Lapham called to him and led him to a bench under the old willow behind the coal house. Johnny Tremain 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z Sigurd dragged her under the shade of the willow tree and said, “Hope the dragon’s hungry.” Anya and the Dragon 2019-09-24T00:00:00Z There were no willows or fountains here, as there had been at the embassy. Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z There rabbits and ptarmigan gathered to eat seeds out of the wind, and moose wintered on the twigs of the willows. Julie of the Wolves 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z Having found for himself the proper willow charcoal, Johnny went quickly ahead with his casting. Johnny Tremain 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z Geoffrey’s was made from a piece of the willow overhanging the brook. The Door in the Wall 1949-01-03T00:00:00Z I examined the leaves on each of the five willows. Willodeen 2021-09-07T00:00:00Z ‘He will let no man handle him. There he goes, away down by the ford, like a shadow among the willows.’ The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z And by the next autumn, a quarter of the riverside blue willows had hummingbear nests in them. Willodeen 2021-09-07T00:00:00Z Lying there in his bed without his wedding garments, he looked thin as a willow twig and very weak. Homeless Bird 2000-03-01T00:00:00Z The blue willows spiraled in the brisk, warm wind. Willodeen 2021-09-07T00:00:00Z A line of river willows and sycamores banded it in the mid- dle, and the western hills were yellow-brown with feed. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z Little brother Pinch was killing his willow doll men over and over with a rock. The Birchbark House 1999-07-21T00:00:00Z Tom sprang away, and breaking off a hanging branch smote the side of the willow with it. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z But she’d focused almost all her energy on holes near the two willows closest to the stream—the same trees where the hummingbears were nesting. Willodeen 2021-09-07T00:00:00Z She pulled on her rope to get close to the willow roots. Willodeen 2021-09-07T00:00:00Z There were birds flying and landing in low willow shrubs. In the Footsteps of Crazy Horse 2015-11-10T00:00:00Z The willows that grow in the river bed were well leafed, and the wild blackberry vines were thrusting their spiky new shoots along the ground. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z Valley shimmied up the weeping willow in Seven’s backyard, placed the pod, and slid down with the grace of a jaguar. Witchlings 2022-04-05T00:00:00Z Maybe cover it with grass or leaves or sticks, he thought, and he started to go down to the lake again, where there were some willows he could cut down for braces. Hatchet 1987-01-01T00:00:00Z Why, I knew some good old willows down the Entwash, gone long ago, alas! The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z The birds landed in some taller willow type of undergrowth with wide leaves and started jumping and making noise. Hatchet 1987-01-01T00:00:00Z He said the willow whistles were too old for such an occasion. My Side of the Mountain 1959-01-01T00:00:00Z I sketch a willow tree drooping into the water. Speak 1999-10-01T00:00:00Z She really said four, though, so we hung around outside the stage door by the picnic tables and the weeping willow tree. P.S. I Miss You 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z A large willow tree hung over the water, dipping the tips of its branches in the current. Anya and the Dragon 2019-09-24T00:00:00Z This time she glided into a little bay where the current was sluggish, and tied up to what she thought was a willow. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z On a shelf I find a book of landscapes filled with illustrations of every stinking tree that grows: sycamore, linden, aspen, willow, fir, tulip poplar, chestnut, elm, spruce, pine. Speak 1999-10-01T00:00:00Z She gave up and dropped into a calm eddy of air behind a bank of willows. Frightful's Mountain 2001-05-21T00:00:00Z She inhales the scents of the village, the river, the forest, the blue willows. Willodeen 2021-09-07T00:00:00Z Using a rake made from a stick of red willow pulled up by the roots, the two girls took turns turning the rice over and over, smoking and toasting the grains. The Birchbark House 1999-07-21T00:00:00Z On the other side of him, Mel Willis’s long brown hair swung gently as willows in a breeze. Bone Gap 2015-03-03T00:00:00Z Maybe it was because the stand of blue willows had become a special place for Connor and me, one I didn’t want to share—even though I knew I had to. Willodeen 2021-09-07T00:00:00Z Beaver had lived there, too, feeding on the willows, felling them and making a strong dam across the tiny stream. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z At last, he sees the island, overgrown with willows and reeds. Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z Claire pulled her own shawl tight and fastened it with the willow clasp. Son 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z The flame of the sunset lifted from the mountaintops and dusk came into the valley, and a half darkness came in among the willows and the sycamores. Of Mice and Men 1937-01-01T00:00:00Z Lying in the tall grass under the willows, I watched the sun rise. Z for Zachariah 1976-07-29T00:00:00Z They were peach trees, budded most delicately pink, and willow trees thrusting forth tender green leaves. The Good Earth 1931-03-02T00:00:00Z Graceful trees and bushes were growing along the riverbanks—weeping willows and alders and tall clumps of rhododendrons with their pink and red and mauve blossoms. Charlie and the Chocolate Factory 1964-09-12T00:00:00Z She makes the most of what she has, filling the window nook with houseplants of all kinds, a bonsai weeping willow, a towering ficus with drooping fronds, a fiddle-leaf fig. A Bird Will Soar 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z They had tumbled into their own symmetry, and it was certainly true that too even a distribution between the irises and the rosebay willow herb ruined the effect. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z I stretched out my body under the willow tree, my face feeling cooler in its shade. Moon Over Manifest 2010-10-12T00:00:00Z When Justice Douglas visited the area in 1959, the year of the spraying, he was shocked to see the shriveled and dying willows — the “vast, incredible damage.” Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z Claire could hear her murmuring the names—white willow, nettle, meadowsweet, goldenseal—and knew she was pondering what combinations to create. Son 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z I counted the few blue willows in the hills. Willodeen 2021-09-07T00:00:00Z Jesper said as they raced over the roof, catching glimpses of the elegant courtyards below, each built around a burbling fountain and dotted with rustling ice willows. Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z But the sap was beginning to run freely in the willows. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z After another few minutes, the road led them to a place where, off to the left, a shallow stream looped near, with willows and sheltering, scrubby bushes. Tuck Everlasting 1975-01-01T00:00:00Z At the edge of the field were the elm trees, faintly stirring, and somewhere beyond that was the stream where the dace lay in the green pools under the willows. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z A willow, not terribly tall but set in a clump of other willows, offering concealment in those long, flowing tresses. The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z I walked around the five willows, trying to count the number of peacock snails Quinby ate. Willodeen 2021-09-07T00:00:00Z A stack of his hummingbear puzzlers sat nearby in a large willow basket. Willodeen 2021-09-07T00:00:00Z Virgil curled up at the foot of a weeping willow, holding a broken leg. Hello, Universe 2017-03-14T00:00:00Z Don’t know if he saw me nodding, but he shifted back to his own position beneath the gently rustling willow herb and hemlock alongside the Rosalie driver, and they bagged another guard. Code Name Verity 2012-05-15T00:00:00Z I’d gone wandering earlier and found some willow bark to chew. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z When the tree was done, Bando had discovered that the sap was running in willow trees and the limbs were just right for slide whistles. My Side of the Mountain 1959-01-01T00:00:00Z I reached the willow tree, the very picture of Nature weeping. Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z “I told them it was a bad idea to plant there. Blue willows crave water. Ponds, rivers, lakes.” Willodeen 2021-09-07T00:00:00Z It was nice on a hot summer day because the catfish liked to collect in the cooler waters that was under t lie shade of the big willows. Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z There were weeping willows and rows of apple trees leading up a hill. Bodega Dreams 2000-03-14T00:00:00Z But the smell in the remaining grove of tamaric and willow was strong enough to keep them away. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z He was going to own his own willows—say, out in Milton. Johnny Tremain 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z ‘Now is the time for resting. Some things are ill to hear when the world’s in shadow. Sleep till the morning-light, rest on the pillow! Heed no nightly noise! Fear no grey willow!’ The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z The willow poles trembled, bouncing with the force of the gusts of wind. The Birchbark House 1999-07-21T00:00:00Z They speared the carrots on pointed willow switches and finally they passed the can and drank the juice. Cannery Row 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z He saw the tall poplars and willows behind the house, in the fields where he stalked badgers, the rumpled hills covered in heather and bracken that spread for miles and miles, dotted with grazing sheep. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z Then I made my way to the hillside where the new grove of blue willows had been planted, the ones Connor’s father had said needed more water. Willodeen 2021-09-07T00:00:00Z Then they left the town behind, following the winding course of the Rhoyne through willow groves and poppy fields and past a tall wooden windmill whose blades creaked like old bones as they turned. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z After passing through a patch of brush and willows Robin came out into a field. The Door in the Wall 1949-01-03T00:00:00Z The shadows of the willow leaves made her skin look mottled and dark, the way the iron deposits streaked the yellow sandstone cliffs dark orange. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z But with the “improvement” instituted by the Forest Service, the willows went the way of the sagebrush, killed by the same impartial spray. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z They migrated down from the north in huge flocks, confusing the skies and crowding the clouds before landing on the blue willows in our valley. Willodeen 2021-09-07T00:00:00Z A gust of wind blew and parted the drooping branches of the weeping willow like a curtain, and Mariam caught a glimpse of what was beneath the tree: the straight-backed chair, overturned. A Thousand Splendid Suns 2007-05-22T00:00:00Z The golden haze illuminated the edges of the willows and a decapitated angel statue. Shadowshaper 2015-06-30T00:00:00Z From then on, night and day, Buck never left his prey, never gave it a moment’s rest, never permitted it to browse the leaves of trees or the shoots of young birch and willow. The Call of the Wild 1903-01-01T00:00:00Z Connor pointed to a cleared strip of forest where a stand of blue willows had been planted a year ago. Willodeen 2021-09-07T00:00:00Z There were no willows or sweet-smelling cassia trees, no garden pavilions, no benches sitting by a pond, no tubs of fish. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z A sudden breeze rustled the leaves of a willow, as if it were calling to Beetle. The Midwife's Apprentice 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z Using my feet, I measured the distance from the willows to the stream meandering downhill. Willodeen 2021-09-07T00:00:00Z Too many of the willow’s branches didn’t touch the water anymore. Anya and the Dragon 2019-09-24T00:00:00Z He saw some young birch, and they were springy, but they lacked snap somehow, as did the willows. Hatchet 1987-01-01T00:00:00Z Aron went back to the trunk of the willow tree and sat on the ground and leaned back against the bark. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z The three of them were sitting outside the kolba, in a patch of shade thrown by the willows, on folding chairs arranged in a triangle. A Thousand Splendid Suns 2007-05-22T00:00:00Z Then he went outside to the little backyard with the coal house, the privy, and the old willow. Johnny Tremain 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z Whatever lessons lay ahead, they were obviously being driven home with the aid of a willow switch. The Shakespeare Stealer 1998-05-01T00:00:00Z While she sewed mats together and reset the willow poles, Omakayas often experienced the haunting sense of things missing. The Birchbark House 1999-07-21T00:00:00Z Looking round for Hazel, Pipkin caught sight of Kehaar, a little way off, standing in a patch of shallow water between two clumps of willow herb. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z Through my dream gurgles the fateful brook where I swam as a child and where the willow boughs skimmed the water’s surface. Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z I grabbed the willow laundry basket and lined it with some clean blankets. Hattie Big Sky 2006-09-26T00:00:00Z Friends of the couple had built a kind of bower from supple willow branches and now they were decorating it with blossoms and ferns. Son 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z He pointed to an old willow leaning into the water near where the boy stood. Walk Two Moons 1994-06-30T00:00:00Z “September 3 “Bando taught me how to make willow whistles today. My Side of the Mountain 1959-01-01T00:00:00Z I opened my pocket knife and moved to the creekside, where I cut a branch from a small willow tree, a Y-branch well tufted with leaves. Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z Their antennae were plumes fit to fan a tiny queen, their bodies like willow buds: compact, furred, marvelous. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z I set him down near a blue willow full of hummingbear nests and walked away, hard as it was to do. Willodeen 2021-09-07T00:00:00Z She sat in the shade of the willows that grew beside the pool, below the overhang of the cliff. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z But so was the green, life- giving ribbon of willows that traced its way across these plains, following the meandering streams. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z It was a beautiful place, with its enormous willow trees and wild, colorful flowers, but it could also be creepy and isolated. Witchlings 2022-04-05T00:00:00Z Hate It I don’t make it inside the house, but sit under the willow tree, dig a hole and into it scream scream scream I hate everyone!!!! Inside Out and Back Again 2011-03-22T00:00:00Z It seemed to have something to do with the gentle winter climate and our stands of blue willows, the only trees where they’d nest. Willodeen 2021-09-07T00:00:00Z Adam got his knife back to teach the boys to make willow whistles, a thing Lee had taught them three years before. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z The drinking of birch and willow tea would ease the pain a bit but could not take it away. Son 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z Down by the riverwalk, the willow leaves tangled in the fitful wind. Willodeen 2021-09-07T00:00:00Z “Good idea. We’ve got everything we need, plus a figgy bonus. Now we just need to boil the willow and the mint for twenty minutes or so, then let the tea sit awhile.” Stella by Starlight 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z The chickens clucked in their enclosure, pressing their beaks to the willow walls, keeping them inside. The Girl Who Drank the Moon 2016-08-09T00:00:00Z “This is willow. You can chew the bark to lessen pains.” The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z “The baishakunin took me to see it—peach trees, persimmons, weeping willows, rock gardens. None of that turns out to be true.” Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z I took out my trowel and walked past each blue willow. Willodeen 2021-09-07T00:00:00Z “Brand-new wand. Fourteen inches, willow, containing one unicorn tail-hair. And we’ve got all our books —” He pointed at a large bag under his chair. Harry Potter And The Prisoner Of Azkaban 1999-07-08T00:00:00Z “Near the bridge, in the willow thicket on the river bank, lay the broken-up machine with a black spider of a swastika on its tail unit,” said Nina. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z Because willow bark contains salicylic acid, a pain reliever. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z The cattle lay drowsing all day long under the willows and only moved out at night to feed. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z I could see twigs on the willow bush. A Farewell To Arms 1929-09-02T00:00:00Z The old tradition of men playfully swatting their paramours with artfully decorated willow sticks in exchange for plum brandy and painted eggs is a beloved part of the seasonal fun. In Transit Blog: Sampling the Easter Markets of Prague 2012-04-03T02:12:31Z The grounds include manicured gardens, lawns with olive trees and wild areas where spruces, palms or weeping willows encroach on white pebble paths. On a Lush Island, the Splendor of Venice but Not the Crowds 2016-05-20T04:00:00Z A towering dead willow tree is a reminder of the water that flooded and contaminated the garden during Hurricane Sandy. In New York City's Lower East Side, gardening is a political act of resistance 2015-08-11T04:00:00Z Behind were the willows and the poplars, and the orchards of apricots and almonds. Curfewed Night 2010-06-19T23:10:00Z The landscape architect Diana Balmori designed an open cube fashioned from woven willow branches. Dreaming Up a Summer Idyll for Frederic Edwin Church 2016-07-29T04:00:00Z Petrol fumes gusting up from the street suggested the shade of willows and a brook singing duets with the softly puttering Panhard-Levassor. Parisians: An Adventure History of Paris by Graham Robb 2010-04-02T23:06:00Z Many of our trees and shrubs, including oak, ash, beech, lime, sycamore, alder and willow, can re-grow from the point at which the stem is broken. Feral: Searching for Enchantment on the Frontiers of Rewilding by George Monbiot – review 2013-05-24T06:30:12Z The last stage of the journey involved no tourism bric-a-brac, only small, twisty, increasingly difficult to navigate roads, mossy tree trunks, wind, willows, heather, cloud knuckles and gray rock. In Ireland, Chasing the Wandering Soul of Yeats 2015-04-17T04:00:00Z In Snow Hill, Wright — who looked the part of ghost-tour guide with his handlebar mustache, dark vest and newsboy cap — led us down quiet streets lined with willows and sycamores. On Maryland’s Eastern Shore, walking among the spirits Before the first plants went into the ground, Future Green worked for weeks to design and assemble a nest of woven willow branches with a diameter of 25 feet. Rockefeller Center Digs Up Its Bucolic Roots 2019-05-05T04:00:00Z The coffin, covered by a wooden framework painted with the symbols of the revolution, was placed on a bier surrounded by a semicircle of willows. A Place in My Country by WG Sebald – extract 2013-04-20T07:00:21Z Distant friends logged on to see the slide show from the funeral on YouTube and followed up with e-cards featuring sunsets and willows. Modern Love: In Bitter Moments, Reaching for the Sweet 2010-09-03T19:50:00Z Fallen willows are another menace, as are bloated bovine corpses. Meander: East to West Along a Turkish River by Jeremy Seal – review 2012-07-06T21:55:10Z Lighted willow branches on the mantel draw attention to the fireplace. House Calls: Bringing comfort to a Broad Run great room 2015-01-12T05:00:00Z Even in summer the monument can be rain-lashed, inhospitable, its willows rustling with big-toothed carnivores, and without a ranger station or a Winnebago in sight. Personal Journeys: A Case for Getting Far, Far Away 2013-05-16T17:46:20Z As a child, he used to "fantasise about these great old weeping willows"; since seeing the film his son, Vincent, three, refers to trees as his "brothers and sisters". Vin Diesel on Guardians of the Galaxy: 'I didn't realise how much I love trees' 2014-07-31T04:00:00Z Seattle Times reader Robert Wrench’s macro photo of a willow catkin in Magnuson Park. Reader’s Lens | ‘Flower Power’ contest winner 2017-04-26T04:00:00Z Viola in “Twelfth Night”: Make me a willow cabin at your gate. Style Invitational Week 1380: Both sides now 2020-04-16T04:00:00Z And the tremendous ribbed trunks of the cottonwoods that ringed it were like the boles of old English willows. Favorite Place: In Taos, N.M., an Ordinary Field Evokes the Extraordinary 2012-04-06T20:05:28Z But I’d rather have heard them describe something other than bait, or how their fishing rods advanced from willow to bamboo to items from the Sears catalog. Movie Review: ‘The Manzanar Fishing Club’ 2012-09-14T00:18:46Z It also analyzes historic cushioning techniques that called for recycled grain sacks and willow tree oils, among other surprising ingredients. For Leroy Graves, Upholstery Means Detective Work 2015-10-15T04:00:00Z It is a good job he's got the roller-skating ballerina to keep us all entertained - although the weeping willows in the background look lovely. Eurovision 2014: Reporter's diary 2014-05-11T11:21:17Z That’s the hunting time for a London killer whose initial piece of nasty work is hanging a corpse upside down from a willow tree on Hampstead Heath. Marilyn Stasio Finds Herself Rooting for the Bad Guy 2019-12-20T05:00:00Z A ways down the road we found equally varied botany: dwarf willows, crowberry plants and alpine bearberry shrubs that would turn crimson in two months. This 414-mile road to the Arctic Ocean is one of the world’s most remote highways 2016-04-07T04:00:00Z We are enclosed by walls of willow until, one by one, we are led on by the guides known as angels to a route marked by white stones that rise like puffballs from the fields. Walking – review 2012-08-23T16:51:25Z Ms. Stewart’s idea for her this time: a weeping willow with billowing branches trimmed with crystals and twinkling lights. On the Runway: The Queen of Crafts and the Willowy Miss M. 2010-10-22T16:31:00Z None of these images are about the best way to do running water, or mist on the mountain, or fronds of weeping willow. Tate Britain's Watercolour: Awash with inspiration 2011-02-14T21:31:01Z Swiping its willow bark and tea tree over my sad, long, tired face, I notice a light tingling immediately. The Face Gym training stick: does anyone really need a face decongestant? 2020-02-18T05:00:00Z In recent years, Matthew Albanese, 35, has recreated oaks and willows from his memories and imagination. A Lifelike Version of Nature, but Not to Scale 2018-05-08T04:00:00Z They depicted eagles, peacocks, monkeys and lions, peonies and willow trees, all created through millions of almost invisible stitches on silk backgrounds, often including embroidery in gold wire. Ashmolean museum exhibits rare Japanese tapestries of Meiji era 2012-11-07T17:30:18Z Around them, waiters ferried trays of champagne and lobster rolls, white roses bloomed, and willow branches brushed the stone chimney of an outdoor fireplace connected to the pool house. Anna Wintour Removed Her Sunglasses for This 2019-07-31T04:00:00Z “All the things that I loved up to then,” one says, “like glass or lies, mirrors and feathers, and pearl buttons, and silk, and willow trees, became secondary compared with what he’d done.” Review: ‘The Love Object’ by Edna O’Brien 2015-05-07T04:00:00Z The gravel road climbs to 11,700 feet, with views of Mounts Bierstadt and Evans above a sea of flamboyantly tinted fall willows. Leaf Peeping Is Not Canceled: 6 Drives and Hikes to Try This Fall 2020-10-02T04:00:00Z The choices include forsythia, various willows and Japanese flowering quince, as well as a range of prunus, specifically Japanese flowering apricot, flowering plum, flowering cherry and fruiting peach. Forced branches can bring a bit of early spring indoors 2021-03-02T05:00:00Z Unlike at Gianinetti Ranch, here willows and barbed-wire fences kept a fisherman from much of the river, unless he waded upstream through the grabby current. Casting in Colorado, Away From the Crowds 2012-08-22T19:37:27Z I remember him planting willows along the stream that ran past the house, just sticking cuttings into the ground. 'I'm delighted to find them big now': a pilgrimage to the trees my father planted 2020-06-06T04:00:00Z “I was so young then, so miserable with my poor attempts at English. I used to say ‘crying trees’ for weeping willows. Michèle Morgan, lustrous French actress of ‘Port of Shadows,’ dies at 96 2016-12-20T05:00:00Z On The shortest day of the year, paper and willow lanterns get paraded before going up in smoke beachside. This week's events previews 2010-12-18T00:08:04Z The sculptor Patrick Dougherty wove together willow branches to create a room crowded with what could be hobbit houses. Smithsonian’s Renwick Gallery Reopens With a New Focus 2015-11-12T05:00:00Z We glided past weeping willows and under a series of wonderfully varied footbridges. Footsteps: Jewels of Olmsted?s Unspoiled Midwest 2011-09-02T18:18:14Z In another startling series of images, slender corpses are strung from the branches of a tree like tendrils of a weeping willow. ‘Winterreise’ Augmented by Kentridge Video Art 2014-07-06T04:00:00Z In it, Van Gogh says he considers the willow the best of a series of watercolors he painted that summer. Van Gogh museum unveils new willow watercolor 2012-05-10T12:12:14Z On a walk along the Lule River where it met the bay, we found a species of willow, Salix pentandra, a leaf of which Linnaeus drew near this spot. A Botanist in Swedish Lapland 2017-05-16T04:00:00Z The timbered house with its veranda, the garden with its weeping willows and roses, the jug of iced drink are as calm and inviting as they might be in a horror story. All My Sons; Henry VIII; Paradise Found 2010-05-29T23:05:00Z Robert gave me one of his non-intimate and awkward pats on the shoulder, like a willow tree branch that gets tangled in your sweater. The Robert Mapplethorpe photo you haven't seen: The one he took of me 2016-05-28T04:00:00Z Look, too, for the nearby Pool, where ducks nestle on the banks beneath weeping willows. 36 Hours: Central Park, New York 2014-09-17T04:00:00Z In a 13th-century painting called “Returning Home,” we see him sailing across a lake in a skiff toward his beloved willows and his garden with its high walls. Art Review: ‘Chinese Gardens,’ at the Metropolitan Museum of Art 2012-08-16T21:59:52Z In La Plaza Cultural garden in the East Village, a weeping willow, like some shambling teenager, hunches toward a clutch of young people as if trying to join their conversation. Voyages: How to See a Tree 2012-02-10T16:53:39Z We pulled fistfuls of rosebay willow, yarrow and lady’s mantle. In Sweden, a DIY dining adventure 2019-07-25T04:00:00Z Experts also identified the wood panel on which the portrait was painted, from the poplar or willow family, which Rembrandt sometimes used instead of his preferred substrate of oak or canvas. Turns Out That Guy in the Painting Really Is Rembrandt, Analysts Say 2014-06-09T04:00:00Z Tucked into the curve of a canal and framed by willow trees, today’s cityscape seemed gentler and more refined than the one Vermeer saw in 1660. Cultured Traveler: Drawing Yourself Into the Scene 2013-12-12T16:43:08Z In the valley the drowsy river was a silver twist among green willows. Casting in Colorado, Away From the Crowds 2012-08-22T19:37:27Z It was a blissfully absent-minded pleasure to drive along the river’s verdant banks, partly hidden by the long skirts of beech and willow trees that line the country roads. Overnighter: Finding Solitude at Monet’s Gardens 2013-06-06T15:25:59Z For those wanting something more alternative or a break from the music, there are workshops on willow sculptures, hedgerow art, timber frame building, and Shamanic drum making. Megastars mingle with monks, music fans at Glastonbury Festival 2013-06-27T17:37:23Z “A willow is for emotion, femininity and comfortable roots,” said Mr. Elbaz backstage. Special Report: Fashion: Lanvin Under the Willow Tree 2011-03-04T19:17:10Z None of them looks like the runway’s wispy willows. Perspective | Dior was part of the patriarchy. Then she changed everything. 2022-04-26T04:00:00Z New York Arbor is a book of black and white photographs of city trees, both native and imported: cottonwoods, cypresses, beeches, elms, lindens, maples, sycamores and willows. New York Arbor by Mitch Epstein – review 2013-04-28T10:00:01Z Each animal is “folded” from a single willow twig sliced down the middle to the base. Millions-year-old Grand Canyon became a national treasure 100 years ago 2019-02-11T05:00:00Z A medicine cabinet with products like aspirin — a precursor, salicin, is in native healers’ willow bark — shows the ancient knowledge still in use. New Youth Center at American Indian Museum Focuses on Invention 2018-05-18T04:00:00Z Any pliable twig will do, but red or yellow dogwood stems or bright green willows look particularly eye-catching. Make your own last-minute Christmas presents and decorations 2016-12-24T05:00:00Z As Juliet, she spun like a top in the midst of "Gallop apace, you fiery-footed steeds" and rose to a fine crescendo in Viola's willow cabin speech. Susannah York obituary 2011-01-16T10:38:03Z Branches of huge weeping willows brush the surface of the still water, creating ripples. Monet’s ‘other’ masterpiece: His gardens at Giverny 2016-01-07T05:00:00Z Out hunting alone on a hot day, she found a silent, clear river with silver willows on the banks. How a Woman Becomes a Lake 2018-11-02T04:00:00Z His left hand grips a pair of tan leather gloves, and on that hand is a small signet ring with his family’s coat of arms: three willow leaves segmented by a black chevron. Hans Holbein: Truth in Painting 2022-02-10T05:00:00Z Until then, wicker furniture was made by wrapping pliable stems, often willow, around a frame and weaving the strands into sturdy parts of a chair or table. Is it too late to repair this old deck furniture? 2016-07-15T04:00:00Z The spring bubbles up under a gnarly willow trunk before joining the River Kennet – a much-needed wildlife corridor meandering through otherwise cultivated land. Stone circles, silence and sanctuary: finding yourself on an Avebury pilgrimage 2020-02-19T05:00:00Z Frances likes using the branches of flowering quince or curly willow. Gardening 101: Amaryllis 2010-12-01T17:39:00Z There was the charred weeping willow that belonged to our neighbor but extended generously into our yard. Your house is on fire, your old life is gone 2017-10-19T04:00:00Z They are full of “weeping willow trees and kudzu growing wild,” he explained in an e-mail. ‘Hoodoo’ is a haunting tale from the Alabama woods 2015-10-27T04:00:00Z It isn’t easy to want so much, to walk with such a heavy basket, either bent reed, or willow. Louise Glück, a Nobel Winner Whose Poems Have Abundant Intellect and Deep Feeling 2020-10-08T04:00:00Z At around 3 p.m. we parked at the crossing, which draws an average of 30 visitors a day, and followed the path under the mesquite and willows to the Rio Grande. With Border Reopened, Crossing the Rio Grande to Mexico 2014-05-22T04:00:00Z Pots of cascading red and purple petunias surround the fountain in summer, maples and willows grace the asymmetric stretches of perfect lawn, and mature pines flank the edges of the garden. Fontainebleau: A Forgotten Treasure 2016-09-27T04:00:00Z We headed down a side road lined with cottonwoods and willows to Wiseman, population 13, a town settled in 1908 by gold miners. This 414-mile road to the Arctic Ocean is one of the world’s most remote highways 2016-04-07T04:00:00Z As we approach the prison, the sun lights up the willow trees lining a path to our right. 'I'm Carmen. Nice to meet you again': why I faced my rapist in prison 2016-04-09T04:00:00Z That is to say that the days of orchids glue-gunned to curly willow branches and passed off as drifts of lilac may be over. The Gimlet Eye: Party Planners Need Friends With Benefits 2010-05-26T20:53:00Z Bundles of the tags hang from the ceiling, like the shaggy arms of a weeping willow tree. Roosevelt's signed Executive Order 9066 on Japanese American internment to go on view in L.A. 2017-02-16T05:00:00Z As I toweled off my racer-back Speedo after a chilly swim, I spotted a muskrat busy building a nest beneath the willows. Journeys: It?s Back to Nature at Rustic Spas in Quebec 2011-06-10T18:55:13Z The memory of the high twittering heard from a Benidorm hotel, for instance, is reprised in a poem where the speaker hears caged willow warblers singing from a barber's shop. Poem of the week: The snow whirls over the courtyard's roses by Tua Forsström 2013-03-04T10:39:48Z A horse was pastured beyond the windbreak, a line of spindly willows alongside his yard. David Foster Wallace’s Peaceful Prairie 2016-11-29T05:00:00Z It’s the kind of space people spend a lifetime working 60-hour weeks to acquire: two-plus perfect acres with ivy-covered walls, a gorgeous weeping willow on the front lawn and a pool in back. In Hamptons, Ammon Twins Put Horror in Perspective 2012-11-14T22:17:45Z Fields of rosebay willow herb, statuesque and hazy pink, put a pop of color into the otherwise gray day. We walked half of Scotland’s West Highland Way to fulfill an old hiking dream 2021-10-14T04:00:00Z In the shade of a venerable Kashmiri willow, in a little medieval workshop perched on a bluff, we find the metalsmith hunched over a little charcoal fire. In Ladakh, India, history and myth, past and present, melt into one It was an Impressionist painting come to life: the wisteria, the weeping willows, the pond filled with flowering lily pads and the synchronized sound of frog song. Motherlode: Updates From Paris and Texas 2011-06-09T20:30:14Z Answer: By “old wicker,” you might mean furniture made of natural materials, such as rattan, reed, willow or bamboo. How to clean wicker outdoor furniture The black oak belongs to the red oak group, which also includes the more familiar pin oak, willow oak and northern red oak. Plant an oak tree — or better yet, start with acorns 2015-01-05T05:00:00Z Ms. Mori’s creations look like chimerical species — hybrids of barnacles and cumulus clouds, a baobab and a weeping willow, a waterlily and fiddlehead ferns, sea urchin spines and a swarm of starlings. Art Rooted in Nature Blooms at TEFAF 2023-03-02T05:00:00Z Romantically parked between a willow tree and a stream, the sculpture is made of scorched oak by Gareth Newman, a British wood and stone artist. Possessed: Sarah Cracknell of Saint Etienne Chooses Form Over Function 2012-06-29T19:11:43Z For example, on Instagram, the @cottage.friend account likes to share pictures of old hardcover books, willow trees, fawns and beds shrouded in quilts. How the #cottagecore Internet aesthetic dovetails with pandemic travel 2020-09-10T04:00:00Z They form a plaza of sorts that includes several cagelike forms made of woven willow strands. A Panorama of Design 2021-09-02T04:00:00Z Outside the meadows are in full bloom and there are willow tunnels to run through and slides and swings to play on, and of course, 600 tropical butterflies to admire. 10 days out for kids this summer 2011-07-22T12:19:04Z It was this landscape painting of a prairie with, like, weeping willows at the end of this road. Growing Pains: Horror Directors on Their Creepy Childhood Memories 2017-08-11T04:00:00Z In the shade of a venerable Kashmiri willow, in a little medieval workshop perched on a bluff, we find the metalsmith hunched over a little charcoal fire. In Ladakh, India, history and myth, past and present, melt into one Or one of the beautiful willows that seemed to weep all over South Carolina. When a Southern Town Broke a Heart 2016-07-26T04:00:00Z Rather than using coal to draw with, the fuel of the Industrial Revolution, Chopra had settled for art-store willow charcoal, which seemed a bit of a cheat. Do It: the art of instructions 2013-07-09T06:00:00Z I grew up in New Hampshire, where there are really old graveyards, and I just loved the oldest headstones with the winged skulls and weeping willow. Marc Swanson Draws Comfort From Rural Cemeteries and ’80s Club Music 2022-11-08T05:00:00Z Visitors will also get a chance to paint Easter eggs and weave their very own willow sticks during one of the numerous workshops offered throughout the month. In Transit: Beyond the Bunny at Prague's Easter Markets 2011-03-28T10:00:56Z Jerome collects not things but words — lovely ones like “willow” and “spark” — and decides to share them. Standout New Picture Books 2018-03-09T05:00:00Z Looking across the land at the weeping willows and terraced rock walls, we completely caved. House Tour: Barrytown, N.Y. 2010-10-14T20:57:00Z When paired with mirrored ornaments and curly willow branches they add just enough color to complement the Christmas tree. 86 Fresh Christmas Ideas 2010-11-19T19:59:00Z In the New Orleans show, digital blowup prints made from his glass slides are hung alongside Hopi willow baskets, Apache leather leggings and Navajo looms, wool and turquoise necklaces. Antiques: George Hubbard Pepper Retrospective in New Orleans 2010-07-22T21:43:00Z When they took out a diseased old willow, the couple ended up with a sunny space toward the bottom of the slope. Hillside garden is tamed with native plants and decks 2014-07-23T04:00:00Z Its synthesis of English folk and rock has perhaps never been bettered, in which green willow around a hat is a symbol of constancy. Readers recommend songs about hats: the results 2010-07-08T21:50:00Z And the Delahaye sons, dressed in white down to their plimsolls, are redolent of “sun-warmed grass and willow bats and scattered applause drifting across a trimmed, flat sward.” Books Of the Times: ‘Vengeance,’ a New Novel by Benjamin Black 2012-08-13T21:47:45Z Along the way we meet stoic Yorkshiremen, American money-men and elegant Indians, all happy to explain the arcana of wicket and willow. Holiday reading: The best books to pack this summer 2013-06-29T07:00:51Z And Julie replies, 'Well, mine are buried out beneath the willow tree, three generations back.' Mies Julie in London: 'Apartheid was an insane experiment' 2013-03-06T20:00:02Z The opposing ranks of five crab apple trees in the Rose Garden had been replaced over the years but struggled in large part because of a willow oak tree planted nearby during the Johnson administration. Melania Trump’s Rose Garden redo draws criticism, but it’s long overdue 2020-07-28T04:00:00Z These would include native willows and dogwoods and plants within the daisy family, such as asters, rudbeckias and goldenrods. A quarantine project that’s a win for you, your garden and pollinators: A bee house 2020-06-23T04:00:00Z He would recall a willow that grew the bank of the stream where he and his father fished, for example, then discover that scientists describe the eel larva as shaped like a willow leaf. Why a ‘Strange and Nerdy’ Book About Eels Is Making Waves 2020-05-22T04:00:00Z Often footage of trees is accompanied by a Hitchcockian screech of string instruments as Beeny points an angry, accusatory finger at a willow tree. Property shows: room for improvement? 2011-08-10T13:27:22Z Starlings roost noisily in the willows around the lock, hoping to find a tasty morsel dropped by a tourist eating lunch on the go. A tour of Amy Winehouse’s former stomping grounds, London’s Camden 2016-03-24T04:00:00Z Among the speedy oaks are the common red and willow oaks, but others include the overcup oak, the shingle oak, the swamp chestnut oak and the Nuttall oak. Perspective | The sturdy, steadfast oak is the perfect tree for troubled times 2021-04-13T04:00:00Z They also found that some woody plants healed faster than others — willow, dogwood and forsythia, for example — but nearly all of the 17 genera studied were almost fully healed after two growing seasons. The cicadas are coming. But gardeners need not panic. 2021-03-30T04:00:00Z The designer said backstage that the bundles of willows hung over the runway were a reminder of Kenzo’s roots. Special Report: Paris Fashion Week: A Boho Bow 2010-03-09T19:20:00Z The three-man drama bristles with street sense and bends like a willow with its compassion and poetry. Review | ‘Moonlight’ writer McCraney’s writing still glows in ‘The Brothers Size’ 2019-02-04T05:00:00Z Made of willow branches and galvanized nails, these plant supports come in three sizes, ranging from 28 to 47 inches high. Shopping with the pros: The Madcap Cottage team chooses favorites from Terrain 2020-11-17T05:00:00Z He also called her, with affection, “a big, tall willow.” Uma Thurman, Ready to Be Tested 2017-11-08T05:00:00Z Beyond this is the yard with established gardens, weeping willow and conifer trees, and meandering pathways. House Tour: Riverhead, N.Y. 2011-07-07T22:31:14Z At her own request she was cremated in a coffin of willow. Pip Benveniste obituary 2010-09-16T18:15:00Z Her watercolor of figures beneath a giant willow tree, made when she was 14, indicates an early interest in botany and the natural sciences. Art Review: ?Women Only? Exhibition at American Folk Art Museum 2010-04-15T22:04:00Z “I like to gather all my subjects,” she says, as her feisty Border terrier, Pop, investigates a patch of sticky willow. Foraging for Spring Scents, With a British Perfumer 2018-05-09T04:00:00Z Nate Goldberg, a lead guide with the outfitter said visitors see “a lot of underbrush, red and yellow aspen leaves, scrub oak, berries and willows which turn a bright yellow.” Searching for Fall Colors? Let Me Get the Llama for You 2019-09-18T04:00:00Z You might say that all round his hat he wears a green willow. Radio review: A month in Ambridge 2013-04-30T14:15:25Z On EBay you can buy boxes of stained glass remnants, so I thought it’d be interested to hang them as weeping willows — a metaphor of creating something new out of something broken. L.A. artist Marnie Weber reflects on why monsters hold such power for women 2016-11-02T04:00:00Z "A site like Glenfinlas is a useful talisman for that type of thinking," says Hamilton, as around him water foams, willows droop, and lichen clings to rocks as old as time. When John Ruskin and John Everett Millais took the high road 2010-06-20T21:01:00Z For the French painter Claude Monet, no subject proved more evergreen than his own Giverny estate, whose water lilies and weeping willows he rendered in myriad masterpieces. Photographing Monet's Gardens 2015-06-24T04:00:00Z He has added new plants and trees that are saltwater resilient: a golden dawn redwood, three willows, a bald cypress, a white oak, a live oak and bamboo. | Shelter From the Storm 2014-05-02T16:34:39Z He proposed to plant desert willows and bottle brushes, suitable for the desert landscape. Isamu Noguchi’s Efforts to Improve Life in an Internment Camp 2017-01-19T05:00:00Z The classic wood is willow because of its flexibility. Need a fence? Start weaving. 2016-02-08T05:00:00Z Masked by the faux pastoral of "geometric ponds/ fringed by willows," they represent the evils of repression. Poem of the week: Hymn of Hymns by John Rodker 2013-04-29T16:24:03Z The austere reds, pinks and grays of coyote willow line the banks of the Humboldt River. Work Songs of the Cowboy Poets 2019-03-09T05:00:00Z But the reward was trout, hiding in deep holes, long riffles, and upstream or downstream of willows at the river’s edge. 2010-01-29T05:16:00Z Cross the weir, past the mill house and over the lock, past the weeping willow. ‘I launch naked into the unknown’: writers on the joy of wild swimming 2019-08-10T04:00:00Z The sound of paddling was the only thing we heard as we passed under stone-arch bridges and alongside banks of bamboo and willow trees. Next Stop: The Poetry of Hangzhou 2011-04-08T18:55:00Z According to Crowe, the “vast majority” of the beer went to willow and Christmas tree farms, where it’s used as nutrients for the plants. Unsold Guinness beer used to fertilize Christmas trees during the lockdown 2020-06-29T04:00:00Z Give that weeping willow something to weep about. Property shows: room for improvement? 2011-08-10T13:27:22Z The results are spaces transformed into alien landscapes through the use of strikingly visual materials such as reclaimed old-growth Western red cedar, willow saplings, styrene index cards and rubber tires. Renwick Gallery in D.C. reopens after 2-year renovation with a 'Wonder' exhibition 2015-11-21T05:00:00Z Across the parking lot were bluebells, cottony willow plants, white-flowered Labrador tea, mountain avens and blue forget-me-nots. This 414-mile road to the Arctic Ocean is one of the world’s most remote highways 2016-04-07T04:00:00Z For us, that moment came when, after crossing a spongy marsh, we came to a grove of gnarled, three-foot-high willows. Journeys: Step by Step, Hut by Hut in Colorado 2011-08-19T18:55:00Z There are jaunty, melodic passages with impressive guitar backing; high, swooping vocals and slinky, breathy whispers; and lyrics that deal with everything from time and illness to a killer willow tree. Ruth Theodore: Dear Lamp Love Moth – review 2013-06-13T22:00:01Z I know, because I’ve been here long enough, that the native black willows that used to grow along the shore banks are gone. Going Home with Wendell Berry 2019-07-14T04:00:00Z In the hot months, the bears bed down, wallowing in the cool of Wapusk National Park, an inhospitable jumble of tundra, bogland, and thick willows 30 miles east of town. Polar bears just might outlive us all 2012-12-30T16:00:00Z On the other side is an arena like a Rothko painting: white sand, a conical, cinder-like hole in the centre, walls made of russet-coloured willow. Walking; Ark-ive; Cesario – review 2012-08-25T23:06:03Z I love weeping willows, I feel a very kindred spirit in them. Lucy Moss Unwinds With Songwriting and TikTok Cleaning Tutorials 2022-06-07T04:00:00Z Eventually, if all goes as hoped, patches of Gary oak, desert gooseberry, and mock orange will take hold and a lush ribbon of cottonwood, willow, and ash trees will line the banks of the river. Historic dam removal poses challenge of restoring both river and landscape 2023-10-18T04:00:00Z “And now there’s no room for compromise. You have to be able to be flexible, like a willow tree — you have to bend.” 'Evil,' 'delusional,' 'Benedict Arnold': In Kevin McCarthy's Bakersfield, Matt Gaetz draws ire 2023-10-04T04:00:00Z Still, Sukkot is a joyous occasion, one that is centered on four plant species: the myrtle, willow, citron and date palm, whose frond is known as the lulav. Jews need the rare etrog fruit for Sukkot. That's where a Presbyterian family comes in 2023-09-28T04:00:00Z |
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