| 单词 | withy |
| 例句 | When branches are about two years old, cut them back to the main trunk, yielding a supply of withies. Need a fence? Start weaving. 2016-02-08T05:00:00Z The sculptures were woven from willow withies at Martin’s workshop in Devon, where he created the work in sections. Huge willow sculptures exhibited in historic gardens in Wells 2023-06-30T04:00:00Z The HCA estimates the number of professional withy pot-makers is now in single figures and those who remain use it as a sideline to their main income. The traditional crafts in danger of dying out 2020-08-31T04:00:00Z The appearance package is available on Limited models withy both gas and diesel engines and features an entirely black exterior including the bumpers and light bezels. Ram releases Black Edition heavy duty pickups 2020-07-21T04:00:00Z England took no risks in their own half and tested Wales withy a variety of kicks. Six Nations: Wales on course for grand slam as late tries shatter England 2019-02-23T05:00:00Z This in turn means drivers are paying less at the pump, withy many areas in the country experiencing unleaded gasoline below $3.00 a gallon. Oil & Gas Prices, How Low Will They Go? 2014-10-15T04:00:00Z It is a concept, withy many ideals, few of them based on sound logic. Single market dilemmas on Europe 2013-05-14T10:54:26Z So, more from etiquette than precaution, he took the shelter of a wall, glided through a plantation, among the withy roots of which his foot presently caught in a brass "grin," or rabbit's snare. The Suprising Adventures of Sir Toady Lion With Those of General Napoleon Smith 2012-04-03T02:00:29.527Z The withies of which the baskets are made were at first, doubtless, the shoots of the willows found growing wild along the streams. Highways and Byways in Cambridge and Ely 2012-02-03T03:00:22.657Z Hereupon �geas exasperated ordered him to be hanged on a cross, and commanded the executioners to bind him on the cross with withies hands and feet, that he might slowly suffer. The Homilies of the Anglo-Saxon Church Containing the Sermones Catholici, or Homilies of ?lfric, in the Original Anglo-Saxon, with an English Version. Volume I. 2011-12-20T03:00:28.907Z Birds began to twitter and chirp in the trees and bushes that overhung the rocks below, while the winds of dawn fluted in the small withy bed beside the bridge. The Passionate Elopement 2011-12-02T03:00:19.930Z One of the Irish carried a bundle of withies, and Ralegh went up to him and asked him why he carried the withies. Great Ralegh 2011-08-16T02:00:43.100Z This piece of land, which was not all withy, but partly open and partly copse, was Bevis’s own territory, his own peculiar property, over which he was autocrat and king. Bevis The Story of a Boy 2011-08-13T02:00:28.377Z In the lake there are several acres of withy bushes which when the water is low are on dry land, but in spring and early summer stand five or six feet deep. Wild Life in a Southern County 2011-08-04T02:00:27.037Z They then approached, and raised him on the cross, and bound all his body with strong withies, as they had been commanded. The Homilies of the Anglo-Saxon Church Containing the Sermones Catholici, or Homilies of ?lfric, in the Original Anglo-Saxon, with an English Version. Volume I. 2011-12-20T03:00:28.907Z With a wire there is little risk of that; but then the withy does not cut its way into the fish. The Gamekeeper At Home Sketches of Natural History and Rural Life 2011-08-04T02:00:21.507Z Not yet had he clasped that withy, supple form to him. The Red Debt Echoes from Kentucky 2011-05-08T02:00:04.810Z He steps ashore, ties the painter to a withy, and, climbing over the wall, proceeds to the spot so sacred to him. Gwen Wynn 2011-04-09T02:00:12.230Z He steps ashore; ties the painter to a withy; and, climbing over the wall, proceeds to the spot so sacred to him. Gwen Wynn A Romance of the Wye 2011-02-09T03:00:45.007Z Then he and Nancy turned from the tempting stream and walked up a pleached alley of withies woven and interarched. Sinister Street, vol. 1 The willow, or withy as it is usually called, is remarkably pliant, and can be twisted into any shape. The Gamekeeper At Home Sketches of Natural History and Rural Life 2011-08-04T02:00:21.507Z He fastened sets of three rams together with twisted withies, and bound a man to each ram in the middle, so that the blind giant's hands would only feel the two outside rams. Tales of Troy and Greece I've bound it down wi' withies, and laid the turf nice over it. The Broom-Squire A white garment waved out in the breeze under the blue jellab; he sat straight as a withy, feeling the mule's mouth with a hard hand, and bringing its nose into the air. In the Tail of the Peacock The withy bands were but weak; it is no great marvel that he shook them off. Museum of Antiquity A Description of Ancient Life This trick is often accomplished with the common withy—not that which grows on pollard-trees, but in osier-beds; that on the trees is brittle. The Gamekeeper At Home Sketches of Natural History and Rural Life 2011-08-04T02:00:21.507Z One of them carried a great bundle of withies, and Raleigh asked him what they were for. Raleigh An iron fixed in a withy handle, sometimes only lashed to a stick or tree-nail, and used with a beetle by caulkers.—To horse-up, or harden in the oakum of a vessel's seams. The Sailor's Word-Book An Alphabetical Digest of Nautical Terms, including Some More Especially Military and Scientific, but Useful to Seamen; as well as Archaisms of Early Voyagers, etc. There were some swans lying among the withies and rushes. Littlebourne Lock A kerne was caught carrying a bundle of withies on the outskirts of the English camp. Sir Walter Ralegh A Biography When near the bank two may even be captured with a good withy noose: with a wire a clever hand will make a certainty of it. The Gamekeeper At Home Sketches of Natural History and Rural Life 2011-08-04T02:00:21.507Z It is constructed of the trunks of trees laced together with withies, with outside supports about 5 feet high. The Western World Picturesque Sketches of Nature and Natural History in North and South America Again I tell you, I bleed, I am bound with withies, My life runs out. New Poems And what's the ivy but Clan Gordon, and the peeled withy but hurry, and—surely that will be doing for the reading of a very simple tale. John Splendid The Tale of a Poor Gentleman, and the Little Wars of Lorn Each quickly into proper shape Bent up the fatal pin, And tied it carefully with thread Upon a withy thin. Golden Moments Bright Stories for Young Folks Seeing the girl there, sunk in day dreams, he slipped back into the shelter of the withies and took a good long look at her. Bulldog And Butterfly From "Schwartz" by David Christie Murray My nurse, a Cornwall woman, tells me hipper withies fetch a higher price than common withies in her country. Notes and Queries, Number 54, November 9, 1850 A Medium of Inter-communication for Literary Men, Artists, Antiquaries, Genealogists, etc. A war-arrow was furnished with a cord or twist of withy at one end, and was intended to summon all men armed to a Thing. The Sagas of Olaf Tryggvason and of Harald The Tyrant (Harald Haardraade) Soon, full soon, they will be here, Twisting withies for the bier; Under a heathen yew-tree's shade Will a wasted heart be laid— Heart that never dared be dear. Ionica While I was balancing in my mind which I should do, my eye fell on a patch of withies or osiers, growing in a shallow bend of the river close to the bank. Dick Onslow Among the Redskins With this he turned upon his heel, and marching sturdily down the path and across the little bridge, disappeared behind the withies and pollards. Bulldog And Butterfly From "Schwartz" by David Christie Murray Still at their feet in front soft fleece-flecks white as the snow-flake Lay in the trusty guard of wickers woven in withies. The Carmina of Caius Valerius Catullus Well, ducking down behind the withies and peeking athurt the darkness, by degrees I made out a picter that raised the very hairs on the back of my neck. The Mayor of Troy The name Vine comes from viere, to twist, being applied with reference to the twining habits of the parent stock; as likewise to "with," and "withy." Herbal Simples Approved for Modern Uses of Cure I would make a raft, for the withies would enable me to fasten it together. Dick Onslow Among the Redskins O the withy, O the withy, O bitter withy That causes me to smart! Christmas in Ritual and Tradition, Christian and Pagan As the next item, he was turned out naked from the middle upwards, and many boys, with withy rods, whipped him out of the town. The Customs of Old England "Rise," said Medb, "and take a withy between each two of you." The Ancient Irish Epic Tale Táin Bó Cúalnge But the keepers hated Owlet poking about, because they said he took more than withies from the osier beds. The Torch and Other Tales If a lot of withies looked cheap, he bought them straightway, and did not defer the bargain for weeks till he could ascertain if he could get them cheaper elsewhere. Miriam's Schooling and Other Papers Then Mary mild called home her child, And laid him across her knee, And with a handful of green withy twigs She gave him slashes three. Christmas in Ritual and Tradition, Christian and Pagan In this Nera goes to tie a withy to the foot of a man who has been hung. The Religion of the Ancient Celts Jean was bound firmly to a strong hurdle, made of birch stems and withies securely lashed together. The Forest of Vazon A Guernsey Legend of the Eighth Century As a matter of fact it is the thinnest sort of a shell over plaited withies. African Camp Fires Take ye me the same man, that this fight first began, and put withy on his neck, and draw him to a moor, and put him in a low fen, there he shall lie. Brut O the withy shall be the very first tree That perishes at the heart.’” Christmas in Ritual and Tradition, Christian and Pagan The girls managed to furnish enough pins for the hooks, and when the available string gave out, the boys made use of stout, withy vines as substitutes. The Outdoor Girls at the Hostess House Or, doing their best for the soldiers That Georgian's cue, it, Compared with your sceptre, is just a mere withy. Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 101, November 28, 1891 Both banks of the ditch are also, in general, surmounted by palisades, about ten or twelve feet high, formed of strong stakes bound together with withies, and driven very deep into the ground. John Rutherford, the White Chief The while arrived the giant, and proceeded to his fire; he bare upon his back a great burthen, that was twelve swine, tied together, with withies exceeding great wreathed altogether. Brut A low fence of withy had long since decayed, nothing but a few rotten stakes remaining at the very verge of the precipice. The Amateur Poacher We found withies also growing like low shrubs and flowers like Primroses in the sayd place. The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques, and Discoveries of The English Nation, Vol. XII., America, Part I. Rushes, withies, and trees grew beneath the shadow of its ruins. The Excavations of Roman Baths at Bath In this case, however, the tenant had wisely planted the ground with withies, which he managed to get at for lopping when its turn came round every seven years. Grain and Chaff from an English Manor Whereupon he took the props of the ladder, and set them in position, and proceeded to secure the rounds to them with withies. The Decameron, Volume II In the high trees slumbering creatures; in the hedgerows, in the bushes, and the withies birds with feathers puffed out, slumbering; in the banks, under the very ground, dormant animals. The Amateur Poacher At the top the pillars were bound together by a circular hoop of withies. Pioneers in Canada He took up his pole and set the raft loose—a couple of tree trunks, no more, fastened together with withies—and rowed hurriedly across to the opposite bank. The Song of the Blood-Red Flower In the increase of the March moon, withies of oak and ivy are cut, and twisted into wreaths or circles, which they preserve till next March. Minstrelsy of the Scottish Border, Volume 2 Consisting of Historical and Romantic Ballads, Collected in The Southern Counties of Scotland; with a Few of Modern Date, Founded Upon Local Tradition It is, however, the plantations of withy or osier that are most important. Hodge and His Masters We then tried a corner where two of these large mounds, meeting, formed a small copse in which grew a quantity of withy and the thick grasses that always border the stoles. The Amateur Poacher Willow trees--"withies" they call them hereabouts--grow along the brook-side. A Cotswold Village The daughter carried in her outer hand a withy basket of old-fashioned make; the mother a blue bundle, which contrasted oddly with her black stuff gown. The Mayor of Casterbridge He stole along under shadow of the stunted trees and withies, with bent body and gliding gait, so that from Bridgewater it would be no easy matter for the most keen-sighted to see him. Micah Clarke His Statement as made to his three grandchildren Joseph, Gervas and Reuben During the Hard Winter of 1734 Seven times I held my way Where new heaps of brushwood lay, All with withies loosely bound, And never heard a human sound. Georgian Poetry 1911-12 The dog gave chase—I rushed for my gun, which was some yards off, placed against a hollow withy tree. The Amateur Poacher So the smocks were donned, with straw about their legs bound by withies as was the custom, and taking the sacks upon their shoulders, they turned aside into the green and were gone. Beltane the Smith Rigwiddie is the rope crossing the back of a horse yoked in a cart; rig, back, and withy, a twig. Playful Poems Pink lychnis flowers behind the withy stoles, and little black moorhens swim away, as you gather it, after their mother, who has dived under the water-grass, and broken the smooth surface of the duckweed. The Life of the Fields To-day it was swollen with rain and turbid, and plucked steadily at the withies. The Upton Letters At the outside of the withies, where the earth is drier, stand tall horse-chestnut trees, aspen, and beech. The Amateur Poacher Up the hillside he found a hollow in the rock, and built before it a porch of boughs bound together with withies. The Hermit and the Wild Woman Below the parapet the verandah floor was heaped with old garden litter, rotten matting, dead or derelict bulbs, fibre, withies, and strawberry nets. Huntingtower Two feet farther on this ceased, and the rushes were succeeded by lines of strong osier withies, an inch or two apart, arched over and fastened together. The Dragon and the Raven We found withies, also, growing low like shrubs, and flowers like primroses in the said place. Voyages in Search of the North-West Passage I leaned mine against a hollow withy pollard, and called 'ready.' The Amateur Poacher I took eight or nine men with me, and marched to their houses, which I found very mean, and their doors made fast with withies. Early Australian Voyages: Pelsart, Tasman, Dampier I have already more than once spoken of the disgusting air of patronage which he assumed toward me, and of his frequent officious interference withy my will. The Works of Edgar Allan Poe — Volume 2 Some wore, on their blackened and dried-up bodies, shapeless rags; others had for their only clothes, bundles of reeds held together by withies. Thais His head had fallen on his chest, and the Indians were cutting the green withies that bound him. The Path of the King Some of the lesser birds have crept into the ivy around the elms, and which crowns the tops of the withy pollards. The Amateur Poacher And he fenced it with wattled osier withies from stem to stern, to be a bulwark against the wave, and piled up wood to back them. The Odyssey Done into English prose So the peasant's son approached, replaced the parts of his belly that had been torn away, and bound up with a plait of withies the mass of intestines that had fallen out. The Danish History, Books I-IX The men wore golden earrings, and bought 'Black Sally,' a withy that has a dark bark, for pegs, and 'bolts' of osier for basket-making. The Amateur Poacher I do not think that I need examine the version which relates that the pliant withies, hardened with the sudden grip, acted like a noose of iron. The Danish History, Books I-IX Immediately a crowd of birds rise out of the withies, where they have been roosting, and scatter into the night. The Amateur Poacher Quietly I lashed them together with twisted withies, whereon the Cyclops slept, that lawless monster. The Odyssey Done into English prose Then Starkad made a noose of withies and bound the king in it; saying that for a brief instant he should pay the mere semblance of a penalty. The Danish History, Books I-IX |
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