| 单词 | bough |
| 例句 | He showed Derek how to cut the boughs and stick them point down to make a soft bed. The River 1991-06-01T00:00:00Z When the old fox reached the spicy shade of the hemlock bough, he collapsed. Pax 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z Outside, the rain dripped from the canopy of cedar boughs down into the undergrowth of ivy. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z They took the next hour to gather wood, stacking it until they had a large pile to the side of the camp, and Derek used the time to cut pine boughs for beds as well. The River 1991-06-01T00:00:00Z It was lit by silver lamps that swung from the boughs of trees, and it fell into a basin of silver, from which a white stream spilled. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z From the middle bough he looked this time to the neighboring house, the one on the left, and saw two more dogs, jumping against the glass. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z "The coming of the spring upon the boughs," was the last line. How the García Girls Lost Their Accents 1991-01-04T00:00:00Z Who else would make a bed of boughs and put a rabbit- skin pillow on it? On the Far Side of the Mountain 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z At sight of the golden bough, however, he yielded and took them across. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z 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 And there was life everywhere—zumming insects, squirrels scampering along boughs, birds twittering and hopping about, spider webs gleaming silver in the sun. A Walk in the Woods 1997-11-01T00:00:00Z The park looked like something bright would be happening any minute; the lilac trees were dried out in the sun, and bumps started swelling out on the brown boughs. Miracles on Maple Hill 1956-08-01T00:00:00Z Enormous it looked, its sprawling branches going up like reaching arms with many long-fingered hands, its knotted and twisted trunk gaping in wide fissures that creaked faintly as the boughs moved. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z Grover fluttered with his flying shoes to the lowest bough of a tree, put his back to the trunk, and stared at the night sky. The Lightning Thief 2005-07-01T00:00:00Z Beneath my boughs vows have been made, hearts mended. Wishtree 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z A perfect cube five feet high, the altar in our camp was capped with a triumvirate of carefully selected pointed stones, above which rose a ten-foot wooden pole crowned with an elegant juniper bough. Into Thin Air 1996-08-01T00:00:00Z I gather pine boughs for my bed, cook the frogs legs and cattail tubers, then put out the fire. On the Far Side of the Mountain 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z Freed of the weight, he swung down to the hemlock bough in only a few steps. Pax 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z His gaze wandered to the ripped-up grass under the splintered branches and crushed boughs. Touching Spirit Bear 2001-01-09T00:00:00Z Now, she’s past Leschi and then Seward Park, and it’s a little creepy out that way, with the lake a deep indigo and the big evergreens shaking their boughs overhead. A Heart in a Body in the World 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z The dearth of boughs and pine needles made it light and easy to carry. The Vanderbeekers of 141st Street 2017-10-03T00:00:00Z For on each bough hung a picture of a clansman, a reminder of the courtyards so far away. In the Year of the Boar and Jackie Robinson 1984-10-12T00:00:00Z When I first got to Miss Preston's I used to run off and hide in the branches of this tree, climbing as high as I could and hiding amongst the dense boughs. Dread Nation 2018-04-03T00:00:00Z He tore a long green branch from the boughs of the tree and whipped Rahim until he bled from his neck and arms and cheeks and ears. Everything Sad Is Untrue 2020-08-25T00:00:00Z He sat nude on the lowest limb of the tree and balanced himself with both hands grasping the bough directly above. Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z Gray rose also and limped uphill to the protection of a sweeping hemlock bough. Pax 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z ‘The Riders have left chip and bough enough, and there is dead wood lying in plenty.’ The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z He had no trouble finding enough pine boughs to make a new bed. Hatchet 1987-01-01T00:00:00Z “I hide and try not to smell like a human. I’ve even smeared cedar boughs and ashes all over my body, but I still haven’t seen the Spirit Bear again.” Touching Spirit Bear 2001-01-09T00:00:00Z He slipped his gloves out of his jacket pocket and took hold of the boughs gently, remembering that it was an old tree and the limbs were brittle. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z When they came to the Chetwood already the boughs were almost bare, and a great curtain of rain veiled Bree Hill from their sight. The Return of the King 1955-10-20T00:00:00Z In the ragged hedge on the opposite side the boughs of the elm trees swayed just perceptibly in the breeze, and their leaves stirred faintly in dense masses like women’s hair. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z The old tree at which the saw was working was dead except one great branch that stood green among the masses of brown boughs. Miracles on Maple Hill 1956-08-01T00:00:00Z She could hear the tree at her window clicking its boughs together when she leaned close to look. Miracles on Maple Hill 1956-08-01T00:00:00Z Only a gentle noise on the edge of hearing, a soft fluttering as of a song half whispered, seemed to stir in the boughs above. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z There we spent the whole long day, in a dell among the thick-growing hemmen-trees, their reddish boughs bent low around us by loads of snow. The Left Hand of Darkness 1969-03-01T00:00:00Z Little gray bird hopping about in the boughs. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z Great trees, bare and silent, stood, rank on rank, with tangled bough and hoary head; their twisted roots were buried in the long green grass. The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z Then they had enhanced the beds and made them deep and soft with more boughs, there was enough firewood for a month, and they had made birch-bark containers to hold extra hazelnuts and berries. The River 1991-06-01T00:00:00Z I took some boughs off the roof and stuffed them under me, and then my shoulders were cold. My Side of the Mountain 1959-01-01T00:00:00Z A falling tree bough crashed through the kitchen window. The Martian Chronicles 1950-01-01T00:00:00Z The tide and the wind were pushing in hard now, and the current funneled through the mouth of the harbor; the green boughs and branches of the fallen trees lay scattered across the clean snow. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z There the green floor ran on into the wood, and formed a wide space like a hall, roofed by the boughs of trees. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z Me and Derrick lit into the boughs and found leafy nooks to crouch and lay. The Marrow Thieves 2017-05-10T00:00:00Z The swallow pulled itself to its feet and clutched the green tips of the pine bough. The Girl Who Drank the Moon 2016-08-09T00:00:00Z Then he pulled Derek onto his back on the new boughs, but was alarmed when Derek seemed to begin to choke or breathe strangely, and he put him back on his side. The River 1991-06-01T00:00:00Z When Sam awoke, he found that he was lying on some soft bed, but over him gently swayed wide beechen boughs, and through their young leaves sunlight glimmered, green and gold. The Return of the King 1955-10-20T00:00:00Z I decided that even if I didn’t have enough time to cut boughs for a bed, I was going to have cooked fish and a fire to huddle around during those cold night hours. My Side of the Mountain 1959-01-01T00:00:00Z He found the spear and bow where they were hanging on the pegs of the shelter wall and brought his weapons to the bed he had made of pine boughs. Hatchet 1987-01-01T00:00:00Z Stumps and dead boughs were rotting in the shallows, the remains it seemed of old thickets, or of a hedge that had once lined the road across the drowned valley. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z 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 At the graveyard, a few depressions, but otherwise the ground was filled with pine boughs the snow had brought down. Lizzie Bright and the Buckminster Boy 2004-05-24T00:00:00Z On two chairs beneath the bole of the tree and canopied by a living bough there sat, side by side, Celeborn and Galadriel. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z Cole cut boughs off the spruce trees and fashioned a mattress beside the fire. Touching Spirit Bear 2001-01-09T00:00:00Z 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 The queen’s men had made it from the trees of the haunted forest, from saplings and supple branches, pine boughs sticky with sap, and the bone-white fingers of the weirwoods. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z Putting down his carrot, Hazel ran across, scrambled up the bank and joined him on the bare ground under the low, close boughs. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z Then she went softly out of doors, and plucking an orange from the low- hanging bough of a tree, threw it at Robert, who did not know she was awake and up. The Awakening 1899-01-01T00:00:00Z In the afternoon light, the fruit weighing down its boughs seemed to glisten. Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z Beneath it Billie arranges a bouquet of fireweed, monkshood, yarrow, and spruce boughs. Into the Wild 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z He did not arrive until after midsummer, when hard young fruits hung on the boughs that had shed their blossoms at the king's death. Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z A waft of wind came sweeping down the laurel-walk, and trembled through the boughs of the chestnut: it wandered away—away—to an indefinite distance—it died. Jane Eyre 1847-10-16T00:00:00Z Sam jumped down from the bottom bough of the tree and hurried back to Mole. Frightful's Mountain 2001-05-21T00:00:00Z The great hemlock bough lay across Gray’s chest, cleaved from the tree. Pax 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z I retreated back along the bough to a fork in the trunk and waited till they'd gone. Black Swan Green 2006-04-10T00:00:00Z “Oh, Saints, please let that be Jesper,” she pleaded as they pulled themselves over the lip of the gorge and looked back at the bridge festooned with ribbons and ash boughs for Hringkalla. Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z He adjusted a spruce bough poking him in his back. Touching Spirit Bear 2001-01-09T00:00:00Z "There-" Before the others could examine the drop of blood, Jack had swerved off, judging a trace, .touching a bough that gave. Lord of the Flies 1954-09-17T00:00:00Z This would have been during the holidays, five months earlier, because I remembered the porch banisters all decorated with pine boughs and an enormous, sweet-smelling bayberry wreath that hung on the front door. Red Kayak 2004-09-23T00:00:00Z As Yule approached, with all of its attendant memories — the smell of pastries in the oven, the spicy tang of pine boughs in the house — she thought the pain might never cease. Ash 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z Lancelot broke off a bough of rotten wood, and jumped down on the other side of his horse, so that the horse was between them. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z I found him asleep twice when I awoke; but I did not fear to go to sleep again, although the boughs or bats or something napped almost angrily against the window-panes. Dracula 1897-05-26T00:00:00Z But there was nothing to be seen but clustering bushes and water weeds and low-hanging boughs of yew. The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage 2017-10-19T00:00:00Z Rising a hundred feet from the forest floor, its soaring boughs spread out in a canopy of incomparable lushness, an acre of leaves per tree, a million or so in all. A Walk in the Woods 1997-11-01T00:00:00Z In the ragged hedge on the opposite side of the field the boughs of the elm trees were swaying very faintly in the breeze, their leaves just stirring in dense masses like women’s hair. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z The Sibyl, however, bade him have no fear, but fasten boldly the golden bough on the wall that faced the crossroads. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z Gripping the bough above with both hands, Milo began inching his way out on the limb sideways with utmost care and apprehension. Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z Far worse was the lashing Connelly gave her the next morning under the pitiless boughs of the whipping tree. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z Lancelot parried the stroke with his bough, and the knight’s sword stuck in the wood. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z Under the night the trees stood tall before them, arched over the road and stream that ran suddenly beneath their spreading boughs. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z Then I remember the triumphs of making a fire, catching a fish, and sleeping on a bed of pine boughs all alone in the wilderness. On the Far Side of the Mountain 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z Then, in the quiet of that whitening night, standing in new snow with the pine boughs coated above him, Turner felt the hand that he had feared all night long grab him by the shoulder. Lizzie Bright and the Buckminster Boy 2004-05-24T00:00:00Z “Don’t go out into the open. There might be someone watching. We’re all right if we keep behind the boughs.” 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z ‘Remember, it is perilous to cut bough or twig from a living tree in Fangorn. But do not stray far in search of dead wood. Let the fire die rather! Call me at need!’ The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z Their twisted boughs, stooping to the ground, were overridden by a clambering maze of old briars. The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z Its trunk was bent almost double, and its gnarled boughs were pummeling every inch of the car it could reach. Harry Potter And The Chamber Of Secrets 1998-07-02T00:00:00Z One by one they crawled from beneath the pine boughs and stood up. The Fighting Ground 1984-04-01T00:00:00Z In the woods, I find a pine tree and strip handfuls of fragrant needles from the boughs. Mockingjay 2010-08-24T00:00:00Z I have hemlock boughs on it now, but hope to have deer hide soon. My Side of the Mountain 1959-01-01T00:00:00Z The closest two were circling a hemlock bough near the bank, probably judging the safety of returning to the meal he had interrupted. Pax 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z Some had sprigs of violets, some fresh evergreen boughs. Lizzie Bright and the Buckminster Boy 2004-05-24T00:00:00Z And just then he saw the old fox stagger out from beneath the hemlock bough, making his way back to the river. Pax 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z After supper I made a bough bed and stretched out with Frightful beside me. My Side of the Mountain 1959-01-01T00:00:00Z He sat in the clear space between the bank and the first line of trees and bent a pine bough into a circle, tying it with a piece of wet string from the castle. Bridge to Terabithia 1997-10-21T00:00:00Z And across the water, Malaga’s pines waved their boughs at him. Lizzie Bright and the Buckminster Boy 2004-05-24T00:00:00Z First he must find in the forest a golden bough growing on a tree, which he must break off and take with him. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z The moment Clarisse draped the Golden Fleece over the lowest bough, the moonlight seemed to brighten, turning from gray to liquid silver. The Sea of Monsters 2006-04-01T00:00:00Z At last lulled by the wind in the boughs above, and the sweet murmur of the falls of Nimrodel below, Frodo fell asleep with the song of Legolas running in his mind. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z I didn’t have enough hemlock boughs under me, and before I had my head down, my stomach was cold and damp. My Side of the Mountain 1959-01-01T00:00:00Z On Christmas morning the Crowes waited for Julia and Pearl in glad anticipation of watching the girl’s eyes ignite upon spotting the lovely tree and the presents arrayed under its boughs. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z As he hesitated, the bridge seemed to come at him in a dark mass, like snow sliding from a bough. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z Milkman ducked under the boughs of black walnut trees and walked straight toward the big crumbling house. Song of Solomon 1977-01-01T00:00:00Z To my surprise, she reached up to my lowest bough and gently tied a scrap of blue-striped fabric in a careful knot. Wishtree 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z Stepping stones of polished black marble led around either side of a five-story-tall apple tree, every bough glittering with golden apples, and I don’t mean yellow golden apples like in the grocery store. The Titan's Curse 2007-05-11T00:00:00Z Plastic bags, shorts, and underwear hang from the boughs like tattered Christmas ornaments. Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z He ducked under the bough, ran clumsily, then stopped and listened. Lord of the Flies 1954-09-17T00:00:00Z I half expected to see monkeys swinging from the boughs of the massive trees. City of the Plague God 2021-01-12T00:00:00Z Then he assaulted toe first boughs manfully, while the gentlewoman ran about underneath, talking about hawks and husbands and toe nice weather they were having. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z There, as the whirlpool drank the tide, a billow tossed me, and I sprang for the great fig tree, catching on like a bat under a bough. The Odyssey 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z Inside the City walls the merchants had decorated their shops with pine boughs and winterberries, and the bright sunlight reflected off freshly polished shop windows. Ash 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z The ends of their long sweeping boughs hung down like searching fingers, their roots stood up from the ground like the limbs of strange monsters, and dark caverns opened beneath them. The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z Her heart thudding painfully, she climbed in among the fallen branches, hauling herself through the familiar boughs at their unfamiliar angles, and balanced herself as high up as she could get. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z The lack of boughs made it difficult to hang the ornaments evenly, so the kids had to hang ten or more ornaments per branch. The Vanderbeekers of 141st Street 2017-10-03T00:00:00Z He noticed one or two yellow leaves and a faint touch of bronze here and there in the green boughs. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z I then hurried to my tree, gathered up the hemlock boughs on my bed, rushed back and threw them over the carcass. My Side of the Mountain 1959-01-01T00:00:00Z They could see it running on into the wood, wide in places and open above, though every now and again the trees drew in and overshadowed it with their dark boughs. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z The boar shouldered aside the low hanging boughs of the nearby pine, snuffling and huffing. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z On an apple bough, the phoebe teeters and wags its tail and says, “Phoebe, phoe-bee!” Charlotte's Web 1952-10-15T00:00:00Z “Beds and a fire. You use pine boughs to make the beds.” The River 1991-06-01T00:00:00Z They were picking plums, their two sets of bare arms reaching in among the whiplike boughs, their two dark heads turned away from her, one tidy, the other wild as wind. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z There was the picnic tree, with huge overhanging boughs, underneath which they’d often had picnics with their children. Ruby Holler 2002-02-01T00:00:00Z Two great trees stood there, one on either side, like living gate-posts; but there was no gate save their crossing and interwoven boughs. The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z Turning towards it, he saw, beyond an arch of boughs, the road to Osgiliath running almost as straight as a stretched ribbon down, down, into the West. The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z “Oho,” she laughed, “these mountain goats have cloaked themselves in pine boughs.” A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z “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 Robotically he got into his clothes, though when he reached for his shoes he saw that only one was hanging from the forked bough. Hoot 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z Stretched on the boughs, I listened to the wood pewees calling their haunting good nights until I fell sound asleep. My Side of the Mountain 1959-01-01T00:00:00Z He paused, sun-flecked, holding up a bough, prepared to duck under it A spasm of terror set him shaking and he cried aloud. Lord of the Flies 1954-09-17T00:00:00Z Maybe I had been infected by the smell of evergreen boughs being gathered into piles and set ablaze in celebration of Tehlu’s triumph. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z I make my way up the twisting boughs, staying as close to the trunk as possible. Catching Fire 2009-09-01T00:00:00Z Legolas looked up at the boughs of the tree reaching out above them. The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z I looped the rope around the lowest limb of the tree and, bough by bough, branch by branch, made my way to the small, precious orchard. Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z ‘Eyes looking out from the shadows of the boughs! I never saw such eyes before.’ The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z Beneath the evergreen boughs, the two figures merged into one. In the Year of the Boar and Jackie Robinson 1984-10-12T00:00:00Z He even rubbed ashes and sweet cedar boughs over himself to mask any human smell. Touching Spirit Bear 2001-01-09T00:00:00Z Under the boughs of Mirkwood there was deadly strife of Elves and Men and fell beasts. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z As a finishing touch, we arranged cotton bolls on the boughs to look like snow, something we had all heard about but never seen. The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate 2009-05-12T00:00:00Z They shout insults at her from their windows and balconies, hiding behind the boughs of acacia trees. Dreaming in Cuban 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z Just once let’s tell it: how you got to the lake and built a house of fir boughs.’ East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z They’d piled a mat of dead hemlock boughs over the snow and they sat wrapped in their blankets watching the fire and drinking the last of the cocoa scavenged weeks before. The Road 2006-09-28T00:00:00Z She wandered among the trees, parting the whip boughs with her hands, walking faster and faster, growing more and more anxious. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z I cut off some boughs for a mattress, then I leaned some dead limbs against the boulder and covered them with hemlock limbs. My Side of the Mountain 1959-01-01T00:00:00Z Koffi gave him an impish grin as she shook one of the boughs and sent more of the tree’s fruit to the ground. Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z Today the altar was lovely with banked scarlet poinsettias and fir boughs with the golden points of lighted slender white candles gleaming among the leaves. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z I would tether Frightful to a hemlock bough above me and splash her from time to time. My Side of the Mountain 1959-01-01T00:00:00Z He looked across the stream to the road that led back to Dimrill Dale, and then up into the roof of dark boughs above. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z Directly ahead of them, Nina saw a vast, silvery tree at the center of a circular courtyard, its boughs spreading over the stones in a sparkling canopy. Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z He was under the bare ash boughs and the flowering blackthorn of March. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z There, on the inmost shore, an olive tree throws wide its boughs over the bay; nearby a cave of dusky light is hidden for those immortal girls, the Naiades. The Odyssey 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z The boughs in the fir trees hung heavy with it, the fence rails and mailboxes wore mantles of it, the road before him lay filled with it, and there was no sign, anywhere, of people. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z The day was warm, a little windy, and leaf shadows, supple emanations from the tree boughs that brushed the cell’s barred window, tantalized Perry’s tamed squirrel. In Cold Blood 1966-01-01T00:00:00Z I recall, in the orchard behind the house, orbs of flames rising through the black boughs and branches; they climbed, spirit- ous, and flickered out; my mother squeezed my hand with delight. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume I: The Pox Party 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z There was a white cloth in the center with hay and fir boughs in front of each person. Between Shades of Gray 2011-03-22T00:00:00Z The two friends roofed the pit with tree boughs and straw. A Single Shard 2001-04-23T00:00:00Z Rough . .. though ... fought... through ... bough—the same letters were pronounced so many different ways! A Long Walk to Water 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z Over every roof and path hung the boughs of the hemmens, the commonest tree of Winter, a stout conifer with thick pale-scarlet needles. The Left Hand of Darkness 1969-03-01T00:00:00Z Ekon watched, somewhat horrified and somewhat impressed, as she pushed herself up and reached for the next highest bough, climbing higher and higher until she was several feet above him. Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z Isa and Jessie supervised the decorating, moving ornaments around so the larger ones hung on the back of the boughs and the smaller ones hung from the tips. The Vanderbeekers of 141st Street 2017-10-03T00:00:00Z But most came just to touch the boughs and surreptitiously pinch a fingerful of spruce needles together to release the fragrance. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z She peeked at some of the new wishes hanging from my boughs and took a photo of the broken eggshells on my trunk. Wishtree 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z Reflections of blue and gray swirled on the water as a fresh breeze ruffled the spruce boughs and sent ripples along the shoreline. Touching Spirit Bear 2001-01-09T00:00:00Z The beech leaves grew darker on the boughs and fresh grass grew where the old had been nibbled close. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z A thrush had alighted on a bough not five meters away, almost at the level of their faces. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z They stood under the boughs of the woods again. The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z There was even a grey muslin flag hung at half-mast by the bent bough archway into our spot. The Marrow Thieves 2017-05-10T00:00:00Z A breeze stirred the plum boughs, shivering leaves and Sparrow’s hair. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z Winston picked his way up the lane through dappled light and shade, stepping out into pools of gold wherever the boughs parted. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z A large lantern, covered above, was hanging from a bough and cast a pale circle of light below. The Return of the King 1955-10-20T00:00:00Z Brian moved him and rearranged the pine boughs to make a softer bed. The River 1991-06-01T00:00:00Z The wind- bent boughs of trees were frozen in place. Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children 2011-06-07T00:00:00Z It flapped its wings vigorously and hopped up and down on a withered bough. Beowulf: A New Telling 1968-01-01T00:00:00Z It moves along the bough of a tree in its characteristic upside- down position at the speed of roughly 400 metres an hour. Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z The faces in the pews around me were waxen with candlelight, and pine boughs, left over from Christmas, sent up a sepulchral incense in the cold air. The Bell Jar 1963-01-14T00:00:00Z It had pointed leaves which grew along green switches which radiated from the bough and made a tree which looked like a lot of opened green umbrellas. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z Some ghosts were sleeping in the boughs of the trees, while others looked at them curiously. Witchlings 2022-04-05T00:00:00Z Lost, we crawled under a sweep of pine boughs, and I curled myself around my sister, who was so much smaller. Pax 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z And the tree, feeling sorry for him, would move its boughs, although there was no wind, and it would let down all sorts of delicious food. The Girl Who Married a Lion: and Other Tales from Africa 2004-12-07T00:00:00Z He ties up the sack mouth with one end of the rope, and throws the other end twice over a great bough above that’s like an arms-wide gesture of welcome with one arm. “Burlap” 2018-08-02T04:00:00Z She did donate three bags of artificial boughs last year. Boomers are ready to retire from holiday hubbub, but their kids won’t let them 2015-12-07T05:00:00Z "The Magic Grove," a branch of green boughs with sparkling pink flowers, seems to burst from the wall; inspired by the idea, Greer says, that the collection's many books about trees were growing. Artist Mandy Greer molds the fiber of life 2011-11-30T23:49:57Z At one point I turned and saw the lion watching me from the bough of a tree. Experience: I fought off a mountain lion 2016-03-11T05:00:00Z The placard features the silhouette of a man on horseback, his sturdy hat nearly grazing a bough draped in Spanish moss. In biking the Natchez Trace, she was traveling through Southern history 2015-09-08T04:00:00Z SAT Evergreen cuttings and materials to make them into wreaths and boughs, 9 a.m.-1 p.m. Community calendar: festivals, fairs and more 2016-12-01T05:00:00Z Trees witnessed the peerless naturalist James Audubon painting his stunning portrait of “Passenger Pigeons”: two beautiful birds perched on a beech bough. A Poet and Essayist Meditates on the Deep Roots Binding Humans and Trees 2019-04-05T04:00:00Z Several paintings — “Yielding Passage” among them — offer visions of vast bright spaces framed by leaves and boughs, rendered in sharp botanical detail. Jared Rue’s ‘Broken Line’ fuses family discord, nature scenes | Art review 2012-12-06T21:56:20Z She warns him that he must find a golden bough and complete two other tasks before he can descend with any hope of returning. Newly discovered works by Pablo Neruda and other best poetry this month 2016-04-26T04:00:00Z Diane Szczepaniak placed a large tree branch with a procession of rocks on both sides; it suggests an ancient totem, save for the reflective metal on the bough’s underside. Review | In the galleries: Washington Sculptors Group shows a playful nature 2018-09-27T04:00:00Z Carrying boughs of flowers, branches of oranges, dead chickens, a cow once, the swirling muddy water would break through the beach with an enormous gasp and suck of sand, swirling out into the turquoise ocean. Memories of Mexico 2016-07-28T04:00:00Z The red-tiled roof of the ancient Agora museum glimmered in the heat, and a breeze ruffled the boughs of olive trees. Update : Luring Tourists Back to Greece 2013-05-22T16:35:53Z If you bend a balsam bough in the summer, it won’t snap; after a few frosts, it will. Taking to the Woods With Maine’s ‘Tree Tippers’ 2022-12-12T05:00:00Z He does so with a cedar trunk in "Unified Field Theory" and with a fruitwood bough in "Path of the Challenger." Sculptor Philip McCracken's cosmic turn 2011-12-15T21:01:06Z I like it especially at Christmastime with strings of red and green lights and pine boughs. My Brooklyn, Then and Now 2014-07-11T04:00:00Z The apparition of these faces in a crowd: Petals on a wet, black bough. Ezra Pound, Air Conditioning’s Effects on Global Warming and Other Letters to the Editor 2021-08-27T04:00:00Z Rain lashed the pine boughs outside Jonathan Lethem’s summer home in East Blue Hill, Me., in June as an unseasonably chilly fog rolled among birches and firs. Blue Hill, a Literary Enclave, Grows in Downeast Maine 2015-09-01T04:00:00Z We wanted them to hit their wall, feel their boughs creak and bend, and let them decide for themselves. How to travel the world with 2 little kids: Teach them that every step counts 2018-06-01T04:00:00Z The annual newcomers are erected along with some of the greatest hits from years past, including an overturned-canoe-shaped hut covered in pine boughs called “Fir Hut,” from the Nova Scotia architect Richard Kroeker. In Winnipeg, a Skating Rink That Doubles as a Sculpture Park 2014-12-18T05:00:00Z "Duke the halls with boughs of holly. Fa la la la la, la la la VROOOM!" 'Dukes of Hazzard' drive into the holidays with Christmas album 2014-10-16T04:00:00Z I mean, “Rock-a-bye baby on a tree top/When the wind blows the cradle will rock/When the bough breaks the cradle will fall/And down will come baby, cradle and all.” Thanksgiving, medieval style: Give thanks that “Red Deer testicles” and “living eels in roasted pig” aren’t on the menu today 2015-11-26T05:00:00Z People would make excursions from the city and describe sitting under the cool boughs of the hemlock. When the Bronx Was a Forest: Stroll Through the Centuries 2020-08-05T04:00:00Z It is so handsomely detailed inside that once you are in it, you might forget you’re sharing the space with a tree but for the presence of its old boughs. There are yards and then there are gardens. This is the difference. 2017-09-26T04:00:00Z It’s surprising Stone wasn’t knocked to the ground by one of those boughs. The Life of Robert Stone, Who Captured American Energies in Intense, Foreboding Novels 2020-03-09T04:00:00Z "So swiftly now beneath the bough / Your father waits for thee / To wrap you in his healing hands …" Patti Smith wanted her 'Noah' song to be good for Russell Crowe 2014-12-09T05:00:00Z Here and there, wooden benches are tucked beneath boughs. In Florida, Solemn Shadows of the Early Underground Railroad 2017-02-24T05:00:00Z He loaded heavy bags of boughs into his truck, all harvested from a friend’s woodlot, a chunk of clear-cut land that had grown in with thick, scrubby trees. Taking to the Woods With Maine’s ‘Tree Tippers’ 2022-12-12T05:00:00Z A few minutes later, I was hiking my way through a thick swath of towering Douglas fir and Western red cedar trees, boughs draped with hanging moss. Whistler’s Slopes and Après-Ski Charms, the Cheap Way 2015-02-26T05:00:00Z Based on its ethereal name, I imagined a fairy-tale setting with songbirds chirping on piney boughs, water trickling over pearlescent rocks and residents playing harps or painting on easels. In the Bay Area, the Grateful Dead will live — and twirl — forever 2015-07-23T04:00:00Z It sounds terrifying but, in fact, it soothed him, the melancholy he had felt at the sight of a fallen bough swiftly replaced with a sense of "what felt like the beginning of something new". Turned Out Nice Again by Richard Mabey – review 2013-03-08T09:00:01Z Its boughs are weighted with more than a dozen white peacocks, as if in conversation. What Would Ben Franklin Say? Artists Weigh the Dream of Democracy 2023-03-23T04:00:00Z With age, its limbs grow into muscular, wrinkled boughs that extend sideways. There’s a lot more to winter trees than meets the eye 2016-02-16T05:00:00Z It’s a lovely, visually lively space, with boughs of pink cherry blossoms arching across the ceiling and light installations by Yuri Kinoshita, whose work illuminates several Asian restaurants in Seattle. Miyabi: Sushi to savor, in a lovely space 2013-07-25T22:43:31Z The "winter boughs" call up no obtrusively eloquent metaphor, no effortful adjectives or verbs: they are simply "spidery" and "twitched in a breeze". Poem of the week: Otterspool Prom by Peter Robinson 2013-02-18T11:19:21Z Shults and cinematographer Drew Daniels shoot it like an eerie cathedral of crooked boughs and not-so-sheltering sky, a place where nature is fighting a losing battle against some unseen, unforgiving enemy. 'It Comes at Night' Shows the Subtle Art of New Horror Films 0002-11-29T05:00:00Z The bough is as thick as the trunk of an old tree. An ecologist speaks for the silent giants: Old-growth trees 2017-10-23T04:00:00Z Upon those boughs which shake against the cold, Encounters with Shakespeare 2016-04-23T04:00:00Z At the opening of Act I, the libretto describes villagers decorating chalets with boughs to celebrate a triple wedding, singing a wistfully beautiful homage to God. Review: A New, Abstract ‘Guillaume Tell’ at the Met Opera 2016-10-19T04:00:00Z On home game days, Oxford’s storied, 10-acre greensward turns into a tableau of antebellum civility and manners: tables set with lace and fine china, chandeliers suspended from the boughs of the elms and magnolias. Southern Football Traditions 2010-09-17T16:13:00Z Throughout the rooms, dramatic boughs of foliage tickle the low ceiling, or droop from mantelpieces towards the floor. How one Cape Cod home kept its faded glory 2018-11-17T05:00:00Z My partner and I controlled the wind that passed across their boughs in a manner meant to strengthen their branches but not break them. How to travel the world with 2 little kids: Teach them that every step counts 2018-06-01T04:00:00Z The Tetons meant waking up to my parents drinking cowboy coffee from tin camping mugs, shadows of pine boughs on the canvas tent wall, the fresh breeze blowing through the screen mesh window. Grand Teton National Park: Truth in Beauty 2016-06-30T04:00:00Z Encircle the vertical pieces with cut evergreen boughs to hide the cords and supports. In this season of austerity, there’s a cold sort of beauty in decorating with twigs 2020-11-30T05:00:00Z I tied the rope over a bough about 8ft up, got undressed, and pressed record. Experience: I got stuck hanging naked from a tree 2015-08-21T04:00:00Z Instead of cutting down and burying this rotten bough, Bilger decided to climb to it, build a sturdy perch, have a long look around and report his findings in a new memoir, “Fatherland.” A Grandson Investigates the ‘Reasonable’ Nazi in the Family 2023-05-14T04:00:00Z The highest boughs stretch across the lane to the trees on the opposite side, their leaves overlapping, eclipsing the sun. Following ‘Game of Thrones’ to Belfast and Beyond 2013-07-05T17:34:29Z Its themes haunted him: the miraculous wresting away of the golden bough; Charon’s lugubrious barge; Aeneas’s quest to meet the shade of his talkative father, Anchises, by descending into the underworld. Music from the underworld 2016-04-14T04:00:00Z Ancient Egyptians adorned their homes with green date palm leaves; Romans observed Saturnalia by surrounding themselves with evergreen boughs; and the pre-Christian Druids hung mistletoe. The journey from seed to harvested Christmas tree is a long, winding road 2021-12-21T05:00:00Z She plans to try drying dahlias, and entire boughs of dogwood and other flowering trees. Save summer by preserving flowers 2014-08-06T04:00:00Z Soon I fell into a kick-glide rhythm and zipped past boughs droopy with new snow. In Quebec, a Winter Celebration on Skis 2013-01-25T18:23:12Z Alexandre Gauthier is also one of the hottest young chefs in France, and prepares brilliant dishes like his signature roast lobster tail in a bed of smoldering juniper boughs. | We Dare You to Get a Reservation 2011-09-28T19:30:09Z For lovers of poetry, it is the season of private quotation: A. E. Housman on cherry trees “hung with bloom along the bough,” E. E. Cummings’s “leaping greenly spirits of trees.” The Envies of Eating in Springtime 2019-06-01T04:00:00Z Its last major overhaul was in 2007, though the drone snowflakes and the psychedelic projections, like the opening design, which bedecked the ceiling in fir boughs and exploding honeycombs, are more recent additions. Big Critic, Little Critic? Me, My Daughter and the Rockettes 2017-12-25T05:00:00Z Among the British, the standout is Samuel Palmer’s magnificent landscape “Oak Tree and Beech, Lullingstone Park,” centering on an immense and ancient tree whose boughs spread beyond the borders of the drawing’s gray paper. Religious Miniature and Nature Drawings at the Morgan 2014-06-05T04:00:00Z Sorrow shed her lonely tear, Let Revelry hold her ladle!Bring boughs of cypress for the bier, Fling roses on the cradle:Mutes to wait on the funeral state! Poem of the week: Twenty-eight and Twenty-Nine by Winthrop Mackforth Praed 2011-01-04T10:56:26Z In fact, he said, to do so may cause more damage should the tree topple because the bough will brace the rest of the tree. An arborist muses on a 35-year career high in the branches 2016-10-04T04:00:00Z For her alone these orange boughs lifted, these long shadows became a brightness rising. Books of The Times: Barbara Kingsolver’s ‘Flight Behavior’ 2012-11-18T22:17:53Z He’s in the Hong Kong airport with just his clothes, a small folding knife, an A.T.M. card and some lingering bruises, as if God has flung him from a bough. Chang-rae Lee’s Latest Is Fueled by Harrowing Travel, Witness Protection and Food, Food and More Food 2021-02-01T05:00:00Z It ends: Befriend us, Ben, be kind unto us now;Inspire thy chair, from thy Elisian bough …And whatsoere we swill, carouse or quaff,May act thy verse and live thy epitaph. Ben Jonson's chair 2013-07-04T10:00:01Z After too many bank branches and drugstores, we lost faith in the possibility of evergreen boughs in the suburbs. The Christmas tree whisperer 2016-12-18T05:00:00Z We awoke to the shadows of pine boughs on the nylon wall. Grand Teton National Park: Truth in Beauty 2016-06-30T04:00:00Z “The house-wife of New-York today, who is not so fortunate as to possess a permanent domicil, wakes up to other thoughts than those of flowers and green boughs on May morning,” the article said. Weekend Entertainments From the Archives of The New York Times 2015-04-30T04:00:00Z At a seaside tavern, diners nibble on freshly caught calamari under the generous boughs of an old mulberry tree. Lesbos, a Greek Refuge for the War Weary and Vacationers 2016-05-24T04:00:00Z In years to come, the company created Evergleams in various colors and models, devising accessories such as color wheels that shined different hues on the boughs. The silver Christmas tree, an icon of Space Age kitsch, turns 60 2019-12-13T05:00:00Z There wasn't a single twinkling light or even a scrap of a pine bough, all the way from the subway station to her building. How I spent Christmas of 1968 — in dirty, snowy, brilliant, thrilling New York City 2022-12-24T05:00:00Z The upwardly torquing shape of the bough mimics the vapor trail of the doomed spacecraft and culminates in an abrupt, red-stained cutoff. Sculptor Philip McCracken's cosmic turn 2011-12-15T21:01:06Z Cedar, Harbor’s 7-year-old brother, said that the trick is to use a stick that’s sharpened on one end — with four branch stubs sticking out — to stack and collect the boughs into a portable unit. Taking to the Woods With Maine’s ‘Tree Tippers’ 2022-12-12T05:00:00Z Beneath their boughs, salmon that last migrated through this valley more than a century ago will return. Historic dam removal poses challenge of restoring both river and landscape 2023-10-18T04:00:00Z On her back sits a basket woven from cedar boughs and bark, sword fern fronds, cattail and grapevines, which is adorned with dried squash and pine cones. See S’Klallam legends brought to life at Kitsap’s Haunted Heronswood 2023-10-17T04:00:00Z That these things were the boughs and leaves of trees reiterates that the end of life is a time where we self-prune, expand our eyes and forgo the things that don’t serve us. Grief has its own abstract language. Tomashi Jackson shows you how 2023-09-29T04:00:00Z The sculpted boughs of the trees were darkened with wet, like lead in stained glass colors autumn just starting to glow in their leaves. After dry spring and summer, luscious rains soak Seattle area 2023-09-28T04:00:00Z Before the orca’s remains were transported, Morris brushed her box off with cedar boughs, brought from home, to cleanse any negativity, with the crematory asked to later burn the branches, Morris said. Ashes of orca Tokitae finally home after her death last month in Miami 2023-09-22T04:00:00Z Aerial roots dangle from its boughs and eventually latch onto the soil. Ring by ring, majestic banyan tree in heart of fire-scorched Lahaina chronicles 150 years of history 2023-08-10T04:00:00Z For thousands of years, the Snoqualmie people modified tree boughs to mark important locations along the trail and reach fishing, hunting and gathering places across the region. Wedgwood’s double-trunk cedar could become an archaeological site 2023-07-20T04:00:00Z Along the trails, important locations would be marked by the shaping of boughs, often cedar trees, in certain directions, the tribe said. Big Seattle tree spared from axe — for now — as neighbors, tribe rally 2023-07-14T04:00:00Z Guests will be seated in the East Room, the largest in the executive mansion, at tables topped with towering centerpieces of cherry tree boughs in full bloom. Biden hosting hundreds for glam dinner with SKorea president 2023-04-26T04:00:00Z The annual butterfly count doesn’t calculate the individual number of butterflies, but rather the number of acres they cover when they clump together on tree boughs. Number of monarch butterflies wintering in Mexico drops 22% 2023-03-21T04:00:00Z A songbird chorus echoes from the treetops, accompanied by the wind whistling through pine boughs and a woodpecker’s steady drumming. With forests in peril, she’s on a mission to save ‘mother trees’ The pre-Christian Druids in England and Gaul brought holly boughs indoors so woodland spirits could safely shelter from the winter cold — hence the first holiday decorations. These jolly hollies take any shape you like and brighten winter days 2022-12-10T05:00:00Z And when setting a table, they focus on layering: Start with a runner that provides a pop of color, add pine boughs, holly, candles and Libeco linen napkins. How to create a cozy home that lasts beyond the holidays 2022-12-08T05:00:00Z Perhaps you aren’t prepared to go all-out decking the halls with boughs of holly. Liven up your holiday decor with fresh garland, wreaths and more 2022-12-01T05:00:00Z They can be part of the neighborly effort that goes into hanging pine boughs and making magic out of dollar store bargains. Perspective | ‘We the People’ need some holiday cheer, and the White House has it 2022-11-28T05:00:00Z Those counts are usually made in January, when the butterflies have settled into clumps on the boughs of fir and pine trees. Monarch butterflies return to Mexico on annual migration 2022-11-05T04:00:00Z Here are some great Washington fall drives to enjoy bright yellow and orange bigleaf maples, fiery-red vine maples, larch boughs wrapped with golden boas, butter-colored cottonwoods, and berry shrubs aflame with blushing leaves. Find fall color: 5 great leaf-peeping WA road trips | Provided by Western Washington Toyota Dealers 2022-10-12T04:00:00Z We covered Green Velvet boxwood plants with burlap and draped pine boughs over the lavender to shield it from the cold. Perspective | Creating a garden as a refuge for pollinators — and myself 2022-08-31T04:00:00Z Trees bowed their heads and tossed their leafy boughs in what seemed gestures of helpless surrender to the unexpected sunny-day breeziness. A surprisingly fresh Saturday followed our 99 degree Friday 2022-06-18T04:00:00Z The leafy bough was followed a millisecond later by a squirrel. Perspective | The drama and delight of nature in a suburban yard 2022-05-30T04:00:00Z “Just like the cedar tree, from the tip of its boughs to its root system, it has a unique place in our culture and history.” The stories behind Washington’s official state symbols 2022-05-27T04:00:00Z Picture this: Evergreen boughs laden with snow cast shadows on an undulating ridge bleached by sunlight streaming in from the upper-right corner. Northwest-based magazine HiHeyHello spotlights women’s outdoor culture 2022-05-06T04:00:00Z We removed the pine boughs and found the unexpected: a bird’s nest hidden underneath. Perspective | Creating a garden as a refuge for pollinators — and myself 2022-08-31T04:00:00Z For a brief moment, all is sublime: the slant of the sun’s rays through the pine boughs, the promise of the skinny trail. How I rediscovered my love of downhill mountain biking at a bike park 2022-04-01T04:00:00Z Elsewhere, it weighs down evergreen boughs similar to the effect of snow in the valley’s higher elevations. Experience Moss Madness on the Oxbow Loop Trail along the Middle Fork Snoqualmie River 2022-03-24T04:00:00Z A breath of fresh air With spring comes new growth, so it’s also time to uncover the base of perennials and deciduous shrubs that you protected with a blanket of mulch or evergreen boughs. Ciscoe’s tips for waking up your garden in early March 2022-03-05T05:00:00Z It is there in the park where her children played when they were young, riffling through the boughs of the palo verde trees, stalking her as she tries to live her life quietly. The Staggering Ecological Impacts of Computation and the Cloud 2022-03-01T05:00:00Z Imposing magnolias, tulip trees and other magnificent species glided by on the water’s surface, their mighty boughs spread wide in a procession that looked both poetic and delirious. A Love of Trees or a Display of Power? The Odd Park of an Oligarch. 2022-01-17T05:00:00Z A scavenger hunt around your neighborhood can produce green boughs, prickly pine cones, rosemary springs or a berry-filled branch, Vroom says. Mantel magic: 7 tips to make your hearth into a wintry respite | Produced by Seattle Times Marketing 2022-01-07T05:00:00Z At this time of year, Julia Wood's halls are normally decked with boughs of holly. Why I travel back in time for Christmas 2021-12-24T05:00:00Z For the fifth year, Johnson would join volunteer pilots from across the region for the annual Holly Run, bringing boughs of holly and hearts full of holiday cheer to Tangier Island, Va. Volunteer pilots fly in the holiday cheer 2021-12-19T05:00:00Z Wear recently posted photos on Instagram of evergreen boughs hung around the window frames and French doors in her kitchen. Still haven’t put up holiday decorations? Try a simple Scandinavian look 2021-12-06T05:00:00Z In Vienna, the market on Maria Theresien Platz opened last Wednesday, its wooden stalls decorated with evergreen boughs and fairy lights. As Virus Cases Rise in Europe, an Economic Toll Returns 2021-11-23T05:00:00Z The road unfurls between grey-blue waters, mist-and-moss adorned evergreen tree boughs and dramatic, steep mountainsides. Discover Washington: Romantic getaway to Hood Canal | Provided by Western Washington Toyota Dealers 2021-11-10T05:00:00Z Ward looks to Bloomist for quality faux boughs and branches for staging houses, such as this Olea europaea, which comes in 20- and 32-inch lengths. The best, most realistic-looking fake plants for decorating your home 2021-10-26T04:00:00Z The virus arrived in central Malaysia by air, inside furry bats that alighted on the boughs of fruit trees swaying over pig farms. How the hunt for this deadly virus shaped the search for coronavirus’s origins 2021-10-14T04:00:00Z The flames don’t burn boughs laden with needles so much as they make them disappear with a blinding flash. One Night on the Fire Lines at Lake Tahoe 2021-09-01T04:00:00Z They had dragged boughs into their sleeping area; they dug in their pen. It’s a grizzly bear survival program. For grizzly bears. 2021-07-26T04:00:00Z A bough of holly sits in her lap. Watch the season change in Seattle on this walk along Lake Washington 2021-03-19T04:00:00Z Straight-trunked, with steepled boughs, prickly needles, and oblong, scaled cones, white spruce can now be found from Newfoundland all the way to the Alaskan Arctic. The enduring mystery of Critchfield’s spruce 2021-02-14T05:00:00Z Deck the halls with boughs of folly indeed! What If, after 9/11, George W. Bush had just thrown a bunch of parties? 2020-12-25T05:00:00Z What better way to summon new beginnings than by hanging wreaths, tying bows and stringing lights from every bough and rooftop? Opinion | A holiday feast of lights helps reverse the darkness of 2020 2020-12-18T05:00:00Z But evergreen boughs have been essential seasonal decor since ancient times as part of pagan winter solstice celebrations. Why do we have Christmas trees? The surprising history behind this holiday tradition. 2020-12-18T05:00:00Z She said that the workers who wrap and transport Rockefeller Center’s trees are careful to make sure there is no wildlife in the boughs before a trip begins. About That Maligned Christmas Tree (and That Owl) at Rockefeller Center 2020-11-18T05:00:00Z Perhaps it is just a single stand of trees, straight-trunked with steepled boughs, prickly needles and oblong cones, seen but unnoticed, hidden in plain sight. The enduring mystery of Critchfield’s spruce 2021-02-14T05:00:00Z His photo of a woman who hanged herself in Chapultepec Park records her body alongside the towering, almost gothic boughs of the tree, so the picture tolls with the humblest, bleak abjection of her act. Blood, death and toy cars: how the Mexican Weegee makes sense of a violent world 2020-08-26T04:00:00Z Dad built a few more during a brief attempt at retirement and now we have eight of these bulky boxes nestled in the boughs of oak trees around our Kent farm. Barn owls are back in the UK – and for once it's thanks to humans 2020-06-11T04:00:00Z Others believe the Christmas tree evolved from Christmas pyramids, wooden structures decorated with evergreen boughs and religious figures. Why do we have Christmas trees? The surprising history behind this holiday tradition. 2020-12-18T05:00:00Z The metal boughs of Southwark Bridge echoed with the rumble of trains underground. Letter of Recommendation: Mudlarking 2020-04-01T04:00:00Z His matted head found that the blazing pillow was cool on the other side, and he heard birdsong and dew dripping from sun-sparkled boughs. Opinion | What the gift of this unpleasant infection has helped me understand 2020-03-27T04:00:00Z Scattered visitors walked quietly amid boughs of cherry blossoms weighed down with raindrops. Crowds couldn’t resist the cherry blossoms, so officials enlisted the police 2020-03-23T04:00:00Z We were ignored by the heron that sometimes came to rest, heavily, in the boughs of a tree that bent over the water. The Subversive Joy of Cold-Water Swimming 2020-01-20T05:00:00Z The boughs were a vivid green and soft to the touch. The Past and the Future of the Earth’s Oldest Trees 2020-01-13T05:00:00Z A clump of snow shook loose from a tree bough and barely missed my head. What I Learned in Avalanche School 2019-12-31T05:00:00Z A Hipcamper can spend the weekend in a “gothic pod”—a cabin that looks like a split acorn—beneath snow-laden boughs, in Kansas, for sixty-five dollars a night. How Hipcamp Became the Airbnb of the Outdoors 2019-12-02T05:00:00Z “Through the Seattle Wholesale Growers Market, I’m able to source a variety of evergreen boughs that diverge from the traditional cedar and pine,” Morgan says. This holiday season, lose the tinsel, bows and trinkets, and deck the halls with nature’s bounty 2019-11-30T05:00:00Z The Marion County Sheriff’s Office says Forest Patrol deputies stopped two men in a vehicle with the fir boughs on Highway 22 near Stayton Nov. 12. Sheriff: 2 arrested for taking fir boughs from forest 2019-11-20T05:00:00Z Wonder Stump Road passes beneath a canopy of needled redwood boughs that scatter sunbeams and cast an otherworldy green hue. In Northern California logging country, residents brace for a fight over their ‘magical’ redwood-lined road 2019-11-11T05:00:00Z Wastelands of blackened stumps are broken only by scorched trunks and twisted boughs of baobab trees resistant to fires. Madagascar forest destruction wiping out humans' tiniest relative 2019-09-06T04:00:00Z She had just ducked under the low bough of a magnolia tree when she heard something behind her. In the nation’s capital, a record year for hate crimes - The Washington Post 2019-08-21T04:00:00Z Specks of sunlight shimmered in the deep, almost kaleidoscopic green, bouncing off lime-colored ferns and conifer boughs. A Trailblazing Plan to Fight California Wildfires 2019-08-19T04:00:00Z The sheriff’s office says deputies learned the boughs were intended to be used commercially for creating holiday decorations. Sheriff: 2 arrested for taking fir boughs from forest 2019-11-20T05:00:00Z Morris, carrying the cedar boughs, followed him as he walked ashore. Where are the salmon and the orcas? Tribe, scientists grapple with unprecedented disappearance in Washington waters 2019-08-06T04:00:00Z Heat was rising off the burnt trees and smoke hung low around the boughs. On the arsonist’s trail: inside Australia’s worst bushfire catastrophe 2019-05-24T04:00:00Z Each critic must be content to grapple with one or two boughs of this redwood of literature. Gertrude Stein, Alice B. Toklas, and “The Making of Americans” 2005-06-06T04:00:00Z Fish rot, boughs decay, hanging fruit glows with an unearthly intensity, while seemingly startled birds flee. Review: In Morgan Mandalay’s new paintings, life carries on as Eden burns 2019-04-23T04:00:00Z With his thick salt-and-pepper hair and lanky athleticism, he looks like he’s fallen from a bough of the Kennedy tree. Dave Eggers: why Donald Trump could win again 2019-03-02T05:00:00Z In towering firs, they hung in massive clumps on sagging boughs, their brilliant orange and black colors concealed by the pale underside of their closed wings. Locals find monarch colony in Mexico after yearslong search 2019-02-15T05:00:00Z Minnesota Public Radio News reports that Wisconsin inspectors found the critter called elongate hemlock scale on decorations including wreaths and evergreen boughs sold at Menards, Home Depot and other stores. States trying to stop invasive evergreen-eating bug’s spread 2018-12-29T05:00:00Z He points to a giant artificial tree trunk, where an orange tabby sleeps on one bough. In one tony Houston neighborhood, a house of cats. Just cats 2018-12-24T05:00:00Z She walked back into the street, sweeping her tracks with the bough. “Acceptance Journey” 2018-12-17T05:00:00Z Back then the wonder seemed, well, more wondrous: Tree boughs hung lower and were interlaced, forming a starry tunnel, he said. Altadena’s Christmas Tree Lane evokes an old-fashioned holiday 2018-12-14T05:00:00Z With its stately, dropping boughs, the yellow-cedar is “a truly noble tree … undoubtedly the best the country affords,” Muir wrote in 1882. How trees can be a bellwether for climate change — and what comes after 2018-12-13T05:00:00Z It looks a bit different from the pine boughs and mistletoe often associated with this time of year: a woman’s hand presenting an apple as a serpent coils around her wrist. Satan Is in the Illinois Capitol. Because It’s the Holidays! 2018-12-06T05:00:00Z So early Saturday morning, the 30 migrants hiding under the boughs of the tree watched the border and made their calculations. With U.S. Soil Achingly Close, Decision Time for Caravan Migrants 2018-12-03T05:00:00Z She went to the wooded edge of the empty lot beside her place and found a light bough that had come off a small pine tree. “Acceptance Journey” 2018-12-17T05:00:00Z He said it’s ironic that if the Hopi sold pine boughs or pinon nuts gathered from the mountain, the majority would allow a special injury claim. High court rules against Hopi Tribe in snowmaking challenge 2018-11-29T05:00:00Z The women who did not vote for Republicans in the midterms were not embracing the Democrats as much as they were sending a warning shot over the bough of the Republican ghost ship. Barbra Streisand accuses Donald Trump of misogyny while liberals turn on their own 2018-11-28T05:00:00Z Before curling up to sleep, he moves his arms in a vaguely circular pattern — as if gathering boughs in a jungle he’s never seen and never will. Chimp research is over, but hundreds are still in labs. A tiny Washington sanctuary is helping them. 2018-11-22T05:00:00Z Eighteenth-century terra-cotta angels in silk robes deck the tree’s boughs, and an elaborate crèche re-creating the bustle of life in the port city of Naples sprawls at its base. Celebrating the Holidays 2018-11-16T05:00:00Z Troops decorated the mess halls with flags and evergreen boughs. The One Time American Troops Fought Russians Was at the End of World War I—and They Lost 2018-11-09T05:00:00Z Burning tumbleweeds flew forty feet above the ground, and the red cedars in the hollows roared as their resinous boughs ignited like kerosene. The Day the Great Plains Burned 2018-10-29T04:00:00Z Under a nimbus of eucalyptus and cypress boughs, in the pale waning light of a San Francisco afternoon, I watched the maraca of compulsory gratitude draw nearer. Nature and nurture: a walk in the woods with California's forest bathers 2018-08-22T04:00:00Z A jay lands on a snow-laden bough, sending loose a ghost of crystalline fog that melts on my face as I ski through it. “A Refugee Crisis” 2018-08-13T04:00:00Z The bow of the ship carried cedar boughs. ‘It’s amazing’: Puyallup Tribe hosts more than 100 tribes traveling Salish Sea 2018-07-28T04:00:00Z They were covering the trees, they were all over the boughs. Lincoln P. Brower, scientist and protector of the monarch butterfly, dies at 86 2018-07-21T04:00:00Z The development group Grey Ghost Properties bough the site in September. South Carolina town wants revenue from port sale 2018-01-30T05:00:00Z With respect for the historic significance of the Jackson magnolia, the White House hopes to eventually replace its storied boughs with seedlings grown from the original. Opinion | The story of the White House’s famous magnolia tree 2017-12-27T05:00:00Z The rosemary “looks kind of like little Christmas boughs,” she noted of the herbs that were lately part of a thick forest 50 miles away. A holiday meal with a family of farmers, bakers, chefs and Chez Panisse alums 2017-12-22T05:00:00Z “I usually use glassybaby and cedar boughs, with transparent ones around the cedar,” Rhodes says. The founder of glassybaby brightens her home for the holidays with simple, meaningful beauty 2017-12-21T05:00:00Z He lashes himself to the bendy trunk and then reaches out with sticky gloves, twists a lime-colored cone off a bough, and chucks it over his shoulder. Gravity-Defying Villagers Risk Their Lives for Christmas Trees 2017-12-21T05:00:00Z It now stands proudly in our living room, a multi-colored wheel of lights shining across its metallic boughs and reflecting out onto the street. How Charlie Brown killed the aluminum Christmas tree 2017-12-15T05:00:00Z SAT-MON Observe animal behavior as a variety of zoo residents get holiday-themed trees including wreaths and trees with fruit, boughs and wrapped boxes, 11 a.m.-2 p.m. Community calendar: holiday markets, Art under $100, and more events 2017-12-13T05:00:00Z Then, they came to a halt before a pine tree with heavy boughs. Suspects’ phones led Northwest investigators to carcasses in one of the biggest poaching cases they’ve ever seen. 2017-10-12T04:00:00Z They’re expertly stacking and unpacking boxes and bins, harvesting and draping homegrown cedar boughs, and we’re all keenly aware it’s an unseasonably sunny October day, but … deadlines. The founder of glassybaby brightens her home for the holidays with simple, meaningful beauty 2017-12-21T05:00:00Z Reaching up and pushing aside the last, dark green boughs, the 50-year-old finally pops his head through the emerald gloom of the virgin forest into the golden September sun of the Caucasus Mountains. Gravity-Defying Villagers Risk Their Lives for Christmas Trees 2017-12-21T05:00:00Z As I raise each bough and inspect it — raspberries are best spotted from underneath — I wonder if the neighbors are watching. Tasting the Sweetness of Summer, Berry by Berry 2017-08-24T04:00:00Z Shahd was buried on the edge of a field that lay in the shade of tall oaks and the delicate boughs of walnut trees. Braving Cancer Amid the Chaos of Syria 2017-08-08T04:00:00Z One time, the Americans were in a house camouflaged by tree boughs while a U.S. helicopter hovered overhead. Richard Dudman, reporter held captive in Cambodia during Vietnam War, dies at 99 2017-08-05T04:00:00Z Tree boughs gesturing in the breeze: “Come here and partake of my shade.” Want to go to the park? Great, just don’t try to walk there 2017-06-25T04:00:00Z Across its sill, an altar had been fashioned with cedar boughs, smooth stones, eagle feathers, a small red candle and a tiny bell. At His Own Wake, Celebrating Life and the Gift of Death 2017-05-25T04:00:00Z “As a result, fish, frog and native insect populations will diminish, along with the pleasure of hiking, because there’ll be nothing to look at but dead boughs of trees.” The trees that make Southern California shady and green are dying. Fast. 2017-04-19T04:00:00Z Trees lined the banks, their boughs bent like old men, their leaves skimming the surface of the water. The Lost City of Z 2005-09-12T04:00:00Z They stood amid boxes stacked floor to ceiling and beneath boughs of string lights. Just Bulbs: Still Burning Bright on the Upper East Side 2017-03-28T04:00:00Z He built a shelter from tree boughs in a thicket of trees. Skier survives night on ski slope after falling into hole 2017-02-13T05:00:00Z A big, complex aroma based on Mosaic hops melds ripened passion fruit with blueberry and pine boughs, and an intense bitterness underpins all that hoppy dankness. Four local IPAs you could be drinking right now 2017-02-01T05:00:00Z The Michigan Department of Agriculture and Rural Development’s proposed quarantine would regulate movement of hemlock nursery stock, branches, boughs, non-composted chips, logs and firewood to limit spreading of the insect. Michigan agency considers quarantine of tree-harming pest 2016-12-23T05:00:00Z All too often a seller bough the car cheap and is trying to resell for a quick buck, without regard to maintenance. Buyer Beware: Some steps to help you find a cheap used car 2016-11-16T05:00:00Z Theirs is a familiar fall scene in northern New Mexico: Trucks parked on the roadside, tin cups and small buckets scattered beneath pine-needle boughs thick with brown cones. Piñon seed-seekers enjoying a plentiful harvest this year 2016-10-12T04:00:00Z At first glance, the drop in such balance-sheet maneuvers seems like a good thing and potentially a sign that regulators trying to break the dodgy boughs of China’s sprawling banking system are being effective. Chinese Bank Shows How To Move Risks Around 2016-08-19T04:00:00Z The less symmetrical trees were chopped into bundles of boughs and sold separately. Richard Ransom Founded Hickory Farms Chain: 1919-2016 2016-04-22T04:00:00Z It housed my first dinner parties, my first real Christmas tree, my first flatmates, and saw me through my first jobs and internships, those early boughs of homesickness, and the beginnings of my book collection. Food in books: (not) blue soup from Bridget Jones’s Diary by Helen Fielding 2016-04-21T04:00:00Z The world was blind, the boughs were bent, All ways and paths were wild : Then the veil of cloud apart was rent, And here was born a Child. Unseen JRR Tolkien poems found in school magazine 2016-02-16T05:00:00Z The Mexican hierarchy has long bristled at the region’s “Indian church,” a mixture of Catholicism and indigenous culture that includes pine boughs, eggs and references to “God the Father and Mother” in services. Pope Francis celebrates indigenous in Chiapas as Catholics dwindle 2016-02-15T05:00:00Z Every winter near solstice time, residents of EcoVillage Ithaca gather in a darkened room around a spiral of evergreen boughs laid on the floor. How These Communities Save Energy—and Time for What Matters 2015-12-22T05:00:00Z Some people also opt for the “Charlie Brown tree” look by collecting boughs from the yard and fashioning them into a makeshift “tree.” See the World’s Most Unique Christmas Trees 2015-12-19T05:00:00Z Still, a week ago, the staff strung boughs of holly across the courtyard. Weeks of violence dampen Christmas spirit at Bethlehem hotel 2015-12-05T05:00:00Z We are a family that talks about weather, and books and who inherited what feature or personality trait from far up the boughs of the family tree. Pie is my family’s tradition. I’m trying to get better at it. 2015-11-25T05:00:00Z Until recently the yew was male, its boughs holding little capsules of pollen. A 5,000-year-old tree changes sex 2015-11-03T05:00:00Z The bough has broken; darling Clementine is lost; even my sunshine, my only sunshine, has, you will learn if you exit the chorus and enter the next verse, gone away. The Melancholy Mystery of Lullabies 2015-10-14T04:00:00Z “Keep a big pile of green boughs right next to the fire,” Trapp said. Safety precautions can help solo hunters survive 2015-10-04T04:00:00Z His most famous poem, “In a Station of the Metro,” uses that same terseness to achieve its effect: “The apparition of these faces in the crowd; / Petals on a wet, black bough.” The complicated literary history of 'Yellowface' did not start with Michael Derrick Hudson 2015-09-19T04:00:00Z She is tall, with straight brown hair and long arms that dangle, a little comically, like the boughs of a weeping willow. The Lawyer Who Defended Dzhokhar Tsarnaev 2015-09-14T04:00:00Z The same scene repeated itself throughout the community – perfect, fast-burning wildfire fuel surrounded the homes on all sides, from the dead leaves on the ground to the boughs touching the roofs from towering pines. 19 bells to mark 19 lost lives as Arizona remembers Granite Mountain hotshots 2015-06-30T04:00:00Z A tree trimmer with a chain saw moved up and down the trunk of the London plane in a bucket one recent afternoon, lopping off rotted branches and pruning boughs hovering over the sidewalk. Fewer Limbs but Healthier Trees as New York’s Parks Budget Rebounds 2015-05-06T04:00:00Z Now, he and his 82-year-old wife life on handouts and sleep in a flimsy shelter villagers made from corrugated tin set beneath the tumbling boughs of a fiery pink bougainvillea. An elderly Nepali villager, and memories of the 1934 quake 2015-05-03T04:00:00Z “Just a plain pine coffin covered with pine boughs. Inside the coffin are to be plain pillows and sheet with cloth,” she’d written in a letter to her doctor years earlier. The Roosevelts who despised each other: The untold story of Eleanor Roosevelt and Alice Roosevelt Longworth 2015-04-05T04:00:00Z “I think it tastes better than the store bought stuff,” said Arlo, who enjoys feeding the fire with pine boughs. Sap run! Holland couple makes own maple syrup from scratch 2015-03-25T04:00:00Z A whiff is a natural toast to winter’s end, found at the tip of a cedar’s bough. Red Cedar: An Urban Pioneer 2015-02-20T05:00:00Z Then, he uses copper for the branches, splitting the extensions into separate boughs with a hammer until they can’t be split any smaller. Artist, former teacher found his calling with stained glass 2015-01-30T05:00:00Z Make a pair of decorative snowshoes from white pine boughs. Events in Connecticut for Jan. 25-31, 2015 2015-01-22T05:00:00Z Make a pair of decorative snowshoes from white pine bough. Events in Connecticut for Jan. 18-24, 2015 2015-01-17T05:00:00Z Bedecked with droplets from an overhanging bough, Nocturnalist, a native New Yorker, recalled nights of our wrongheaded youth spent pondering how to get through — or, more accurately, over — the gates after dusk. Inside Gramercy Park’s Gates, One Night Less Silent Than the Other 364 2014-12-24T05:00:00Z “A lot of people, that’s what they do for their Christmas money,” said Ms. Grant, 55, of Columbia Falls, who routinely checks to be sure the boughs are legally tipped. Tree Tipping Generates Cash and Seasonal Woes in Maine 2014-12-23T05:00:00Z Then, working with the artist Enrique Espinoza, Mrs. Howard and her descendants supervised the installation of the Nativity scene, the angels in the boughs and the surrounding landscape. Family Protests After Its Tradition of Installing Crèche at the Met Is Halted 2014-12-23T05:00:00Z During the holidays, we expect to see evergreen garlands, often made with cedar boughs. DIY holiday garland made with foliage, flowers from California's backyard 2014-12-10T05:00:00Z We may no longer understand the mechanics of decking “the halls with boughs of holly,” but it sounds festive and recalls European traditions brought to a new land. Guest: The immigrant roots of Christmas music 2014-12-04T05:00:00Z Help prepare the sanctuary for Advent with cedar for royalty, fir and pine boughs for everlasting life, holly symbolizing Jesus’ death and ivy representing the resurrection. Religion events from around the Washington area In gleaming gold leaf, his horse’s hoof crushes a Georgia pine bough as the general’s face stares sternly southward. 150 years on, Sherman’s March to Sea still vivid 2014-11-16T05:00:00Z Georgia Power crews maneuvered a lift more than 100 feet above the ground, moving in between pine boughs to install the new equipment. 2nd ‘eagle cam’ to film birds at Berry College 2014-09-03T04:00:00Z Speaking of branded partners, Apple just bough one. One iWatch, Or Many? Apple Battles To Solve The Wearable 2014-07-14T04:00:00Z In the distance, under the spreading boughs of a tall tree, he noticed a fire. Fukushima farmer takes on nuclear plant operator over wife's suicide 2014-07-09T04:00:00Z There is little doubt that the edict pulling the shows seems intended as a shot across the boughs of China’s free-wheeling online video sector by government regulators. China Slaps Bans On a Bunch of Totally Harmless U.S. TV Shows 2014-04-28T08:36:17Z If leaves and branches could talk, these boughs would have thousands of stories to tell. 18 reasons why we love the Masters 2014-04-09T10:00:04Z Winter seems to be just a little more forgiving under the pine boughs. City Room: White Pine Trees Provide Canopy and Carpet 2014-02-06T22:11:43Z A locust bough had sheared off in the wind. Donald Antrim: “The Emerald Light in the Air.” 2014-01-27T05:00:00Z Plastic pine boughs and Christmas lights hang from every door. Gotham: What Washington Gives New York: Added Strain on the Social Safety Net 2013-12-10T02:35:23Z The young tree’s boughs initially point upward at the top of the trunk. City Room: A Gumdrop Shape, Good and Plenty 2013-08-16T18:16:34Z The airport, which was bough from its previous Spanish owners for £52m in March, is already undergoing a £500,000 facelift to promote Welsh culture and heritage. Airport has 'long-haul potential' 2013-05-20T15:56:00Z The well-known UK lullaby, Rock-a-bye-Baby, also contains danger, warning in the nicest possible way that the baby and cradle will drop from the bough of a tree. The universal language of lullabies 2013-01-21T00:56:38Z The bough was long and twisting, green with crooked branches and smaller, thorny stems. Donald Antrim: “The Emerald Light in the Air.” 2014-01-27T05:00:00Z They had hung Mrs. Armstrong's boughs of artificial pine in the windows, and put her miniature Christmas tree in the dining room. City Room: Holiday Mix-Tapes, in Satchmo’s Style 2012-12-05T15:21:28Z But after a decade, the upper boughs would form a continuous canopy, providing shade for the missionaries from the brutal desert sunlight. In the Garden: In Tucson, a Search for Fruit the Missionaries Knew 2012-11-21T23:41:36Z As trunks and boughs were fed through a grinder in Cunningham Park, they added to a mountain of wood chips. Hurricane Sandy Inflicted a Beating on New York City Trees 2012-11-11T22:49:03Z The layers of shade on a beautiful cedar were thickened with people in every story, and black shapes appeared through the already green boughs of a chestnut. Tottenham's 20 defining matches – introducing our new football ebook 2012-10-04T20:00:01Z The wood was damp, and the end of the bough flexed and bent when he pulled. Donald Antrim: “The Emerald Light in the Air.” 2014-01-27T05:00:00Z Ouch to say the last for those investors that bough in on either or both IPOs. First Zynga Then Facebook...Is Linkedin Next? 2012-08-01T18:00:42Z Age had hollowed its centre, but its massy boughs still waved with their dark serrated foliage. Fairy Legends and Traditions of The South of Ireland 2012-05-22T15:16:54.237Z I felt cheated, somehow, as if I’d cut a bough from a tree and in doing so destroyed all its grace. The Early Life and Adventures of Sylvia Scarlett 2012-04-26T02:00:17.327Z Lances may serve for more purposes than one; and green boughs be curtains as well as canopies. Agincourt The Works of G. P. R. James, Volume XX 2012-04-25T02:01:07.457Z They estimate weight, resistance, heat, distance, etc., and adapt their actions more or less exactly to these factors when climbing, swinging at the end of boughs, breaking, carrying, etc. The Psychological Origin and the Nature of Religion 2012-04-24T02:00:19.043Z Who puts on all the bright colors here, paints, and carols upon the topmost bough of the domestic tree? A Breeze from the Woods, 2nd Ed. 2012-04-23T02:00:29.820Z Right before me was a tree, one heavy bough of which hung very low—and straight for this he made, nor could I turn his course. Ladies on Horseback Learning, Park-Riding, and Hunting, with Hints upon Costume, and Numerous Anecdotes 2012-04-23T02:00:28.843Z Several magnificent banyan-trees send out huge spreading boughs, which, with their great forest of leaves, cast a most refreshing shade over the road and over the eating-houses that stand by the wayside. Sidelights on Chinese Life 2012-04-21T02:00:23.993Z They are in many cases built of stone, and some of them have inner courts, with a sort of veranda formed of boughs to sit under. March to Magdala 2012-04-19T02:00:32.620Z And as he went out on the road the crowds on their way to the feast spread their robes be-fore him, and strewed the way with green boughs from the palm trees. Young Folks' Bible in Words of Easy Reading The Sweet Stories of God's Word in the Language of Childhood 2012-04-13T02:00:19.530Z At its close, however, her ear detected a slight rustling among the leaves, near the door of the hut, and Panther glided from among the boughs, and crept towards an adjoining lodge. The Frontiersmen 2012-04-10T02:00:18.933Z "But I sha'n't be a celebrity much longer," said Blanche, glancing at the bare boughs of the trees, and wondering if any other place could be as desolate as London in winter. Mademoiselle Blanche A Novel 2012-04-07T02:00:33.037Z In 1759, Reynolds painted his first Venus, reclining in a wooded landscape, while Cupid looks in through the boughs. Famous European Artists 2012-04-07T02:00:30.487Z They are very well and neatly built—so regular, indeed, that it is difficult at a short distance to believe that they are really built of boughs. March to Magdala 2012-04-19T02:00:32.620Z There, on a towering height, sublime, The Lebanon of heavenly clime, Where pleasure lives, where rapture glows, The cedar spreads its princely boughs. Recollections of Windsor Prison; Containing Sketches of its History and Discipline with Appropriate Strictures and Moral and Religious Reflection 2012-04-06T02:00:31.240Z On the north, the trees had been stripped of their leaves, their trunks and boughs blackened and partially consumed, while the ground appeared to have been covered with a carpet of fire. The Frontiersmen 2012-04-10T02:00:18.933Z A bough of lilac swayed close to his lips. The Tree of Knowledge A Novel 2012-04-05T02:00:35.603Z Green things rotted as they grew; parasitic plants drained the sap from drooping boughs. Wyndham's Pal 2012-04-04T02:00:54.360Z The villages are always perched upon eminences, and the houses are crowded together and surrounded by a thick fence of boughs, with the ends outwards like a military abattis. March to Magdala 2012-04-19T02:00:32.620Z In the leafiness of summer much of this singularity was lost, but when winter stripped the boughs it revealed a double line of fantastic skeletons, a fit pathway for the strangest dreams. Mitchelhurst Place, Vol. I (of 2) A Novel 2012-04-03T02:00:33.630Z Then, perhaps, the rustling of dry leaves, or the cracking of a dry bough, indicated that some small animal was flying from his presence. The Frontiersmen 2012-04-10T02:00:18.933Z The brush shelter referred to was made of boughs laid over a pole placed in the crotch of another pole at one end, the other end being held by a crotch fastened to a tree. Blazing The Way True Stories, Songs and Sketches of Puget Sound 2012-04-03T02:00:30.677Z Tatters of sunlight, reflected from the wavelets of the river obliquely up underneath the hickory boughs, flickered on the ceiling and walls of the hut. Immortal Youth A Study in the Will to Create 2012-04-03T02:00:30.247Z Hundreds of their boughs kissed the water with their thin, taper points. The History of Margaret Catchpole A Suffolk Girl 2012-04-03T02:00:27.997Z She herself should have been a poem—a lyric in a white gown and green scarf, coming to him through the long grass under the blossomed boughs. The Literary Sense 2012-04-02T02:00:28.147Z Ovid describes how he took part in the feast of Pales, and sprinkled the cattle with a laurel bough. Walks in Rome 2012-03-31T02:00:36.010Z One of the granddaughters pleasurably recalls the vision of Joseph Latimer, father of Sarah, sitting in his dooryard, under the boughs of a great Balm of Gilead tree, reading his Bible. Blazing The Way True Stories, Songs and Sketches of Puget Sound 2012-04-03T02:00:30.677Z Windows stood open to the breeze which rumpled the leaves of an old linden where it spread its boughs in the brick-walled court. Immortal Youth A Study in the Will to Create 2012-04-03T02:00:30.247Z The gardener descended a few steps, and Margaret gave him the child, whilst she herself remained with the boughs in her hand, until the boy was safe. The History of Margaret Catchpole A Suffolk Girl 2012-04-03T02:00:27.997Z And how common and mean that would be compared with the blossoming bough; and besides, the shops they were passing had nothing in the windows except cheap pastry and models of steam-engines. The Literary Sense 2012-04-02T02:00:28.147Z On rode they to the Forum, While laurel boughs and flowers From house-tops and from windows, Fell on their crests in showers. Walks in Rome 2012-03-31T02:00:36.010Z Echoed only by the rustling of the boughs of scattered pines, moving gently in the wind. Blazing The Way True Stories, Songs and Sketches of Puget Sound 2012-04-03T02:00:30.677Z They descended the steps, and passed slowly along the grass-grown walk, now and again stepping aside to avoid the clutch of a straggling rose bough, or the fragments of a broken pillar. The Great House 2012-03-30T02:00:14.973Z In the tropics many species occur and construct curious nests, either attaching them to the boughs of trees or building them in the form of pyramids on the ground. Directions for Collecting and Preserving Insects 2012-03-28T02:00:31.483Z THE white crescent of the little new moon blinked at us through the yew boughs. The Literary Sense 2012-04-02T02:00:28.147Z Perceiving beneath me, on the bough of a wild tamarind, sundry articles of clothing, similar to those worn by the bucaneers, a bold thought occurred to me. The Portland Sketch Book 2012-03-28T02:00:28.847Z When thus partly cleared, all the tops of the fir, cedar, spruce, pine and hemlock trees felled for their lumber remain on the ground, their boughs fairly reeking with balsam. Blazing The Way True Stories, Songs and Sketches of Puget Sound 2012-04-03T02:00:30.677Z The startled sculptor well-nigh missed his footing, and only escaped falling into the stream by catching hold of the boughs above his head. Baron Bruno Or, the Unbelieving Philosopher, and Other Fairy Stories 2012-03-28T02:00:24.407Z In addition to these there was a rude chair constructed of boughs of trees, and tied together with bits of string and twine. Bert Wilson, Wireless Operator 2012-03-27T02:00:19.467Z She hid the silver, and drove the cows To the island behind the willow boughs. In the Saddle A Collection of Poems on Horseback-Riding 2012-03-26T02:00:41.847Z "Solemn the lift of high-embowered roof, The clustered stems that spread in boughs disleaved, Through which the organ blew a dream of storm That shut the heart up in tranquillity." Heroic Spain 2012-03-26T02:00:38.797Z It had the appearance of a giant candelabrum, with the orange-scarlet blossoms that tipped the boughs like jets of flame. Blazing The Way True Stories, Songs and Sketches of Puget Sound 2012-04-03T02:00:30.677Z One of them, a boy named Charles Eliot, as he fled, plunging through the thickets, heard an Indian tearing the boughs behind him, in furious pursuit. The Conspiracy of Pontiac and the Indian War after the Conquest of Canada 2012-03-26T02:00:34.423Z Crouch swung himself ashore by means of the overhanging bough. The Fire-Gods A Tale of the Congo 2012-03-26T02:00:32.267Z The Boyne, for a quarter of a mile, was alive with muskets and green boughs. Webster's Unabridged Dictionary 2012-03-24T02:00:23.513Z A shoot or secondary stem growing from the main stem, or from a principal limb or bough of a tree or other plant. Webster's Unabridged Dictionary (2nd 100 Pages) 2012-03-24T02:00:19.387Z The plumy boughs stirred gently overhead and shed for us the balsamic odors, the flowers waved a welcome at our feet. Blazing The Way True Stories, Songs and Sketches of Puget Sound 2012-04-03T02:00:30.677Z The wildcat glared from the thicket; the raccoon thrust his furry countenance from the hollow tree, and the opossum swung, head downwards, from the overhanging bough. The Conspiracy of Pontiac and the Indian War after the Conquest of Canada 2012-03-26T02:00:34.423Z By the light of a great fire of drift-wood on the beach the little scow was partly loaded, and then all hands went for the last time to their mattresses of hemlock boughs. The Ice Queen 2012-03-22T02:00:40.843Z Minute filaments, placed very regularly, are sometimes seen branching from the main trunk, like boughs from the principal stem. Sheep, Swine, and Poultry Embracing the History and Varieties of Each; The Best Modes of Breeding; Their Feeding and Management; Together with etc. 2012-03-21T02:00:35.167Z A house or shed built of boards, boughs, or other slight materials, for temporary occupation. Webster's Unabridged Dictionary (2nd 100 Pages) 2012-03-24T02:00:19.387Z Most of the trophies showed the grey-green of olive—a shapely bough chosen with care from the family possession, with all the available blossoms of the garden twined about the stem. The Fortunate Isles Life and Travel in Majorca, Minorca and Iviza 2012-03-21T02:00:34.053Z If it rained, a shed of elm or basswood bark was the ready work of an hour, a pile of evergreen boughs formed a bed, and the saddle or the knapsack a pillow. The Conspiracy of Pontiac and the Indian War after the Conquest of Canada 2012-03-26T02:00:34.423Z Suddenly a gust of wind roared in the boughs of the oak, and startled the boy out of his quiet sleep. Harper's New Monthly Magazine, Vol. 1. No 1, June 1850 2012-03-21T02:00:31.390Z The entrails are removed by an incision along the belly, after the carcass has been hung up by the tendons of the boughs. Sheep, Swine, and Poultry Embracing the History and Varieties of Each; The Best Modes of Breeding; Their Feeding and Management; Together with etc. 2012-03-21T02:00:35.167Z A shelter or covered place in a garden, made with boughs of trees or vines, etc., twined together; an arbor; a shady recess. Webster's Unabridged Dictionary (2nd 100 Pages) 2012-03-24T02:00:19.387Z Then he turned and would have stepped back among the trees unnoticed, but a dry bough crackled beneath his feet and betrayed him. Fickle Fortune 2012-03-20T02:00:13.167Z Here and there, indeed, the beech-tree, as the wind sweeps among its rigid boughs, shakes its pale assemblage of crisp and rustling leaves. The Conspiracy of Pontiac and the Indian War after the Conquest of Canada 2012-03-26T02:00:34.423Z I prayed to Zephyr that his wing, Descending through the April sky, Might wave the boughs in early spring And brush rude Boreas frowning by. Harper's New Monthly Magazine, Vol. 1. No 1, June 1850 2012-03-21T02:00:31.390Z A Lion, faint with heat, and weary with hunting, was laid down to take his repose under the spreading boughs of a thick shady oak. ?sop's Fables, Embellished with One Hundred and Eleven Emblematical Devices. 2012-03-19T02:00:22.807Z Refuse boughs of trees; also, the clippings of hedges. Webster's Unabridged Dictionary (2nd 100 Pages) 2012-03-24T02:00:19.387Z As the boughs closed again, the first faded leaves fell in a shower on the young girl's head. Fickle Fortune 2012-03-20T02:00:13.167Z And humming an air she floated through the fern to a tree of wild cherry that hung low boughs to meet the fern and fox-gloves. Sophia A Romance 2012-03-18T02:00:22.773Z It consisted of four upright logs, the interspaces filled with brushwood, and covered with a roof of twisted boughs. Settlers and Scouts 2012-03-17T02:01:06.297Z The tree being rooted in the base of the bank, which here rose a few yards above the river, the jaguar was somewhat higher than the man, stretched all unsuspecting upon a lower bough. Swift and Sure 2012-03-16T02:00:24.627Z These are laid together in long rows, or piled pyramidally, and are protected from the sun by a covering of mud and of boughs. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 13, Slice 6 "Home, Daniel" to "Hortensius, Quintus" 2012-03-15T02:00:32.250Z The foliage, still thick on bough and branch, had that faint gleam of russet which foretells a speedy fall. Fickle Fortune 2012-03-20T02:00:13.167Z The tree said, "In the spring I give my blossoms and fill the air with fragrance, and on my boughs hangs the fruit which men will gather and carry into the palace for you." The Optimist's Good Morning 2012-03-15T02:00:23.453Z Up he went, frantically swinging himself from bough to bough. Settlers and Scouts 2012-03-17T02:01:06.297Z The Lieutenant, while leading a squad of sailors up the Rio Negro in General Roca's war of extermination, heard a curious cry in the thick boughs of a tree. The Gold Diggings of Cape Horn A Study of Life in Tierra del Fuego and Patagonia 2012-03-13T02:00:27.187Z The trees are scarcely more important than a coppice; but under their green shade there grows a wealth of flowers of every colour, glowing in the soft sunshine which filters through the boughs. Naples Past and Present 2012-03-13T02:00:23.473Z Electra complains that the tomb of Agamemnon received no myrtle boughs; in short, instances of this practice are every where to be found. Curiosities of Medical Experience 2012-03-09T03:00:20.410Z The lonely pine of the mountain top waves its sombre boughs, and cries, "Thou art my sun!" The Optimist's Good Morning 2012-03-15T02:00:23.453Z As he lay stretched along a bough, his eye travelled back over the path he had come. Samba A Story of the Rubber Slaves of the Congo 2012-03-07T03:00:16.567Z "The Cherry boughs above us spread The whitest shade was ever seen; And flicker, flicker came and fled Sun-spots between." Old-Time Gardens Newly Set Forth 2012-03-06T03:00:22.850Z The deep ravine is filled with the whispering echoes of a stream, which does not fill the bottom of the hollow, but leaves space for orange groves, deep thatched with boughs. Naples Past and Present 2012-03-13T02:00:23.473Z So cull the blossoms from the bough Where birds so gayly sing; We'll wreathe them for our queen's pure brow, We'll wreathe them for our king. Life Without and Life Within or, Reviews, Narratives, Essays, and poems. 2012-03-05T03:00:13.070Z And if, perchance, Some hand held out to thee a laurel bough, Thou wouldst not claim one leaf, but fondly turn To lay thy tribute, also, at his feet. Songs Ysame 2012-03-04T03:00:13.113Z Curled up on that low bough he slept through the long hours—a dreamless sleep, undisturbed by the bark of hyenas, the squeal of monkeys, or the wail of tiger-cats. Samba A Story of the Rubber Slaves of the Congo 2012-03-07T03:00:16.567Z Little sisters of the pergola are the charmilles, or bosquets, arches of growing trees, whose interlaced boughs have no supports of wood as have the pergolas. Old-Time Gardens Newly Set Forth 2012-03-06T03:00:22.850Z There are also two other drawings, one of a large European bird on the bough of a tree, and the other a church-yard scene in winter, done by him at that time. Famous American Statesmen 2012-03-01T03:00:26.167Z Then the shepherds set to work; one put the lamb on to the spit, and lit the fire; the other fetched boughs from the wood. Roumanian Stories Translated from the Original Roumanian 2012-02-28T03:00:27.310Z IT is such a little while From the time the fledgling tries To tip from the edge of the nest to the bough, Then lifts its wings and flies. Songs Ysame 2012-03-04T03:00:13.113Z Choosing a bough overhanging the brook, just above his head, Samba drew himself up into the tree, taking care that no spots of water were left on the branch to betray him. Samba A Story of the Rubber Slaves of the Congo 2012-03-07T03:00:16.567Z Thomas Campion wrote:— "Joan can call by name her cows, And deck her windows with green boughs; She can wreathes and tuttyes make, And trim with plums a bridal cake." Old-Time Gardens Newly Set Forth 2012-03-06T03:00:22.850Z The cowards, who had not had the courage even to pick up the fruit which his daring had shaken from the bough. Ovington's Bank 2012-02-28T03:00:25.267Z The apple-trees bent their great boughs; the sparrows chattered, some of them were fluttering their wings, others were collecting into groups preparing for a fierce fight. Roumanian Stories Translated from the Original Roumanian 2012-02-28T03:00:27.310Z The man fell back on the pine boughs. First at the North Pole Two Boys in the Arctic Circle 2012-02-27T03:00:16.033Z And there, firmly wedged in a fork of two boughs, lay the lifeless body of the crocodile. Samba A Story of the Rubber Slaves of the Congo 2012-03-07T03:00:16.567Z I raised the light form in my arms, crying passionately on her name, while the wind swayed the boughs overhead, and, besides that and my voice, all the countryside was still. My Lady Rotha A Romance 2012-02-27T03:00:10.983Z During the day the birds remain in the forest-swamps; but towards evening numbers may be seen sitting on the lower boughs of trees standing on the margin of a clearing. Argentine Ornithology, Volume II (of 2) A descriptive catalogue of the birds of the Argentine Republic. 2012-02-26T03:00:16.210Z We two were as happy as birds on the bough. The Necklace of Princess Fiorimonde and Other Stories 2012-02-26T03:00:15.647Z They had just landed, and were breaking boughs from the trees. Narrative of the surveying voyages of His Majesty's ships Adventure and Beagle, between the years 1826 and 1836 Volume I. - Proceedings of the First Expedition, 1826-1830 2012-02-24T03:00:32.793Z Morvidus, another earl of the same family, a man of wonderful valour, slew a giant with a young tree torn up by the roots and hastily trimmed of its boughs. The Curiosities of Heraldry 2012-02-23T03:00:41.067Z Then with a shout of rage the Swedes sprang forward, and grasping boughs, stumps, rocks, swung themselves up, doing such things in their fury as no cool man could do. My Lady Rotha A Romance 2012-02-27T03:00:10.983Z Now and then they found a pine with the brown cones clinging to the spicy boughs. The Little Colonel at Boarding-School 2012-02-22T03:00:28.473Z Some were covered with boughs, their winter protection; others were being patched, painted, or calked, preparatory for launching, with an assiduity and solicitude that can only be appreciated by the owners of such craft. Nooks and Corners of the New England Coast 2012-02-22T03:00:25.113Z Moss grows every where; each bough is covered with it: and the water appears to be as favourable to the growth of kelp as the land is to that of plants. Narrative of the surveying voyages of His Majesty's ships Adventure and Beagle, between the years 1826 and 1836 Volume I. - Proceedings of the First Expedition, 1826-1830 2012-02-24T03:00:32.793Z A pair of young sparrows flitted across the park before me and alighted on a bough above my head. Vignettes of Manhattan; Outlines in Local Color 2012-02-20T03:00:20.550Z Pennons and cornets waved here and there in the sunshine, and green boughs garnished the fronts of the houses. My Lady Rotha A Romance 2012-02-27T03:00:10.983Z And in their time with clusters red The scented boughs are crimsonèd. The Mountainy Singer 2012-02-20T03:00:20.273Z The old well-known faces that I used to conjure up out of the thin blended boughs became more life-like, as the cheeks flushed. Meteorology or Weather Explained 2012-02-20T03:00:18.847Z He dreaded lest Mirandola should betray him by a cry; but the monkey leapt from bough to bough almost noiselessly, as if he too had taken alarm from the unwonted sound. With Drake on the Spanish Main 2012-02-20T03:00:17.357Z Yon lonely thorn,—would he could tell The changes of his parent dell, Since he, so grey and stubborn now, Waved in each breeze a sapling bough! Modern Painters. Vol. III (of V) Containing Part IV. Of Many Things 2012-02-20T03:00:15.843Z |
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