| 单词 | branchless |
| 例句 | It was straight and branchless, and when the old woman got nearer, she realized it was made of metal. When the Sea Turned to Silver 2016-10-04T00:00:00Z Deep among the trees she lay on a fallen log and gazed far up branchless trunks. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z Milk white, it hung between two stalks of cane, the biggest yet, solitary sentries as thick as branchless oaks. The Gospel According to Cane by Courttia Newland – review 2013-03-01T17:00:01Z She imagines herself in a future alongside those children — an “army of mutants,” their minds barren, branchless trees. This Is the Face of an Undocumented Immigrant. Don’t Look Away. 2020-03-24T04:00:00Z The scene is a forest grove sacred to the druids, depicted here by a tangle of tall, branchless trees. Compelling Singers Lift a Muddled ‘Norma’ at the Metropolitan Opera 2017-09-26T04:00:00Z In the second scene, in a park outside the prison at Fotheringhay Castle, where Elizabeth has had Mary confined, the trees are like branchless sticks against grim, gray skies. Music Review: ‘Maria Stuarda’ at the Metropolitan, With Joyce DiDonato 2013-01-02T00:03:57Z Seabirds probably avoid nesting in coconut palms, Young says, because of their branchless trunks, relatively small canopies, and swaying fronds. To save this palm-filled paradise, biologists must kill the trees 2020-08-27T04:00:00Z The new banks’ branchless, digital proposition means they benefit from far lower costs. Britain's digital banks: profitable or just popular? 2017-12-21T05:00:00Z This shift is a test for branchless banking. ING, a Dutch bank, finds a winning digital strategy 2017-11-09T05:00:00Z The low ratio is due to the fact that BofI runs a branchless operation, giving it a low cost structure and allowing it to offer both higher interest rates on deposits and attractive financing terms. The Motley Fool: Useful tips on investing 2016-07-09T04:00:00Z For the tens of millions unaware of electronic money or branchless banking, understanding its benefits is also proving an obstacle. Mobile Banking Struggles to Gain Traction in Indonesia 2015-07-21T04:00:00Z Leafless, branchless, barkless, they are reduced to their trunks and worn to a smooth silver-gray, as if they had always carried their own tombstones inside them. The Earthquake That Will Devastate Seattle 2015-07-20T04:00:00Z The new banks’ branchless, digital proposition means they benefit from far lower costs. Britain's digital banks: profitable or just popular? 2017-12-21T05:00:00Z Other countries, including Nepal, are working on “branchless banking”: roving teams or local vendors equipped with fingerprint-reading devices disburse the cash. Casting a wide net 2015-01-08T05:00:00Z The company understood the unique features of its offering: branchless banking, simplicity, low costs and fairness. Copy Yourself With A Twist: The $1 Billion Secret To Marvel's Growth Recipe 2014-09-04T04:00:00Z The firm credits its growth to a branchless model where it delivers credit cards by courier to far-flung regions such as Kamchatka, Sakhalin island, the North Caucasus and Siberia. UPDATE 2-Russian entrepreneur launches $750 mln credit card IPO 2013-10-03T10:21:33Z Among the other trees the palms rose straight and lofty, their branchless trunks defying the murderous creepers, their leafy crowns dominating as if in contempt the lowlier competitors beneath. Swift and Sure 2012-03-16T02:00:24.627Z All were crowded with boats, and their thickly clustered masts seemed, in the gathering shadows, like a forest of branchless, leafless trees. Our Journey to the Hebrides 2012-03-03T03:00:19.857Z The tree can at once be identified by its tall, straight, branchless stem, of equal thickness throughout, crowned at the top with a cluster of long, curved, feather-like branches, and by its singularly wrinkled bark. Ancient Pagan and Modern Christian Symbolism With an Essay on Baal Worship, On The Assyrian Sacred "Grove," And Other 2012-01-05T03:00:28.663Z After a stiff climb to one Kite's nest, built in a tall branchless aspen, whose base was barricaded by clinging thorny briars, I was disappointed to find no eggs. Wild Spain (Espa?a agreste) Records of Sport with Rifle, Rod, and Gun, Natural History Exploration 2011-12-05T03:00:38.980Z Presently Harry stopped again with an exclamation, catching a glimpse of a great branchless fir which rose out of a welter of foam in the bottom of the cañon. The Boy Ranchers of Puget Sound 2011-11-24T03:00:42.877Z They went there, and they were barking at a branchless tree, a branchless bamboo, and a branchless vine. Kankanay Ceremonies (American Archaeology and Ethnology) 2011-10-15T02:00:25.507Z The crowded columns mounted straight and far, almost branchless, fading into indistinction. The Sea and the Jungle 2011-08-30T02:00:30.350Z And Ally Bank, another branchless bank, refunds ATM fees at machines nationwide. Bucks Blog: Student Checking Accounts: A Comparison 2011-08-29T16:57:58Z It was a slight frame of branchless firs, constructed against a bare rock, which constituted the east side, or wall of it. Captain Kyd, Vol. II or, The Wizard of the Sea 2011-04-11T02:00:12.290Z Tall, gaunt trees, branchless until near the tops, towered round the place like huge scaffold poles. Settling Day 2011-03-08T03:00:36.623Z But machine-gun fire never ceased from the higher ground, from tall masts of branchless trees, from shell-craters beyond the reach of our men. From Bapaume to Passchendaele, 1917 2011-03-04T03:01:00.007Z Around him the pine-trees, branchless and despoiled of their bark, were lying on the slopes, which they 103 seemed to light up by the whiteness of their trunks. The Children of Alsace Les Oberl?s 2011-01-16T03:00:19.697Z The enclosing wall of the fortifications made a horizontal swelling there; and, on the footpath, on the ground at the side of the road, little branchless trees were protected by laths bristling with nails. Sentimental Education Vol 1 2011-01-04T03:01:07.467Z The agent is like a branchless extension of the bank. India's Nilekani on 'The Mother of All Projects' 2010-04-22T16:11:00Z Several participants in his meeting on Wednesday were involved in the launch of more than two dozen mobile phone-based or card-based branchless banking pilots over the last five years. Geithner: governments should expand banking's reach 2010-04-07T04:48:00Z Banks and other financial institutions may also now find it easier to provide branchless banking for the poor. Savings and the poor: A better mattress 2010-03-11T10:43:00Z From the great juicy, leafless, branchless stalk of the yucca, soap is prepared, and strong fibres useful in making paper, rope and fabrics. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 2, Slice 5 "Arculf" to "Armour, Philip" These gray-white bald cypresses had a monumental aspect, like the columns of a Gothic cathedral, as they rose, erect and branchless, disappearing above in the mist of the moss. East Angels The nearer they are to the top, the shorter are the branches, and less divided; the upper ones are quite branchless, and their length scarcely exceeds the breadth of the principal stem. Fungi: Their Nature and Uses Then there are avenues of red-stemmed trees called cryptomeria, we should say cedars, with dark heads spreading out at the top of their immense branchless stems. Round the Wonderful World The sun pierced with a ray the small blue bubbles of the waves that, breaking, followed each other; branchless old willows mirrored their gray backs in the water; beyond, all around, the meadows seemed empty. Madame Bovary A Tale of Provincial Life Many with tall, branchless stems and a spreading top, evidently of the fir family. The Incomparable 29th and the "River Clyde" They had opened upon an extensive plantation of full-grown pines, whose tall, branchless stems grew up like a forest of masts, and freely admitted the pleasant sunshine. Rookwood Suddenly I saw the wounded animal scaling a tall and almost branchless tree, which appeared as though it must have been at some time struck by lightning. Adventures in Many Lands Here and there a solitary palmetto, with branchless stem and tufted crown, gives an African aspect to the scene. The White Chief A Legend of Northern Mexico Many of the yuccas were only six feet in height, with tufted heads, and branchless trunks as gross as the body of a man, and they might readily have been mistaken for human beings. The War Trail The Hunt of the Wild Horse “Besides,” he continued, with that tendency to self-defence which is so natural to fallen humanity, “I’m not a squirrel to run up the straight stem of a branchless tree, fifty feet high or more.” The Island Queen In the place of the green wood, with many noble trees, a few blackened stems, gaunt and branchless, with still smouldering ashes at their base, were the only objects to be seen on the hillside. The Gilpins and their Fortunes A Story of Early Days in Australia The black trunks of the cypresses rose branchless for nearly an hundred feet, and from their spreading limbs drooped the grey weeping moss. The Boy Hunters In the centre of this green, stood a large pine, shattered and branchless from the conflicts of the elements, with a clear space around, famous as the scene of the war-dance, time out of mind. Traditions of the North American Indians, Vol. 1 Roads stretched away in the direction of Orleans, marked by the usual lines of clipped and branchless trees. Recollections of Europe A few scattering pines, tall, straight, thin and branchless save for their crowns, reared their tops high above the tropical growths. The Plunderer The dense dome of green overhead is supported by crowded columns, often branchless for eighty feet. The Andes and the Amazon Across the Continent of South America The background of either bay is a noble forest, a wall of green, the items being often 150 feet high, with branchless white boles of eighty, perpendicularly striping the verdure. To The Gold Coast for Gold, Vol. II A Personal Narrative The whole country was desolate: the once picturesque roads lined by trees were now but a line of shell holes, with here and there leafless, branchless stumps, seared guardians of the thousand graves. One Young Man The simple and true story of a clerk who enlisted in 1914, who fought on the western front for nearly two years, was severely wounded at the battle of the Somme, and is now on his way back to his desk. The trees were mostly straight-stemmed giants of teak, branchless for some distance from the ground. The Elephant God Observing an old branchless trunk of the largest size, in a striking position, where it looked like a broken column, we walked up to examine it. International Weekly Miscellany — Volume 1, No. 3, July 15, 1850 As a rule the lower part of the trunks is branchless; stems rise up like tall pillars in long colonnades. The Long White Cloud The cocoanuts grow in clusters drooping from the tuft of long, fringed leaves which crown the branchless trunk of the stately palm. Science in the Kitchen. Their tall, gaunt forms and almost branchless trunks show that they obtained their principal growth in a dense wood. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 08, No. 46, August, 1861 While, scanning them with angry eyes From off a fallen myrtle log That branchless bridged the brushy creek, There stood and barked, a Shepherd's Dog! The Poems of Henry Kendall With Biographical Note by Bertram Stevens To dream of a leafless tree, is a sign of great sorrow; and of a branchless trunk, a sign of despair and suicide. Memoirs of Extraordinary Popular Delusions — Volume 3 At the end of this corridor I shall come to a spiral runway, which I must follow down instead of up; after that the way is along but a single branchless corridor. Warlord of Mars Upon branchless trunk a serpent, named By Libyans Jaculus, rose in coils to dart His venom from afar. Pharsalia; Dramatic Episodes of the Civil Wars Further, I could not get down the tree, which had a trunk as smooth and branchless as a blue gum. Greenmantle Between us and her stretched up a tall pine, wondrously straight and slender and branchless to its very top, where it overflowed in a crest of dark boughs against the silvery splendour behind it. The Golden Road Everywhere both the roads and the railways are bordered by avenues of fine palms, whose slender branchless trunks do not obscure the view, whilst their heavy crowns afford refreshing shade. Freeland A Social Anticipation What winter tree so bare and branchless—what way-side, hedge-munching animal so humble, that Fancy, a passing cloud, and a struggling moonbeam, will not clothe it in spirituality, and make of it a phantom? Villette Stumps remaining in the ground; one tall, barkless stem of a tree standing upright, branchless, and with a shattered summit. Passages from the American Notebooks, Volume 1 Come close, and lay your listening ear Against the bare and branchless wood. Dreams and Days: Poems Driftwood, logs, and huge trees with bare, branchless limbs become stranded, to dry and whiten in the sun and reinforce the sand, and in their decay, with ever contributed seaweed, to make mould for vegetation. Tropic Days The tree itself shot up branchless to the uncommon height of fifty feet; the average girth of the hunk being four—and twenty feet, or eight—feet in diameter. Tom Cringle's Log Come close, and lay your listening ear Against the bare and branchless wood. Rose and Roof-Tree — Poems All about me gigantic cypresses, every one swollen enormously at the base, rose straight and branchless into the air. A Florida Sketch-Book It was perfectly cylindrical, branchless, and smooth, save, of course, the tiny prickles which beset the bark, for a height at which we could not guess, but which we luckily had an opportunity of measuring. At Last For near a hundred feet above the eye, the even round trunk was branchless, and then commenced the dark-green masses of foliage, which clung around the stem like smoke ascending in wreaths. Home as Found Such branchless canes are by no means so productive as those which are made to throw out low and lateral shoots. Success with Small Fruits As he debated, the tall trunks rose branchless for thirty or forty feet; and Mildred said that they were like plumed lances. Celibates You come to the trenches out of strangely wasted lands, you come perhaps to a wood in an agony of contortions, black, branchless, sepulchral trees, and then no more trees at all. Tales of War These will probably be tall, slender, and branchless, therefore comparatively unproductive. The Home Acre The dark mossy stem, over seventy feet high, was perfectly branchless for many feet above the ground, when it shot out in broad boughs laden with lustrous leaves of the deepest green. Omoo The equatorial trees are often branchless for one hundred feet, but spread at the top into a broad overarching canopy which shuts out the sun perpetually. The Red Man's Continent: a chronicle of aboriginal America Long ago a great number of young beeches had been planted so thickly that as they grew they shot up straight and branchless in their struggle for the light. The Man The sun pierced with a ray the small blue bubbles of the waves that, breaking, followed each other; branchless old willows mirrored their grey backs in the water; beyond, all around, the meadows seemed empty. Madame Bovary Gentle Octavia, Let your best love draw to that point which seeks Best to preserve it: if I lose mine honour, I lose myself: better I were not yours Than yours so branchless. Antony and Cleopatra |
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