| 单词 | osier |
| 例句 | Flames seized the osier cages; billows of foul smoke rose skyward. The Book of Three 1964-03-12T00:00:00Z The somber green of pine and spruce and claret stems of red osier are vivid in comparison. Trekking With Wolves 2010-02-20T06:14:00Z Many look for nectar on dandelion, rabbitbrush, Canada thistle, osier dogwood and chokecherry. Try a little butterfly viewing in Okanogan County | Provided by Okanogan County Tourism Council 2021-08-27T04:00:00Z Particularly when it came to the business of weaving baskets from willow shoots known as osiers. Touring a county with 'special energy' - using a 1939 guide 2018-08-03T04:00:00Z They’ve planted western red cedar and willows and watched as other native plants took root in the shade — red osier dogwood, salmonberry, ferns and vine maple. UW students restoring portal into Lake Washington’s past 2014-05-25T04:00:00Z That glance was intercepted immediately by fresh trees and low bushes of osiers, and all that he could see was, that there was nobody with her, and that her horse was at full speed. Henry of Guise; (Vol. I of 3) or, The States of Blois 2012-04-11T02:00:31.930Z The cables of this bridge were made of the twisted fibre of maguey, a kind of osier, and were at least three feet in diameter. Treasure of Kings Being the Story of the Discovery of the \\"Big Fish,\\" or the Quest of the Greater Treasure of the Incas of Peru. 2012-04-09T02:00:30.007Z He had on his way made a boat or raft from a plank and some osiers. The Sea: Its Stirring Story of Adventure, Peril, & Heroism. Volume 3 2012-04-03T02:00:31.900Z "Women and children strip the osiers in a brake and bundle them into wads getting four pence a wad," he wrote knowledgeably. Touring a county with 'special energy' - using a 1939 guide 2018-08-03T04:00:00Z Chairs and sofas woven of osiers fill the apartment. The Portland Sketch Book 2012-03-28T02:00:28.847Z Those houses, then, were caves or homely sheds, With twining osiers fenc’d, and moss their beds. Myths of Greece and Rome Narrated with Special Reference to Literature and Art 2012-03-27T02:00:24.357Z A vessel made of osiers or other twigs, cane, rushes, splints, or other flexible material, interwoven. Webster's Unabridged Dictionary (2nd 100 Pages) 2012-03-24T02:00:19.387Z The conditions of life, the employments of human beings, are far different now from those of the time when men "lived in houses of osier." A Review of the Systems of Ethics Founded on the Theory of Evolution 2012-03-17T02:01:00.033Z And instead of corn, osiers and interlacing willows grew by the side of its pools. Roumanian Stories Translated from the Original Roumanian 2012-02-28T03:00:27.310Z Each step might lead us into a hole, or we might trip over the roots of the osiers. My Lady Rotha A Romance 2012-02-27T03:00:10.983Z Each house or establishment has much the same externals, being walled round, and having between the wall and house an irregular yard, to which access is gained by a gate of plaited osiers. Journeys in Persia and Kurdistan, Volume II (of 2) Including a Summer in the Upper Karun Region and a Visit to the Nestorian Rayahs 2012-02-12T03:00:11.843Z Sofya Nikolayevna hastily dismissed her maid and sat down by one of the open windows fronting the river, which was fringed at that point by a thick border of osier and alder. A Russian Gentleman 2012-02-08T03:00:18.800Z The plant which seems to the traveller most curious and singular is the liana, a kind of osier, which serves for cordage, and which is very abundant in all the hot parts of America. Oregon and Eldorado or, Romance of the Rivers 2012-02-07T03:00:09.010Z Cozonac cleared the osiers, the priest plaited them, while Marcu lay upon his stomach with his head in his hands and idly watched. Roumanian Stories Translated from the Original Roumanian 2012-02-28T03:00:27.310Z Here a wilderness of osiers--a grey willow swamp that in the moonlight shimmered like the best Utrecht--stretched as far as we could see. My Lady Rotha A Romance 2012-02-27T03:00:10.983Z A space was cleared in the granary for my bed among wheat, straw, ploughs, beetles, starved cats, osier graintubs coated with clay, six feet high, and agricultural gear of all sorts. Journeys in Persia and Kurdistan, Volume II (of 2) Including a Summer in the Upper Karun Region and a Visit to the Nestorian Rayahs 2012-02-12T03:00:11.843Z "The silent harp, which on the osiers hung, Again was tuned, and manumission sung; Away by hope the clouds of fear were driven, And music breathed my gratitude to Heaven." The Freedmen's Book 2012-01-05T03:00:39.763Z The farmer sat down upon a joist beside a vat in which a bundle of osiers were steeping, his face turned towards the farmhouse. Autumn Glory The Toilers of the Field 2011-12-11T03:00:11.417Z There are reeds and rushes and osiers in the valley.” Roumanian Stories Translated from the Original Roumanian 2012-02-28T03:00:27.310Z Here the moonlight disclosed a kind of water-lane, running away between the osiers, at right angles from the road. My Lady Rotha A Romance 2012-02-27T03:00:10.983Z It would be bad enough if the roadway of osiers were level, but it shelves slightly to the south. Journeys in Persia and Kurdistan, Volume II (of 2) Including a Summer in the Upper Karun Region and a Visit to the Nestorian Rayahs 2012-02-12T03:00:11.843Z Then I crept along the bank of the Avon towards Grimscote, till I reached a clump of osiers, into which I plunged. The Life of Thomas Wanless, Peasant 2011-11-27T03:00:11.777Z At times he stopped plaiting, the white osier remained motionless, and his hand sank nerveless to his side. Autumn Glory The Toilers of the Field 2011-12-11T03:00:11.417Z Down in the valley where there are numerous pools, not only willows and osiers grew, but here and there were to be found sedges and rushes, cat’s-tail and a species of reed. Roumanian Stories Translated from the Original Roumanian 2012-02-28T03:00:27.310Z The osiers, which were interspersed here and there with great willows, rose above our heads and shut out the moonlight. My Lady Rotha A Romance 2012-02-27T03:00:10.983Z Gn� Lia baked bread for him out of neighborly love, and he showed his gratitude by making her osier baskets for her eggs, reels of reeds, and other little things. Under the Shadow of Etna Sicilian Stories from the Italian of Giovanni Verga 2011-11-12T03:00:38.073Z For cleaning the village-grounds, they had rakes made of a few osiers tied together, the ends curved and spreading. Villages of the Algonquian, Siouan, and Caddoan Tribes West of the Mississippi 2011-11-02T02:00:10.087Z Notwithstanding the numbers of osiers grown in this country, the produce is not sufficient, as an extensive importation of twigs is annually made from Holland, where immense quantities of baskets of every description are made. The Cries of London Exhibiting Several of the Itinerant Traders of Antient and Modern Times 2011-10-23T02:00:21.883Z He was vexed about the osier baskets for the maize; only the backs and sides of them still remained. Roumanian Stories Translated from the Original Roumanian 2012-02-28T03:00:27.310Z We lay in the osier bed two whole days and a night, during which time two at least of us were not unhappy, in spite of peril and hardship. My Lady Rotha A Romance 2012-02-27T03:00:10.983Z The hives were made of rushes, straw, osiers or of wattled hay. The Legend of the Glorious Adventures of Tyl Ulenspiegel in the land of Flanders and elsewhere 2011-10-04T02:00:19.193Z These canoes are made of a single buffalo hide, stretched over osiers, and are of a circular form. Villages of the Algonquian, Siouan, and Caddoan Tribes West of the Mississippi 2011-11-02T02:00:10.087Z Is it probable that the warlike aid which the Britons constantly rendered the Gauls, was conveyed across the channel in mere "osier baskets?" Notes and Queries, Vol. III, Number 86, June 21, 1851 A Medium of Inter-communication for Literary Men, Artists, Antiquaries, Geneologists, etc. 2011-09-23T02:00:20.637Z After Easter, Cozonac began to clear the pools of osiers which the priest wove into baskets. Roumanian Stories Translated from the Original Roumanian 2012-02-28T03:00:27.310Z I doubt, or even disbelieve, the Britons having had any name for a ship, though they had a name for an osier floating basket, covered with raw hides. Notes and Queries, Number 85, June 14, 1851 A Medium of Inter-communication for Literary Men, Artists, Antiquaries, Geneologists, etc. 2011-09-13T02:00:32.783Z So he went out and cut some osiers, and brought them home. Snowdrop and Other Tales 2011-09-12T02:00:31.553Z On the outside the huts are covered with a kind of mat, made of osiers, joined together with bark, and now the skeleton of the hut is finished. Villages of the Algonquian, Siouan, and Caddoan Tribes West of the Mississippi 2011-11-02T02:00:10.087Z At last he felt himself fit to cross the Alps, which he did seated in an osier basket planted on a man's shoulders. Res Judicat? Papers and Essays 2011-08-24T02:00:18.157Z “This osier is a little too long,” said the priest, measuring the osier with his eye. Roumanian Stories Translated from the Original Roumanian 2012-02-28T03:00:27.310Z At the noise of their shouting thousands of starlings rose from the osiers on Serendib with a loud rush of wings, blackening the air like a cloud. Bevis The Story of a Boy 2011-08-13T02:00:28.377Z She began to weave them, but the hard osiers bruised her tender hands. Snowdrop and Other Tales 2011-09-12T02:00:31.553Z At d d there is a cross wall of considerable height, made of reeds and osier twigs woven together, to keep off the draught of air. Villages of the Algonquian, Siouan, and Caddoan Tribes West of the Mississippi 2011-11-02T02:00:10.087Z Sometimes when a vast double-mound hedge is grubbed, the ditches each side are left, and the interior space is ultimately converted into an osier-bed, osiers being rather profitable at present. The Gamekeeper At Home Sketches of Natural History and Rural Life 2011-08-04T02:00:21.507Z “Make haste!” said the priest, and gave him a cut with the osier. Roumanian Stories Translated from the Original Roumanian 2012-02-28T03:00:27.310Z Decoctions of Peruvian bark and osier peelings, with sulphuric ether, are also said to be beneficial to weak animals. On the cattle plague: or, Contagious typhus in horned cattle. Its history, origin, description, and treatment 2011-06-24T02:00:18.093Z She was wearing her school apron, and upon her head was the little osier cap which epileptics are made to wear, to avoid the danger of falls upon the head. Mentally Defective Children 2011-06-19T02:00:24.963Z The inmates sit round it, on low seats, made of peeled osiers, covered with buffalo or bear skin. Villages of the Algonquian, Siouan, and Caddoan Tribes West of the Mississippi 2011-11-02T02:00:10.087Z It is, I think, locally called the stone osier, and it does not grow so tall as the common sorts. The Gamekeeper At Home Sketches of Natural History and Rural Life 2011-08-04T02:00:21.507Z But Grumblegizzard climbed up to the top of it, and twisted and turned it about like an osier; and then he asked if she were ready with the land-tax. Tales from the Fjeld A Second Series of Popular Tales 2011-06-13T02:00:24.710Z The hoop should be only loosely fastened—best with roomy loops of osier, so that it may be easily shifted up with the growth of the plant. Wood and Garden Notes and thoughts, practical and critical, of a working amateur 2011-06-02T02:00:22.983Z Her strong, brown fingers wove the osiers in and out swiftly and deftly, as a bird builds its nest. The Childhood of Rome 2011-06-02T02:00:22.297Z Of these I have tried poplar and osier twigs, which both gave a strong yellow, but the former not a very permanent one. Arts and Crafts Essays by Members of the Arts and Crafts Exhibition Society 2011-05-30T02:00:17.247Z The brief blaze of the match showed him the fire-place and a pile of wood beside it, and a great osier basket of broken bark. Told In The Hills 2011-05-30T02:00:15.530Z He had passed by gardens where they were clearing the moss and the autumn-leaves away from the trees--by beehives and vine-stocks being transplanted, cleaned, pruned--by osiers being trimmed and dressed. Flower, Fruit, and Thorn Pieces; or, the Wedded Life, Death, and Marriage of Firmian Stanislaus Siebenkaes, Parish Advocate in the Burgh of Kuhschnappel. 2011-05-20T02:00:42.297Z We make the hoops in the winter of long straight rent rods of Spanish Chestnut, bending them while green round a tub, and tying them with tarred twine or osier bands. Wood and Garden Notes and thoughts, practical and critical, of a working amateur 2011-06-02T02:00:22.983Z He is a pale, serious main, who stitches at his board in the window the whole day long, cheered by the occasional song of a thrush, hopping in its osier cage. Rachel Gray 2011-05-20T02:00:39.547Z Dyers'-broom, saw-wort, the twigs of the poplar, the osier, and the birch, heather, broom, flowers and twigs, will all of them give yellows of more or less permanence. Arts and Crafts Essays by Members of the Arts and Crafts Exhibition Society 2011-05-30T02:00:17.247Z Kate might as well have given us a stone or osier bottle of some sort. Daisy Burns (Volume 2) 2011-05-20T02:00:30.427Z They were protected against fire by screens of osiers, plaited rope or raw hides. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 10, Slice 6 "Foraminifera" to "Fox, Edward" 2011-04-22T02:00:08.637Z First there walked abreast the fiddler and the piper, playing vigorously the "Black and Gray"; then came the bridegroom's men carrying osiers, as emblems of their superiority over the bridesmaids, who followed them. The Deemster 2011-04-08T02:00:08.197Z A form endowed with more than mortal grace, Mysterious led me, and with hurried pace, ’Mid ever varying scenes, as wild as new, O’er banks and meads where pliant osiers grew. History of Roman Literature from its Earliest Period to the Augustan Age. Volume I 2011-04-03T02:00:22.843Z Ulysses fastened his comrades underneath the rams, tying them with osier twigs of which the giant made his bed. Wonder Stories The Best Myths for Boys and Girls 2011-03-31T02:00:19.150Z Between the flax and osiers, On the road where nothing stirs, Along the houses growing dim, The visionary roper weaves Out of the heart of the eddying eves, And draws the horizon unto him. Contemporary Belgian Poetry Selected and Translated by Jethro Bithell 2011-03-10T03:00:44.993Z Then the wind spread its wings, and hovered over the scented trunks, over the osiers and corn in the distance. Tales by Polish Authors 2011-03-04T03:00:56.713Z And Bruno made baskets from the osiers, and she sold them. The Ravens and the Angels With Other Stories and Parables 2011-02-23T03:00:29.860Z When we got there, a younger woman was opening and splitting the salmon just caught, pressing the eggs into a great osier basket, where they looked exactly like a pile of red currants. Two Years in Oregon 2011-02-16T03:00:33.293Z Here also grew the red osier, its large fruit now whitish. Canoeing in the wilderness 2011-01-19T03:00:23.683Z The village, indeed, is packed with osiers, cut, tied in bundles, placed upright along the streets, and watered by the brook. Six Women and the Invasion 2011-01-18T03:00:13.193Z He called to his man who was seated in the shade thrown by the osier fence, studying tips for the coming races. The Man with the Double Heart 2010-12-21T22:55:56.757Z I put hoops of osier withes around the tops of the staves and used other slabs of the spruce for a cover. Camps and Trails 2010-12-20T17:12:16.133Z I mean with an eel-trap, one of those made of osiers, so that it’s very easy to get in, but very hard to get out.” Real Gold A Story of Adventure There grew the beaked hazel, rue seven feet high, and red osier, whose bark the Indian said was good to smoke, "tobacco before white people came to this country, Indian tobacco." Canoeing in the wilderness 2011-01-19T03:00:23.683Z There is another 'Hornet Clearwing,' the larva of which feeds on the stems of osiers. Butterflies and Moths (British) A handful of shingle or lath nails and a clump of osier sprouts will make a full outfit of stretchers for a temporary camp. Deadfalls and Snares A Book of Instruction for Trappers About These and Other Home-Made Traps Basket, a vessel or utensil of wicker-work, made of interwoven osiers or willows, rushes, twigs, grasses, &c. The New Gresham Encyclopedia. Vol. 1 Part 3 Atrebates to Bedlis The ancient Germans had large shields of plaited osier covered with leather; afterwards their shields were small, bound with iron, and studded with bosses. The New Gresham Encyclopedia. Vol. 1 Part 2 Amiel to Atrauli It was Regina, doing her washing, and wringing out the articles among the sandbanks and osiers. Regina or the Sins of the Fathers Then he arose in a leisurely fashion and, carefully depositing his osiers in a tub of water, came forward. Jessica Trent: Her Life on a Ranch Let A B be a twig from a branch of osier or other * tree which sprouts easily. On the magnet, magnetick bodies also, and on the great magnet the earth a new physiology, demonstrated by many arguments & experiments The arable land, much of which had lain fallow, was sown without the necessary manure; not a little remained overrun with wild underwood and weeds, and long continued as osier land. Pictures of German Life in the XVth XVIth and XVIIth Centuries, Vol. II. Where the great post-road from Genoa to the South passes, a miserable shealing stands, half hidden in tall osiers, and surrounded with a sedgy, swampy soil the foot sinks in at every step. The Fortunes Of Glencore Pushing through the elm-tree copse, Winding up the stream, light-hearted, Where the osier pathway leads, Past the boughs she stoops—and stops. The Poetical Works of Elizabeth Barrett Browning Volume II In the winter months a brier with large red berries and a low, foxy-brown thornbush, like a young osier in March, lend a russet hue to the landscape. The Unveiling of Lhasa Do you go and cut some of the osiers there, Omatoko will soon make them into a basket, large enough to hold the dog, and we’ll carry it on a pole slung across our shoulders. Hair-Breadth Escapes The Adventures of Three Boys in South Africa Women soon learned how to twist together osiers or twigs and make them into receptacles for household use. Woman's Club Work and Programs First Aid to Club Women I drew back and dashed through another opening till I reached F�licie's door, entering the place and nearly falling over a large osier basket in which were piled up a lot of tangled garments. A Top-Floor Idyl All the sweets which nimble bees In their osier treasuries With unequall’d art repose,5 In one kiss, her lips disclose. Thomas Stanley: His Original Lyrics, Complete, In Their Collated Readings of 1647, 1651, 1657. With an Introduction, Textual Notes, A List of Editions, An Appendis of Translation, and a Portrait. The owners of the carts had joined with us in advising their removal, but the landlord had laughed at our fears, and asserted that camels did not like osiers. Travels in Tartary, Thibet, and China During the years 1844-5-6. Volume 1 [of 2] A little farther on I came upon— 'The bank of osiers by the murmuring stream.' Arthur O'Leary His Wanderings And Ponderings In Many Lands There is an osier chair in one room wherein I often sit and watch the buyers flit from plant to plant. Seeds of Pine Six years ago a number of osier cuttings were imported from England, but unfortunately they have not succeeded so far owing to a succession of dry years. Notes on Agriculture in Cyprus and Its Products On the third day as the father was out cutting osiers he saw, sitting in a bush, a small bird that shone like gold. Czechoslovak Fairy Tales Before going to rest, we had warned him of the danger in which the osiers lay. Travels in Tartary, Thibet, and China During the years 1844-5-6. Volume 1 [of 2] Ovid himself might wish to sing the dame Whom Windsor Forest sees a gliding stream; On silver feet, with annual osier crowned,15 She runs for ever through poetic ground. The Works of Alexander Pope, Volume 1 New Edition Rip is still provincial for an osier basket. The Lay of Havelok the Dane And just as, in the osier bed, we can recognise each species by its voice, so we can distinguish the "cackle" of the Fulmar, the "croak" of the Guillemot, or the "grunt" of the Shag. Territory in Bird Life The remainder of the body is covered with marks that resemble impressions of a coarse osier basket. Ancient Pottery of the Mississippi Valley Fourth Annual Report of the Bureau of Ethnology to the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution, 1882-83, Government Printing Office, Washington, 1886, pages 361-436 To preserve such coffers from damp and damage, they were put into osier cases covered with cow-hide. Of Six Mediæval Women To Which Is Added A Note on Mediæval Gardens Saadi relates, that Lokman, in his last years, dwelt on the border of a reedy marsh, where he constructed a cabin, and busied himself with making osier baskets. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 14, No. 81, July, 1864 The walking-towers, light, with walls of interlaced osiers, trundled upon massive disks crowned by the shields of the besiegers who concealed themselves behind them to hurl their missiles. Sónnica A Chiffchaff occupied the corner of a small osier bed, and was particularly aggressive towards other closely-related forms in its immediate neighbourhood. Territory in Bird Life Barely clad in a sorry hose that was patched with materials of different colors, his shoes were of rabbit or squirrel skin fastened with osiers to his feet and legs. The Infant's Skull Or The End of the World. A Tale of the Millennium The left pyre was surmounted with a hollow bunch of twisted osiers bearing the resemblance of a human body of gigantic stature. The Gold Sickle or Hena, The Virgin of The Isle of Sen. A Tale of Druid Gaul Levy and his wife were kindly received in the cottages, and he wrote to Miss Gilbert that a canary was singing in every house, and that many of the villagers grew their own osiers. Elizabeth Gilbert and Her Work for the Blind The mantelets began to burn, and a crowd of women and boys, grasping torches, encircled the walking-towers, setting fire to their osier walls. Sónnica The pond has not yet any of the growths that will presently render its margin green; the willow-herbs are still low, the aquatic grasses have not become strong, and the osiers are without leaf. The Hills and the Vale By its light Henry was weaving a basket, the floor around him littered with the long, pliable osier slips which the twins were sorting for his use. Crestlands A Centennial Story of Cane Ridge An ewagh then took up a sacred knife, cut off the murderer's life and cast his body inside of the huge osier effigy of a man. The Gold Sickle or Hena, The Virgin of The Isle of Sen. A Tale of Druid Gaul The ownerless island was usually hidden behind a thick bed of osiers, over which only the tree-tops were visible; now none of the reeds was to be seen, and the island lay out in mid-stream. Timar's Two Worlds The shields displayed their texture of osier or bull-tendon, destitute of their coverings of hide. Sónnica The trunks of the black alders are mailed with crystal; and the witch-hazel, and yellow osiers fringing its sedgy borders, are likewise shining through their glossy covering. The May Flower, and Miscellaneous Writings With the osiers of the ages my Peace weaves her nest. The Forerunners There was a tall ash-tree in which the thrushes always sung, and a laburnum in which the osier cage of the doves was hung. Home Life of Great Authors Timar rushed into the house: at the far end of the room stood a cradle woven of osiers, and near it, on one side, was Almira, on the other Noémi. Timar's Two Worlds A darker fringe marked the stream of the Lora, which hides itself mysteriously under the osiers and thick lines of alder trees. The Grandee The manufacture of willow-ware will increase with the increased production of osiers, and the consequent reduction of their cost. Soil Culture It was filled with coiling snakes; and these, as she stood there with the uplifted basket, shot through the osier grating and curled about her arms. The Works of Robert Louis Stevenson - Swanston Edition Vol. 5 (of 25) I imitated the savages, and, dipping the osier goblet into the drink, I approached it to my lips, and passed it to the unfortunate Alila, who could not avoid this infernal beverage. Adventures in the Philippine Islands Timar sat down on the stool offered him, which was skillfully woven of various osiers, and of a curious shape. Timar's Two Worlds But it seems to be certainly one of the frightful figures of which Caesar speaks, on which captives were bound with twisted osiers, and burnt to death for a Druidical sacrifice. The Thread of Gold The river, that by means of innumerable drains waters almost all these gardens, falls into a deep ravine, bordered on both sides by white and black poplars, osiers, flowering oleanders, and other leafy trees. Pepita Ximenez He did not bring osier rods with him, but the girls knew, and the boys knew still better, that his arm was strong and that pliant rods hurt horribly. The Island Mystery When the moon comes through the trailing willow boughs, I see your face, I hear your voice and the bird singing as we pass the osier bed. Monday or Tuesday There it was necessary to cut the osiers and other bands, with which the Indians had fastened the beams. Ferdinand De Soto, The Discoverer of the Mississippi American Pioneers and Patriots Repair espaliers by fastening the stakes and poles with nails and wire, and tying the shoots down with twigs of osier. The Cook and Housekeeper's Complete and Universal Dictionary; Including a System of Modern Cookery, in all Its Various Branches, Adapted to the Use of Private Families Cornel, red osier Whitish, berries white Damp New England pastures. Harper's Young People, June 8, 1880 An Illustrated Weekly She was evidently in no fear of an immediate beating with fresh-cut osier rods. The Island Mystery But when the assailants, pushing the osier fences before them, passed up to the walls, the archers, slingers and others, rolling down huge stones, with firebrands and fire-pots, repelled them to a distance. The Roman History of Ammianus Marcellinus During the Reigns of the Emperors Constantius, Julian, Jovianus, Valentinian, and Valens Alternating with these, came richer presents,—books and vases and silver; then from the poor people in and about Pattaquasset, a couple of corn husk mats, a nest of osier baskets. Say and Seal, Volume II Acorns, hawthorn, brambles, briar, bur, chestnut, cork, nuts, holly, medlar, moss, mustard, oak, olive, palm, peascod, rose, rush, rye, sugar, grape, osier. The plant-lore & garden-craft of Shakespeare A little pond shone from beyond the high osiers. An Obscure Apostle A Dramatic Story Pushing through the elm-tree copse Winding by the stream, light-hearted, Where the osier pathway leads— Past the boughs she stoops—and stops! Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 56, Number 349, November, 1844 Only an osier basket, graceful in design and shape, lined with moss, and filled with holly sprays, the scarlet berries glowing beautifully among the polished green. Moods Do you call this frail rampart of osiers and reeds an intrenchment? Wood Rangers The Trappers of Sonora The ancient Britons constructed their boats with osiers, and covered them with the hides of bulls; and these boats were sufficiently strong to serve for short coasting voyages. Delineations of the Ox Tribe The Natural History of Bulls, Bisons, and Buffaloes. Exhibiting all the Known Species and the More Remarkable Varieties of the Genus Bos. Silence was around them; only above their heads the tall birches rustled softly, and around the pond near by, which was grown up with osier, the whistling and carolling of the marsh-dwelling birds was heard. An Obscure Apostle A Dramatic Story "I hear nothing myself," he said, "but the wind playing in the reeds and rushes and osiers." The Wind in the Willows Over some of the streams they constructed frail swinging bridges of osiers, which were woven into cables the thickness of a man's body. The Red True Story Book When sometimes the border of osiers and reeds which surrounded the island trembled in the breeze which proceeded from one of the banks, it seemed then to be driven towards the opposite side. Wood Rangers The Trappers of Sonora The uprights were interwoven with osiers or stout vines and, on these wattles, was daubed the clay and mud found in the surrounding area, which the colonists had mixed with reeds from the marshes. Domestic Life in Virginia in the Seventeenth Century This latter part is accomplished by sharpening the large ends of as many long and stout osiers as may be necessary to form the stakes or skeleton. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 3, Part 1, Slice 3 "Banks" to "Bassoon" The way grew wilder, the natural forms shrunk, the valley became a small plain of broken, rocky hillocks matted with thorny bushes, surrounded by marshes of rank grass, flags, half-grown osiers. Mountain Blood A Novel Pushing through the elm-tree copse, Winding by the stream, light-hearted, Where the osier pathway leads— Past the boughs she stoops and stops: Lo! the wild swan had deserted, And a rat had gnaw'd the reeds. The Children's Garland from the Best Poets The spaces between the trees were filled up by vigorous osier and other shoots; but just in front of the island was a large open space. Wood Rangers The Trappers of Sonora The water under the osiers whirled and eddied and went crimson six feet down the stream. Tales of Space and Time The huts of the earliest settlers in Rome and in western Europe generally were made of osier work plastered with clay. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 3, Part 1, Slice 3 "Banks" to "Bassoon" The children lay down on beds of rushes; and Goldilocks, soothed by the lullaby, fell asleep; but soon awoke, and saw her brother leaning, on tiptoe, over the osier basket. Fairy Book The meet was four miles away, near a marshy hollow thickly covered with osiers and willows. Captain Jim “I see, between that willow and the aspen, about ten feet from the tuft of osiers, a bush which certainly was not there just now.” Wood Rangers The Trappers of Sonora The osiers, o’er the fountain, Keep cool the water’s breast, And on the roughest mountain The softest moss is pressed. Minnie's Pet Monkey Willows are roughly classed by the basket-maker into "osier" and "fine." Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 3, Part 1, Slice 3 "Banks" to "Bassoon" He could not see us in our secluded shelter and I could not make my mouth utter his name—he who had wrung my heart as a peasant twists an osier withe. Letters of a Dakota Divorcee She spins her hemp and weaves osiers into baskets and changes them for goats' hams. Margarita's Soul The Romantic Recollections of a Man of Fifty Woman is the pliant osier, which, in bending to the storm, eludes its violence. Sketches of the Fair Sex, in All Parts of the World Usually made of osier, for the transport and measure of shingle-ballast. The Sailor's Word-Book An Alphabetical Digest of Nautical Terms, including Some More Especially Military and Scientific, but Useful to Seamen; as well as Archaisms of Early Voyagers, etc. The former consists of varieties of the true osier, Salix viminalis; the latter of varieties of Salix triandra, S. purpurea and some other species and hybrids of tougher texture. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 3, Part 1, Slice 3 "Banks" to "Bassoon" Norman begged that he might be allowed to carry the fish, which the laird had strung through the gills with a piece of osier which he cut from the bank. Norman Vallery or, How to Overcome Evil with Good Then we descended into the Drowned Lands, feeling our spongy trail between osier, alder, and willow. The Reckoning Round the bend I go, and the osiers say they never have enough of me. Wood Magic A Fable No doubt the hollowed tree trunk, and the coracle of osiers and skins, had long before this made their trial trips on river and lake. Famous Sea Fights From Salamis to Tsu-Shima The suspension-bridges—instead of which wretchedly inferior ones of wood are now used—were composed of the tough fibres of the maguey; a species of osier, possessing an extraordinary degree of tenacity and strength. The Western World Picturesque Sketches of Nature and Natural History in North and South America A framework of poplar beams, branches of trees, and reeds, having been constructed of the size of the intended raft, the inflated skins are tied to it by osier twigs. Chaldea From the Earliest Times to the Rise of Assyria Pushing through the elm-tree copse, Winding up the stream, light-hearted, Where the osier pathway leads, Past the boughs she stoops, and stops. Journeys Through Bookland, Vol. 8 But he could not rest there, nor in the osier bed, nor in the furze, but he kept moving from place to place all day, contrary to his custom, and not without running great danger. Wood Magic A Fable Plant not the pliant osier, but the firmer elm. The Young Maiden He lay down under the shade of an osier thicket, and presently became aware of the presence of a young man about his own age, who was busily employed in fishing. Chambers's Edinburgh Journal, No. 462 Volume 18, New Series, November 6, 1852 These, silently, with osier twigs on which The Cyclops, hideous monster, slept, I bound, Three in one leash; the intermediate rams Bore each a man, whom the exterior two Preserved, concealing him on either side. The Odyssey of Homer The skin is then stretched over a hoop or frame-work of osier twigs and is allowed to dry, the flesh and fatty substance being carefully scraped off. Daniel Boone The Pioneer of Kentucky But the fox, having learnt all that the toad could tell him, went away, and finding the osiers, curled himself up to sleep. Wood Magic A Fable Together had he left his mother fair And his twin-sister sleeping in their bower, And in the morning twilight wandered forth Beside the osiers of a rivulet, Full ankle-deep in lilies of the vale. Keats: Poems Published in 1820 They keep you dry, and you can kneel on the grass or potter about amongst wet osiers, nettles, and rushes with impunity. Lines in Pleasant Places Being the Aftermath of an Old Angler At White House, I met some of the mixed Indians and negroes from Indiantown Island, which lies among the osiers in the stream. Campaigns of a Non-Combatant, and His Romaunt Abroad During the War In some places soft velvety grass, growing over, however, the most treacherous spots; now a group of low willows, scarcely six feet high; now a bed of osiers, barely three feet above the surface. John Deane of Nottingham Historic Adventures by Land and Sea Brandon, abbot of a large Irish monastery containing one thousand monks, sailed off in an "osier boat covered with tanned hides and carefully greased," provisioned for seven years. A Book of Discovery The History of the World's Exploration, From the Earliest Times to the Finding of the South Pole The gold was woven into baskets, as though it were osiers. l. Keats: Poems Published in 1820 “Yes,” said Brown, as I observed some osiers in the cupboard, “when I feels like it I sometimes makes a pound a day a-making baskets.” The Gypsies Here it serves all the purposes to which the osier is applied in Europe. The Philippine Islands By the side of this still pond, where the lilies floated, there grew lithe grey willows and fresh green osiers, and these were being cut by a crowd of chattering rustics. A Book of Myths And agonizing thus, with lips all ashen, He prayed—till back, with ghastlier rage and roar, The demon rout rushed, strung to fiercer passion, And crashed his osier door. Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 11, No. 24, March, 1873 Them Achilles had once bound with tender osiers on the summits of Ida, taking them while pasturing their sheep; and had liberated them for a ransom. The Iliad of Homer (1873) Now hipper is a word applied in this part of the country to a description of osiers used in coarse basket making, and which were very likely things to be bound up into switches. Notes and Queries, Number 54, November 9, 1850 A Medium of Inter-communication for Literary Men, Artists, Antiquaries, Genealogists, etc. Places of worship, and cells, or oratories, were built of timber, turf, or osiers. The Book-Hunter A New Edition, with a Memoir of the Author He was quite dead; but in his teeth there still was clenched the osier kreel, washed empty of its freight. Wisdom, Wit, and Pathos of Ouida Selected from the Works of Ouida There was a slight stir when they were seen approaching; and then the gypsies went on with their usual work, the women weaving baskets from osiers, the men cutting up gorse into skewers. For Name and Fame Or Through Afghan Passes There were we squatting down upon the frail osier car. Up in the Clouds Balloon Voyages I thought so too, and grew the warmer at being unable to find a wisp of osier or a roll of packthread in the house. Imaginary Conversations and Poems A Selection To the northward a silvery stream could be seen meandering, bordered by willows, aspens, osiers, and other trees of considerable height, breaking the line of the horizon. The Frontier Fort Stirring Times in the N-West Territory of British America While I was balancing in my mind which I should do, my eye fell on a patch of withies or osiers, growing in a shallow bend of the river close to the bank. Dick Onslow Among the Redskins The sticks, about six feet in height, throw out young shoots like the osier, and when pruned become very thick, and form an excellent fence. In New Granada Heroes and Patriots The rope was formed of the tough fibres of the maguey—an osier which grows in the moist ground of that region. On the Banks of the Amazon Then giving a grunt as of satisfaction he reseated himself, and rowed slowly up the creek, till he disappeared among the osiers and reeds which fringed its muddy banks. Quicksilver The Boy With No Skid To His Wheel Lie down, boy, behind that bunch of osier. The Armourer's Prentices The whole area was low-lying and swampy, and the neighbourhood of Eccleston Square was occupied by a vast osier bed. Mayfair, Belgravia, and Bayswater The Fascination of London Their roads were marvels of engineering construction, but they could not build bridges except frail ones made out of osier cables. South American Fights and Fighters And Other Tales of Adventure It was composed of the tough fibres of the maguey, a sort of osier of great tenacity and strength, woven into cables. On the Banks of the Amazon “Sure this is the place?” said Bob, as he crouched among some osiers and looked cautiously round. Quicksilver The Boy With No Skid To His Wheel And in front of their feet wicker baskets of osier twigs took charge of the soft white woolly fleece. The Carmina of Caius Valerius Catullus Through this shallow lake the river runs in half a dozen channels, which are parted and thwarted in many places by marsh, reed-beds, osier plots, and tracts of swampy woodland. The Old Front Line For damp ground there is no better shrub than the red osier dogwood. Ontario Teachers' Manuals: Household Science in Rural Schools Now ere the sun advance his burning eye, The day to cheer, and night's dark dew to try, I must fill up this osier cage of ours With baleful needs and precious-juiced flowers. Shakspere, Personal Recollections He brought in an openwork, red osier basket, with a dozen and a half of eggs in it, laid on cotton batting, each egg as duly inscribed as the specimens of a mineralogist. Bertha and Her Baptism There were, Cæsar continues, effigies of immense magnitude, interwoven with osiers, filled with living men. The Mysteries of All Nations Rise and Progress of Superstition, Laws Against and Trials of Witches, Ancient and Modern Delusions Together With Strange Customs, Fables, and Tales But the compound subject is really equivalent to “the willow with its osiers dank,” osiers being water-willows or their branches. dank, damp: comp. Milton's Comus It was not until they landed the children on the osier island, and bade them run about to play, and not then until they were some distance away, that their merry young voices were heard. Cobwebs and Cables She disappeared, and Gilliflower, with the hind trotting after her, went on and on, till she came to a little hut, before which sat an old woman, making a basket of osiers. The Fairy Book The Best Popular Stories Selected and Rendered Anew In one place he found the curtain or screen constructed not of masonry, but— ... of thick stakes, driven into the ground close to each other, and fastened together at the top with osiers. The Cliff Ruins of Canyon de Chelly, Arizona Sixteenth Annual Report of the Bureau of Ethnology to the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution, 1894-95, Government Printing Office, Washington, 1897, pages 73-198 A mournful breeze blew across the place, raising a plaintive croon, half of resignation and half of protest from the osiers and grasses as it passed. The Red Horizon The last few miles lead through marshes, with nothing taller growing than reeds and osiers. Border and Bastille Instead of neat enclosures Of interwoven osiers, Instead of fragrant posies Of daffodils and roses, Thy cradle, kingly Stranger, As gospel tells, Was nothing else But here a homely manger. Christmas in Ritual and Tradition, Christian and Pagan Lastly before their feet lay fells, white, fleecy, refulgent, Warily guarded they in baskets woven of osier. The Poems and Fragments of Catullus I wrangled with that invalid to his heart's content, I worked all day on my osier cage, I hunted the thimble in the moonlight with the pretty nurse. In Search of the Unknown The grey willows bend to the breeze; soon the osier beds will look reddish as the wands are stripped by the gusts. Nature Near London Pushing through the elm tree copse, Winding up the stream, light-hearted, Where the osier pathway leads— Past the boughs she stoops—and stops. The Ontario Readers Third Book Lithe twigs of osier in their shields they weave, And shape the casque, and in the mould prepare The brazen breastplate and the silver greave. The Æneid of Virgil Translated into English Verse by E. Fairfax Taylor Helmsley, who was bending some stiff osiers in his hands, paused to listen. The Treasure of Heaven A Romance of Riches I had constructed a cage made of osiers, in which my auks were to squat until they arrived at Bronx Park. In Search of the Unknown When at last a good opportunity is obtained, just as the boat heels over, and the rushing bubbles at the prow resound, she must be put about, and the napping foresail almost brushes the osiers. Nature Near London Round the bend I go; and the osiers say they never have enough of me. A Book of Natural History Young Folks' Library Volume XIV. Those spreading, pointed fingers of coral with a background of dazzling white are the topmost twigs of the red osier dogwood. Some Winter Days in Iowa And he bent and twisted the osiers in his hands with a sudden vigour that almost snapped them. The Treasure of Heaven A Romance of Riches Do you know, one might give a whole book up easily to a list of nothing but willows and osiers, and the different kinds of birds and insects that live in them. We and the World, Part II A Book for Boys By those same osiers, that see so many things, and tell no tales, there will yet be a parting. The House by the Church-Yard Now and then a stretch of osiers and cane brakes rustled alongside in the darkness. Romance The next day we began to ascend mount Cenis, being carried in little seats of twisted osiers, fixed upon poles, upon mens shoulders; our chaises taken to pieces, and laid upon mules. Letters of the Right Honourable Lady M—y W—y M—e Written during Her Travels in Europe, Asia and Africa to Persons of Distinction, Men of Letters, &c. in Different Parts of Europe The boat shrugged uneasily with the movement of the oars, the rowlocks made of loops of twisted osier creaked, but one could not perceive that one was going forwards. The Luck of Thirteen Wanderings and Flight through Montenegro and Serbia He cut down a number of small trees, and when he had enough of these slender trunks he bound them together with reeds and osiers, which he found on the river bank. Buccaneers and Pirates of Our Coasts That this clay lining should grow hard from continual heating, and in some instances separate from its matrix of osiers, is apparent. A Study of Pueblo Pottery as Illustrative of Zuñi Culture Growth. Fourth Annual Report of the Bureau of Ethnology to the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution, 1882-83, Government Printing Office, Washington, 1886, pages 467-522 The contest became very warm indeed, and the tree was certainly twisted like an osier, as thousands can testify who saw it as well as myself. Folk-Lore and Legends Scotland She opened the gateway in an outer defence of osier work and ditch which encompassed the little settlement. The House of Walderne A Tale of the Cloister and the Forest in the Days of the Barons' Wars They first traversed the Via Toledo, and saw the Lazzaroni lying on the pavement, or in osier baskets which serve them for lodging, day and night. Corinne, Volume 1 (of 2) Or Italy To make it more secure, he wove out of osier rods a fence that went from stem to stern as a bulwark against the waves, and he strengthened the bulwark with wood placed behind. The Adventures of Odysseus and The Tales of Troy Which way went she? to the osier beds! The Lost Treasure of Trevlyn A Story of the Days of the Gunpowder Plot Columba’s boat consisted of a frame of osiers, which was covered with hides of leather, and it was received into a very narrow creek close to this cave. Folk-Lore and Legends Scotland Around the sides of the amphitheatre were twenty to thirty low huts of osier work, twined around tall posts driven into the ground and cunningly daubed with stiff clay. The House of Walderne A Tale of the Cloister and the Forest in the Days of the Barons' Wars According to this story, Ciaran was not travelling alone, but with his disciples; and they had no means of transport to the island except an oarless boat woven of osiers. The Latin & Irish Lives of Ciaran Translations Of Christian Literature. Series V. Lives Of The Celtic Saints The town was within a mile of open water, and the maidens started off with a large supply of dried flesh slung in osier baskets on their backs. The Princess Pocahontas She had been often to these osier beds, and had never encountered a living soul there, and she would soon reach the region of walls and gardens that adjoined the southern end of the bridge. The Lost Treasure of Trevlyn A Story of the Days of the Gunpowder Plot The large round shield, sometimes made of osiers twisted together and covered with several ox-hides, and bound round the edge with metal. The Iliad of Homer Translated into English Blank Verse by William Cowper He greeted me civilly enough, but worked away with his osiers most industriously, while his comrades, less busy, employed themselves vigorously in looking virtuous. The English Gipsies and Their Language Much finer willow-wands are used to wattle, or weave, the basket-work; ribs of split osiers are added, and the wattling goes in and out among them, and at once secures them and rests upon them. Miscellanea The sign of that obligation was to place certain armlets on the arms, as for instance, twigs of osier, more or less according to the station of the dead. The Philippine Islands, 1493-1898 — Volume 21 of 55 1624 Explorations by early navigators, descriptions of the islands and their peoples, their history and records of the catholic missions, as related in contemporaneous books and manuscripts, showing the political, economic, commercial and religious conditions of those islands from their earliest relations with European nations to the close of the nineteenth century. Even the osier beds would afford her no protection from horsemen, and she feared to trust herself to the slippery ooze when the daylight had fled. The Lost Treasure of Trevlyn A Story of the Days of the Gunpowder Plot Round this bend of the bank there's a bed of young osiers. The Judge Scollop is an osier sharpened at both ends, by which the thatch of a house is fastened down to the roof. Phelim Otoole's Courtship and Other Stories Traits And Stories Of The Irish Peasantry, The Works of William Carleton, Volume Three Scollops are osier twigs, sharpened at both ends, and inserted in the thatch, to bind it at the eave and rigging. The Ned M'Keown Stories Traits And Stories Of The Irish Peasantry, The Works of William Carleton, Volume Three They used jackets or doublets of well-twisted cord, and under those others of rattan, a kind of osier. The Philippine Islands, 1493-1898 — Volume 21 of 55 1624 Explorations by early navigators, descriptions of the islands and their peoples, their history and records of the catholic missions, as related in contemporaneous books and manuscripts, showing the political, economic, commercial and religious conditions of those islands from their earliest relations with European nations to the close of the nineteenth century. The sheriff, one of the most powerful and athletic men to be found in the province, was turned about and bent like an osier in his hands. Fardorougha, The Miser The Works of William Carleton, Volume One You know what osiers are like in the winter? The Judge "And that time as she hit Job Piper over the head wud a bunch of osiers just because he'd told her he knew more about thatching than she did." Joanna Godden But the keepers hated Owlet poking about, because they said he took more than withies from the osier beds. The Torch and Other Tales From my own pasture fence-line will come red osier, dogwood, with its white blooms, its blue berries, its winter stem-coloring, and elderberry. How To Write Special Feature Articles A Handbook for Reporters, Correspondents and Free-Lance Writers Who Desire to Contribute to Popular Magazines and Magazine Sections of Newspapers A bushy island, beloved of wild ducks, parted the water, lying as Moses hid in osiers, amidst tall growths of wild oats. Lazarre Of such unions Watts has truly said: Logs of green wood that quench the coals, Are married just like sordid souls; With osiers for a bend. The World As I Have Found It Sequel to Incidents in the Life of a Blind Girl The tame crow occupied an ingenious cage of twisted osiers. The Silent Places Owlet wore rags for choice and he picked up a living making clothes-pegs and weaving osier baskets. The Torch and Other Tales It was packed with a shrieking horde, whose drums made the day a hell, whose great banners wagged and rocked like osiers in a flood-water. The Life and Death of Richard Yea-and-Nay For, these being great and strong, I fastened my comrades under the bellies of the beasts, tying them with osier twigs, of which the giant made his bed. The Children's Hour, Volume 3 (of 10) Finally, the projecting ends of the osiers have to be cut off. The Art of Travel Shifts and Contrivances Available in Wild Countries Animal sacrifices are certainly found in many survivals, the victims being often placed in osier baskets and thrown into the fire. The Religion of the Ancient Celts He dashed in and out between the six swords of the ruffians, and made as light of them as if they were so many osier wands. The Exemplary Novels of Cervantes That river, a sluggish but deep little stream, moves placidly among osiers on its way to swell the Loire. The Life and Death of Richard Yea-and-Nay The men wore golden earrings, and bought 'Black Sally,' a withy that has a dark bark, for pegs, and 'bolts' of osier for basket-making. The Amateur Poacher Of these he took three at a time, and lashed them together, side by side, with osiers, which served Polyphemus for a bed. Stories from the Odyssey These images survive in the osier effigies just referred to, while they may also be connected with the custom of decking the human representatives of the spirit of vegetation in greenery. The Religion of the Ancient Celts In front, a deep-dyed rug of osiers, covering the entrance way, was intricately laced to the standing part of the tent. Mardi: and A Voyage Thither, Vol. I In very ancient times the cables were made of leather thongs, afterwards of rushes, the osier, the Egyptian byblus, and other materials. A General History and Collection of Voyages and Travels - Volume 18 Historical Sketch of the Progress of Discovery, Navigation, and Commerce, from the Earliest Records to the Beginning of the Nineteenth Century, By William Stevenson A little farther, he fancied he saw a shadow in an osier bed, but when he waded to it, all was hushed. The Son of Clemenceau Each middle ram bore one of the men firmly bound with osiers under his belly; while the two outside rams served to conceal that living burden. Stories from the Odyssey The sacrificial pile had the rude outline of a human form, the limbs of osier, enclosing human as well as some animal victims, who perished by fire. The Religion of the Ancient Celts The garden, growing more and more open, till it became definitely a meadow, sloped down to the river, which was overgrown with green weeds and osiers. The Chorus Girl and Other Stories The other Liburnian vessels were small, for fishing and short voyages; some of these were made with osiers and covered with hides. A General History and Collection of Voyages and Travels - Volume 18 Historical Sketch of the Progress of Discovery, Navigation, and Commerce, from the Earliest Records to the Beginning of the Nineteenth Century, By William Stevenson The chairs were made from the osier, or water willow. Final Report of the Louisiana Purchase Exposition Commission "N" is an ill-treated letter sometimes, when it begins a word; nettles are always "ettles," but when not wanted, and two consecutive words run easier, it is added, as in "osier nait" for osier ait. Grain and Chaff from an English Manor He had also wind-breaks of osier willow, which of course grows rapidly, and had been a source of profit to him in, yielding cuttings for sale. Northern California, Oregon, and the Sandwich Islands A ferry worked by a rope and pulley establishes communication with an island opposite the abbey, which is verdant with a mass of osiers, elder bushes and willows. The Cross of Berny Many a "tall admiral" has commenced his "march over the mountain wave" among these water-lilies and hedges of osier. Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 17, No. 098, February, 1876 Tufts of osier and birch grow on the hot lips of volcanic Schneehalten. The Abominations of Modern Society About fifteen miles up and down brought us to our first ranch, on Pole Creek, a dry stream, with osiers, shrubs and weeds in its bed. Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 15, No. 90, June, 1875 We had previously seen the osier nettings erected by them across the various currents, and especially in the Gwydir, where some had been noticed of very neat workmanship. Three Expeditions into the Interior of Eastern Australia, Volume 1 Dyers and Vintners, portly, mellow Chasing the birds of the jetty bill Through the reed clusters green and still; And through the osier mazes crept Many a cap-feathered crook-armed fellow. Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 99, August 9, 1890 The osiers may average a little more than 1/2 in. in thickness and should be cut, stripped of leaves and bark and put in place while green and fresh. The Boy Mechanic: Volume 1 700 Things for Boys to Do It was the tarred flask, kept afloat by its osier cover. The Man Who Laughs Then we descended into a fine shady valley: all our old friends were there in thickets—the box-elder, willow, birch and cottonwood, the alder, osier and wild cherry, currant, gooseberry, buffalo-berry and clematis. Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 15, No. 90, June, 1875 The species best adapted to this purpose, besides the common osier, are The Salix vitellina. The Botanist's Companion, Volume II As they go they gird themselves with osiers, and when they are in the water they let the osiers float away, saying, "Let my maladies go away!" Balder the Beautiful, Volume I. A Study in Magic and Religion: the Golden Bough, Part VII., The Fire-Festivals of Europe and the Doctrine of the External Soul If any where there are banks of streams or wet places, there plant reeds; and surround them with willows that the osiers may serve to tie the vines. Roman Farm Management The Treatises of Cato and Varro It is, however, the plantations of withy or osier that are most important. Hodge and His Masters Wild currants delighted the children, clematis twined its white blossoms among the scarlet buffalo-berries, graceful osiers waved in the wind, and wild flowers were plentiful. Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 15, No. 90, June, 1875 The kind used for basket-making is the Salix viminalis, and the rods of this species are called 'osiers.' Among the Trees at Elmridge Sophia and Matilda took me to gather strawberries, and figs, and beautiful flowers; and we caught fish in the brook, between two osier hurdles. The Swiss Family Robinson; or Adventures in a Desert Island So other things demand other planting conditions, like the osiers from which you derive your material for making basket ware, for wagon frames, winnowing baskets and grape hampers. Roman Farm Management The Treatises of Cato and Varro This stripping of the osiers is a most busy time in the neighbourhood of the large plantations—almost like hop-picking—for men, women, and children can all help. Hodge and His Masters The bow, K'K, consists of two pieces of osier each 5½ units in length, that form, through their union, a total length of 7 units. Scientific American Supplement, No. 595, May 28, 1887 Fifteen or twenty grains of moistened arsenic were introduced, the cut was closed, and the stem retained in its original position by osier ties. The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 12, No. 346, December 13, 1828 All appeared in order; and certainly, if they had reached here, there was much to tempt them: our cotton mattresses, our osier seats, and some household utensils that my wife had left here. The Swiss Family Robinson; or Adventures in a Desert Island Three or four hundred men were there, each wearing a blouse and carrying a sickle with a bit of osier laid upon the sharp edge of the blade along its whole length, and firmly tied. Wanderings by southern waters, eastern Aquitaine The quantity of osier thus treated seems immense, and yet the demand is said to be steady, and as the year advances the price of the willow rises. Hodge and His Masters A bush of osier, frozen into the ice, lifted its red twigs near them. The Bent Twig Robber Father broke off an osier twig and struck the bear on the nose. Christmas in Legend and Story A Book for Boys and Girls A circular gallery made of osiers and festooned with draperies and other ornaments, was attached by a set of cords to the bottom of the structure. Wonderful Balloon Ascents A variety of colors was the only ornament of their wooden or osier shields. History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire — Volume 1 Good land, indeed, is hardly fitted for osier; it would grow rank with much pith in the centre, and therefore liable to break. Hodge and His Masters His spear lay by his side unused, and his baskets of plaited osier were empty. A House of Pomegranates The light fell also on the silver stems of the willows and on the tall flags and bending reeds and osiers which bordered the marsh island. Christmas in Legend and Story A Book for Boys and Girls He consented, however, to a proposal that animals might be sent up in the first instance, by way of experiment, suspended in an osier cage attached to the neck of the balloon. Wonderful Balloon Ascents She pulled half a dozen fine fish out of the water within the reeds, killing each as she took it out, and threading it on a long osier that she carried. The Story of the Amulet In some districts the osier plantations give employment to a considerable number of persons. Hodge and His Masters It consisted of large wings, formed of thin osiers, over which was stretched light fabric. The Mastery of the Air He obtained a large quantity of relics, which are also fully described, consisting of stone implements, pottery, cotton and feather cloth, osier and palmillo mats, yucca sandals, weaving sticks, bone awls, corn and beans. Arizona Sketches The osier cage of Versailles very soon transformed itself into a car, bearing human passengers, and the age of the "Thousand and One Nights" was expected to come back again. Wonderful Balloon Ascents Then she knotted the osier, hung it on her arm, picked up the pitcher, and turned to come back. The Story of the Amulet As the elder Booth was seated at breakfast one morning in a hotel in Louisville, Kentucky, a negro boy entered the room bearing a small osier basket neatly covered with a snowy napkin. Ponkapog Papers After that I got entangled in some confounded kind of enclosure and had to climb paling after paling of rough stakes plaited with osiers. Greenmantle Their habitations were formed by interlacing the tops of the osiers. Tracks of a Rolling Stone His robe, very long and very large, and of which the flaps were extended on an osier frame, preserved him from suddenly falling. Wonderful Balloon Ascents Their smaller boats, or coracles, were made of osiers interwoven, covered with hides, and rigged with leathern sails and thong tackle. Industrial Biography, Iron Workers and Tool Makers And he made it "wattled all round" of osiers gathered from the water's edge. Good Stories for Holidays Your vine half-pruned hangs on the leafy elm; Why haste you not to weave what need requires Of pliant rush or osier? The Bucolics and Eclogues Not far from the chateau was a large osier bed, resorted to by flocks of the common sparrow. Tracks of a Rolling Stone His car, made of osiers, and loaded with combustible matter, was suspended below the grating; and when at a great elevation it became the prey of the flames. Wonderful Balloon Ascents Just ahead were two islets in the stream, covered with osiers. Sons and Lovers Lie down, boy, behind that bunch of osier. The Armourer's Prentices Barnabas started, and looking about, presently espied a figure in the shadow of the osiers; a very small figure, upon whose diminutive jacket were numerous buttons that glittered under the moon. The Amateur Gentleman Humbly walk, O stranger, o'er the consecrated ground; And on that verdant hillock, which thou seest Beset with osiers, let thy pious hand Sprinkle fresh water from the brook, and strew Sweet-smelling flowers. Poetical Works of Akenside In permanent ponds of large size, plantings of willows, osiers, and other shrubbery may set off the area to advantage. Manual of Gardening (Second Edition) It was a desolate spot, and was rendered more so just then by the coming up of a thunder-storm, whose "avant courier," the wind, made the slender poplars and osiers bend and twist. Seeing Europe with Famous Authors, Volume 2 Great Britain and Ireland, Part 2 We'll go back to the osiers to weave it and then come here to fill it. Michael O'Halloran They arrived very early at Niewiazy where they crossed the river, some on horseback, some upon bundles of osier. The Knights of the Cross or, Krzyzacy On the river's brink I spied a fair pavilion, which diffused Its floating umbrage 'mid the silver shade Of osiers. Poetical Works of Akenside Probably the finest of the native osiers for color of twigs and foliage; 5-8 ft. Manual of Gardening (Second Edition) They cut the reeds and osiers, peeled the willow branches, and wove great baskets shaped like bowls. Welsh Fairy Tales "You have a better chance than the lady who drew the osier basket has of keeping hers," said Mr. Winton. Michael O'Halloran They were walking amidst the osiers and gray willows, on low, damp ground. The Knights of the Cross or, Krzyzacy To prevent this, the Peloponnesians filled up the space thus caused with heavy masses of clay, rammed tightly into baskets of osier, which made a solid structure, much harder to remove than the loose earth. Stories from Thucydides The basket, constructed of willow osiers, could not float, and they had no means of supporting it on the surface of the water. The Mysterious Island In like manner Thales prays to find:— 'Some pleasing bank where verdant osiers play, Some peaceful vale, with nature's paintings gay. Life of Johnson, Volume 1 1709-1765 "There was another," explained Douglas as he again described the osier basket. Michael O'Halloran Finally the wind blew, rustled the osiers and the yellow leaves of the willows, and disclosed the waters of the lake which were slightly ruffled by the wind. The Knights of the Cross or, Krzyzacy The immediate shores were also densely covered with the speckled alder, red osier, shrubby willows or sallows, and the like. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 02, No. 08, June 1858 They had discovered at the northern part of the lake a thick growth of purple osiers. The Mysterious Island From time immemorial Villaines had made baskets, the osier of the valley being of excellent quality. Castles and Cave Dwellings of Europe Pink moccasins in a basket of red osiers, with the same moss, rosemary and white tresses. Michael O'Halloran And then, alas! the fresh cheese that he devoured, osier baskets and all! The Eleven Comedies, Volume 2 But osiers may be grown anywhere on good ground, and are a rapid and paying crop, giving very little trouble, though they need some attention even on the banks of tidal rivers. The Naturalist on the Thames The shields were of sheep-skin stretched over an osier frame, but painted outside so as to present the appearance of the genuine Praetorian shields. Andivius Hedulio Adventures of a Roman Nobleman in the Days of the Empire The Dordogne, broad and blue, swept through the wide valley between banks dense with poplar and osier. Castles and Cave Dwellings of Europe Rosamond went gravely forth with the osier basket in her hand. The Magician's Show Box and Other Stories No bushes green, entwining close, here deck the neighbouring ground, No tufted pines beside it grow, no osiers thrive around. The Bakchesarian Fountain and Other Poems But I have seen the flocks come along just before dusk, straight down stream, and then dropping into an osier bed. The Naturalist on the Thames Ripened by the solar beam, Now the ruddy clusters teem, In osier baskets borne along By all the festal vintage throng Of rosy youths and virgins fair, Ripe as the melting fruits they bear. The Complete Poems of Sir Thomas Moore Collected by Himself with Explanatory Notes In the caves, on the roads, in every house, one sees little else but baskets in process of making or cut osiers lying handy for use. Castles and Cave Dwellings of Europe And, my child, take with you this osier basket, in which lies a little loaf of bread. The Magician's Show Box and Other Stories Cato teaches his readers, for example, how to plant osier beds, to cultivate vegetables, to preserve the health of cattle, to pickle pork, and to make savory dishes. Handbook of Universal Literature From the Best and Latest Authorities Sometimes they go on past London, and find themselves near Thames mouth with no osier beds or shelter of any kind. The Naturalist on the Thames But there was still something ominous among the osiers. A Dreamer's Tales A narrow slip of grass, fringed with osiers and alders and willows, alone separated the wall from a very clear, lovely stream, which winding half round an extensive common, turned a mill. Personal Recollections Abridged, Chiefly in Parts Pertaining to Political and Other Controversies Prevalent at the Time in Great Britain During the night I tied together the rams, three and three with osier twigs, and instructed my comrades, as he drove them out, to cling under the middle one. National Epics It is flowing, rich and full, crested with foam beneath the osier hedges. In and out of Three Normady Inns This is the main reason why osiers, unlike most farm crops, keep up their price. The Naturalist on the Thames A stream runs through it, and along the stream is a little wood of osiers. A Dreamer's Tales At the head of the combe wells up a clear spring, which sends a thread of water, trickling through a bed of osiers, into the upper end of the pond. The Pleasures of Life They remembered the place, for Job Helyar used to plait osiers there, and they had come once to buy a basket from him. Monitress Merle We were walking in the narrow lane that edged the cliff; it was a lane that was guarded with a sentinel row of osiers, syringas, and laburnums. In and out of Three Normady Inns Before being peeled the osiers are stood upright in water for a month, and some begin to bud again. The Naturalist on the Thames Through it flowed the Went, bending and turning, its banks lined with osiers and willows. A Boy's Ride The spirit was out of Uncle Jim for the time, and he turned away to struggle through the osiers towards the mill, leaving a shining trail of water among the green-grey stems. The History of Mr. Polly Beds of mint and flowers clothe the brink of the stream, except where a tall growth of reeds and osiers lift themselves to the breezes. Dreams, Waking Thoughts, and Incidents The sea, just the other side of the wall of osiers, was always in voice, whether sighing or shouting. In and out of Three Normady Inns I believe that the Chiswick osiers, being of the largest size, are used for making crates, and that they are cut early because there is no need to peel them. The Naturalist on the Thames Even the osier thickets and the juniper stood waiting for the spring. Pan This hantou had eyes red as fire, his hair was like woven osiers, and his beard fell down to his waist. Malayan Literature Several storks were parading by the water-side, amongst flags and osiers; and, as far as the eye could reach, large herds of beautifully spotted cattle were enjoying the plenty of their pastures. Dreams, Waking Thoughts, and Incidents A basket of osier, which the young man had handled very carefully, was also placed in the brake, and then they set off for Pont-Herlin. The Idol of Paris Water-hens are so numerous on the river now, owing to their preservation by the Conservancy, that any small covers of osier near are full of them. The Naturalist on the Thames Young men and women converged upon it at the sound of the music, as flies flock to the osier blossom. Gone to Earth It was somewhat spacious, and formed of four forked trunks of trees placed upright, supporting crossbeams and a frame of poles interwoven with osiers, and the whole covered with earth. Journeys Through Bookland, Vol. 4 The grass was three feet high, and an osier thicket, planted the year before, had sprouts a yard high. The Flood Marguerite entered, followed by the farmer bringing the trunk and the osier basket. The Idol of Paris They make extremely pretty old-fashioned shooting when beaten up by a spaniel from the sedge and osier cover. The Naturalist on the Thames The olive tree, tho' a most useful, is not an ornamental one, as it resembles a willow or osier in its trunk and in the colour of its leaves. After Waterloo: Reminiscences of European Travel 1815-1819 Sulla gave them an hour, and occupied the hour in heaping vine osiers round the wooden walls. The Gracchi Marius and Sulla Epochs of Ancient History From the back you look out across orchard and pasture to the black, still water and yellow osier beds above the Mill. Anne Severn and the Fieldings And when he had armed himself with wattled osiers he said unto himself, "Now am I accoutred as well as they." The Story of the Champions of the Round Table The agriculture pursued on it is the growing of osiers. The Naturalist on the Thames He strengthened his position by a palisade of stakes and osier hurdles, and there he said he would defend himself against whoever should seek him. The Great Events by Famous Historians, Volume 05 (From Charlemagne to Frederick Barbarossa) Some are caught with the hand, but the larger number in pots, which serve all the purposes of a trap, being made of osiers, and baited with garbage. The Book of Household Management Then Beltane, motioning the others to caution, forded the stream and coming in the shade of the osiers, drew on his hood of mail, and so, unsheathing his long sword, peered through the leaves. Beltane the Smith By a streamlet wandering into the osier beds the winter gnats dance in the sunshine, round about an old post covered with ivy, on which green berries are thick. The Open Air On Chiswick Eyot, which is entirely planted with osiers, there are standing at the time of writing six stacks of bundles set upright. The Naturalist on the Thames He bends your necks like osiers green, Also the necks of men; Therefore with you I raise my voice, And shout aloud, again. Canada and Other Poems The younger apparition disappeared, and immediately after lowered a ladder of twisted osiers, about eight feet in length, and made signs to David to hold it fast while the lady ascended. The Heart of Mid-Lothian, Volume 2 Those houses then were caves or homely sheds, With twining osiers fenced, and moss their beds. Mosaics of Grecian History Or I might quit hold of the osier, and, entering a shallow backwater, disturb shoals of roach playing where the water was transparent to the bottom, after their wont. The Open Air Many species of osier are of most brilliant colouring in winter and early spring. The Naturalist on the Thames Again the speckled trunks of the balm poplars struck my eye, now interspersed with the scarlet stems of the red osier dogwood. Over Prairie Trails Then she drew toward her the little osier cage in which their only remaining carrier-pigeon rested secured by elastic bands, grasped the smaller sack with the other hand, and waited. In Secret When the sun rises the bright red meat will be displayed in trim, carefully dressed joints, and the violets, mounted on bits of osier, will gleam softly within their elegant collars of green leaves. The Fat and the Thin They made paniers, hampers, mews or wicker cages in which the hunting birds were kept when moulting, and even small boats from the osiers and reeds. Masters of the Guild February and March are the months for planting, and March also sees the osier harvest when the time comes to cut them. The Naturalist on the Thames O! for a clean pair of stockings!—But, alack, what a tantalizing situation I am in!—There are osiers enough in the vicinity, but no hose to be had for love or money! Sketches by Seymour — Volume 01 He kept, under a couch, a bundle of osier which he did not use up in twenty years. The Fortune of the Rougons Still, she often neglected her osier tray to go rambling about the neighbourhood. The Fat and the Thin But there were no pines around us now, only osier, hazel, and grey-birch, and the deep moss under foot. The Hidden Children When the osiers are well started they grow so densely that they kill out the weeds themselves. The Naturalist on the Thames Wee have great plenty of them about Bemarton, &c. near Salisbury, where the osier beds doe yield four pounds per acre. The Natural History of Wiltshire Then, when he had fasted a whole day, he would once more take up his osier with a low growl and revile the wealthy who lived in idleness. The Fortune of the Rougons The three of them—herself, Marjolin, and Leon—completely secluded themselves from the world within four walls of osier. The Fat and the Thin He had a sort of table in his hands that he seemed to have made himself out of twisted rushes and a few branches of osier. In Wicklow and West Kerry Sand-martins, when beginning the migration, travel down the Thames in small flocks, and sleep each night in different osier beds. The Naturalist on the Thames There were flowers everywhere in this apartment—in graceful vases and in gilded osier baskets—and a queer lop-sided Oriental jar stood quite near me, filled almost to overflowing with Neapolitan violets. A Romance of Two Worlds Antoine's work would not have sufficed to pay for his drinking bouts if he had not contrived a means of procuring his osier at low cost. The Fortune of the Rougons On entering my apartment at the hotel the first thing that met my eyes was a large gilt osier basket, filled with fine fruit and flowers, placed conspicuously on the center-table. Vendetta: a story of one forgotten He strengthened his position on the hill where he had halted, by a palisade of stakes interlaced with osier hurdles, and there, he said, he would defend himself against whoever should seek him. The Fifteen Decisive Battles of the World: from Marathon to Waterloo Then by a common impulse the whole mass settled down from end to end of the island, upon the osiers. The Naturalist on the Thames She carried a large osier basket, capacious, and gracefully shaped. Thelma Before I had done with it my ribs showed through my skin and my back was like a red osier basket. The Lady of Blossholme Once or twice he attempted to firmly oppose her ruinous caprices; but she had made him pliable as the osier. The Widow Lerouge It was constructed of osier rods neatly woven together into a sort of basket-work, and covered with an untanned hide with the hairy side in. The Dragon and the Raven Behind him marched his wife and his three children, all constructed of osiers on the same principle, but on a smaller scale. The Golden Bough Those houses then were caves, or homely sheds; With twining osiers fenced; and moss their beds. Bulfinch's Mythology: the Age of Fable They were piled up, one above the other, and strongly bound together with osiers. Manners and Monuments of Prehistoric Peoples I drew, and casting on the river's side The bloody spear, his gather'd feet I tied With twining osiers which the bank supplied. The Odyssey Most of them carried shields made of platted osiers covered with skin. The Dragon and the Raven The poet placed his osier basket on the grass. Irish Fairy Tales By chance she espied in the bottom of the valley this pond of clear water, where the country people were at work gathering willows and osiers. Bulfinch's Mythology: the Age of Fable He then stood looking through the pickles in some jar or other at things beyond, with one hand held out, fingers upwards, awaiting the return of his little osier fruit-bag. Fraternity Instant the swain the spoils of beasts supplies, And bids the rural throne with osiers rise. The Odyssey Bending the yielding osiers aside, he drew out the ducks one by one, wrung their necks, and passing their heads through his girdle, made his way again to the coracle. The Dragon and the Raven The poet had a shallow osier basket on his arm, and on his face there was a look that was at once triumphant and gloomy. Irish Fairy Tales Shelton raised himself with drowsy curiosity—still half asleep—and applied his face to a gap in the high, thick osiers of the hedge. The Island Pharisees Mr. Stone's frail form, bent somewhat to one side by the increased gravamen of the osier bag, was now seen moving homewards. Fraternity "An eel in an osier trap has more chance of freedom," said Wulf gloomily. The Brethren Two feet farther on this ceased, and the rushes were succeeded by lines of strong osier withies, an inch or two apart, arched over and fastened together. The Dragon and the Raven Charles looking on from his wheeled chair, laughing to see Guy sawing as if for his living and Amy hammering gallantly, and Laura weaving osiers, and Charlotte flying about with messages. The Heir of Redclyffe It is a dwarf species, and grows in patches resembling beds of osiers; as in the English willows, the leaves were peopled by small chrysomelideous beetles. The Naturalist on the River Amazons Mr. Stone came in with his osier fruit-bag in his hand. Fraternity But here, to the right, on this little scroll of parchment that hangs from a fence of osiers, there are some words written, and one stoops to decipher them... Yet Again The osier tunnel widened out to a sort of inverted basket three feet in diameter. The Dragon and the Raven The Lord Ferdinand's chamber shook like an osier. The Duchess of Malfi Patience, with hideous calmness, bound me to a tree with an osier shoot. Mauprat The ribs were of a tough osier, well adapted to the purpose for which it was used. The Works of Edgar Allan Poe — Volume 3 The fortress was defended by an outer inclosure of strong palisades, fifteen feet high; a second line of stakes; then a fence composed of osiers, with loop-holes, inclosed V. IV. In Search of the Castaways; or the Children of Captain Grant Evergreens, however, had been planted about the grave of the village favorite, and osiers were bent over it to keep the turf uninjured. The Sketch-Book of Geoffrey Crayon I saw the stars begin to grow misty and lose their brightness; a cool breath passed over the earth like a faint sigh and touched the leaves of the slumbering osiers.... The Witch and other stories The next day in the grease-laden atmosphere of the cavern, Kraken plaited a deformed skeleton out of osier rods and covered it with bristling, scaly, and filthy skins. Penguin Island Or say she conjured from an empty basket of osier a hissing and bridling snake. Zuleika Dobson, or, an Oxford love story The osier ropes would break, the fir trunks torn asunder would drift under the hard crust, and the unhappy people would have no refuge but the ice blocks themselves. Michael Strogoff Or, The Courier of the Czar The custom of decorating graves was once universally prevalent: osiers were carefully bent over them to keep the turf uninjured, and about them were planted evergreens and flowers. The Sketch-Book of Geoffrey Crayon And he fenced it with wattled osier withies from stem to stern, to be a bulwark against the wave, and piled up wood to back them. The Odyssey Done into English prose Outside, beyond the frozen moat, where the osiers, stood stark and stiff in their winter nakedness, was a group of dark figures waiting for them with horses. Men of Iron The planks tossed up and down in the wash, and the osier branches fastening them together, groaned and scraped with a moist, plaintive sound. Creatures That Once Were Men A forest of firs, growing on the bank, had supplied the necessary materials; the trunks, fastened together with osiers, made a platform on which a hundred people could have easily found room. Michael Strogoff Or, The Courier of the Czar Slow, silent, the river lapses between its daisied banks, its grey-green osier beds. The Private Papers of Henry Ryecroft There, by the wet-mirrored osiers, the emerald wing of the kingfisher Flashes, the fish in his beak! there the dab-chick dived, and the motion Lazily undulates all thro' the tall standing army of rushes. Poems — Volume 1 It was somewhat spacious, and formed of four forked trunks of trees placed upright, supporting cross-beams and a frame of poles interwoven with osiers, and the whole covered with earth. Astoria, or, anecdotes of an enterprise beyond the Rocky Mountains My own work went forward by slow degrees, as I helped my osier farmer and wicker-worker and saw to the making of the road. The Country Doctor There, hidden behind the osiers, we would play at banquets, he, it is true, doing most of the banqueting, and I the make-believe. Paul Kelver, a Novel There is again a wicker Figure, 'Mannequin of osier:' the centre of endless howlings. The French Revolution At the point of the lake which projected to the north, they had discovered an osier-bed in which grew a large number of purple osiers. The Mysterious Island The whole extended about three-quarters of a mile along the river bank, and was composed of conical lodges, that looked like so many small hillocks, being wooden frames intertwined with osier, and covered with earth. Astoria, or, anecdotes of an enterprise beyond the Rocky Mountains Every year the floods deposited a rich alluvial soil on this spot, where there should be no difficulty in growing osiers. The Country Doctor Instead of neat enclosures Of interwoven osiers; Instead of fragrant posies Of daffadils and roses, Thy cradle, kingly stranger, As gospel tells, Was nothing else, But, here, a homely manger. A selection from the lyrical poems of Robert Herrick Swiftly there flew by clumps of osiers, slender elder trees, and silver-leaved poplars, their branches brushing against Selifan and Petrushka, and at intervals depriving the valet of his cap. Dead Souls Of course, you know that osiers must be three years old before they are fit to cut. The Country Doctor I undertook to advance the money for the osiers required for his work until my osier-farmer should be in a position to supply him. The Country Doctor |
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