He gathered osier to make a basket for his new baby to sleep in. From LearnThat.org.
They are small islands planted entirely with willows, and are called osier-holts. From Wordnik.com. [Miscellanea] Reference
The chairs were made from the osier, or water willow. From Wordnik.com. [Final Report of the Louisiana Purchase Exposition Commission] Reference
Warily guarded they in baskets woven of osier. From Wordnik.com. [Poems and Fragments] Reference
For damp ground there is no better shrub than the red osier dogwood. From Wordnik.com. [Ontario Teachers' Manuals: Household Science in Rural Schools] Reference
Even the osier thickets and the juniper stood waiting for the spring. From Wordnik.com. [Pan] Reference
Robber Father broke off an osier twig and struck the bear on the nose. From Wordnik.com. [Christmas in Legend and Story A Book for Boys and Girls] Reference
Here it serves all the purposes to which the osier is applied in Europe. From Wordnik.com. [The Philippine Islands] Reference
It is flowing, rich and full, crested with foam beneath the osier hedges. From Wordnik.com. [In and out of Three Normady Inns] Reference
And then, alas! the fresh cheese that he devoured, osier baskets and all!. From Wordnik.com. [The Eleven Comedies, Volume 2] Reference
His spear lay by his side unused, and his baskets of plaited osier were empty. From Wordnik.com. [The Fisherman and His Soul] Reference
"Were it the will of Heaven, an osier-bough Were vessel safe enough the seas to plough.". From Wordnik.com. [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 05, No. 32, June, 1860] Reference
That Thorn, who was marching and countermarching in osier beds, and other swampy places, was impressed with. From Wordnik.com. [Sketches by Boz] Reference
Many a "tall admiral" has commenced his "march over the mountain wave" among these water-lilies and hedges of osier. From Wordnik.com. [Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 17, No. 098, February, 1876] Reference
The immediate shores were also densely covered with the speckled alder, red osier, shrubby willows or sallows, and the like. From Wordnik.com. [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 02, No. 08, June 1858] Reference
His robe, very long and very large, and of which the flaps were extended on an osier frame, preserved him from suddenly falling. From Wordnik.com. [Wonderful Balloon Ascents] Reference
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. From Wordnik.com. [Scientific American Supplement, No. 595, May 28, 1887] Reference
It has mats of water lily Nymphaea alba and bushes of goat willow Salix caprea, grey willow S. cinerea and purple osier S. purpurea. From Wordnik.com. [Srebarna Nature Reserve, Bulgaria] Reference
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. From Wordnik.com. [The Mysterious Island] Reference
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. From Wordnik.com. [A Haunted House, and other short stories] Reference
Looking about her she saw an osier-bed dividing the stream, and beside it the opening into the willow-shaded backwater which she remembered. From Wordnik.com. [The Invader A Novel] Reference
For, these being great and strong, he fastened his comrades under the bellies of the beasts, tying them with osier twigs, of which the giant made his bed. From Wordnik.com. [Famous Tales of Fact and Fancy Myths and Legends of the Nations of the World Retold for Boys and Girls] Reference
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. From Wordnik.com. [Wonderful Balloon Ascents] Reference
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. From Wordnik.com. [Wonderful Balloon Ascents] Reference
A sheet of rough writing paper, tied on by a shred of osier, served her for a hat. From Wordnik.com. [The Celibates] Reference
The great osier-beds still give shelter to some, but not nearly so many as formerly. From Wordnik.com. [The Life of the Fields] Reference
But there were no pines around us now, only osier, hazel, and grey-birch, and the deep moss under foot. From Wordnik.com. [The Hidden Children] Reference
The result is that the osier-beds on the eyots and by the backwaters -- the copses of the river -- are almost devoid of life. From Wordnik.com. [The Open Air] Reference
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. From Wordnik.com. [The Odyssey] Reference
A flock of greenfinches starts from the bushes, and their colour shows against the ruddy wands of the osier-bed over which they fly. From Wordnik.com. [The Life of the Fields] Reference
These notions of duty, and station, and her fiddle-de-dee betrothal to that Danube osier with Indian-idol eyes, count for so much mist. From Wordnik.com. [The Tragic Comedians — Complete] Reference
The bailiff intrusted with the letting of the cottage and osier-ground had, it is true, requested some reference; not, of course, as to all. From Wordnik.com. [What Will He Do with It? — Complete] Reference
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