We hung a swing from a bough of the large oak tree. From LearnThat.org.
The glory passed from bough to bough. From Wordnik.com. [0 1322. The Scarlet Tanager by Mary Augusta Mason. Stedman, Edmund Clarence, ed. 1900. An American Anthology, 1787-1900] Reference
The bough was the hand that had struck them out of the darkness, had thrown her to the sod and killed her animal. From Wordnik.com. [The Way of the Wind] Reference
Some trees of this kind are entirely green, with the exception perhaps of a single bough, which is of a bright crimson or scarlet. From Wordnik.com. [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 08, No. 46, August, 1861] Reference
For the bough is fairest when clad the most. From Wordnik.com. [The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night] Reference
They have grown up with years, and on many a bough. From Wordnik.com. [Life and Remains of John Clare "The Northamptonshire Peasant Poet"] Reference
Of the other bringing succor to the hunger on the bough. From Wordnik.com. [Stories in Verse] Reference
A robin trilled its sweet, sad song to her from a frosted bough. From Wordnik.com. [Antony Gray,—Gardener] Reference
Instead, the bough pokes it on the forehead, or eyes, or cheeks. From Wordnik.com. [The Wonders of the Jungle Book One] Reference
There is no mercy in the end, no bough in which your cradle rests. From Wordnik.com. [Aftermath] Reference
Let us make him show us how he can leap from one bough to another. From Wordnik.com. [Country Walks of a Naturalist with His Children] Reference
I took hold of the stoutest bough to swing me to the ground, when. From Wordnik.com. [McClure's Magazine, Vol 31, No 2, June 1908] Reference
The apparition of these faces in the crowd/Petals on a wet, black bough. From Wordnik.com. [Haiku Takes To Twitter, 140 Characters At A Time] Reference
"I must think it over a bit," he said, scratching his head with a bough. From Wordnik.com. [The Wonders of the Jungle Book One] Reference
Festoons of Spanish moss, drooped like a mourning veil from bough to bough. From Wordnik.com. [The Twenty-fifth Regiment Connecticut Volunteers in the War of the Rebellion History, Reminiscences, Description of Battle of Irish Bend, Carrying of Pay Roll, Roster] Reference
It floated among the trees for a moment before perching on a bough to rest. From Wordnik.com. [The Feather] Reference
Did they know that in each leafy bough Cupid awaited with love's weapon poised?. From Wordnik.com. [Reno — a Book of Short Stories and Information] Reference
The birds flitted from bough to bough and carolled louder and lustier than ever. From Wordnik.com. [The Doctor's Daughter] Reference
I think of Pound and his metro station — with faces like petals on a black bough. From Wordnik.com. [In the Seoul Metro] Reference
The little one tries several times, but still it cannot get the bough to come right. From Wordnik.com. [The Wonders of the Jungle Book One] Reference
The little one looks at the bough, grabs it anyhow with its trunk, and pulls it down. From Wordnik.com. [The Wonders of the Jungle Book One] Reference
bough battles bough, each sprouting leaf and lengthening shoot aims to outwit its rival. From Wordnik.com. [NATURAE] Reference
I have told you that an elephant can "swat" the flies with a bough which he holds in his trunk. From Wordnik.com. [The Wonders of the Jungle Book One] Reference
"If I'd liked, I could 'ave killed' ee as easy as knockin 'a bird off a bough," he said sullenly. From Wordnik.com. [The Hermit of Far End] Reference
And she came to him in the evening carrying a bough of an olive tree, with green leaves, in her mouth. From Wordnik.com. [The Bible, Douay-Rheims, Book 01: Genesis The Challoner Revision] Reference
He got back on the trail where he took a forked broken bough and rubbed out the most obvious signs of struggle. From Wordnik.com. [Gansevoort Ridge] Reference
Of course you mean that an elephant could break off a large bough, and hold it over his head and over his back!. From Wordnik.com. [The Wonders of the Jungle Book One] Reference
Now, this breaking Steve from off his natural tree and grafting him upon an alien bough occasioned some changes. From Wordnik.com. [The Gentle Art of Cooking Wives] Reference
She flung herself from bough to bough with reckless haste and dropped to the ground all in one breathless instant. From Wordnik.com. [The Governess] Reference
As the bear is a good climber, he soon scrambles up the trunk of the tree and walks along the bough toward the honey. From Wordnik.com. [The Wonders of the Jungle Book One] Reference
Old Jacob foretold that Joseph would be a fruitful bough, whose branches would run over the wall — that is, colonise. From Wordnik.com. [The Lost Ten Tribes, and 1882] Reference
He lay like a log on his spruce-bough bed, awake and conscious but wholly speechless, though his mother seemed satisfied. From Wordnik.com. [The La Chance Mine Mystery] Reference
He resolved to break that bough, and then slowly work the boat along by pulling at the grass, reeds, or anything on the bank. From Wordnik.com. [The Island House A Tale for the Young Folks] Reference
He had noticed that the end of the rope tethering the boat had been tied to the bough of a young willow near the water's edge. From Wordnik.com. [The Island House A Tale for the Young Folks] Reference
The flowers shed their sweetest perfumes, the birds sang their sweetest songs, and each leaf and bough nodded as though they knew. From Wordnik.com. [Reno — a Book of Short Stories and Information] Reference
But the people also take a heavy stone, tie a stout rope around it, and hang up the stone by the rope from another bough higher up. From Wordnik.com. [The Wonders of the Jungle Book One] Reference
Moths being burgled dogs needing stitches canals making phone calls the bough breaking. From Wordnik.com. [Things of which I am scared - but I don't let on....] Reference
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