Adjective : golden-boughed elms. ,a boughed retreat in the woods. From Dictionary.com.
It showed a county road overhung with trees, heavily boughed and green. From Wordnik.com. [Greenmantle]
There, under the shade of a broad-boughed tamarack, she made herself comfortable and stared across the water. From Wordnik.com. [Moonheart]
Pale light, golden and flickering as the sun descended through the broad-boughed trees, touched the mossed rocks here and there, giving the gardenia soft-spectral quality. From Wordnik.com. [The Miko]
Cecilia, you no the one aged 7, as a queen and Molly she was the subjeck boughed before her and sed, Your majesty to-day unto you a child is born, and Cecilia, I mean the queen sed, Bring it in, and. From Wordnik.com. [Deer Godchild] Reference
Broad-boughed oaks in the meadows fair and fertile. From Wordnik.com. [Songs out of Doors] Reference
On a white steed, where black-boughed fir-trees keep. From Wordnik.com. [Miscellany of Poetry 1919] Reference
See there the sacred shade beneath that bushy-boughed myrtle?. From Wordnik.com. [Erotica Romana] Reference
"Get one that is straight and tall, with well-boughed branches on it, and put it where you can draw it under the wood-shed after dark," she added. From Wordnik.com. [A Budget of Christmas Tales by Charles Dickens and Others] Reference
Then they went hand in hand in the country that smells of apple-blossom and honey, looking on heavy-boughed trees and on dancing and beaming clouds. From Wordnik.com. [Irish Fairy Tales] Reference
Beyond the house a low-boughed orchard covered the slope between it and the main road, and behind it there was a revel of colour betokening a flower garden. From Wordnik.com. [Lucy Maud Montgomery Short Stories, 1909 to 1922] Reference
They did not seem to mind it, except on the most bitterly cold days, when the wind howled about the hut, roaring through the pines and naked-boughed oaks, blowing before it the snow in silver dust. From Wordnik.com. [Andivius Hedulio Adventures of a Roman Nobleman in the Days of the Empire] Reference
It's the designer's second year sending up the usual tannenbaum; last year, the man who once put on a runway show inspired by Paris's homeless installed a spooky bare-boughed tree with a jungle cat perched on a high branch. From Wordnik.com. [NYT > Home Page] Reference
The morning after this letter was despatched the young girl took her work out under some wide-boughed hemlocks that stood beside the quiet country road, along which a farmer occasionally jogged to the village beyond, but which at that hour was usually quite deserted. From Wordnik.com. [Without a Home] Reference
Youth and comeliness would always walk here, under the low-boughed mulberry trees, as unchanging as the leaden otter that for ever preyed on the leaden salmon on the edge of the old fountain, and somehow the lovers would always wear the aspect of herself and the boy who was talking to the four white swans by the water steps. From Wordnik.com. [The Unbearable Bassington] Reference
Then Sahwah remembered that Oh-Pshaw had a favorite nook out in the woods where she went when she wanted to be alone, a wide-spreading, low-boughed chestnut tree in a dense, shady grove, away from the singing brook with its terrifying gurgle; into the branches she climbed and sat as in a great wide armchair, secure from interruption. From Wordnik.com. [The Camp Fire Girls Do Their Bit Or, over the Top with the Winnebagos] Reference
It was fringed in all its length with slim young birches, white stemmed and lissom boughed; ferns and starflowers and wild lilies-of-the-valley and scarlet tufts of pigeonberries grew thickly along it; and always there was a delightful spiciness in the air and music of bird calls and the murmur and laugh of wood winds in the trees overhead. From Wordnik.com. [Anne of Green Gables] Reference
I could see from afar in the Swanns’ little garden-plot the sunlight glittering like hoar frost from the bare-boughed trees. From Wordnik.com. [Within a Budding Grove] Reference
A carpet of mossy grass spread on each side, studded here and there with a dark flat-boughed cedar, or a grand pyramidal fir sweeping the ground with its branches, all tipped with a fringe of paler green. From Wordnik.com. [Adam Bede] Reference
"high-boughed hedges"; but it is not every one who has sung out of the fullness of his heart and with a naïve delight in that of which he sung: and so by reason of their faithfulness to every-day life and to nature, and by their spontaneity and tenderness, his lyrics, fables, and eclogues appeal to cultivated readers as well as to the rustics whose quaint speech he made his own. From Wordnik.com. [Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern — Volume 4] Reference
Well y-boughed, of mickle price. From Wordnik.com. [The Lay of Marie] Reference
Its bare-boughed trees immovable. From Wordnik.com. [Early Letters of George Wm. Curtis] Reference
Or deep in woodland woven-boughed. From Wordnik.com. [Complete Project Gutenberg Works of George Meredith] Reference
I LONGED to love a full-boughed beech. From Wordnik.com. [The Ivy-Wife] Reference
The cross-boughed tree that marked the spot. From Wordnik.com. [The Complete Works of Whittier] Reference
Of snake-boughed forests down to swamps, impure. From Wordnik.com. [Freedom, Truth and Beauty] Reference
And all the fruit-trees, rolling blossom-boughed. From Wordnik.com. [Rapture: An Ode] Reference
I boughed agin. From Wordnik.com. [The Memoirs of Mr. Charles J. Yellowplush] Reference
All blossom-boughed. From Wordnik.com. [Historical Christian] Reference
And through the bare-boughed lilac-tree. From Wordnik.com. [The Complete Works of Whittier] Reference
Did I tell you there was a tree grew up in the centre of the alley -- a stunty, short-boughed tree, and to this Measles laid one of the double muskets, feeling for a bough to rest it on in the darkness, after listening whether there was any one below; then he laid more and more, till with a mattress laid upon them, he formed a bridge, over which he boldly crept to the tree, where, with the lashings he had taken, he bound a couple more muskets horizontal, and then shifted the others?. From Wordnik.com. [Begumbagh A Tale of the Indian Mutiny] Reference
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