The full moon is her face263and the branchlet is her shape.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night] Reference

He plucked a spruce branchlet and stripped away the needles.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Lake House]

Ordinarily the fallen needle — or branchlet — of a beach oak (CASUARINA EQUISETIFOLIA) is absolutely passive.    From Wordnik.com.  [Last Leaves from Dunk Island] Reference

Gradually the most obstinate branchlet with its spray of leaves is drawn into juxtaposition with the main part of the mansion.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Confessions of a Beachcomber] Reference

To prepare the vegetable, remove the small leaflets from the main branch by pressing on the branchlet between the fingers and pulling.    From Wordnik.com.  [Chapter 7] Reference

The girl is soft of speech, fair of form, like a branchlet of basil, with teeth like chamomile-petals and hair like halters wherefrom to hang hearts.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night] Reference

At one time, a real stream of water, perhaps a branchlet of the river that tumbled down the cliff further on, had cut a channel through here, forming the cave.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Silver Gryphon]

The workman, placing the gimlet above the long, slender branchlet of wood, bores half the length, and then reverses the position to operate upon the other half.    From Wordnik.com.  [Tobacco; Its History, Varieties, Culture, Manufacture and Commerce] Reference

I pull it up? "and he made answer," Pluck but a branchlet of the.    From Wordnik.com.  [Arabian nights. English] Reference

P. koraiensis resembles P. cembra in leaf and branchlet but not in the cone.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Genus Pinus] Reference

The length of the branchlet is much influenced by different soils and climates.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Genus Pinus] Reference

Fig. 263, Multinodal branchlet bearing lateral and subterminal conelets and a ripe cone.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Genus Pinus] Reference

Each tree-top and branchlet a pinnacle jewelled and carved, or a fountain that shines as it showers.    From Wordnik.com.  [Poems and Ballads (Third Series) Taken from The Collected Poetical Works of Algernon Charles Swinburne—Vol. III] Reference

The uninodal spring-shoot may remain so throughout the growing season and become a uninodal branchlet.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Genus Pinus] Reference

The perfect multinodal branchlet is formed in the winter-bud (fig. 8-a) and the spring-shoot is multinodal.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Genus Pinus] Reference

The color of the branchlet, its lustre, the presence of minute hairs, etc., are often suggestions for determining species.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Genus Pinus] Reference

The latter develop into shoots in the centre of a leaf-fascicle (fig. 11) when the branchlet, bearing the fascicle, has been injured.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Genus Pinus] Reference

The presence of wax, as a bloom on the branchlet, is associated with trees in arid localities, especially Mexico, where it is very common.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Genus Pinus] Reference

The branchlet furnishes evidence of the section to which the species belongs, for the bract-bases persist after the bracts have fallen away.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Genus Pinus] Reference

Each season's growth of leaves hangs from the branchlet like a long beard, from which the tree receives, in some localities, the name "Pino barba caida.".    From Wordnik.com.  [The Genus Pinus] Reference

The bark utensils will wear longer if a slender rootlet or branchlet of pliable wood is sewed, with the "over-and-over" stitch, to the edge of the article.    From Wordnik.com.  [On the Trail An Outdoor Book for Girls] Reference

Or a summer-shoot may appear on vigorous branches of any species with the result of converting a uninodal spring-shoot into an imperfect multinodal branchlet.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Genus Pinus] Reference

Before me at this moment is the nest of one of these little sprites, which I watched till the last dumpy infant had taken flight, and then secured with the branchlet it was built upon.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Bird-Lover in the West] Reference

Leaves from 8 to 15 cm. long, serrulate; stomata ventral only; resin-ducts external, external and medial, or medial, all three conditions sometimes occurring in leaves of the same branchlet.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Genus Pinus] Reference

A living tuft of dark green at the end of each branchlet.    From Wordnik.com.  [Two Summers in Guyenne] Reference

And the branchlet sways in her greens that shine.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night] Reference

Bloom on branchlet, 2.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Genus Pinus] Reference

King they hailed a branchlet, shaped to fare.    From Wordnik.com.  [Complete Project Gutenberg Works of George Meredith] Reference

A branchlet, little branch, or twig.    From Wordnik.com.  [The language of botany : being a dictionary of the terms made use of in that science, principally by Linneus ...] Reference

As Myrtle branchlet Asia bred.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Carmina of Caius Valerius Catullus] Reference

Uninodal branchlet, 2 spring-shoot, 2.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Genus Pinus] Reference

Multinodal branchlet, 2 spring-shoot, 2.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Genus Pinus] Reference