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Sentences starting with branches

Branches lashed our faces and brambles tore our clothes. [9]

Sentences ending with branches

I can tell you how business is conducted in one of your branches. [5]
Their admiration for well-grown trees went so far, that Xerxes, finding on his way to Greece a singularly beautiful tree, hung ornaments of gold upon its branches. [10]
By this time we were all three under the branches. [9]
The very name, Uhrig's Cave, sent a shiver of delight down one's spine, and many were the conjectures one made as to what might be enclosed in that half a block of impassible brick wall, over which the great trees stretched their branches. [9]
The oak-trees were slender, none more than half a foot thick, and they grew close together, intermingling their branches. [13]
Of an afternoon or evening one or the other was to be seen in the long high-wainscoted room, where a great fire burned, or in the fruitless garden where the breeze stirred the bare branches. [11]
In the centre of the garden a great live-oak spread its sheltering branches. [9]
The velvet lawn looked like a stable-floor; the rare shrubs had been denuded of their flowers and branches. [10]
The progress of knowledge, it may be feared, or hoped, will have outrun the text-books in which you studied these branches. [3]
Also, the grass is warm, and I'll cover you with it and with pine branches. [11]

Short sentences using branches

The branches are japanesich. [5]

More example sentences with the word branches in them

Through it the yellow afternoon light was flooding now, even as then, checkered by the branches in their first fringe of green. [9]
Once aroused, he would not be pacified by bribes of cheap olive branches and laurels. [9]
She shall live with me: I will spread the cedar branches and stir the fire. [11]
She was standing with her hands behind her, her back against a great walnut trunk, the crusted branches of which hung over the bluff. [9]
And then a wind burst out of the east with a high mournful note, as from a great flute afar, filling the air with leaves and branches of trees. [9]
But the tree which Jahn had planted grew, and its branches spread. [9]
That curly grass which always grows by country roadsides became clearly visible, still wet with the night's rain; the drooping branches of the birches, also wet, swayed in the wind and flung down bright drops of water to one side. [2]
Denisov and Rostov were living in an earth hut, dug out for them by the soldiers and roofed with branches and turf. [2]
The upper branches were alive with these industrious toilers, and Big Tom was always on the alert to discover and mark a bee-gum, which he could visit afterwards. [4]
This done, I went out into the gallery, where Madame was already seated at her knitting, in the shade of the great tree that stood in the corner of the court and spread its branches over the eaves. [9]
Its branches are well known to Europe and America under the familiar name of maccaroni. [6]
The orange-trees cannot well be fuller: their branches bend with the weight of fruit. [4]
Singing hymns and waving palm branches through all eternity is pretty when you hear about it in the pulpit, but it's as poor a way to put in valuable time as a body could contrive. [5]
Lem Hallowell, who was there nearly an hour ahead of them, declares that the off horse had a bunch of branches in his mouth. [9]
The other oar was smashed off, and the raft was littered up with leaves and branches and dirt. [5]
A huge campfire was blazing brightly in the midst of the snow, lighting up the branches of trees heavy with hoarfrost. [2]
Behind the crowd was a row of old-fashioned brick houses, on the walls of which were patterned, by the cold electric light, the branches of the bare elms ranged along the sidewalk. [9]
It was a very quiet place, as such a place should be, save for the cawing of the rooks who had built their nests among the branches of some tall old trees, and were calling to one another, high up in the air. [12]
He had acquired various branches of learning while sharing the studies of his foster-brother, the eldest son of the old Knight Schorlin, who was then living, and therefore, when scarcely twenty, was appointed schoolmaster at Stansstadt. [10]
If he looks up at an apple-tree in blossom and a bird is piping in the branches, all he thinks of is how soon the happy creature will be killed by the cat! [10]
Sawing off stumps under the water, knocking poisonous snakes by scores from the branches, while the river rose and rose and rose, and the rain crept by inches under their tent flies, and the enemy walked the parapet of Vicksburg and laughed. [9]
Some of the Trustees have proposed interdoosin' new branches of study, and I expect you will be pooty much occoopied with the dooties that belong to your place. [6]
Boris sketched two trees in the album and wrote: "Rustic trees, your dark branches shed gloom and melancholy upon me. [2]
Sometimes he climbed tree, and again he sent me to the upper branches, whence I surveyed a sea of tree-tops waving in the wind, and looked onward to where a green velvet hollow lay nestling on the western side of a saddle-backed ridge. [9]
Many a foot traveller hesitated to pass into that umbrageous circle, and skirted the fence beyond the branches on the further side of the road instead. [11]
I respectfully refer to the report of the Secretary of War for information respecting the numerical strength of the army and for recommendations having in view an increase of its efficiency and the well-being of the various branches of the service intrusted to his care. [7]
From the lodge to the house, a full mile, branches had been pruned to let the sunshine sift through in splotches, but the wild nature of the place had been skilfully retained. [9]
He had first to help Dorippe cut the green branches, and, while thus engaged, sought pleasant gifts not only on the ground, but from his sweetheart's red lips, then moved up the mountain with his donkey, very slowly, without urging the animal. [10]
They were instructed to explore every navigable river they might find, and to follow the main branches, which would probably lead them in one direction to the East Indies or South Sea, and in the other to the Northwest Passage. [4]
He kept looking to either side of the road for familiar faces, but only saw everywhere the unfamiliar faces of various military men of different branches of the service, who all looked with astonishment at his white hat and green tail coat. [2]
No farther shoot Thy broad ambitious branches, and thy root. [6]
He contrived to throw down a woman standing beside him before the mini-balls swished over their heads, and the leaves and branches began to fall. [9]
I peeped out through the willow branches, and there it was--a skiff, away across the water. [5]
The moonlight pierced through the solemn foliage of the sycamores, and shimmering streaks and rings of light played in the branches, on the trunks, and on the dark ground. [10]
I propose in this lecture to show you some points of contact between our ignorance and our knowledge in several of the branches upon the study of which you are entering. [3]
Besides the four, there was a figure that lay sleeping in a corner on a pile of pine branches, wrapped in a bearskin robe. [11]
They had left their first retreat, and were now seated among the branches of a large elm which hung far over the lake. [5]
American monkeys beat the wild oranges on the branches until the rind is cracked, and then tear it off with the fingers of the two hands. [1]
The roof of the whole long structure had originally consisted of palm branches, upon which mud and turf had been piled; but this, too, was now in repair only on the central building. [10]
I clung to the under branches of the oak, finally reached the shelving bank, and slid down slowly. [9]
The lictors of the town marched before him with their fasces, on to which they had tied palm branches in token of a friendly embassy. [10]
You can tell the three branches of the mother-island church by the way they carry their heads. [6]
The branches of the sycamores and plane-trees drooped and floated on the waves, but the boughs of the tall silver poplars strained upward, as if anxious to avoid the watery world beneath. [10]
It wailed through the swaying branches of the trees, and swept our decks in fitful gusts. [5]
Every year, as the successive classes finish their course, there is a grand reunion of the former students, with an "exhibition," as it is called, in which the graduates of the year have an opportunity of showing their proficiency in the various branches taught. [6]
The report of the Secretary of the Interior, with the accompanying documents, exhibits the condition of the several branches of the public business pertaining to that department. [7]
The mansion of the late and left Floyd is now a seminary, and not far from it is the Stonewall Jackson Institute, in the midst of a grove of splendid oaks, whose stately boles and wide-spreading branches give a dignity to educational life. [4]
The resolution in the language above quoted was adopted by large majorities in both branches of Congress, and now stands an authentic, definite, and solemn proposal of the nation to the States and people most immediately interested in the subject-matter. [7]
The pillars of the front and back piazzas are pine stems stained, with the natural branches cut in unequal lengths, and look like the stumps for the bears to climb in the pit at Berne. [4]
The master for the English branches had lately left the school for private reasons, which need not be here mentioned,--but he had gone, at any rate, and it was his place which had been offered to Mr. Bernard Langdon. [6]
Farther back beyond the dark trees a roof glittered with dew, to the right was a leafy tree with brilliantly white trunk and branches, and above it shone the moon, nearly at its full, in a pale, almost starless, spring sky. [2]
Having gone round the corner of the hothouse to the ornamental garden, he saw that the carved garden fence was broken and branches of the plum trees had been torn off with the fruit. [2]
They fluttered among the branches overhead and some left off their songs to flit down and shyly hop near the twittering quail. [13]
The difference between the branches of science which deal with space only, and those which deal with space and time, is this: we have no glasses that can magnify time. [3]
She saw again the bodies of the two gladiators, covered with crimson robes, carried shoulder-high on a soft bed of interlaced branches to the graves beneath the trees. [11]
Light streamed from the blue sky through the tree-tops, and the golden sunbeams shimmered and danced over the branches, trunks and ground, as if they had been prisoned in the woods and could never find their way out. [10]
In this shape the bill passed both branches of Congress and became a law. [7]
At this period the arteries run in arch-like branches, as if to carry the blood to branchiae which are not present in the higher Vertebrata, though the slits on the sides of the neck still remain (see f, g, fig. [1]
You will find, that, in passing from the extreme downward droop of the branches of the weeping-willow to the extreme upward inclination of those of the poplar, they sweep nearly half a circle. [6]
It thus appears that the upper branches are used chiefly or exclusively for pushing and fencing. [1]
Presently she discovered that the notes were those of a bird on a tree immediately outside of her window--a tree of wonderful perfection, the lower branches of which swept the ground. [9]
Since I began teaching in this school, the aspect of many branches of science has undergone a very remarkable transformation. [3]
Many votes were taken, by yeas and nays, in both branches of Congress, upon the various phases of the general question. [7]
The bare branches swaying in the wind outside should belong to the trees in Freshwater Lane. [9]
The way was strewn with leaves and green branches, and the Saxon was leading her lord directly over the hard little boughs in the middle of the path. [10]
An' then he stared horrible at somethin' thet wasn't Lassiter, nor anyone there, nor the room, nor the branches of purple sage peepin' into the winder. [13]
Each bore a staff decorated with roses, lilies, and green branches, and many carried censers in the form of a golden arm with incense in the hollow of the hand, to be burnt before the king. [10]
A score of sputtering, smoking pine-knots threw a lurid light on as many hilarious groups, and revealed, fantastically enough, the boles and lower branches of the big shade trees above them. [9]
There was no sound save the languid morning notes of the birds and the humming of the bees among the flowers as Antoinette went tremblingly down the path and paused, listening, under the branches of that oak where I had first beheld her. [9]
Your acquaintance with some of the accessory branches is probably greater now than it will be in a year from now,--much greater than it will by ten years from now. [3]
The sun was slanting in yellow bars through the branches of the great trees, and a robin's note rose above the bass chorus of the frogs. [9]
Orpheus, take that silver--take it all, I have no more--go early to market and buy flowers--laurel branches, ivy, violets and roses. [10]
It had verdant shrubs, green turf, thick fringes of flowers, and one solitary elmtree in the centre whose branches spread like a cedar of Lebanon. [11]
A cold shiver seized me, and I was on the point of flying from the spot, when a fierce hurricane came from the East, struck the tree and overthrew it, so that its spreading branches were cast into the Nile. [10]
I took the sack of corn meal and took it to where the canoe was hid, and shoved the vines and branches apart and put it in; then I done the same with the side of bacon; then the whisky-jug. [5]
Our first day's route was through the Gill-brook woods and up one of its branches to the head of Caribou Pass, which separates Nipple Top from Colvin. [4]
A light breeze rose, stirring the leafless branches of the trees, then a sudden gust of wind swept over the heads of the throngs watching the distant horizon. [10]
The crash and reverberation of the thunder did not trouble us so much as the swish of the wet branches in our faces and the horrible road, with its mud, tripping roots, loose stones, and slippery rocks. [4]
Before I could reply there came a scuffling sound from the bank above us, and the snapping of branches and twigs. [9]
A fine drizzling rain falls hour after hour upon the naked twigs and branches of the trees, and as it falls it freezes. [5]
A string was procured and carefully carried round the trunk, above the spread of the roots and below that of the branches, so as to give the smallest circumference. [6]
Ask the wisest practising physician you know, what branches of science help him habitually, and what amount of knowledge relating to each branch he requires for his professional duties. [3]
Over these ashes pine twigs and branches were spread, and over them again blankets. [11]
He taught, among other things, the classics, of course, the English language grammatically, arithmetic in all its branches, book-keeping in the Italian manner, and the elements of algebra, geometry, and trigonometry with their applications to surveying and navigation. [9]
He covered two or three hundred trunks--probably small branches of trees--with wild-fire. [4]
The fruits rotted on the branches, and the leaves withered and fell. [5]
There were fluttering of wings among the branches and quick bird-notes, and rustling of dead leaves and rapid patterings. [13]
The bare branches of the trees swayed in the gusts. [9]
From all parts of the sanctuary, even from the tops of the roofs, he beheld laurel branches and kerchiefs waving and tossing, and wreaths flung on the ground before him. [10]
In the midst of the outspread line of Cossacks two wagons, drawn by French horses and by saddled Cossack horses that had been hitched on in front, rumbled over the tree stumps and branches and splashed through the water that lay in the ruts. [2]
The whitewashed roofs of the little town of Pharan shone brightly among the branches and clumps of verdure, and above them all rose the new church, which he was now forbidden to enter. [10]
Not a foot of soil is to be seen anywhere, and the water is apparently growing deeper and deeper, for it reaches up to the branches of the largest trees. [5]
In some branches of research the peers of our scholars must be sought not in England but in Germany. [4]
With my turn of mind, and with the preposterous habits which I had been daily acquiring, I could not fail to make as gross mistakes in the pursuit of this as of other branches of knowledge. [6]
The scientific study of man is the most difficult of all branches of knowledge. [6]
For instance, one of his favourite disciples was willing to shake the nuts from the rotten branches of a nut tree which no one dared to climb if he might have half the harvest. [10]
The sweet sun of early spring was shining hard, and the snow was beginning to pack, to hang like a blanket on the branches, to lie like a soft coverlet over all the forest and the fields. [11]
In all branches of culture, their heathen predecessors went far beyond them. [6]
With every breath of air that stirred among those branches in the sunshine, some trembling, changing light, would fall upon her grave. [12]
Presently it was obscured by passing under the huge branches of the tree. [11]

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