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Sentence Examples Another twist on this theme is his striking wall lamps, which are essentially steel rods with willow woven around them. In her madness, Ophelia climbs a willow tree to hang garlands from its branches. The study area is subalpine tundra, and primary vegetation is shrubby willow. In the marshes and stream banks are green dragon, blue flag irises, swamp white oak, silver maple, bladder nut, poison ivy, bulrush, and willow. He stopped when he saw her, her thread bare cotton skirt hiked up to her knees as her feet brushed the top of the water underneath a willow tree. Guava, lemon, sycamore, olive, date, willow wood are used in turnery as they have different ornamental color. We chose to sit beneath a willow tree with its branches shielding us from view. It is expected the chorus will include the blackcap, willow warbler and chiffchaff and others. It is said that Hippocrates brewed leaves from the willow tree to ease the pain of childbirth. Other favorite host plants are oaks, apple, hawthorn, birches, boxelder, willow, and sumac. To his luck he saw the light on in her room and the window open, behind the thick leaves from the willow tree. Two Canadian Geese land, honking, and take shelter under a willow tree whose tendrils flick at the water with the breeze. Those with blemish-prone skin may prefer to use a BHA peel that uses salicylic acid derived from willow bark. The crack of willow on leather was replaced by the thud of fists on jaws as drunken spectators traded blows when players came off the pitch. There was a weeping willow shading two lonely gravestones, alienated from all the others. The basic construction is beehive shaped and is made of bent wood of either willow or hazel, and it is quite heavy and unfeminine. Juniper trees are common throughout the canyon as well as mesquite, cottonwood, salt cedar, willow, western soapberry and hackberry. Plants that grow along the stream banks include alder, Fremont cottonwood, sycamore, honey mesquite, and Goodding willow. Mugabe is often seen sipping tea, eating cake and clapping at Harare Sports Club while revelling in the magical thwack of leather against willow. It may not be long before the sound of willow thwacking leather reverberates across the middle kingdom. Show More Sentences Under the guidance of a crafts council approved basket-maker, everyone made his or her own traditional willow basket. The poplar and willow trees line the opposite bank of the River Kennet from the Town Mill homes. To one side the River Seven meandered, thick with willow, purple with balsam and white with convolvulus. If operated in conjunction with a coppiced willow tertiary treatment system, this would remove the need to dump sewage sludge into Tramore Bay. The dogwood, oak, chestnut, pine, red maple, black locust, sassafras, hickory, willow, cottonwood, and redbud dotted the landscape. Red-naped Sapsuckers are the most common sapsucker in deciduous and streamside forests, especially in and around aspen, cottonwood, and willow. The banks were choked with willow and tamarisk, which I occasionally had to crawl under on my belly. The mysterious jack snipe is a typical bird of the often water-logged northern taiga, birch and willow country. Finally the willow tree was heavily pruned and the Euonymus and three lupins were planted. Most are deciduous species such as maple, elm, willow, honeylocust, ash, cottonwood, Russian olive, and hackberry. Then the land went down, and there was marsh of rushes and willow and hazel. Nests are usually built in deciduous trees, such as aspen, alder, cottonwood, or willow, but they may also be in firs or other conifers. There is also a plentiful growth of rowan and willow, particularly over the past half dozen years. Among the trees are Fremont cottonwood, lodgepole pine, narrowleaf willow, and quaking aspen. Sweat lodges are traditionally low, windowless, insulated domes constructed of willow branches. Gerry Eastwood led with a single bream of 5lb 8oz taken from the willow garth at Hunters Lodge on legered lobworm. I sailed on towards Wellington Harbour 70 miles away, saved only by the branches of a willow tree trailing mercifully within arm's reach. A rock and log structure was placed within the riprap and willow structures to improve instream habitat for fish. Roger says he's used willow water for years to root azaleas, lilacs, summersweets and even roses. The life history, breeding biology and field methods are described elsewhere for white-tailed ptarmigan and willow ptarmigan. Show More Sentences Some willow trees will be lost by the development but trees like hornbeam, lime and birch will remain with preservation orders on them. Many trees, such as lime, sycamore, horse chestnut and willow provide excellent bee forage. Along the lakefront a curving sweep of barberry and daylilies terminated at gazebos overarched by old apple and willow trees. In Prussia the coal of the alder, limetree, poplar, elder, willow, hemp, and hazel is used for powder. Apple, willow, birch, poplar, citrus, alder and maple are varieties we have used. The River Derwent was brown and high, ducks sheltered in eddies, and little birds flitted from alder to willow to alder. This was done with thin strips of wood and bark, fine branches from trees such as hazel or willow withies, and reeds. The behaviour we observed was similar to the behaviour of polar bears hunting seals and willow ptarmigan. An example of this is the round linen basket where the wales have been woven in white willow. Residents of the parish would walk the route, carrying willow wands to beat special stones at set points around the parish boundary. On that trip they found two other state champs, a Bonpland willow and an Arizona walnut. The trees include willow, cherry, poplar, acers, larch, ash, birch, sycamore, elder and sitka spruce. Willows are shown at the back of the picture with white flowered water plantains, and pink flowered great willow herb in the foreground. The European quickset hedges of hawthorn and willow never became popular on the Island, perhaps because maintaining them is quite laborious. The willow tree bark and leaves are rich in salicin, a compound similar to acetylsalicylic acid, the chemical name for aspirin. Several species have been protected by legislation owing to their small numbers, among them are the beavers, red deer, and willow grouses. Native shrubs scattered beneath the canopy include buttonbush, dahoon holly, Virginia willow and wax myrtle. Then you can hunt for capercaillies, black grouses, hazel grouses and willow grouses. Cara was buried near a weeping willow with yellow flowers growing around her grave. About a day's walk upstream from the confluence of the Shields and Yellowstone rivers, a sandstone bluff looms above the willow bottomland. Show More Sentences Sam glared fiercely up at the half-moon peeking through the branches of the weeping willow. Mitch laid her down the ground under a weeping willow tree, and walked to the lake nearby then sat down and started to throw stones at it. I looked around and saw that we were hidden by the long hanging branches of a weeping willow. I created another area of mystery by cutting an arch into the branches of a weeping willow. Fresh cut flowers, organic vegetables, crafts and willow works as well as hedging plants and a shrub or nursery area are all on display. A large weeping willow was growing over the pound, so its branches just barely touched the water's surface. There was a lake in the middle of the garden, with a weeping willow growing in the middle of it. He went off to sit under a large weeping willow on the grounds not far from the graves. Willow Court is a sunken flooded area with willow trees and wetland vegetation, traversed and enclosed by a boardwalk. One of the remedies Hippocrates used for pain and fevers was powder made from the bark and leaves of the willow tree. Through the branches, and you reached an overgrown stone path that led to an ancient mulberry tree, falling in the shape of a weeping willow. A wiggling larva on a leaf of a willow tree catches her eye and is quickly consumed. An urgent call has gone out for volunteers to carry out an operation to remove willow and birch scrub fringing the moss's shallow pools. Some 2000 years ago the Greeks used the bark and leaves of the willow tree to relieve pain and fever. Other reported species usually not seen during the British winter included willow warblers, garden warblers, reed warblers, and whitethroats. If dandruff is a concern, look for ingredients such as silicic acid or willow bark extract and selenium, which help control itching and flaking. The water comes from what the company says was once land covered in vast forests of white willow containing Salicin. It was there that Robert and his pupils played cricket on a pitch marked out by wickets of willow sticks. They savoured the preparations along with their friends, and watched the willow wielders and the bowlers display their prowess. This is cheap and easy to do with specimens such as berberis, buddleia, cornus, kerria, philadelphus, spirea and willow. Show More Sentences The cricket has been agricultural this morning, but at last England are starting to connect wood on willow. Briony walked down the path leading to the old but beautiful whispering willow. On her fifteenth birthday she had stupidly agreed to jump off a branch of a willow tree over a shallow ravine some ten feet below on a dare. Ford stood next to a willow tree, the thin branches falling around him like a curtain. She pulled several long willow tendrils from the tree's branches. Its tresses dancing in a gentle breeze, a weeping willow grew in the corner of the graveyard, next to a small stream that disappeared underground next to the willow. Striking a nearby tree with his fist, Briar shook off the resulting pain and parted the branches of a weeping willow to enter the secluded clearing that was his haven. Surprisingly, evidence of stone and willow fish weirs, which bridged estuaries and bays as far afield as western Europe and northern American, can still be found. The garden is resplendent with California poppies, blossoming artichokes, and, at its center, a ramada built with kiwi vines intertwined with willow and recycled wood. She wanted a whippy switch off a willow tree in the front yard. To relieve headache pain, herbalists recommend white willow bark. The walls of the maze are planted with willow, and there are little jokes throughout, such as a skeleton reclining on a bench and a small cricket pavilion. Closing her eyes, Sarah lay down on the grass near a tall willow tree. And the tree, the sacred willow tree, the huluppu tree, is no more! If you want tiger swallowtail butterflies, plant a willow tree. We expected the extensive annual variation in the timing of environmental variables to correlate with timing of breeding as reported earlier for willow ptarmigan. In the next few weeks the willow warblers will take over the moor above the house and the cuckoo will pass through on its way to Scotland probably. The nightingale is the one we are most worried about, but these deers are affecting other birds too, including the blackcap, the garden and willow warblers. Thin as a willow withe, and sharp, the long, gray eyes missing nothing. Previous hard concrete channel solutions for riverbank protection are now thought to be inferior to stone gabbions, gravel banks, reed beds and willow trees. Show More Sentences Pollen studies by scientists have revealed that both of the island chains were once covered in dense woodlands of birch, alder, willow, hazel, rowan and aspen. Stunted forms of tree species such as dwarf birch, alder, arctic willow, white spruce, black spruce, tamarack, least willow, net-veined willow and blue-green willow grow here. Two feet from the sawed-off stump of a third willow is the small foot-pump carousel Ray was sitting on when he shot himself. Last night on television the ethnologist and the cameraman watched with hushed wonder while the chimpanzee carefully stripped a willow branch and inserted it into the anthill. Instead of doing sporty things, I signed up for a class on willow weaving. Wind-stunted bushes of willow, hazel, birch and rowan hugged the heather. Until very recently, the wood comprised mainly of Norway spruce with beech, Scots pine, oak, grey willow and birch, with some rowan and holly in the shrub layer. Today's excess of elk and buffalo have destroyed woody species such as willow, aspen, cottonwood, alder and serviceberry along the streams and rivers. The willow bark contained salicin, the pharmacological ancestor of a family of drugs called salicylates, of which aspirin is probably the most famous. He saw a tall willow tree, and decided to rest in its shade. Some characteristic tree species are black spruce, white spruce, tamarack, balsam poplar, dwarf birch, paper birch, shining willow, Bebb willow, and trembling aspen. In a study on Devon Island, just south of Ellesmere, the hares fed mainly on Arctic willow in winter, supplemented in summer with Arctic avens, grasses and sedges. Her hair, braided from the bark of the willow is set off by the woven spiders webs attached to the windows, adding to the eerie view from the corridor of the school. Covering every acre of agricultural set-aside with short coppice willow and burning every scrap of carbon neutral forestry residue might scrape up another four per cent! The vines were trained up trees and also on trellises on poles of willow. She thrusts her minikin hands through the willow wands to greet me. A striking feature of the garden is the large willow screens which have been mounted on two walls and will act as trellis for the climbing plants. Jake collapsed into a heap in the grass under the willow and started bawling, grabbing a few tufts of crinkly brown grass and tearing them out by the roots. I blew up my old inflatable pool and put in in the backyard under the shade of a willow tree and put on Dylan's swim pants and let him fool around in the water. There are coast paths, too, winding through dwarf willow and mountain ash to ruined villages looking wistfully out to sea, their populations long since departed. Show More Sentences The former VP candidate looked rail thin as she ran errands with her daughter willow in Studio City. Jojoba beads, lemon peel and willow bark smooth and revitalise skin, leaving it renewed. Salicin is a chemical found naturally in willow bark, the source of aspirin. Salicin causes damaged cells in the willow to die off before the whole tree becomes threatened with disease. The rock ptarmigan feeds primarily on birch and willow buds and catkins when available. Pine, larch and spruce occur mostly in plantations with alder and willow common along the river banks. The anti-malarial quinine comes from the bark of the Cinchona tree and salicylic acid, the basis of aspirin, is found in willow bark. Certain charcoals perform better when used to make black powder, these include spruce, willow, paulownia and grapevine among others. Supple young willow or hazel branches are harvested as material for weaving baskets, fences, and garden constructions such as bowers. This new woodland will encourage declining woodland birds such as willow warblers, tree pipits and garden warblers to nest. Coppicing of willow, alder and poplar for energy wood has proven commercially successful. Examples of this kind of wood are alder, basswood, birch, buckeye, maple, willow, and the Populus species such as aspen, cottonwood and poplar. It is a tributary of the Shenandoah, and winds gracefully under cliff and willow in its leisuresome and quiet way toward the sea. The first trees to settle were willow, birch and juniper, followed later by alder and pine. The most commons trees are elm, alder, sycamore, poplar, willow and hornbeam. The Somerset Levels is now the only area in the UK where basket willow is grown commercially. Sarah Richardson found a different bonus for robbed plants when she studied the three bee species that buzz around the desert willow. The willow was harvested using a traditional method of pollarding, where a tree would be cut back to the main stem. The trees are mostly silver maple, cottonwood, and black willow, plus green hawthorn and swamp cottonwood also present. Fragments of willow basket were found near the Glastonbury Lake Village, and it was also used in the construction of several Iron Age causeways. Show More Sentences The Woodland Trust's Farm Tree packs contain a mixture of native trees including oak, birch, rowan, cherry, goat willow and crab apple. For example, willow and coleus can be propagated merely by inserting a stem in water or moist soil. Tundra The arctic hare and The arctic willow Spanning the Arctic arctic fox sport has shallow roots so Circle, the tundra is the white coats. Trees such as araxes, korku and the wild willow can be seen here besides a number of other species. Zebra grass, willow, Irish moss, sedum, and Jerusalem sage bring movement and a variety of textures. The site has been untouched by intensive farming methods for decades and is home to choughs, pied flycatchers, willow warblers and otters. A bull boat's framework was made of willow branches bent in a huge bowl shape about four feet across the top and eighteen inches deep. The new tree is a cross between goat willow, grey willow, purple willow and osier, with the long rod-like twigs used in basketry. Responses by the capercaillie Tetrao urugallus, and the willow grouse Lagopus lagopus, to the green matter available in early spring. Where it has colonised, it is outcompeting native plant species such as grey willow and rare copper moss. The foliage is also eaten by the larvae of some Lepidopteran insects including the moth willow beauty. There are moor hens nesting here, and we've had sightings of mallards, a Canada goose, herons and willow warblers. Not everything will take root but cornus, viburnum, elder and willow work well. A few feet from where we sit is the sawed-off stump of a third willow. Think tall, structured amaryllis, mango callas, textured seedheads, rudbeckia, contorted willow and hedgerow berries like viburnum and ligustrum. For colored bark or twigs, try beauty bush, corkscrew willow, mountain mahogany, Mormon tea, and redtwig and yellowtwig dogwood. Over time, the native cottonwood and willow ecosystem was invaded by introduced Russian olive and saltcedar. But its active ingredient is salicin, which has an antiinflammatory effect and is derived from willow trees. Larger than a willow warbler, with silvery-fringed wing feathers, its name comes from the Greek for yellowish. The baskets made by Alaska Natives are commonly constructed of birchbark or cedar, beach grass, dried grass, spruce or willow root and baleen. Show More Sentences Hello There young green yellow willow warbler footles through light leafs an odd fluff-suited, coloured, call. Eye-catching black willow, Salix gracilistyla 'Melanostachys', bears dark catkins with red anthers along vivid mahogany branches. On one side of my shooting lane stood thick black willow groves choked off by tall cut grass and brush. With a mild coffee fragrance and hints of papaya, pumpkin, and black willow bark, it smells lovely. During the bank holiday weekend a black willow at Blue Bell beck, Acklam, was stripped of its bark. We've found responses to gaura, bitterweed, dallisgrass that's infected with a fungus called ergot, and a species of willow. Britain could lose several plants including the bog rosemary and dwarf willow. The findings show Wales could lose several plants, including the bog rosemary and dwarf willow. A poignant moment came at a healing ceremony under a 350-year-old willow oak at Shirley Plantation on the banks of the James River. It is a subspecies of the willow grouse, whose range extends across the northern latitudes of Europe, Asia and North America. The special effects are excellent, especially the whomping willow, which attacks Harry and Ron when they fly a magic car into it. New from bareMineals, Blemish Remedy mixes sulphur, tea tree oil and white willow bark in a lightweight powder. The diminutive least Bell's vireo, an endangered species, can be found darting in and out of the willow thickets. Nearby Morfa Madryn local nature reserve held shoveler, teal, lapwing, greenshank and newly arrived willow warbler and white wagtail. A large parkland area off the driveway features specimen mature trees including wellingtonia, sycamore and willow along with many rhododendrons. So, browsed birch, aspen, and willow get shrubbier, while uneaten spruce and pine grow taller. This is especially true of the Peking Willow with its strange, twisted and contorted branches and twigs that remind you of willow pattern plates. The most common breeding birds are the willow warbler, common chaffinch, and redwing. A kingfisher, an airborne jewel, whirrs past, stickleback in its beak, and disappears into a thicket of riparian willow. Somewhere near at hand, though out of sight, there was a clear, slow-moving stream where dace were swimming in the pools under the willow trees. Show More Sentences Randy Jackson of Laurel, featured arrangements comprised of thousands of ivory Amelia roses, monstera leaves, bear grass, and curly willow. It is usually classified as a subspecies of the willow ptarmigan but is sometimes considered to be a separate species, Lagopus scotica. Arctic hare diets are more diverse in summer, but still primarily consists of willow, dryas and grasses. Spotting the difference between a willow warbler and a chiffchaff can be tricky but there is now a college course to teach you how to be a good bird watcher. Merlins inhabit fairly open country, such as willow or birch scrub, shrubland, but also taiga forest, parks, grassland such as steppe and prairies, or moorland. Ash from the hearths was found to be from oak and willow twigs. Hardwood species include white ash, green ash, red oak, white oak, black locust, black alder, Shumard oak, cherrybark oak, sweet gum, willow, and sycamore. They will also did as pot of bird watching, looking for spring arrivals like swallows, sand martins, blackcaps, chiffchaffs, willow warblers and wheatears. The banks were lined with cottonwoods, Russian olives and an occasional willow, but more significant were the fields of cut corn barely visible above the high water mark. The active ingredient in aspirin, acetyl salicylic acid, is a synthetic derivative of the compound salicin, which occurs naturally in plants, notably the willow tree. In the summer, Culzean is visited by many bird species including wood warblers, willow warblers and chiff chaffs as well as swallows, martins and swifts. The red grouse is differentiated from the willow ptarmigan and rock ptarmigan by its plumage being reddish brown, and not having a white winter plumage. O my Lord, the young Ofelia Having made a garland of sundry sortes of floures, Sitting vpon a willow by a brooke, The envious sprig broke, into the brooke she fell. As willow ptarmigans begin molting into white plumage that conceals them in snow, singing voles build forage piles of vegetation for winter feeding. A short distance away, at twilight, a fat beaver climbed out of the river onto a leaning willow oak, peered down, and dove into the water with a preposterous splash. In the Starlets Veterans match at the same venue, Eric Mitchell lured 29lb of carp, tench and crucians from peg 70 on the willow, all on the pellet. Reports of chiffchaffs, willow warblers and black caps have been scarce. You may already know oak, maple, fir and pine, which are all included, but can you spot a golden chinkapin willow, or a redbud, or a sycamore from a mile away? Other excitements include goldcrests, the smallest British birds, and willow warblers who look like they may not migrate, and might stay for winter. The most common species in Monroe's Parks were water oak, slash pine, and crepe myrtle and in the Schools were slash pine, crepe myrtle, and willow oak. Show More Sentences Additionally, the company hired a contractor to plant about 17,000 trees and shrubs that were native species, including sycamore, river birch, black willow, maple and oak. Collect balls from a sweet gum tree or cut curly willow branches. Traditional craftspeople will be showing off their skills with the chance for visitors to try their hand at willow arch weaving and corn dolly making. Look out for giant mole hills, rabbit holes galore and tree species which include silver birch, oak, birch, rowan, goat willow, hawthorn, blackthorn, holly and elder. The fire, which almost certainly had human origins, destroyed 80 acres of willow forest, including the territories of four endangered least Bell's vireos. It claims to promote healthy cell growth to repair damaged tissue and to contain white willow for exfoliation and cedarwood and cucumber to soothe. The variable climate promotes different flora zones where tundra and muskeg are dominant succeeded by grasses, flowering shrubs and forests of pine, birch, alder and willow. Contains sugar beet extract, golden root and British white willow. Visitors can learn about willow weaving from Mid Wales craftswoman Beryl Smith, and how to spin on a drop spindle from the Gwent Guild of Weavers, Spinners and Dyers. For example, cricket bats are typically made of white willow. Bardsey Island Bird Observatory had several 'falls' of warblers last week, including 200 willow warblers on Saturday and 18 grasshopper warblers last Friday. It is the fall webworm that concerns us, as it feeds on apples, ash, birch, chokecherry, elm, hickory, linden, oaks, willow, and more than 100 fruit, shade and woodland trees. Charles JG, Allan DJ Development of the willow sawfly, Nematus oligospilus, at different temperatures, and an estimation of voltinism throughout New Zealand. Native plants like Fremont cottonwood and seep willow have recolonized treated areas, and springs that were nearly sucked dry from tamarisk are returning to historical flows. The garment stalls carried the traditional blue vine-dressers' outfits, sunhats, and the great willow pitchforks grown in espalier at villages like Sauve. Ethics begin to feel situational, a balancing of concerns. When this happens, we no longer have any firm ethic to stand on. We become an ethical willow in the wind. Examples from Classical Literature I don't know whether they are the willow ptarmigan or the white-tail ptarmigan. I tore it from the green boughs of old Eire,138The willow of the many-sorrowed world. Stays and braces grew tauter and tauter, studden sail-booms cracked, and the topgallant masts bent like willow wands. It does well, within its range, wherever willow oak flourishes, but willow oak has a wider range. The wing chair and willow chairs, and the hour-glass Chinese chairs, will go beautifully with mahogany things or with oak things. The willow leaflets were just putting out, and the swaying of the flexile boughs was slight and noiseless. The marsh grass was less thick and there was an occasional clump of willow. Seeking a willow island which abutted on the channel, we made a tent of the sail and stood the brief storm quite comfortably. The willow oak is much planted for ornamental purposes in the southern states. It belongs to the willow oak branch of the red oak group, and bears two-year acorns. A few minutes after they came, a mourning dove alighted on a willow at the head of the spring, about twelve rods from our camp. At the distance of fifteen miles we encamped on a willow island, at the entrance of the river gasconade. Only starving people tried to make food from cattail seeds and the inner bark of slippery elm and willow trees. His list includes several species which are not native, and his water willow is an herbaceous plant. Its eggs cannot be positively distinguished from those of the willow ptarmigan. The weeping willow has the habit of snapping its twigs off, short, at the base. The silty soil preferred by the willow is scarce as both streams are actively eroding their channels. It was beside of the streamlet, under a weeping willow, and on a grassy bank. So I used the helve of an entrenching-tool and the stalks of the willow undergrowth. That is what Marmaduke calls it, though the Toyman says it is a weeping willow. Show More Sentences The nest of the willow warbler, to which I have referred, is a kind of thatched cottage upholstered with feathers. Among the birds are found some species now only living in cold countries, such as the snowy owl, willow grouse, and flamingo. From willow bark which is fresh, and rich in salicin, it may be obtained by the cautious evaporation of the cold aqueous infusion. This species, first described from specimens sent from Hudson Bay, is more northern in its range than the willow ptarmigan. He stuffed his pipe again with fine tobacco and bark of red willow and began. True, Ma never hesitated about taking a willow switch to him when he was a young 'un, or a stob of kindling when he got older. That green strip of willow is the edge of a quicksand where no one knows the depth. The shrubbery around the sudatory is in many localities tied up with willow wisps and ropes. The country was alive with bear, ptarmigan, willow grouse, and capercailzie. Occasionally, too, either Dallas or Abel would stroll round with his gun and get a few ptarmigan or willow grouse. I guess that's why it's called the fool hen, though its proper name is the willow grouse. I 400 also outlined in the mountainous hills near our vessel, as a background to my willow grouse. The black willow has large, leaf-like, heart-shaped stipules, green as the leaf and saw-toothed. The sacred plants of the goddess were, the willow, pomegranate, the dittany and the lily. One very solid windbreak is made up of a lilac hedge, four rows of jack pine, four rows of Norway poplar and one row of willow. The willow oak has long, narrow, pointed leaves that suggest a willow, and not at all an oak. The Indians filled their pipes with kinnikinnick, or willow bark, and smoked. The leaves seem to be a compromise between the deeply cut foliage of yellow oak and the entire leaf of willow oak. The ancient English hives were generally made of baskets of unpeeled willow. Botanists believe it is a hybrid, one parent being the willow oak and the other yellow oak. Show More Sentences Greenbank protection consisting of rock rolls, willow spiling and re-establishment of riperian vegetation. Over the head of my bed there is a picture of Robby Burns standing at Highland Mary's grave, shadowed by an enormous weeping willow tree. The summer was come now, and the gardener, an old sailor, made him a hammock and fixed it up for him in the branches of a weeping willow. After supper I used to catch up my cap, stick my hands in my pockets, and dive through the willow hedge as if witches were after me. Out in the stream the sandbars glittered like glass, and the light trembled in the willow thickets as if little flames were leaping among them. There were a few willow trees here and a lot of sea buckthorn. Beyond the corncribs, at the bottom of the shallow draw, was a muddy little pond, with rusty willow bushes growing about it. There was another milestone, a sad one, marking a little grave under a willow tree at Sunnybrook Farm. Anti-inflammatories such as willow bark, meadowsweet and turmeric can be used. Jacob skinned them willow sticks, and skinned the old man, too. The horse chestnut, the pawpaw, the grape, and the willow are in bloom. There was an immense empty pie-dish of blue willow pattern, and a large carving knife and fork, and a chopper. Locksley returned almost instantly with a willow wand about six feet in length, perfectly straight, and rather thicker than a man's thumb. He would not mope, and hang down his head, and wear the willow. The stems or trunks of this vine are tougher and more flexible than willow, and are from fifty to one hundred fathoms in length. American eels spawn in the Sargasso Sea and ride the Atlantic currents coastward in their willow leaf-like larval stage. The habitat by swamp maple, desert willow, and seaside alder. They found a willow switch and tamped a handkerchief into the wound. But there was the hare away up in the tiptop of that willow tree! Oak, apple, sweet gum, basswood, birch, poplar and willow trees are affected the most by the gypsy moth. Show More Sentences The next day brought them to the banks of a beautiful little stream, running to the west, and fringed with groves of cottonwood and willow. Bulgarians celebrate Palm Sunday, or Tsvetnitsa-Vrabnitsa, with garlands and sprigs of willow. For instance the water willow when peeled proves a very good material. There are several varieties, but all have the weeping willow. The habit of the tree is drooping, like that of the weeping willow. It is shaded by a weeping willow, and is surrounded by a hexagonal paling. I recognized only the switch which in my day was a weeping willow. No, for you left him sleeping under the shade of the weeping willow. The reference is to baskets made of osier, a kind of willow. There is only one, opposite, at the foot of the first willow. And the rest of the journey to willow Bluff was made almost in silence. The oak mentioned in this poem is gone, and a willow takes its place. He brought with him two willow grouse with their heads shot off. The weight of willow oak is approximately the same as white oak. It is not abundant in the sense that willow oak and Texan red oak are. Resemblance of leaves to other species, in willow oak and parsley haw. Great mats of willow brush, hundreds of yards in length, were laid on top of the river-slope of the levees and held in place by steel cables and thousands of cubes of cement. She was a pretty creature, and she and her willow bough made a very pretty picture, and one which could not offend the modesty of the most fastidious spectator. The frame was of poles and willow twigs, on which were stretched five elk and buffalo hides, sewed together with sinews, and the seams payed with unctuous mud. For willow wands do not grow upon the cobblestones of London town. Show More Sentences The ancient Egyptians, for instance, used honey and willow bark to prevent infection in wounds, and ostrich eggs triturated with grease for severe forehead injuries. The other agreed, and they cut down two willow wands of a summer's growth that grew beneath a brier, and set them up at a distance of threescore yards. Sarah sat in her squeaky willow rocker, and looked out the window. A graceful cradle of willow, with all its dainty furbishings, was laid upon the pyre, which had already been fed with the richness of a priceless layette. Find more words! 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