branchlet

• “The full moon is her face263and the branchlet is her shape,”

  The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night

• “The full moon is her face [FN#263] and the branchlet is her shape,”

  Arabian nights. English

• “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.”

  The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night

• “Said the Caliph, “Bring her to me;” and forth came a damsel, as she were a branchlet of willow, with seducing eyes and eyebrows set like twin bows; and on her head she wore a crown of red gold crusted with pearls and jewelled, under which was a fillet bearing this couplet wrought in letters of chrysolite,”

  The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night

• “The Wazir had a daughter, a virgin of extreme loveliness, as she were a fleeing gazelle or a bending branchlet, and it chanced that she sat one day at the lattice aforesaid and behold, she heard Nur al-Din, singing and solacing himself under his sorrows by improvising these verses,”

  The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night

• “Ordinarily the fallen needle — or branchlet — of a beach oak (CASUARINA EQUISETIFOLIA) is absolutely passive.”

  Last Leaves from Dunk Island

• “Gradually the most obstinate branchlet with its spray of leaves is drawn into juxtaposition with the main part of the mansion.”

  The Confessions of a Beachcomber

• “He plucked a spruce branchlet and stripped away the needles.”

  The Lake House

• “To prepare the vegetable, remove the small leaflets from the main branch by pressing on the branchlet between the fingers and pulling.”

  Chapter 7

• “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.”

  The Silver Gryphon

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