willow

• For six miles there is timber, but after this willow is the only wood to camp. —  The Prairie Traveler A Hand-book for Overland Expeditions
• They make it o' the dried leaves o' the shumack and the inner bark o' the red-willow, chopped very small an' mixed together. —  The Dog Crusoe and his Master
• For a second or two his pole bent like a willow, and we could feel the heavy boat jerk off a little with the tremendous strain; but all at once the pole broke off short with a crack, Francois' heels made a flourish in the air, and then he disappeared head foremost into the foaming water, with my tobacco coiled round his neck! —  The Young Fur Traders
• By means of long poles they extended their platform from the wagon quite up to the trunk of the tree, so as to give them a broad terrace to move about upon The poles were fast wattled together by rods of the beautiful weeping-willow (_Salix Babylonica_), which is a native of these parts, and several trees of which grew by the side of the vley. —  The Bush Boys History and Adventures of a Cape Farmer and his Family
• It was the weeping or Babylonian willow--so-called, because it was upon trees of this species that the captive Jews hung their harps when they "sat and wept by the streams of Babel." —  The Bush Boys History and Adventures of a Cape Farmer and his Family

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