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  • On the phone, the champion issues light, whispery breaths through her weeping-willow whiskers.

    Hickory, Westminster Kennel Club's 'best in show' dog, is from Va. hunt country Dan Zak 2011

  • On the phone, the champion issues light, whispery breaths through her weeping-willow whiskers.

    Hickory, Westminster Kennel Club's 'best in show' dog, is from Va. hunt country Dan Zak 2011

  • Accordingly, the weeping-willow, the weeping-birch, and other trees of early and pendulous shoots, flourish in these favoured recesses in a degree unknown in our eastern districts; and the air is also said to possess that mildness which is favourable to consumptive cases.

    The Heart of Mid-Lothian 2007

  • The Four Seasons is parked alongside Boston's lush Public Garden, with views of its weeping-willow trees and its pond, replete with the famous Swan Boats and crossed by a beautiful suspension bridge of gray and white, with blue cables.

    Brahmin On The Common 2006

  • His shoulders rustled some weeping-willow tendrils—and just like that he was sitting on her stone garden bench.

    The Town Chuck Hogan 2004

  • The month was October, and down in the yard, a few feet from the bee-hives, just beyond the shadow of the weeping-willow that stood near the well, and along the row of gooseberry bushes under which the hens were wont to gather and gossip -- standing on one leg and making their toilets meanwhile -- there stood a barrel, out of whose bung-hole protruded a black bottle turned bottom side up.

    The Evolution of Dodd William Hawley Smith

  • Clear streams of water ran coolly and pleasingly by the sides of the streets, shaded by the ubiquitous weeping-willow.

    The Second Battalion Royal Dublin Fusiliers in the South African War With a Description of the Operations in the Aden Hinterland Cecil Francis Romer

  • The sounds shaped themselves in his imagination to the picture of a beautiful weeping-willow.

    Selected Polish Tales Else C. M. Benecke

  • Where Soho-street now begins there was a dyer's pond and yard; over it was a fine weeping-willow.

    Recollections of Old Liverpool A Nonagenarian

  • Neshaminy, with its dazzling squares of young wheat, its brown patches of corn-land, its snowy masses of blooming orchard, and the huge, fountain-like jets of weeping-willow, half concealing the gray stone fronts of the farm-houses.

    The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 10, No. 57, July, 1862 Various

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