weeping-willows

Four or five weeping-willows, their stems leaning towards the grave, hang their pensile branches over it.

The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 19, No. 551, June 9, 1832 Various

As for Pretoria itself, it is a pretty and well-wooded little place, with pink and white oleander trees in blossom, fir-trees, gums, and weeping-willows along the streams and round the little bungalow houses.

With Rimington L. March Phillipps

Soon he brought a board, on which were drawn an urn and a couple of consumptive weeping-willows (for Elias was an artist as well as a poet), and underneath were these lines, which being written partly in old

Harper's Young People, March 23, 1880 An Illustrated Weekly Various

The Bend was a relief in more ways than one, for it was a beautiful spot on the sharp turn of a narrow creek, whose banks were overhung by weeping-willows, the green of their leaves made vivid by the recent rain.

Injun and Whitey to the Rescue William S. Hart

A full year had gone by; and Mauser, the kitten, had developed into a beautiful full-grown cat and was the mother of five mischievous little ones, grey-striped and very wild, for whom she had made a home in a deep hollow in the trunk of one of the big weeping-willows, the very tree under which "Gentleman Jim" had built his small kitchen of corrugated iron.

The Petticoat Commando Boer Women in Secret Service Johanna Brandt 1920

While the women were hastily getting through their household duties in order to have a long talk with him, he roamed about the garden and finally stretched himself out on the benches under the six weeping-willows at the foot of the orange avenue.

The Petticoat Commando Boer Women in Secret Service Johanna Brandt 1920

The great weeping-willows were showing their first mysterious tinge of pale yellowish green, and Hansie, watching them, wondered what developments would have taken place before those overhanging branches would be crowned with the full beauty of midsummer.

The Petticoat Commando Boer Women in Secret Service Johanna Brandt 1920

The clump of weeping-willows about the duck pond, and the Norway spruces in front of the Hatchard gate, cast almost the only roadside shadow between lawyer Royall's house and the point where, at the other end of the village, the road rises above the church and skirts the black hemlock wall enclosing the cemetery.

Summer; a novel 1917

Over the lawns hung weeping-willows, and their feathery bough-tips brushed the velvet grass when they swung with the wind.

The Voyages of Dr. Dolittle Hugh Lofting 1916

The house he lived in, on the edge of the town, was quite small; but his garden was very large and had a wide lawn and stone seats and weeping-willows hanging over.

The Story of Doctor Dolittle Hugh Lofting 1916