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If in the withey, they choose a spot where the rods cross or bunch together.
Nature Near London Richard Jefferies 1867
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The withey plantation here is full of flowers in summer; yellow iris flowers in June when midsummer comes, for the iris loves a thunder-shower.
Nature Near London Richard Jefferies 1867
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It happened once, however, that the withey stoles had been polled, and in the spring the boughs were short and small.
Nature Near London Richard Jefferies 1867
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Generally it has been difficult to see them, because the withey is in leaf when they come, and the leaves and sheaves of innumerable rods hide them, while the ground beneath is covered by a thick growth of sedges and flags, to which the birds descend.
Nature Near London Richard Jefferies 1867
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A long withey-bed borders the brook and is more resorted to by sedge-reedlings, or sedge-birds, as they are variously called, than any place I know, even in the remotest country.
Nature Near London Richard Jefferies 1867
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But then there's the pheasants a-breedin ', and there's four brood of flappers in the withey bed, and a sight of young hares in the spinneys.
Tom Brown at Oxford Thomas Hughes 1859
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On his right ran the main stream, some fifty feet in breadth at this point; on the opposite side of which was a rough piece of ground, half withey-bed, half copse, with a rank growth of rushes at the water's edge.
Tom Brown at Oxford Thomas Hughes 1859
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The life of a white man caught straying in the territory of "El Gran Chaco" would not have been worth a withey.
Gaspar the Gaucho A Story of the Gran Chaco Mayne Reid 1850
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CaliHawk33 (anonymous) says ... withey will play the 4 (see the lopez twins playin ball above the net) .....
unknown title 2009
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The Whitlock article comes to mind for instance. dlshaw74 we don't have a chris withey ... it's jeff and Cole would not play the four now, I will proceed to read the rest of the comments mizzousucks89 (anonymous) says ...
unknown title 2009
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