How To Use Willow In A Sentence

The mysterious jack snipe is a typical bird of the often water-logged northern taiga, birch and willow country.
A section of a branch of birch or willow from the north only a couple of inches in diameter will show one or two hundred annual rings. Factors Affecting Development of Canada's North
Josefina Scaglione's YouTube video When Mr. Laurents first called the willowy soprano, who speaks with lushly rolled r's and sometimes interrupts conversation to ask the meaning of an English word, she was performing the role of Amber Von Tussle in a Buenos Aires production of "Hairspray. I've Just Met a Girl Named Josefina
The forest services are providing for a pilot project involving 47 hectares of short-rotation willow coppice.
This is cheap and easy to do with specimens such as berberis, buddleia, cornus, kerria, philadelphus, spirea and willow.

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Some taxonomic groups are particularly species rich in a global context: any impact of climate warming on such species, for example, willows (Salix spp.), sawflies, stoneflies, wading birds, and salmonid fish, is likely to affect their diversity at the global level. Arctic environments north of the treeline
I remember on this occasion of our last sugar bush in Minnesota, that I stood one day outside of our hut and watched the approach of a visitor -- a bent old man, his hair almost white, and carrying on his back a large bundle of red willow, or kinnikinick, which the Indians use for smoking. Indian Boyhood
From the Cardrona hotel the valley opens out and willows grow beside the little Cardrona River.
I can't see so well, it's getting dark and the reeds are tall here, willowy reeds that slap your face when you climb down with your rake and cull and dreg the day. Dock
One of the males used a length of cut hazel to pole the craft out of the willow wood and into clear water.
Ford stood next to a willow tree, the thin branches falling around him like a curtain.
The very beetle climbing a rough willow is redolent of flowers. The Spring of Joy: A Little Book of Healing
When you disturbed them the seeds of rose-bay willow-herbs lifted like air bubbles into the beam of light.
He stopped when he saw her, her thread bare cotton skirt hiked up to her knees as her feet brushed the top of the water underneath a willow tree.
Clusters of tall, willowy bamboos rose out of ten pale-pink marble planters and almost touched the high triple-domed ceiling.
With her willowy, elegant figure, she could make almost anything look stylish. Times, Sunday Times
DiDonato took a broader and more dramatic perspective in two Rossini numbers, Desdemona's haunting "Willow Song" from "Otello" and a dazzlingly virtuosic encore of "Tanti affetti," the final showpiece from "La Donna del Lago. SFGate: Top News Stories
From there, demands for commissions came his way, and he has built everything from meditation treehouses in Hungary and outside Rome, to his most recent project: a treehouse on the river Spree for a client in Berlin, integrated into a weeping willow, that is for "meeting friends, writing and pleasure," he says. Closer to the Stars
Today, by comparison, they are increasingly a blend of native broadleaf species, such as larch, oak, willow and ash, with neat rows of Douglas firs and Sitka spruces. The Guardian World News
Jake collapsed into a heap in the grass under the willow and started bawling, grabbing a few tufts of crinkly brown grass and tearing them out by the roots.
The clouds have no notion of being caricatured, and the trees keep cautiously away from the brink of such streams -- save, perchance, now and then, here and there, a weak well-meaning willow -- a thing of shreds and patches -- its leafless wands covered with bits of old worsted stockings, crowns of hats, a bauchle Recreations of Christopher North, Volume 2
Among the common wildflowers are one-flowered cinquefoil, woolly lousewort, alpine willowherb, three saxifrages, and an Indian paintbrush.
_Pussy willow, Glaucous willow_ 40, 41, 171 falcata, Pursh _Black willow_ 42 fragilis, L. _Crack willow, Brittle willow_ 43-45 nigra, Marsh. Handbook of the Trees of New England
He prefers the Teifi coracle because he likes working with cleft wild woods such as willow, hazel and ash rather than pre-sawn materials.
In the first place a subvariety of the weeping-willow with leaves rolled up into a spiral coil. Species and Varieties, Their Origin by Mutation
The boatman beaches us on a spit of land leading up to a stone house surrounded by willows.
We chose to sit beneath a willow tree with its branches shielding us from view.
Willow, olives and tamarind are also introduced as all are species that thrive on riverbanks.
She's standing beside an electric sign, which casts a blue and red glow onto her willowy frame.
The creek -- that part of it near which the willows grew, and where the old ashery used to stand -- had been their daily resort every summer-day all their lives; and they all looked at her with astonishment and dismay, but none of them spoke. Shenac's Work at Home
The thistles, knapweeds and willowherbs are truer purple, but the bluish nettle-leaved bellflowers and field scabious are also tinged with that mysterious shadow which has more to do with night than golden day. Country diary: Wenlock Edge
To one side the River Seven meandered, thick with willow, purple with balsam and white with convolvulus.
Establishment of long-term grass swards has had some success, and planting birch (Betula pubescens) and native willows (Salix lanata and S. phylicifolia) is proving a successful conservation measure, using mycorrhizal inocula, for re-establishing species and habitat diversity of grasslands, shrublands, and woodlands that were lost through overgrazing [22] [23] although non-native species can cause problems. Human impacts on the biodiversity of the Arctic
A writer in the "Mercury" says: "The root of the buttonwood or crane willow, a shrub which is conspicuous in our swamps in the spring, when boiled with honey and cumfrey, makes a pleasant syrup, which is the most effective remedy known to me in diseases of the lungs. Resources of the Southern Fields and Forests, Medical, Economical, and Agricultural. Being also a Medical Botany of the Confederate States; with Practical Information on the Useful Properties of the Trees, Plants, and Shrubs
A palm warbler is sighted in a patch of willows, which also teems with catbirds, warbling vireos, yellow warblers, and a blackpoll or two.
After wowing the audience at the Willows club in Salford, he is in with a chance of winning the £5,000 grand final on November 16.
A single fork of white lightning slashed the sky, hitting the willow in front of her.
Willow trees breaking out into buds foretell the coming of spring.
Along the lakefront a curving sweep of barberry and daylilies terminated at gazebos overarched by old apple and willow trees.
Sandbars often are dominated by pure stands of black willow, while point bars are occupied by diverse forests of cottonwood, sugarberry, sycamore, green ash, and pecan. Ecoregions of the Mississippi Alluvial Plain (EPA)
This is a white form of our old enemy the rosebay willowherb, but once you have seen it growing in a border backed by dark hedging you will forget all about its evil relatives.
What benefits the willow tree that its bark should contain salicylic acid; or the foxglove, digitalis; the periwinkle, vincristine; or the poppy, opiates?
You'll also see hand-painted vases, Toby jugs, majolica, and willowware, examples of Pyro (the first ovenware), royal dinner services, and sculpture by modern artists.
Flower buds of the native forest trees, however, open in a progression over a six-month span, starting in April with poplars, willows, alders, and beaked hazel and ending in October with witch hazel.
As an aside, just because the Ethiopian beauty depicted on the cover was a famine victim does not make her any less graceful, willowy or beautiful.
The stream is well overgrown with willow and more.
The "First Dude," as she calls the hunky Eskimo in the East Wing, waits on his snowmobile with the kids - Track (named after high school track meets), Bristol (after Bristol Bay where they did commercial fishing), Willow (after a community in Alaska), Piper REDONDOWRITER'S SACRED ORDINARY
Not to continue to invoke the hallowed name of Buffy, but the care with which Joss Whedon brought Willow into college life and then out of the closet is a good model to follow. 'Heroes' recap: Claire gets her girl on and Peter trips the light fantastic | EW.com
It is said that Hippocrates (he of the Hippocratic Oath) brewed leaves from the willow tree to ease the pain of childbirth.
He kept in by being an oak, not by being a willow, by a constancy in virtue, not by a pliableness to vice. Commentary on the Whole Bible Volume IV (Isaiah to Malachi)
In this century these compounds have provided the basis of many common drugs including aspirin which comes from willow bark, and taxol, an ovarian cancer treatment, derived from the pacific yew.
As Willow was about to speak, a loud knock sounded on the door.
He seemed quite interested, but I watched his eyes flicker quickly back to Willow.
The garden is resplendent with California poppies, blossoming artichokes, and, at its center, a ramada built with kiwi vines intertwined with willow and recycled wood.
The weeping willow tree can often be spotted drooping into lakes and rivers. Times, Sunday Times
And the mountain zones are rife with arctic wildflowers like arctic willows and saxifrage.
A fairly stiff breeze was blowing, but the branches of the willow trees never swayed.
Today's excess of elk and buffalo have destroyed woody species such as willow, aspen, cottonwood, alder and serviceberry along the streams and rivers.
Drawn in the big willows at Poppleton he used a groundbait feeder and worm combination for a small barbel, an eel and a roach.
They go to some far trysting-place, some nest that is to be in willow or darkling fir, some place that their ancestors have known; and we are left with a memory of wings dividing the air and a sense of frustration. The Spring of Joy: A Little Book of Healing
I saw that she lay in the position of old knightly tomb figures, her legs crossed at the ankles, a long black sword clasped between her breasts and a red sandstone bowl on her chest from which rose a willowy plume of smoke. The Skrayling Tree
The most common forms included beech-like trees, poplars, willows, cattails, sumac, soapberry, and conifers such as pines, sequoias, and false cypress.
She was a willowy, graceful girl, around my age.
I have English Breakfast tea in a blue and white porcelain cup - not an austere Chinese willows weeping vessel, but an Italian blue flowers happily dancing on white type ceramic curvy cup.
It is a fine place to dream in, with falls, cascades, cool rocks lined with hypnum three inches thick; shaded with maple, dogwood, alder, willow; grand clumps of lady-ferns where no hand may touch them; light filtering through translucent leaves; oaks fifty feet high; lilies eight feet high in a filled lake basin near by, and the finest libocedrus groves and tallest ferns and goldenrods. The Yosemite
Today's excess of elk and buffalo have destroyed woody species such as willow, aspen, cottonwood, alder and serviceberry along the streams and rivers.
Willows, elders and alders can be planted around the edges to soften the effect of the regimented poplars.
When shows that slender form that doth the willow-branch outvie. The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night
The eerie squeal of a wood duck came from somewhere behind the gray tangle of naked oaks, willows cypress, elm, tupelo and cottonwood.
Wisteria, weeping willows and reeds are mirrored in the calm of the pond.
A woman born on the borders of an uneasy alliance of ages past between Tarahumara, Yaqui, and Pima, she was tall, almost willowy in the blossom of her youth.
I spoke to a willowy girl from Adelphi University visiting the show one day for her anthropology course.
Water oak, willow oak, sweetgum, blackgum and cypress occur in wet areas. Ecoregions of Alabama and Georgia (EPA)
The shy emerald mantles the valleys and fledges the heights; the pussy-willows tremble by lake and stream; the wild crocus brims the hollows with a haze of violet; trailing his last ragged pennants of snow on the hills, winter makes his sullen retreat. The Trail of '98 A Northland Romance
Hidden away in the English countryside, these simple shelters, made of coppiced hazel and willow covered in army-surplus canvas and other easily sourced natural materials, are part of a fine tradition of independent and ecologically savvy homemaking. Junkitecture and the Jellyfish theatre
Even before the aspen and willows leaf out in the spring you'll see honeysuckles' green haze in abandoned fields and across wooded hillsides.
The Asian longhorned beetle that invaded New York in 1996 has since killed thousands of the state's hardwood trees, including maples, elms, willows, and poplars.
The next day Willow was taken to the blacksmith and the armourer.
The willow branches swing in the breeze.
the pendulous branches of a weeping willow
And I do wonder why she had to find her inspiration in the rose bay willowherb she saw in Germany, when there must be a wealth of other imagery in the Park itself (including willowherb, I'm sure).
Some rare poppies and buttercups have also been found in addition to small amounts of arboreal material such as larch needles, willows, and tree bark. Phil Jones and the Dutiful Comrades « Climate Audit
We had sought relief on a shady spot on the embankment and were sitting under a willow tree. WALKING THE BIBLE
Plants that grow along the stream banks include alder, Fremont cottonwood, sycamore, honey mesquite, and Goodding willow.
The willow bark contained salicin, the pharmacological ancestor of a family of drugs called salicylates, of which aspirin is probably the most famous.
A willowy, friendly young woman settled me down on a sofa with the menu, home-made crisps expertly flavoured with sea salt and spring onions, good olives and spicy little mushroom won tons.
Willow soon was laughing too, from the contagiousness of it.
The shady trees cover him with their shadow; the willows of the brook compass him about.
We sat beneath the willows, and Cadmar dug for red worms with a little spade he took from his basket, and then both he and Gyric baited the hooks, and tied the thread lines to willow wands which Cadmar cut fresh.
The crack willow catkins are a paler yellow and more silky. Times, Sunday Times
The dwarf scrub communities are dominated by crowberry (Empetrum nigrum) and include other ericads (Vaccinium spp.), arctic willow (Salix arctica), and white mountain-avens (Dryas octopetala). Alaska Peninsula montane taiga
I have potted them on (three to a three inch pot) and they are now an enticingly willowy six inches tall.
The poplar and willow trees line the opposite bank of the River Kennet from the Town Mill homes.
All around the horse corral, it was overgrown with viny bushes and thick rooted willows.
A willow tree outside my house is to be chopped down. Times, Sunday Times
A willowy soldier leaned against a tree near where he stood, whittling a piece of wood.
The tugai plant communities are comprised of the poplars (Populus diversifolia, P. pruinosa), dzhidda (Elaeagnus oxycarpa), willows (Salix spp.), and tamarix (Tamarix spp.) forests which alternate with meadows and reeds. Central Asian riparian woodlands
She was taller than the redhead by an inch or two, being that she had the willowy yet graceful physique like that of a healthy ectomorphic body.
Add boswellia aka frankincense at 1,000 mg a day and willow bark so you get 120 to 240 mg of the active component called salicin, which is also, by the way, the active component of aspirin—we like the aspirin itself. You Being Beautiful
They are small islands planted entirely with willows, and are called osier-holts. Miscellanea
The only plant eaters to survive were reindeer that grazed on lichens and moose that fed on willows.
A pair of orioles alighted on the frisking branch of a weeping willow.
Below the trailing sweeps, violets and daffodils and drifts of yellow, blue and white crocus came forth in Spring and later tulips, grape hyacinth and other like bulbs kept the willow company.
On the bottom lands the grasses began to start, the willows renewed their leafery. The Sagebrusher A Story of the West
It may not be long before the sound of willow thwacking leather reverberates across the middle kingdom.
Besides the valonia oak, the elm, willow, cypress and tamarisk shrub abound.
Venetian noblesse, with their cool porticos and colonnades, overhung with poplars and cypresses of majestic height and lively verdure; on their rich orangeries, whose blossoms perfumed the air, and on the luxuriant willows, that dipped their light leaves in the wave, and sheltered from the sun the gay parties whose music came at intervals on the breeze. The Mysteries of Udolpho
He decided to plant willows and fence the cows out.
A few dwarf birches unfold their leaves amid the rocks; a few sub-arctic willows hang out their catkins beside the swampy runnels; the golden potentilla opens its bright flowers on slopes where the evergreen _Empetrum nigrum_ slowly ripens its glossy crow-berries; and from where the sea-spray dashes at full tide along the beach, to where the snow gleams at midsummer on the mountain-summits, the thin short sward is dotted by the minute cruciform stars of the scurvy-grass, and the crimson blossoms of the sea-pink. The Cruise of the Betsey or, A Summer Ramble Among the Fossiliferous Deposits of the Hebrides. With Rambles of a Geologist or, Ten Thousand Miles Over the Fossiliferous Deposits of Scotland
The water-slopes of river-dikes are protected by plantations of willows or strong semi-aquatic shrubs or grasses, but as these will not grow upon banks exposed to salt-water, sea-dikes must be faced with stone, fascines, or some other revetement [14]. Earth as Modified by Human Action, The~ Chapter 04 (historical)
With efficient rasplike grinders, they consumed a winter diet of coarse dry grass, plus twigs and bark of birches, willows, and larches with as much ease as they did their summer diet of green grasses, sedges, and herbs. The Mammoth Hunters
This is cheap and easy to do with specimens such as berberis, buddleia, cornus, kerria, philadelphus, spirea and willow.
You might even end up being just like Compton - a tall well-built hero with matinee-idol looks and a wizard with the willow.
A freckled boy of about seventeen was stooped over his jointer, busy bevelling a barrel-stave, and another a year or two younger was carefully paring long bands of willow for binding the staves together when the barrel was set up in its truss hoop. An Excellent Mystery
The women, in tunics, were buxom peasants-no tall, willowy jungle princesses here; their voices, shrill and sharp, floated across the stream as they fetched water or busied themselves at the fires, with the kidneys and kedgeree, no doubt. Isabelle
She was pale and willowy, with a large mouth and the most amazing violet eyes that you ever did see.
He weighed some soil, put it in a pot and waited five years for a willow tree to grow. Times, Sunday Times
You won't miss the blaze of pollarded orange willows.
Willow felt like she was going to collapse from overexcitement.
Ten and a quarter inches long, swishy, made of willow.
If the cornus are not for your area, there will be plenty of other things, like the willows that should grow for you. Twiggy « Fairegarden
Examples include taxol from the Pacific yew, curare from a group of South American shrubs, and aspirin, from the bark of willow trees.
During the first mile of this section the road-cut turns to trail, and requires climbing out of the bottoms to avoid a bad sidehill through willow patches and over an open creek.
I'd arrived there with two willowy 14-year-olds, all bare midriffs and attitude, feeling that along with the luggage I had probably also packed a whole load of trouble.
An urgent call has gone out for volunteers to carry out an operation to remove willow and birch scrub fringing the moss's shallow pools.
Coughing and burping without a hint of embarrassment, it carries us from the train station, with its cheerful round clockface and neat front of red brick, over the weeping-willow-lined river and up the road, past the Tesco and Superdrug and a handful of pubs, past the castle and the mall and Poundland my favorite store because everything only costs a pound. A Love Letter to Norwich, England
And the tree, the sacred willow tree, the huluppu tree, is no more!
After wolves were exterminated within the park boundaries, Yellowstone filled with fat, lazy elk that hung out by streams and ate the aspen and willow seedlings down to their nubs.
His precise features were hidden beneath the caliginous atmosphere of the night, but I could see by the distant lights that he was a tall, willowy figure with light muscles.
Red-naped Sapsuckers are the most common sapsucker in deciduous and streamside forests, especially in and around aspen, cottonwood, and willow.
Pussy willows in bloom, dogwoods budding, the Narcissus providing tiny splashes of yellow against the brown landscape, fields going green. "I’m made of bones of the branches, the boughs, and the browbeating light..."
The willows, white oaks, cottonwoods, and pecans that grow here are normally much taller than the oaks of the Cross Timbers forest.
In addition, she carried for alpenstock the willow pole of Neepoosa. CHAPTER 3
As the north-westerly wind whistled shrilly through the willows near my house, I concluded that this year would be special for kite-lovers.
Around us was a wilderness of grey dune-sand and Port Jackson willow, and a stench of garbage and ash.
Guava, lemon, sycamore, olive, date, willow wood are used in turnery as they have different ornamental color.
Vines, cornus, willow, buddleia and fig will be rooted by spring and ready for potting by mid-summer. Gardening jobs for November
The leaves and bark of the willow tree contain a substance called salicin, a naturally occurring compound similar to acetylsalicylic acid, the chemical name for aspirin. BBC News | News Front Page | UK Edition
On 12 th April, 2 hoopoes, 2 wrynecks, a nightingale, 2 citrine wagtails, a black-eared wheatear, 15 redstarts, a whinchat, a robin, a Menetries’ and 23 willow warblers, a spotted flycatcher and 4 scaly-breasted munias were in Mushrif Palace Gardens.
The trees include willow, cherry, poplar, acers, larch, ash, birch, sycamore, elder and sitka spruce.
Inland, willows are budding and azaleas are blooming.
The ground-down powder-like wood particles will be used at Drax Power Station, for the UK's first-ever full-scale trials of co-firing willow with coal.
Along the lakefront a curving sweep of barberry and daylilies terminated at gazebos overarched by old apple and willow trees.
A torch procession will walk to the beach, with children carrying colourful lanterns made at workshops during the day, and on arrival at the beach there will be a large willow sculpture of a phoenix to be set on fire.
The boatman beaches us on a spit of land leading up to a stone house surrounded by willows.
How much willow ware have I got to 'bestow' on you?" inquired the The Harvester
The trees around them were thin and willowy, soft breezes shook their leaves and sounded like cheery tintinnabulations ringing throughout the air.
But I feel ugly beside Willow and wonder how she can bring herself to look at me, never mind kiss me.
In a study on Devon Island, just south of Ellesmere, the hares fed mainly on Arctic willow in winter, supplemented in summer with Arctic avens, grasses and sedges.
The Blackfoot is fifty paces in breadth, and is bordered by dense thickets of willow - near the mouth there is a large solitary mound or hill, called the "Blackfoot Butte. Life in the Rocky Mountains
She is far more effective than many beauties, graceful and willowy. Times, Sunday Times
She thrusts her minikin hands through the willow wands to greet me.
The flora is dominated by Sequoia, cypresses, elms, oaks, willows, and cottonwoods.
Even in the really bright pink flowers such as rosebay willowherb, blue sneaks in to add a trace of purple as it does in wild thyme and centaury. Country diary: Wenlock Edge
With pair of eyes, two bend sheet triangle hanging sought eyebrow, willow stature, physical coquettish slim.
There were yellow lady's slipper orchids everywhere, and wolf-willow, which smells magical. Times, Sunday Times
Today there are withy beds in the Southwest that produce willow withies in white, buff and brown.
The mouths of side streams also attract fish - more so if there is some overhead cover from willows, alders or some other trees.
Willow or hazel panels are in vogue and give an informal, rustic feel. Times, Sunday Times
Crack willows beside rivers are a streaky yellow. Times, Sunday Times
She wanted a whippy switch off a willow tree in the front yard.
He was young, untainted by failure and bold wielding the willow.
As exciting as that is, it leaves fans here at home wondering when they'll be able to get their fill of the willowy musician.
When your young willow has achieved twelve and a half feet of straight, unbranched stem, you plant it out in the field to a depth of at least thirty inches. Wildwood
Between 150 and 100 million years ago, the cycads were joined by figs, sassafras, oaks, and willows, as well as such evergreen plants as sequoias and palms.
Anyway, yesterday Xander exclaimed something like, "God, smart girls are hot!" as Anya figured something out and Willow lamented, "Why couldn't you have discovered that in eleventh grade? Buffy Quote of the Week
Huc and Gabet's account of Lhassa is, I do not doubt, excellent as to particulars; but the trees which they describe as magnificent, and girdling the city, have uniformly been represented to me as poor stunted willows, apricots, poplars, and walnuts, confined to the gardens of the rich. Himalayan Journals — Complete
The dust particles might be better at catching the wind, like fluff on a willow seed.
Shadows and negative space create daft hallows of his beautiful shapes, in her eyes, there were no shapes as reticent and mature as the ones that outlined cheekbones, eye sockets and the willowed depth bellow his chin. Whispering to the Creature, “You are the Reason the World Is…”
Why should the Mongol flute complain no willows grow?
This is cheap and easy to do with specimens such as berberis, buddleia, cornus, kerria, philadelphus, spirea and willow.
They weave a basket out of osiers with pliant young willows.
Nests are usually built in deciduous trees, such as aspen, alder, cottonwood, or willow, but they may also be in firs or other conifers.
Trees planted since 2001 include the river bush willow, the cheesewood, the red currant, the mountain seringa, the baobab and the wild pomegranate.
Dear Sir, -- I have now, past dispute, made out three distinct species of the willow-wrens (_motacillae trochili_) which constantly and invariably use distinct notes. The Natural History of Selborne, Vol. 1
The willows overhanging it discard huge branches which should have been pruned back years ago.
He paid tribute to his fellow players after lifting both trophies at an awards ceremony at Salford's Willows Variety Centre last night.
In the house they had now she did the wash in a dim cobwebby space under the cellar stairs, on a newer machine than the tub-shaped one that had seized his hand in the Willow basement; this machine had a lid that closed, and a spin-dry phase in its cycle instead of a wringer. The Best American Erotica 2006
I guess had to give up on the idea of ever being lithe or willowy. Raziel
His whole conversation on snugness revolves around fictional children who hide or sleep in snug places within the following books: The Wind in the Willows, Heidi, The Secret Garden, and the stories of Beatrix Potter. Feeling Like a Kid (copy)
We chose to sit beneath a willow tree with its branches shielding us from view.
Roger says he's used willow water for years to root azaleas, lilacs, summersweets and even roses.
The Willow Tea Rooms in Sauchiehall Street were among his most original buildings and the most complete in their scheme of decoration and furniture.
She has a stack of willow in her garden at all times, soaking in water ready for weaving.
Then the land went down, and there was marsh of rushes and willow and hazel.
His pace slowed further as he turned onto Willow Avenue and saw his house, second on the left, a red brick ranch with spidery ivy growing up the east side.
Many wildflowers in the habitat belong to the acanthus family, including branched foldwing, Carolina scalystem, Carolina wild petunia, loose-flower water willow, and swamp twinflower.
Annabel Goldie - bless her - may henceforth be addressed as Daisy Danderfluff of Willowbottom.
In actuality it came from the name of a bird - the Willow inker - that had a dreadfully loud caw, not to mention a terrible unaccommodating personality, and happened to live in a willow tree.
Then Kennaston found the alchemist had been compounding nitrum of Memphis with sulphur, mixing in a little willow charcoal to make the whole more friable, and that the powder had exploded. The Cream of the Jest: A Comedy of Evasions
The main storage medium inside willow seeds, ants and all other living cells is not electronic but chemical.
Johnson helped shovel a final layer of soil around a newly planted willow oak.
The latter is also called goat willow and has larger leaves. Times, Sunday Times
The fair, willowy girl had stars in her eyes when at the age of twenty, she was married to the tall and handsome young man with a four-figure salary.
Above him was the strong willow's branch, he braced his feet against the trunk behind him, and pushed.
They added more than 20 riffle weirs, 15 post vanes, and 80,000 willows to slow water down, protect streambanks, increase habitat and raise the water table.
The old grass and the sprouting needles of new grass greened, the buds on the guelder-rose, the buds and the sticky, spirituous birches swelled, and on the willow, all sprinkled with golden catkins, the flitting, newly-hatched bee buzzed. Tolstoy III: Invisible Larks
I filled the hole up with dirt again and put my pussywillow in it. then I used the hose to make a dryish mud all around the plant. The Stream of Concious-ness – The journal of a twelve year old boy - The Retroist
There were even curraghs, composed of ox hides stretched over hoops of willow, in the manner of the ancient British, and some committed themselves to rafts formed for the occasion, from the readiest materials that occurred, and united in such a precarious manner as to render it probable that, before the accomplishment of the voyage, some of the clansmen of the deceased might be sent to attend their chieftain in the world of spirits. The Fair Maid of Perth
Benny Hempstead always smiled and nodded acquiescence, but there was in him the strange persistency of a willow bough, the persistency of pliability, which is the most unconquerable of all. The Copy-Cat, & Other Stories

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