Use "bough" in a sentence

1. " "Oh, mother, I think it was the bough of the

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2. I took a bough laden with needles and met them at the edge of my roots

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3. I struck at them with the bough and slayed many

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4. the stress and fall of that shapely bough

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5. She vaulted lightly to a seat on the pine tree, and laid the offending muff on a bough

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6. Una had put it back on the bough

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7. 33 See, the Lord, the Lord of hosts, shall lop the bough with terror, and the high ones of

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8. uppermost bough, four or five in the outmost fruitful branches of it, says the Lord God of Israel

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9. bough, and an uppermost branch, which they left because of the children of Israel, and there shall be desolation

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10. 48 And Abimelech gat him up to mount Zalmon, he and all the people that were with him; and Abimelech took an axe in his hand, and cut down a bough from the trees, and took it, and laid it on his shoulder, and said to the people that were with him, What you have seen me do, make haste, and do as I have done

11. The bird sat on the bough of the tree

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12. Each tree seems to have a fruitful bough where there is a substantial cluster of olives

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13. Grover fluttered with his flying shoes to the lowest bough of a tree, put his back to the trunk, and stared at the night sky

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14. And so the willing bough was bent

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15. At the old forsaken bough

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16. When he fain would be on the bough a-swing;

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17. The bough of cherries some officious fool

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18. The Cherry Tree Bough"

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19. Upon The Whitened Bough

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20. Throwing his concerns over his shoulder, Ambrosius strode and swung purposefully over bough and branch

21. The rope found a desirably thick bough

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22. She ducked the massive bough of an arm and popped back up, placing the gun barrel alongside his left ear, and fired

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23. Insects on a bough

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24. head grew louder and shriller, as the bough of the ignited tree thrashed around in agony in his

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25. It would be softer than the bough of the tree, less precarious, and less noisy

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26. He reached the lowest bough

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27. Floy sat on a bough above my head and sang so anxiously that Mordan heard her song all the way from the pool

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28. Once they had taken up their four separate positions in the river, one of them shouted, ‘Aslan! Jump now!’ When he heard the signal he immediately dived into the river like a professional with great strength and displaying perfect style, his strong arms then cut through the turbulent water until he reached the large bough where he took his usual rest before continuing to swim strongly followed by the amazed eyes of his four friends

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29. three-feet of powder, and a pine bough lets lose with

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30. Joseph “is a fruitful bough,

31. Joseph �is a fruitful bough,

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32. And if you cut down one of a group of trees, what a harsh discordant gap is usually left; but in time nature will, by throwing a bough here and filling up a gap there, as far as possible rectify matters and bring all into unity again

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33. When they have been painted from this mass point of view, a suggestion of a few leaves here and a bough there may be indicated, coming sharply against the sky, but you will find this basis of tone music, this crescendo and diminuendo throughout all his later work (see illustration, page 215 [Transcribers Note: Diagram XXVI])

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34. For all that, he was much grieved at the loss of his lance, and saying so to his squire, he added, "I remember having read how a Spanish knight, Diego Perez de Vargas by name, having broken his sword in battle, tore from an oak a ponderous bough or branch, and with it did such things that day, and pounded so many Moors, that he got the surname of Machuca, and he and his descendants from that day forth were called Vargas y Machuca

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35. Brown, soft-eyed children ran out from the quaint stone hovels to offer nosegays, or bunches of oranges still on the bough

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36. As he was clinging to a branch, however, half-way up in his struggle to reach the top, the bough, such was his ill-luck and hard fate, gave way, and caught in his fall by a broken limb of the oak, he hung suspended in the air unable to reach the ground

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37. He fingered a piece of apple-blossom that hung low on a swinging bough

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38. the foot of a tree, whilst it roosted on the topmost bough

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39. Once, and once only, was she completely successful; when she broke down the bough of a large sumach, and by a sudden thought, let her glove fall at the same instant

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40. when somebody dies belonged to them and wouldnt eat any breakfast or speak a word wanting to be petted so I thought I stood out enough for one time and let him he does it all wrong too thinking only of his own pleasure his tongue is too flat or I dont know what he forgets that wethen I dont Ill make him do it again if he doesnt mind himself and lock him down to sleep in the coalcellar with the blackbeetles I wonder was it her Josie off her head with my castoffs hes such a born liar too no hed never have the courage with a married woman thats why he wants me and Boylan though as for her Denis as she calls him that forlornlooking spectacle you couldnt call him a husband yes its some little bitch hes got in with even when I was with him with Milly at the College races that Hornblower with the childs bonnet on the top of his nob let us into by the back way he was throwing his sheeps eyes at those two doing skirt duty up and down I tried to wink at him first no use of course and thats the way his money goes this is the fruits of Mr Paddy Dignam yes they were all in great style at the grand funeral in the paper Boylan brought in if they saw a real officers funeral thatd be something reversed arms muffled drums the poor horse walking behind in black L Boom and Tom Kernan that drunken little barrelly man that bit his tongue off falling down the mens W C drunk in some place or other and Martin Cunningham and the two Dedaluses and Fanny MCoys husband white head of cabbage skinny thing with a turn in her eye trying to sing my songs shed want to be born all over again and her old green dress with the lowneck as she cant attract them any other way like dabbling on a rainy day I see it all now plainly and they call that friendship killing and then burying one another and they all with their wives and families at home more especially Jack Power keeping that barmaid he does of course his wife is always sick or going to be sick or just getting better of it and hes a goodlooking man still though hes getting a bit grey over the ears theyre a nice lot all of them well theyre not going to get my husband again into their clutches if I can help it making fun of him then behind his back I know well when he goes on with his idiotics because he has sense enough not to squander every penny piece he earns down their gullets and looks after his wife and family goodfornothings poor Paddy Dignam all the same Im sorry in a way for him what are his wife and 5 children going to do unless he was insured comical little teetotum always stuck up in some pub corner and her or her son waiting Bill Bailey wont you please come home her widows weeds wont improve her appearance theyre awfully becoming though if youre goodlooking what men wasnt he yes he was at the Glencree dinner and Ben Dollard base barreltone the night he borrowed the swallowtail to sing out of in Holles street squeezed and squashed into them and grinning all over his big Dolly face like a wellwhipped childs botty didnt he look a balmy ballocks sure enough that must have been a spectacle on the stage imagine paying 5/- in the preserved seats for that to see him trotting off in his trowlers and Simon Dedalus too he was always turning up half screwed singing the second verse first the old love is the new was one of his so sweetly sang the maiden on the hawthorn bough he was always on for flirtyfying too when I sang Maritana with him at Freddy Mayers private opera he had a delicious glorious voice Phoebe dearest goodbye sweetheart sweetheart he always sang it not like Bartell Darcy sweet tart goodbye of course he had the gift of the voice so there was no art in it all over you like a warm showerbath O Maritana wildwood flower we sang splendidly though it was a bit

41. Presently it was joined by another, and then by a third; and the birds, fidgeting restlessly on their bough, talked together earnestly and low

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42. come at him in a dark mass, like snow sliding from a bough

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43. His youngest daughter, scratching her head with one hand, with the other waved a green bough over his scorched and peeling face

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44. A great broken bough upon the grass showed whence he had gained his leverage to tilt over our bridge

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45. But I had no mind for these smooth things; instead, fear worked like yeast in my thoughts, and the fermentation brought to the surface, in great gobs of scum, the images of disaster; a loaded gun held carelessly at a stile, a horse rearing and rolling over, a shaded pool with a submerged, stake, an elm bough falling suddenly on a still morning, a car at a blind corner; all the catalogue of threats to civilized life rose and haunted me; I even pictured a homicidal maniac mouthing in the shadows, swinging a length of lead pipe

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46. He turned the horse's head into the bushes, hitched him on to a bough, and made a sort of couch or nest for her in the deep mass of dead leaves

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47. A bough of mistletoe

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48. `I am at home among trees, by root or bough, though these trees are of a kind strange to me, save as a name in

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49. On two chairs beneath the bole of the tree and canopied by a living bough there sat, side

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50. 'The Riders have left chip and bough

51. trees, bare and silent, stood, rank on rank, with tangled bough and hoary

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52. from a bough and cast a pale circle of light below

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53. I, who had thought the Pow’r of Lust had dy’d for me with Childbirth, had dy’d twice and thrice more with Whitehead’s Abuses, until the carnal Acts of Love came to disgust me more than e’en Torture or Murder—e’en I began to feel once more the sweet Stirrings of Carnality like Sap oozing from the Bough in Spring

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54. Never did bough creak so mysteriously, and never did the far-away howling of dogs send such a woeful presage through the night

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55. When he got to the middle of it he crawled along a bough, so that he sat just above the sleepers, and then he let fall one stone after another upon the body of one of them

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56. The hare came to eat parsley from their hands, the deer grazed by their side, the stag bounded past them unheeding; the birds, likewise, did not stir from the bough, but sang in entire security

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57. The Knight was bewildered at her great beauty, and said, "You, Two-Eyes, can surely break off a bough of this tree for me?" "Yes," she replied, "that I will, for it is my property"; and climbing up, she easily broke off a branch with silver leaves and golden fruit, which she handed to the Knight

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58. There was a violent wind, as well as thunder, and either one or the other split a tree off at the corner of the building: a huge bough fell across the roof, and knocked down a portion of the east chimney-stack, sending a clatter of stones and soot into the kitchen-fire

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59. He had been taken with that branch (which the lawyer preferred to call a bough) in his possession; but he said that he had found it broken off and lying on the ground, and had picked it up

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60. A falling tree bough crashed through the kitchen window

61. If you have a companion, it is easier to carry a large animal by tying it firmly to a bough, which can be carried on your shoulders, but you should not take it all the way into camp, where it would attract flies and scavenging animals

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62. When the Bough Breaks: A Mother’s Story

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63. From this primitive function has arisen, unquestionably, all the forms and ceremonials of modern church and state, for through all the countless ages, back beyond the uttermost ramparts of a dawning humanity our fierce, hairy forebears danced out the rites of the Dum-Dum to the sound of their earthen drums, beneath the bright light of a tropical moon in the depth of a mighty jungle which stands unchanged today as it stood on that long forgotten night in the dim, unthinkable vistas of the long dead past when our first shaggy ancestor swung from a swaying bough and dropped lightly upon the soft turf of the first meeting place

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64. When I approached carelessly and alarmed them, they made a sudden splash and rippling with their tails, as if one had struck the water with a brushy bough, and instantly took refuge in the depths

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65. There too the turtle doves sat over the spring, or fluttered from bough to bough of the soft white pines over my head; or the red squirrel, coursing down the nearest bough, was particularly familiar and inquisitive

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66. Then, sitting on a pitch pine bough, they attempt to swallow in their haste a kernel which is too big for their throats and chokes them; and after great labor they disgorge it, and spend an hour in the endeavor to crack it by repeated blows with their bills

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67. Anne was sitting on the big gray boulder in the orchard looking at the poem of a bare, birchen bough hanging against the pale red sunset with the very perfection of grace

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68. If she had not clutched at a low willow bough she would have fallen

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69. There is no wreath upon the bough:

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70. But the moment it sees a man, it immediately stretches itself out along a bough, so that only an experienced hunter can tell it, while an inexperienced one will stand near by and see nothing

71. At once, as if by concert, frogs and nightingales were silent; but the light plash of the fountain was still heard beneath the beating of the rain, and far off in the distance some little bird, no doubt safe and dry under a sheltering bough, chirped in monotonous rhythm his two recurring notes

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72. The Princess went on gazing at the scene as though she had not heard me, and turning to her sister and Lubov Sergievna at intervals, in order to point out to them its details—especially a curved, pendent bough, with its reflection in the water, which particularly pleased her

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