Boughs

Seven of the cases involved the theft or receiving of items of little or no monetary value — mostly clothing and blankets, as well as boughs from a flake and a dead sister's trunk full of personal effects (all four female complainants filed charges in this category). ❋ Unknown (2005)

It was absolutely still; the rain running from the eaves, and the rather wild but very low whistle of the wind round the chimneys and through the boughs were the sole sounds in its neighbourhood. ❋ Unknown (2004)

The boughs were a sheet of ice, and her fingers so cold that they could hardly take hold of them. ❋ Florence M. [Illustrator] Cooper (N/A)

We walked about 300 yards and came to a lot of green boughs on the ground, that was camouflage; underneath the boughs was a whale of a gun, the biggest thing you ever saw in your life-as big as a house. ❋ Unknown (1918)

The fruit trees were a-glow with blossom when we reached Normandy, and the pink and white Elves who played hide-and-seek in the boughs were as lovely as Titania. ❋ Unknown (1912)

` It says "Bough-wough!" cried a Daisy: ` that's why its branches are called boughs! ' ❋ Unknown (1899)

The fragrance of the orange alleys, and of the acres of flowers, was heavy on the air; there was the sound of music borne down the low southerly wind; here and there through the boughs was the dainty glisten of gliding silks: -- it was such a scene as once belonged to the terraces and gardens of Versailles. ❋ 1839-1908 Ouida (1873)

When they die, no spot sacred by ancient reverence will receive their bones — Religion will not breathe her sweet and solemn farewell upon their grave; the husband or the father will dig the pit that is to hold them, beneath the nearest tree; he will himself deposit them within it, and the wind that whispers through the boughs will be their only requiem. ❋ Unknown (1832)

(five) great elements for its flower-buds, and the gross elements for its smaller boughs, which is always endued with leaves, which always puts forth flowers, and upon which all existent objects depend, whose seed is ❋ Kisari Mohan [Translator] Ganguli (N/A)

If any kind of boughs or willows were to be had, we cut a quantity and, laying them in regular order near together, formed a sort of mattress which was very comfortable. ❋ Frederick Samuel Dellenbaugh (1894)

There is the "Birnam Wood" stratagem, by which men advanced behind a screen of boughs, which is even used for the concealment of ships, and the curious legend (occurring in Irish tradition also, and recalling ❋ Grammaticus Saxo (N/A)

A kind called _mansamilbas_, resembling a wheaten plumb, is very dangerous, as is likewise the sap of the boughs, which is perilous for the sight, if it should chance to get into the eyes. [ ❋ Robert Kerr (1784)

The attack was announced during Sukkoth, a Jewish holiday that is celebrated with "the four species", one of which is boughs with leaves from the myrtle tree. ❋ Haggai Carmon (2010)

Concertgoers seated below their boughs once enjoyed a dappled canopy, and the place seems a bit naked without them. ❋ David Mermelstein (2011)

There were soft couches, covered in white linen and raw silk throw pillows, overstuffed chairs, and a rocker made of bent tree boughs. ❋ Anne Canadeo (2011)

There was a tent of evergreen boughs and garden debris there already. ❋ Carol Reid (2011)

They re-arranged the boughs so that the box was heavily covered with the driest branches. ❋ Carol Reid (2011)

She did not see the yellow roses blooming in one partially-shaded corner, nor that the petals appeared to recline under the long, splayed boughs of a nearby cedar. ❋ Meredith Greene (2011)

But as we went along there were more and yet more and at last under the boughs of the trees, we saw that there was a long belt of them along the shore, about the breadth of a country turnpike road. ❋ Unknown (2011)

Yo where did you get that dub from? The [Bough] up the block [hooked] it up or The Bough [Terrence] hooked it up ❋ NJ Finest (2006)

"I looked down at my pants only to see my [boughes] [hanging out of] my [zipper]" ❋ JB And JDuck (2007)

"He's talking [gibberish], [sir]." "Yes, I can hear that, Bough." "He's [collapsed] on me, sir." "Yes, I can see that, Bough." ❋ UltraHylia (2022)

"Had [a little bit] of [the old] [coitus] with Jessica last night." "Bough." ❋ Jonathan_13 (2021)

so [r u] a bough ❋ Guess? (2004)

[e.g]. `[did you] [see] that frank-bough on breakfast-TV? ❋ Clifford The Love Bunny (2004)

bough ❋ Boughing (2023)

YOOO man, fam, brurv, [shordy], damn, I hit the [FATTEST] BLUNT you have ever seen. Fam, [Bruv], I am boughing out. ❋ BOUGHING OUT (2019)