Osiers

This stripping of the osiers is a most busy time in the neighbourhood of the large plantations -- almost like hop-picking -- for men, women, and children can all help. ❋ Richard Jefferies (1867)

The stability of these old timber-built halls, which were so common in Cheshire, depended upon the strong beams with which they were built, the panels being only filled in with light material such as osiers plastered over with mud; and it was one of these that had been pushed out. ❋ Robert Naylor (N/A)

I dreamed that down by the river I cut red osiers to make withy fences for raised beds behind the house. ❋ Sarah Micklem (2009)

Yes, I really see the lambs from my caves tied up there with twisted osiers, cheese-presses scattered about, and old Silenus with his bald pate all swollen with blows. ❋ Unknown (2008)

The younger apparition disappeared, and immediately after lowered a ladder of twisted osiers, about eight feet in length, and made signs to David to hold it fast while the lady ascended. ❋ Unknown (2007)

She would not part from the side of her old friend for several days, and it was with much difficulty she consented to allow him to be buried; but still wishing to pay a tribute to his memory, she covered his grave with moss, and fenced it round with osiers, and annually returned to the same spot, and pulled the weeds from the grave and repaired the fence. ❋ Unknown (2007)

At last she wandered down to the sandy bight of the lake and stood gazing on Green Eyot, where the osiers and willows were grown wild and long in all these years, and she said that she would swim over to it on the morrow. ❋ Unknown (2007)

“Confiscation,” that the fisc, whether public, or royal, or seignorial, or imperial, or disloyal, was a small basket of reeds or osiers, in which was put the little money that was received or could be extorted. ❋ Unknown (2007)

Now, in barge and boat; and now ashore among the osiers, or tramping amidst mud and stakes and jagged stones in low – lying places, where solitary watermarks and signals of strange shapes showed like spectres, John Jasper worked and toiled. ❋ Unknown (2007)

Red osiers are getting redder, various birches and aspens show yellow on the twigs, and a silver maple up the street is budding out. ❋ Jhetley (2006)

Vesalius giving this notion countenance, quotes a bundle of osiers bound in a pyramidal heap in illustration; meaning, that as the apex is approached to the base, so are the sides made to bulge out in the fashion of arches, the cavities to dilate, the ventricles to acquire the form of a cupping-glass and so to suck in the blood. ❋ Unknown (2005)

At the point of the lake which projected to the north, they had discovered an osier-bed in which grew a large number of purple osiers. ❋ Unknown (2005)

After that I got entangled in some confounded kind of enclosure and had to climb paling after paling of rough stakes plaited with osiers. ❋ Unknown (2005)

The weather was warm, and if he could gain about a mile higher up, there was a wood of osiers, in which he might conceal himself until he could take off his cumbrous appendages. ❋ Unknown (2004)

Having by dint of swimming, wading, and treading water, at, last reached the osiers unobserved, he found a small creek, up which he swam, and coming in a thickly wooded spot, he scrambled through the mud, until he gained a piece of land hard enough to bear his weight. ❋ Unknown (2004)

I saw the stars begin to grow misty and lose their brightness; a cool breath passed over the earth like a faint sigh and touched the leaves of the slumbering osiers .... ❋ Unknown (2004)