Willowed

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. ❋ Amy Geeleher Burt (2011)

My mother planted those two pecans in front of that house that had once been a willowed phenomenon. ❋ The Daily Growler (2006)

Anne took the darkness of her hair and eyes from him, though her willowed shapeliness was her mother's. ❋ Delinsky, Barbara (1983)

Cora thought of that day when she and Bess dared take the same journey, when the strange man sat at the willowed shore ostensibly making sketches. ❋ Margaret Penrose (N/A)

Hamlet every where; I had measured the deep shadows of the platform, encountered the grey ghost of the Royal Dane, had killed Polonius in the queen's closet, and drowned poor Ophelia in the willowed stream. ❋ Various (N/A)

Even the villages look English: the same plum-red brick of tidy self-respecting houses, neat, demure and freshly painted, the gardens all bursting with flowers, the landscape hedgerowed and willowed and fed with water-courses, the peo - ❋ Unknown (1915)

But at length they came to the log, having passed around many green willowed kinks in the Little MacLeod. ❋ Jackson Gregory (1912)

I love it very much for it led to the very edge of a willowed bluff -- to the end of the land. ❋ Will Levington Comfort (1905)

He had hastily opened a small cupboard, and caught up a broad black hat of Adèle's, with a long, willowed ostrich plume. ❋ Carolyn Wells (1902)

Even the villages look English: the same plum-red brick of tidy self-respecting houses, neat, demure and freshly painted, the gardens all bursting with flowers, the landscape hedgerowed and willowed and fed with water-courses, the people's faces square and pink and honest, and the signs over the shops in a language half way between English and German. ❋ Edith Wharton (1899)

The river, swollen everywhere out of its banks, spread in a broad and placid flood of yellow over the bottoms, and a hundred shallow lakes studded with willowed islands marked its wandering course to the south and east. ❋ Unknown (1898)

The scene was very beautiful to the eye -- the white light upon the flood, the soft calm shadows of the willowed banks, the darker, statelier silhouettes of the forest trees, reared black against the pale sky. ❋ Harold Frederic (1877)

At a small distance from its base, to their great joy, they discovered an abundant stream, running between willowed banks. ❋ Henry Inman (1868)

Winding around the curving hills, the scene is constantly varied, and the little willowed islets clasped in the embrace of the stream, mingle a trait of softened beauty with its sterner character. ❋ Bayard Taylor (1851)

On the opposite side of the fort about two miles distant, there is a fine willowed creek, called "Horse creek," flowing parallel with Green river, and emptying into it about five miles below the fortification. ❋ Unknown (1844)

The fine valley in which our camp was situated, is thirty miles long, and twelve broad; it is intersected by willowed streams, and large bottoms, covered with rich pasturage, hence it is a favourite resort for both deer and buffalo. ❋ Unknown (1844)

They now encamped on a little willowed stream, running from the east, which they had crossed on the 26th of November. ❋ Unknown (1836)

Through the intermediate plain wandered a river about fifty yards wide, sometimes gleaming in open day, but oftener running through willowed banks, which marked its serpentine course. ❋ Unknown (1836)

The little river on which they were encamped gave many "beaver signs," and Ben Jones set off at daybreak, along the willowed banks, to find a proper trapping-place. ❋ Unknown (1836)

On the 26th of October, they steered east-northeast, for a wooded ravine in a mountain, at a small distance from the base of which, to their great joy, they discovered an abundant stream, running between willowed banks. ❋ Unknown (1836)