1 "Here is a nut," said he, catching one down from an upper bough, "to exemplify: a beautiful glossy nut, which, blessed with original strength, has outlived all the storms of autumn."
2 Else it would seem as if I had forgotten him, said Thomasin, tossing out a bough.
Return of the Native By Thomas HardyContext Highlight In BOOK 2: 2 The People at Blooms-End Make Ready 3 Not a bough in the nine trees which composed the group but was splintered, lopped, and distorted by the fierce weather that there held them at its mercy whenever it prevailed.
Return of the Native By Thomas HardyContext Highlight In BOOK 4: 5 The Journey across the Heath 4 To her there were not, as to Eustacia, demons in the air, and malice in every bush and bough.
Return of the Native By Thomas HardyContext Highlight In BOOK 5: 8 Rain, Darkness, and Anxious Wanderers 5 At that the squat substantial-looking mass swayed like a bough shaken by the wind.
6 Then she went softly out of doors, and plucking an orange from the low-hanging bough of a tree, threw it at Robert, who did not know she was awake and up.
7 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.
The Last of the Mohicans By James Fenimore CooperContext Highlight In CHAPTER 10 8 The youth saw with surprise that the soldier had two wounds, one in the head, bound with a blood-soaked rag, and the other in the arm, making that member dangle like a broken bough.
9 Hidden in a shady tree is a bough with leafage and pliant shoot all of gold, consecrate to nether Juno, wrapped in the depth of woodland and shut in by dim dusky vales.
10 Aeneas makes entrance, and sprinkling his body with fresh water, plants the bough full in the gateway.
11 High atop of it, wonderful to tell, bees borne with loud humming across the liquid air girt it thickly about, and with interlinked feet hung in a sudden swarm from the leafy bough.
12 He was very strong and clever with his knife and knew how to cut the dry and dead wood away, and could tell when an unpromising bough or twig had still green life in it.
13 When it was mid-day, they saw a beautiful snow-white bird sitting on a bough, which sang so delightfully that they stood still and listened to it.
Grimms' Fairy Tales By Jacob and Wilhelm GrimmContext Highlight In HANSEL AND GRETEL 14 Brown, soft-eyed children ran out from the quaint stone hovels to offer nosegays, or bunches of oranges still on the bough.
15 As he said this he crept from under his bush, and broke off a bough covered with thick leaves to hide his nakedness.