Sentence examples for dead boughs from inspiring English sources

He has painted such stately homes as Cliveden House & the country seats of Lords Brownlow, Faringdon, and Grantley -generally in an imaginary way, with great urns, dead boughs & ethereal figures on the lawn.

Each aviary contained bushes (a pile of dead boughs) and nest boxes to provide perch and roost sites (see [43], [44] for more detail on housing).

After a 1936 volume inspired by the steel mills, his poetry had regained a metaphysical, environmental tone, as in the well-known elegy for lost flowers: They will go back to earth, and wait, and be still, Safe with the dust of birds long dead, with boughs Turned ashes long ago, that still are straining To leave their tombs and find the hills again".

Gather extra dead leaves, pine boughs or whatever other soft/yielding materials you may have left over, and spread them over the floor of your shelter if you do not have a ground pad with you.

A small bird will drop frozen dead from a bough.

"I never saw a wild thing sorry for itself A small bird will drop frozen dead from a bough without ever having felt sorry for itself".

The bus shelters are festooned with missing person posters, a dead dog hangs in the boughs of a blighted city tree and the court officials pass judgment in such a rapid-fire monotone that the words lose all meaning.

Carrying boughs of flowers, branches of oranges, dead chickens, a cow once, the swirling muddy water would break through the beach with an enormous gasp and suck of sand, swirling out into the turquoise ocean.

Once you bury the dead guy, you need to pluck the golden bough.

The entire poem reads: Burning the small dead             branches broke from beneath     thick spreading             whitebark pine.               a hundred summers snowmelt        rock        and air   hiss in a twisted bough.

From Boughs to Blankets Q.