That was a very flimsy branch, and the official gave up the argument pretty quickly.
She strained on perfect tiptoe, like a zhaaganaash ballerina, on the flimsy branch that had fallen across the square I'd carved in the path.
"I am terrified for my children," he sobs, waving a flimsy branch at the assembled security forces facing him down on the muddy track.
Two flimsy huts, made of branches and palm leaves, stood side by side.
Wearing a black waistcoat and clutching a blue and white walking stick, he sits on a plastic chair in the village of Gargara, a cluster of flimsy shelters fashioned from branches and sticks, and a few low stone buildings.
Using a small bicycle cart, now tucked securely between the hut and its flimsy stockade of thorn-branches, he fetches the carcasses, skins them and leaves what remains for the dogs.
The floor is muddy and flattened cardboard nailed to a flimsy frame made from tree branches serve as walls.
These mostly symbolic barriers now crisscross the city's tree-shaded streets, flimsy jumbles of paving stones, tree branches, bits of fencing and even refuse, and sometimes topped by uprooted stop signs.
The sukkah, a flimsy structure whose roof is made of branches or reeds, is meant to remind Jews of the temporary dwellings the ancient Israelites lived in as they fled Egypt for the Promised Land.
A woman who was eight at the time remembered wearing a leafy branch on her back as flimsy camouflage against F-111 bombers flying at twice the speed of sound.
Crouching behind the other side of the bush, I tenderly examined my crotch, to find out a rogue branch had penetrated both my flimsy school trousers and my ball-sack.
