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"Willow tree" Quotes from Famous Books

... sickly, mustard-colored satin with chocolate-colored trimmings, and wreaths of pink stuff and coral ornaments that look like lobster-claws. Really, it gives you quite a turn just to see it; and then, she has some kind of a grass-green weeping-willow tree that she is going to wear in her hair. Really, the whole thing is pretty shuddery. Haunts you, you can't throw it off." Penfield looked a trifle blue about the mouth and so depressed that Hayden could not ...

— The Silver Butterfly • Mrs. Wilson Woodrow

... head. There is a gooseberry bush growing in the branches of this willow tree which holds up ...

— Nobody's Girl - (En Famille) • Hector Malot

... temples occupy a spur 445 feet above the lake, and 6,485 feet above the sea; they are poor, and only remarkable for a miserable weeping-willow tree planted near them, said to have been brought from Lhassa. The monks were very civil to me, and offered amongst other things a present of excellent honey. One was an intelligent man, and gave me much information: he told me that there were upwards of twenty religious establishments ...

— Himalayan Journals (Complete) • J. D. Hooker

... beneath a willow tree, Where water falls and calls; While fancies upon fancies solaced me, Some true, ...

— Poems • Christina G. Rossetti

... horse round the blasted tree into the little path amid the vegetables. "If you are soaked through, we might as well go on; but if you're half dry, build a fire and get warm." He put her down upon the square stone before the doorway, and slipping the reins over the branch of a young willow tree, followed her into the cabin. "Why, you're hardly damp," he said, with his hand on her arm. "I ...

— The Battle Ground • Ellen Glasgow

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