Poplar's kin

Usage examples of willow.

The willow has flourished by sending deep roots into the earth under the acequia, a small water ditch.

It had been mixed with yarrow, agrimony, willow, and elder for cleansing and magical protection.

Cottonwoods, with an occasional willow, form the arborescent growth of the valley of the Verde proper, although on some of the principal tributaries and at a little distance from the river groves of other kinds of trees are found.

The arborescent growth consists of sparsely distributed cottonwoods and willows, closely confined to the river bottoms.

Willow, Questor, Abernathy, Bunion, and Parsnip had risked themselves for him time and time again.

Del had found at Willow Creek Pass, and the story Ned Buntline had told of encountering a solitary mountain man up there who handed Buntline his life.

The three of them clumped along for forty yards, crossed the highroad, and with the wizard leading, slid and leaped down the side of a bush-dotted hill and in among a thicket of willows.

It was a cool, glistening patch in the shade of old weeping willows, and forcing a way through the clumps of weeds, preening and splashing themselves, swam a couple of snow-white, red-beaked geese.

Perhaps he saunters into a country church-yard, and there finds amongst the rank grass and moss-grown and neglected memorials of the silent multitude, one trim and well-tended monument, uninvaded by cryptogamia, free from all stain of the weather, and the surrounding grassy sward neatly mown and fenced in, it may be, with budding willow branches or a circle of clipped box.

After that, whenever dark masses of clouds began to roll up in the sky and the wind commenced to sough mournfully through the willows, no power on earth could prevent the darkey from pulling in shore and staying there until the storm had passed.

Bright on, or Bath, or Dilling ham, becoming the spinster aunt, wearing the willow forever.

Tim Willows remained alone in his room save for the companionship of Dopey and Mr.

Jason suddenly reacted, giving Jenna an embarrassed look before stepping aside to reveal Willow.

A tall weeping willow tree bowed forward gracefully to enshroud them in its protective arms.

There are many unpleasanter ways of spending a warm autumn afternoon than standing under the willows of Fleam Dyke watching the pools of a river for the smoke of disturbed mud and the wavering silver which is an eel.