" "Yes; but cakes have such a terrible habit of turning out bad just when you especially want them to be good," sighed Anne, setting a particularly well-balsamed twig afloat.
Every twig and spray was outlined in snow.
He took another step back, with the same elaboration and the same risks; then another and another, and—a twig snapped under his foot!
A catbird, the Northern mocker, lit in a tree over Tom's head, and trilled out her imitations of her neighbors in a rapture of enjoyment; then a shrill jay swept down, a flash of blue flame, and stopped on a twig almost within the boy's reach, cocked his head to one side and eyed the strangers with a consuming curiosity; a gray squirrel and a big fellow of the "fox" kind came skurrying along, sitting up at intervals to inspect and chatter at the boys, for the wild things had probably never seen
Every day, it flew to and fro between the mountain and the sea, carrying in a twig or a pebble from the mountain and dropping it into the sea.
I'm fenced off on both sides and the only way forward is being blocked by 200 pounds of muscle that can break me like a twig.
And just as Ole spoke these words, that which Trufa had feared all these months happened-a wind came up and tore Ole loose from the twig.
He longed to be the wind and blow through your rustling branches, to be your shadow and lengthen with the day on the water, to be a bird and perch on your top-most twig, and to float like those ducks among the weeds and shadows.
CHILD, how happy you are sitting in the dust, playing with a broken twig all the morning.
After leaving the twig I'm incited once again by a petal of ironical smile How disdainful!
On the tip of a tree which had lost all its other leaves, two still remained hanging from one twig: Ole and Trufa.
Not a single impediment lay in the wheel–route—not even a chip or dead twig.
There were twelve brothers who fell out with their father, and all twelve of them left home They built themselves a house in the woods and made their living as carpenters Meanwhile their parents had a baby girl, who was a great comfort to them The child grew up without ever meeting her twelve brothers She had only heard them mentioned, and she longed to see them One day she went to bathe at a fountain, and the first thing she did was remove her coral necklace and hang it on a twig A raven cam
Their main defense is basically hanging around, looking like a twig, Brock said.
And just as Ole spoke these words, that which Trufa had feared all these months happened-a wind came up and tore Ole loose from the twig.
Every day, it flew to and fro between the mountain and the sea, carrying a twig or a pebble from the mountain and dropping it into the sea.
"Break off a twig, and plant it in your garden, and it will take root, and grow into a magnificent tree.
until I have faithfully made the most of my talent and cultivated the seed that was placed in me until the last small twig has grown.
The soldier thought, "I must carry a token away with me," and broke off a twig from one of them, on which the tree cracked with a loud report.
So he bought beautiful dresses, pearls and jewels for his two step-daughters, and on his way home, as he was riding through a green thicket, a hazel twig brushed against him and knocked off his hat.