It had been made of tiny twigs, stalks of old weeds, leaves, little fine roots and mud.
"No," said Jerry Muskrat, "I'm going to use green alder twigs and willow shoots and bulrush stalks.
Pencroft had kept his promise, and a light boat, the shell of which was joined together by the flexible twigs of the crejimba, had been constructed in five days.
Their feathery feet could be seen clasping the slender twigs which supported them.
Twigs crackled under his feet, logs tripped him, funguses on stumps resembled caricatures, and startled him for the moment by their likeness to something familiar and far away; but that was all fun, and exciting.
She talked it all over with Diana Tuesday night in the twilight, as they sat on the big red stones by the Dryad's Bubble and made rainbows in the water with little twigs dipped in fir balsam.
There they await the onslaught, the inexperienced ones clutching their revolvers and treading on twigs, but the old hands sleeping tranquilly until just before the dawn.
Observe how they pass over fallen twigs without making the slightest noise.
, and states that the leaves from burning tea twigs blew upwards from the fire and landed in his cauldron of boiling water.
" The brave little bird kept carrying twigs and pebbles from the mountain to the Eastern Sea without taking a rest.
When my daughter was in grade school one day she brought home 4 tiny twigs.
Who taught her how to weave it best, , And lay the twigs across?
Edging closer-like a pilgrim approaching a shrine-I noticed several bare branches near the top, their black twigs scratching the air like claws.
Withered maple leaves are whirling, Slim willow twigs are swaying, Twelve rails cast shadows on the tower in the sunset.
They carry tools over long distances to places where they use them, sometimes up to five different sticks and twigs to raid a bee nest or probe for underground ants.
It was then transported through the tree to the leaves, where concentrations are higher than in the twigs, trunk or surface soil.
" Without taking a rest, the brave little bird kept carrying twigs and pebbles from the mountain to the East China Sea.
The willow twigs, daubed with a light green by several days of sunshine, are now covered all over with the dust and look so sickly that they need to be washed.
He suddenly threw down the twigs, and thereupon made the Dove take wing.
" Then the angel stood beside him with a dry branch inhis hand and said, "Thou shalt carry this dry branch until three green twigs sprout out of it, but atnight when thou wilt sleep, thou shalt lay it under thy head.
