Material used for weaving.
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Examples for "osier"
Examples for "osier"
1This Tit haunts the osier-beds of the lower reaches of the Rhone.
2Even the osier thickets and the juniper stood waiting for the spring.
3Mr. Stone came in with his osier fruit-bag in his hand.
4Marguerite entered, followed by the farmer bringing the trunk and the osier basket.
5Rosamond went gravely forth with the osier basket in her hand.
1What a view of green willow shoots-allof a sudden:
2The willow shoots looked long, tender, yet sorrowful.
3A clump of willow shoots clutched in his sinewy fingers gave him a stay and, putting forth all his strength, he drew Kate slowly up.
1They are redwings and thrushes; every withy-bed is full of them.
2It is, however, the plantations of withy or osier that are most important.
3One would like to know whether the Willow-lad's powers perished with the withy-bed.
4I leaned mine against a hollow withy pollard, and called 'ready.'
5She had a fit of hysterics that twisted her like a withy round a faggot.
6Compared with your sceptre, is just a mere withy.
7A similar situation has arisen in other institutions which are dealing like the NRH, mainly withy patients.
8The hut was a small, round structure made from sticks and withy, and covered in stretched deerhide.
9The slender, withy boys, as supple and weak as cats, had apparently the nine lives of those animals.
10Coming home over the downs, just upon twilight, Temple and I saw Saddlebank carrying a long withy upright.
11You went past the withy bed?
12On her arm she carried a withy basket, in which lay several butter-rolls in a nest of wet cabbage-leaves.
13He'd landed on a coarsely woven withy mat, half collapsing the structure of poles and round cross-pieces supporting it.
14The dog gave chase- Irushedfor my gun, which was some yards off, placed against a hollow withy tree.
15Still further down, where the wood ends in scattered bushes and withy-beds, the level shore of the shallow mere succeeds.
16A wild gooseberry may sometimes be seen growing out of the decayed 'touchwood' on the top of a hollow withy-pollard.