Term Gallery logo

Meanings of dead limbs in English

We have no meanings for "dead limbs" in our records yet.
Usage of dead limbs in English
1
They are like the dead limbs on a tree, Mr. Adams answered.
In the Days of Poor Richard
2
There was wood everywhere, dead limbs and branches scattered over the ground.
The road
3
The raw dead limbs of the rhododendron twisted and knotted and black.
The road
4
Living and dead limbs sprawled backward toward the hound, and the animal retreated.
Thief of lives
5
The second summer she'd noticed buds on what were supposed to be dead limbs.
Sympathy for the devil
6
The cottonwood, too, is common, though generally dwarfed, scraggy and full of dead limbs.
The California Birthday Book / Prose and Poetical Selections fro...
7
We dashed excitedly back and forth, dragging dead limbs and branches from out the forest.
Before Adam
8
She stretched out her hands-intothose dead limbs of hers seemed to spring sudden life.
My Mother's Rival / Everyday Life Library No. 4
9
Nothing but the faint moan of the night wind amid the dead limbs of a tree.
My Lady of the North
10
Waters the dead limbs of the blasted oak.
International Weekly Miscellany of Literature, Art and Science -...
11
The stupidly wise sit owl-like on the dead limbs of the tree of knowledge, and solemnly, hoot.
Lectures of Col. R. G. Ingersoll, Volume I / Including His Answe...
12
He could feel the oily touch of dead limbs on his skin even then and he shuddered.
Genghis: bones of the hills: a novel
13
He did, indeed, saw off a few dead limbs, and cut down a tree the lightning had blasted.
One of Ours
14
He drank, incuriously; and the fiery liquid ran to his head and heart and shot new life into his dead limbs.
Captivating Mary Carstairs
15
Thompson and I spent five days of hard work among the trees, cutting out all dead limbs, crossing branches, and suckers.
The Fat of the Land: The Story of an American Farm
16
The wild pigeon sat secure above our heads, high on the dead limbs of naval pines, reduced to a robin's size.
A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers
This collocation consists of:
Dead limbs through the time
Dead limbs across language varieties
United Kingdom
Common