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Meanings of rotten branch in English

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Usage of rotten branch in English
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A great ditch yawned between a crocheteer and a rotten branch he coveted.
Love Me Little, Love Me Long
2
Flies buzzed high above them in a ray of sunlight; a rotten branch fell.
Jean-Christophe, Volume I
3
In one, a lovely study of ivy crept over a rotten branch upon the ground.
Six to Sixteen: A Story for Girls
4
We must have stepped on a wasps' nest in a rotten branch as we walked.
Coraline
5
Then you are swinging on a rotten branch.
Across the Zodiac / The Story of a Wrecked Record
6
Jobst was right: was the proud oak the worse because a rotten branch was lopped off?
Sidonia, the Sorceress : the Supposed Destroyer of the Whole Rei...
7
The man stooped, picked up a chunk of the rotten branch, and threw it at Sarge.
Dangerous Women
8
Just a rotten branch, he told himself.
Fiendish deeds
9
Do you hear that raven that sits croaking upon the rotten branch of the old oak opposite?
Mark Hurdlestone; Or, The Two Brothers
10
He tied the lines to a great rotten branch, brake it off, and threw it and the hawk down.
Stories of King Arthur and His Knights / Retold from Malory's "M...
11
Ned Galloway, the quartermaster, was a huge New England wastrel, the one rotten branch upon a goodly Puritan family tree.
The Last Galley; Impressions and Tales
12
Betty's nerves gave way; she placed her foot on a rotten branch, which broke under her; her hands relaxed their hold.
Odd
13
Instead there was a soft necrotic splat, as the rotten branch disintegrated in an explosion of fungus spores and angry beetles.
The Long War
14
He had got within twenty yards of the huge creature, when he stepped on a rotten branch, which broke beneath his foot.
Ned Garth; Or, Made Prisoner in Africa: A Tale of the Slave Trad...
15
Last night there had been dry leaves whispering as the wind blew, and there had definitely been a large, heavy rotten branch in the street.
Dangerous Women
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Thorberg replies, It stands good, according to the proverb,- arottenbranch will be found in every tree.
Heimskringla; Or, The Chronicle of the Kings of Norway
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