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Meanings of withy in English
Spanish
mimbre Synonyms
Examples for "withe"
Examples for "withe"
1
To meet their views the crayfish catcher had cut a long willow withe.
2
But, try as they might, not a withe could they break.
3
He stretched the withe on the field, and began to put the corn in it.
4
How he must rejoice at each new withe he fastens over the heart he covets.
5
And withe the elect thou wilt be elect: and with the perverse thou wilt be perverted.
Usage of withy in English
1
They are redwings and thrushes; every withy-bed is full of them.
2
It is, however, the plantations of withy or osier that are most important.
3
One would like to know whether the Willow-lad's powers perished with the withy-bed.
4
I leaned mine against a hollow withy pollard, and called 'ready.'
5
She had a fit of hysterics that twisted her like a withy round a faggot.
6
Compared with your sceptre, is just a mere withy.
7
A similar situation has arisen in other institutions which are dealing like the NRH, mainly withy patients.
8
The hut was a small, round structure made from sticks and withy, and covered in stretched deerhide.
9
The slender, withy boys, as supple and weak as cats, had apparently the nine lives of those animals.
10
Coming home over the downs, just upon twilight, Temple and I saw Saddlebank carrying a long withy upright.
11
You went past the withy bed?
12
On her arm she carried a withy basket, in which lay several butter-rolls in a nest of wet cabbage-leaves.
13
He'd landed on a coarsely woven withy mat, half collapsing the structure of poles and round cross-pieces supporting it.
14
The dog gave chase- Irushedfor my gun, which was some yards off, placed against a hollow withy tree.
15
Still further down, where the wood ends in scattered bushes and withy-beds, the level shore of the shallow mere succeeds.
16
A wild gooseberry may sometimes be seen growing out of the decayed 'touchwood' on the top of a hollow withy-pollard.
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