A great ditch yawned between a crocheteer and a rotten branch he coveted.

Flies buzzed high above them in a ray of sunlight; a rotten branch fell.

In one, a lovely study of ivy crept over a rotten branch upon the ground.

We must have stepped on a wasps' nest in a rotten branch as we walked.

Then you are swinging on a rotten branch.

Jobst was right: was the proud oak the worse because a rotten branch was lopped off?

The man stooped, picked up a chunk of the rotten branch, and threw it at Sarge.

Just a rotten branch, he told himself.

Do you hear that raven that sits croaking upon the rotten branch of the old oak opposite?

He tied the lines to a great rotten branch, brake it off, and threw it and the hawk down.

Ned Galloway, the quartermaster, was a huge New England wastrel, the one rotten branch upon a goodly Puritan family tree.

Betty's nerves gave way; she placed her foot on a rotten branch, which broke under her; her hands relaxed their hold.

Instead there was a soft necrotic splat, as the rotten branch disintegrated in an explosion of fungus spores and angry beetles.

He had got within twenty yards of the huge creature, when he stepped on a rotten branch, which broke beneath his foot.

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.

Thorberg replies, It stands good, according to the proverb,- arottenbranch will be found in every tree.