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The bough bent under the weight of the snow.
Not a bough waved, not the gleam of a musket-barrel betrayed the presence of our foes.
This time, I remembered I was lying in the oak closet, and I heard distinctly the gusty wind, and the driving of the snow; I heard, also, the fir bough repeat its teasing sound, and ascribed it to the right cause: but it annoyed me so much, that I resolved to silence it, if possible; and, I thought, I rose and endeavoured to unhasp the casement.
There was a violent wind, as well as thunder, and either one or the other split a tree off at the corner of the building: a huge bough fell across the roof, and knocked down a portion of the east chimney-stack, sending a clatter of stones and soot into the kitchen-fire.
" As he said this he crept from under his bush, and broke off a bough covered with thick leaves to hide his nakedness.
Miller's journey into the bowels of the war--through rubbled villages and fields strewn with rotting corpses--attains the surreal intensity that Francis Ford Coppola strove for in Apocalypse Now (1979), except without the self-conscious Golden Bough stabs at myth-making.
They eat the thick, triangular Brazil nuts (Bertholletia Excelsa), and break the hard pod which contains them with a stone, laying[Pg 29] it on the bough of a tree, or some other stone.
"I was waiting the approach of a large flock of wild fowl; but a little villain of a squirrel on the bough of a tree close to me, seemed to have determined that even now I should not rest in quiet; for he sputtered and chattered with so much vehemence, that he attracted the attention of my dog.
This was too much for the latter to bear, so he gave a bounce and sprang upon the impertinent squirrel; who, in a second, was out of his reach, cocking his tail and shewing his teeth, on[Pg 253] the identical bough where he had sat before.
As the bees in swarming cling to one another in layers till the few are reached whose feet grapple the bough from which the swarm depends, so with the objects of our thinking,-they hang to each other by associated links, but the original source of interest in all of them is the native interest which the earliest one once possessed.
A great broken bough upon the grass showed whence he had gained his leverage to tilt over our bridge.
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