apple-boughs

Madame de Frontignac was in raptures with the sanded floor of her little room, which commanded, through the apple-boughs, a little morsel of a seaview.

The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 04, No. 24, October, 1859 Various

The hens cackled drowsily in the barnyard of the white Marvyn-house; in the blue June-afternoon sky sported great sailing islands of cloud, whose white, glistening heads looked in and out through the green apertures of maple and blossoming apple-boughs; the shadows of the trees had already turned eastward, when the one-horse wagon of Mrs. Katy

The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 03, No. 18, April, 1859 Various

They walked between the toiling haymakers, they hovered above him in the apple-boughs, and their bright wings shone like stars.

The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 13, No. 78, April, 1864 Various

The flap-flop of the horse's hoofs died on Winterbottom Road, and no sound came but the wind sighing in old apple-boughs, and from somewhere the melancholy creaking of a swinging shutter.

The Happy Venture Edith Ballinger Price 1947

Let me in to rest, dear maidens – if maidens indeed you be, and not six blossoms fallen from the apple-boughs.

Martin Pippin in the Apple Orchard 1922

Let me in to rest, dear maidens – if maidens indeed you be, and not six blossoms fallen from the apple-boughs. '

Martin Pippin in the Apple Orchard 1921

Rhoda, embroidering apple-boughs on a green dress-front, shivered and trembled under his eyes.

The Lee Shore Rose Macaulay 1919

Then it happed that Sir Kay, hurtling to the rescue, stopped short in his stride, catching sight suddenly, through apple-boughs, of a gleam of scarlet afar off; while the confused tramp of many horses, mingled with talk and laughter, was borne to our ears.

The Golden Age 1915

Out of doors the birds came hopping on to the apple-boughs; they twisted their heads inquisitively to one side, frantically fluffed out their feathers, and then they too joined in this orgy of jubilation, which was caused merely by a scrap of bright blue sky.

Pelle the Conqueror — Complete Martin Andersen Nex�� 1911

Out of doors the birds came hopping on to the apple-boughs; they twisted their heads inquisitively to one side, frantically fluffed out their feathers, and then they too joined in this orgy of jubilation, which was caused merely by a scrap of bright blue sky.

Pelle the Conqueror — Volume 02 Martin Andersen Nex�� 1911