willow-tree

Like other Pescadero residents, willow-tree farmer Neil Curry lives in a low-lying area adjacent to the marsh, land diked generations ago to hold back the wetlands.

Tiny Town Is Awash in Water Woes Justin Scheck 2012

As we sat under the willow-tree and ate the cherries (fair, for Alice shared them out), we played at being ninety.

A Holiday Romance 2007

As we sat under the willow-tree and ate the cherries (fair, for Alice shared them out), we played at being ninety.

A Holiday Romance 2007

As for her dying and desiring to be buried under the willow-tree, of which the first ballad is the subject, though I believed the story then, I have at present some doubts about it.

The Fitz-Boodle Papers 2006

One of the chief beauties of this ballad (for the translation of which I received some well-merited compliments) is the delicate way in which the suicide of the poor young woman under the willow-tree is hinted at; for that she threw herself into the water and became one among the lilies of the stream, is as clear as a pikestaff.

The Fitz-Boodle Papers 2006

Now nothing could be seen on either side of the road but the fences of kitchen gardens and here and there a solitary willow-tree; everything in front of them was shrouded in darkness.

The Witch, and other stories 2004

I found him here as melancholy as a lodge in a warren: I told him, and I think I told him true, that your grace had got the good will of this young lady; and I offered him my company to a willow-tree, either to make him a garland, as being forsaken, or to bind him up a rod, as being worthy to be whipped.

Much Ado About Nothing 2004

I could see his great frame through a willow-tree, with the sere grass and withered reeds around, and the faint gleam of fugitive water beyond.

Erema Richard Doddridge 2004

She was away before it welled up in her mind, away, swift and true, yet steady above all — for without steadiness it could never be done — to the landing-place under the willow-tree, where she also had seen the boat lying moored among the stakes.

Our Mutual Friend 2004

She would sit alone for hours on the shore, under a green willow-tree that hung its curtains of pale-green fronds, on the beach.

The Plumed Serpent 2003