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Letter "B" » boughs
«Here at the fountain's sliding foot, / Or at some fruit tree's mossy root, / Casting the body's vest aside, / My soul into the boughs does glide.»
Author: Andrew Marvell
(Poet, Politician, Satirist)
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«Be like the bird that, pausing in her flight awhile on boughs too slight, feels them give way beneath her, and yet sings, knowing that she hath wings.»
«And Absalom met the servants of David. And Absalom rode upon a mule, and the mule went under the thick boughs of a great oak, and his head caught hold of the oak, and he was taken up between the heaven and the earth; and the mule that was under him went away.»
«And it came to pass in the eleventh year, in the third month, in the first day of the month, that the word of the LORD came unto me, saying, / Son of man, speak unto Pharaoh king of Egypt, and to his multitude; Whom art thou like in thy greatness? / Behold, the Assyrian was a cedar in Lebanon with fair branches, and with a shadowing shroud, and of an high stature; and his top was among the thick boughs.»
Author: Bible
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«All the fowls of heaven made their nests in his boughs, and under his branches did all the beasts of the field bring forth their young, and under his shadow dwelt all great nations.»
«And strangers, the terrible of the nations, have cut him off, and have left him: upon the mountains and in all the valleys his branches are fallen, and his boughs are broken by all the rivers of the land; and all the people of the earth are gone down from his shadow, and have left him.»
«I said, I will go up to the palm tree, I will take hold of the boughs thereof: now also thy breasts shall be as clusters of the vine, and the smell of thy nose like apples; / And the roof of thy mouth like the best wine for my beloved, that goeth down sweetly, causing the lips of those that are asleep to speak.»
«I cannot see what flowers are at my feet, / Nor what soft incense hangs upon the boughs.»
«Night hovers all day in the boughs of the fir tree.»
«I see my trees repair their boughs»
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