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Definition of Boughs
1. bough [n] - See also: bough
Lexicographical Neighbors of Boughs
Literary usage of Boughs
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Southey's Common-place Book by Robert Southey (1876)
"For three or four years no body of a tree appears above ground, but they are as
in our green-houses. If the top is cut off, with the boughs coming from it, ..."
2. The Universal Anthology: A Collection of the Best Literature, Ancient by Richard Garnett, Leon i.e. Alexandre Le'on Valle'e, Léon Vallée, Alois Leonhard Brandl (1899)
"THEY bear the hero from the fight, dying; But the foe is flying: They lay him
down beneath the shade By the olive branches made: The olive boughs are ..."
3. The Iliad of Homer by Homer, John Graham Cordery (1871)
"There couch'd he, cover'd in with matted boughs, In likeness of the clear-voiced
mountain-bird, Of Gods cleped Chalcis, but of men the hawk. ..."
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