45 Metaphors for branches

Like ear-rings on thine own fair head, these long buds hang and quiver: Each tremulous taper branch is thrilledflutter the wing-like leaves For thus to part from thee, sweet maid, the floral spirit grieves!

One would say, that Nature, like untrained persons, could not sit still without nestling about or doing something with her limbs or features, and that high breeding was only to be looked for in trim gardens, where the soul of the trees is ill at ease perhaps, but their manners are unexceptionable, and a rustling branch or leaf falling out of season is an indecorum.

The branches of that Vena porta are the mesaraical and haemorrhoids.

On June 1st, a slit of one inch and a half in length was made in the stem of a lilac tree, the branch being about an inch in diameter.

The branch of duties which devolves upon these officers is at all times interesting to the community, and the information furnished by them is useful in peace and war.

The "Hicksite" branch had become an established and respectable sect.

Another numberless Branch of Peaceable Lawyers, are those young Men who being placed at the Inns of Court in order to study the Laws of their Country, frequent the Play-House more than Westminster-Hall, and are seen in all publick Assemblies, except in a Court of Justice.

It is true that certain branches of the cheap clothing trade have been their creation.

The branches to be learnt are these: Latin, French, Arithmetic, Mercantile Accounts, Elocution, History, Geography, Geometry, Astronomy, the Globes, Mathematics, Philosophy, Dancing, and Martial Exercise.

The only branches of this class that I have ever seen are the Lamutkis and the Tunguses.

This branch was a first step towards an Operations Division.

After trying their experiment for some years, however, their "sober second sense" told them that the executive branch is a necessity, and when the convention assembled to "revise the articles of confederation" (as they at first intended to do) one of the things upon which there was practical unanimity of opinion was the necessity of having the government organized into three branches, or, as they are sometimes called, departments.

Its chief branch is the history of philosophy.

Conversely, a branch is a developed bud, or series of buds, and every mark on the branch must correspond to something in the bud.

As it is, the representative branch of our government is practically a nullity.

There was consequently an increased demand for their writings, and the branch called "Hicksites" felt the need of a bookstore.

I think that the Legislative branch of the Governor-General's Council should be a channel through which officers of the other Presidencies may be introduced into the Secretariat and Council at Calcutta.

It is of stout, strict growth, and produces clusters of pinky, rose, or purplish flowers before winter is past, and while the branches are yet leafless.

The next branch that I propose to bring to your notice is the question of the telephone.

Joseph answered: The three branches be yet three days, after which Pharaoh shall remember thy service and shall restore thee into thy foremost office and gree, for to serve him as thou wert wont to do.

The little branch soon became a tree, and drooped gracefully over the river in the same manner that its race had done over the waters of Babylon.

If any State in the Union is adapted to agriculture, and the various branches of rural economy, such as stock-raising, wool-growing, or fruit-culture, it must surely be Illinois, where the fertile natural meadows invite the plough, without the tedious process of clearing off timber, which, in many parts of the country, makes it the labor of a lifetime to bring a farm under good cultivation.

The King of the Netherlands decided the main branch to be the northwesternmost head of the Connecticut.

Its branches, being slender and flexible, do not project stiffly from the shaft; they bend slightly at their terminations, and are easily moved by the wind; and as they are very numerous, and covered with foliage, we behold in the tree a dense mass of glittering verdure, not to be seen in any other tree of the forest.

It is evident in the second case that the pointed branch, when thinned, is a more dangerous agent than the branch which is nearer the square at its end.

45 Metaphors for  branches