29 Verbs to Use for the Word bamboo

Juan cut a mountain bamboo and from its hollow joints gave Maria a refreshing drink.

Again came the voice, "You will find a bamboo to put me in; by and by you shall eat me.

The women also accompanied us for some distance, and kept the company in good humor; and when, on the road, a Filipino who had been engaged for the purpose wished to give up carrying a bamboo full of water, and, throwing it away, ran off, an old woman stepped forward in his stead, and dragged the water cheerfully along up to the summit.

For, fired with a post-prandial ambition to obtain a cannon ball, he took to himself a long bamboo, and poked at the tree.

The vulture splits a bamboo, out of which spring man and woman, who beget many children, and, when their number becomes too great, drive them out with blows.

The boatmen climbed the high slant of the bow, planted their stout bamboos against their shoulders, and came slowly down, head first, like straining acrobats.

Where the stream runs there are bunches of waving bamboos, and at the lower end, where the wall is broken, there is a little grove of nut trees, where the nightingales sing.

"When he had left, she rushed to the oven, opened the bamboo, and saw on pieces of meat the special tattoomarks of the thighs of her grandmother and grandfather.

The bunches of paddy are spread on mats, and the Sumatrans rub out the grain under their feet, supporting themselves, for the more easy performance of this labor, by holding with their hands a bamboo placed horizontally over their heads.

But this time the man kept the bamboo in the fire, and when it blazed up, down fell the human were-wolf from the roof as dead as a stone.

he sighed again; then knocking out the bamboo, drew in his head.

Some days later the body rose and floated to the bank and at the place where it lay a bamboo sprang up and grew and flourished.

Among and above them, like wreckage in that surf, tossed the shapes of scaling-ladders and notched bamboos.

Climbing the nearest, some of the dacoits reached up a long and stout bamboo from it to the flat roof.

Of all the animals of the country, the elephants and giraffes alone were taller than those reeds which resemble bamboos, those herbs, the stalks of which measure an inch in diameter.

Thus it happened that Mary was his guide and companion in all his walks, and roamed with him bamboo in hand, over every one of those mountainous paths she knew and loved so well.

The Mahommedans surrounded the clump but when they saw the one bamboo which the woman held shaking, while all the rest were stillfor it was a windless nightthey concluded that it was an evil spirit that they were pursuing and ran away in a panic.

' Thirion raised his voice as my father lowered his'What is your age?What was the object of your going to Coblentz?'My father seizes a large bamboo, and makes it whistle over Thirion's headat that moment my mother rushes in, and succeeds in dragging him into another room, and restoring him to something like calmness.

I stuck a greasy bamboo firmly into the earth, putting a bag of copper coins at the top.

In silhouette they suggest coarse bamboos; the nuts hang in big clusters and look like bunches of small, unripe bananas.

" "You can speak and act more civilly," retorted Heywood, "or taste the bamboo.

Certain of the Chittagong hill tribes worship the bamboo, and Sir John Lubbock, quoting from Thompson's "Travels in the Himalaya," tells us that in the Simla hills the Cupressus toridosa is regarded as a sacred tree.

The buffaloes instantly commenced hostilities, and made complete shuttlecocks of the bears, who, however, finally escaped by climbing up the bamboos beyond the reach of their horned antagonists.

{161b} Overhead, sprawled and dangled the common Vine-bamboo, {161c} ugly and unsatisfactory in form, because it has not yet, seemingly, made up its mind whether it will become an arborescent or a climbing grass; and, meanwhile, tries to stand upright on stems quite unable to support it, and tumbles helplessly into the neighbouring copsewood, taking every one's arm without asking leave.

Outside the fence of the enclosure every lad deposits his bamboo on a couple of forked sticks and covers it up with nut leaves.

29 Verbs to Use for the Word  bamboo