twig

He broke a twig from a bush, dipped it into a pool of blood and wrote rapidly.

For when the dead-leaf butterfly is in danger, it clings to the side of a twig, and what it says to its foe is practically this: "I am not a butterfly, I am a dead leaf, and can be of no use to thee." This is a lie which is good to the butterfly, for it preserves it.

"I have hit an ash twig at forty yards," said Little John.

Slowly the lion rose, and as he rose, a twig snapped beneath one of his great, padded paws.

He seemed, for example, to recall characters in them who had the knack of going through forests without letting a single twig crack beneath their feet.

Now, I saw the damp lying on the bare hedges and spare grass, like a coarser sort of spiders' webs; hanging itself from twig to twig and blade to blade.

He looked at the forest on the bank of the stream, saw the individual trees, the leaves and the veining of each leaf -- he saw the very insects upon them: the locusts, the brilliant bodied flies, the gray spiders stretching their webs from twig to twig.

'Now, child,' said he to his own daughter, 'what will you have?' 'The first twig, dear father, that brushes against your hat when you turn your face to come homewards,' said she.

At first they could not break it, but when they took it twig by twig they broke it easily.

A twig cracked sharply under Pollyanna's foot, and the man turned his head.

In pain the birdcatcher threw down the twigs, and the noise made the Dove take wing.

The green and budding twigs may represent existing species; and those produced during each former year may represent the long succession of extinct species.