Word: bough
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...Here with a little bread beneath the bough...
Stretch thy white hand to that forbidden bough...
...vine-leaf is twined o'er your temples 'neath the blaze of the pine-tree bough...
...breeze-blown bough of a mountain tree...
...times futile efforts for success; that crude-ness which, in the young orator as in the budding writer, may be called, by a metaphor as true as it is homely, "veal." But this is one of the things impossible. The little bird, seeing its parent flying from bough to bough, thinks it can do the same. Having found itself strong enough for the slight use of its limbs required within the narrow bounds of the nest, it confidently makes trial of its strength in the air. But, alas! the failure. Not till then does it learn its own weakness...