Word: sprig
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...trust the American Ambassador is bearing a sprig of olive branch in his mouth, and has come back to us in the guise of a dove rather than that of an eagle...
...Before she was obliterated?there was no more of her than the veil?she placed in my hand a sprig of heather...
Pause. Then slowly, gravely Sir James drew a sprig of heather from his buttonhole and held...
There are 30 obstacles in the Grand National-streams, fences, dry ditches, wet ditches, walls, hurdles, ditches and fences combined. Only one horse fell at the first jump. At the fourth jump Sprig turned a somersault and two other horses fell on him. The field went...
...heroine, whose skin is as white as her well-bleached character, of being an octoroon. The only reasonable basis for such a suspicion is found in the fact that she lives in New Orleans in the days when slave traders brought their boats to harbor and when a young sprig of the aristocracy could still win a barbershop in a duel. Flourishing his razors with vigor and precision, this young sprig is able to compel the ogrish slave trader to remove the stogie from his thick lips and to admit that he has been dealing from the bottom...