It often occurred to us that by entering these withies it would be possible to reconnoitre one side of Southlands; for the stream skirted the lower grounds: the tall willows would conceal any one passing through them.
A hedge-cutter marks the sleeping-place in the withies where the fox curls up by day; and with his rusty gun, that sometimes slaughters a roaming pheasant, sends the shot through the red side of the slumbering animal.
Wooden hoops are generally withies or saplings, split down the middle, and left with one flat side and one round.
The ends of the ground poles and stringers may be either scarfed and treenailed, or laid side by side and tied with withies or strips of suitable bark.
And he fenced it with wattled osier withiesfrom stem to stern, to be a bulwark against the wave, and piled up wood to back them.
There were some swans lying among the withies and rushes.
While I was balancing in my mind which I should do, my eye fell on a patch of withies or osiers, growing in a shallow bend of the river close to the bank.
Indeed the newcomer stood for a second or two surveying the pool from the opening between the withies before the leveret was aware of his presence.
At length he succeeded in clearing the withiesand getting the line out to its full length.
With this he turned upon his heel, and marching sturdily down the path and across the little bridge, disappeared behind the withies and pollards.
Seeing the girl there, sunk in day dreams, he slipped back into the shelter of the withies and took a good long look at her.
He had been peacefully alone there; in summer evenings he had heard the men mowing; on winter nights there was the wind in the withies and the sound of the stream.
There's a rare lot o' capital soil in the lake under they withies just against my garden," he said; and he proposed taking it out to enrich his garden.
Then Starkad made a noose of withies and bound the king in it; saying that for a brief instant he should pay the mere semblance of a penalty.
Little is told of "surgery", but in one case of intestines protruding owing to wounds, withies were employed to bind round the trunk and keep the bowels from risk till the patient could be taken to a house and his wounds examined and dressed.
So the peasant's son approached, replaced the parts of his belly that had been torn away, and bound up with a plait of withies the mass of intestines that had fallen out.
My nurse, a Cornwall woman, tells me hipper withiesfetch a higher price than common withies in her country.
If a lot of withies looked cheap, he bought them straightway, and did not defer the bargain for weeks till he could ascertain if he could get them cheaper elsewhere.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "withies" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
