withies

I drove in stakes and plaited the withies around them.

Wildfire Sarah Micklem 2009

The other withies are little more than half as tall.

Wildwood Roger Deakin 2009

The two Brians work twenty-six acres of withies segregated into lesser beds of three or four acres.

Wildwood Roger Deakin 2009

The other withies are little more than half as tall.

Wildwood Roger Deakin 2009

The two Brians work twenty-six acres of withies segregated into lesser beds of three or four acres.

Wildwood Roger Deakin 2009

I drove in stakes and plaited the withies around them.

Wildfire Sarah Micklem 2009

I drove in stakes and plaited the withies around them.

Wildfire Sarah Micklem 2009

Until she and Antony lay fully embalmed within it, an aperture would remain high on the door wall, reached by scaffolding made from withies; a winch and a long roomy basket enabled persons and items to be conveyed in and out of the interior.

Antony and Cleopatra Colleen McCullough 2007

Until she and Antony lay fully embalmed within it, an aperture would remain high on the door wall, reached by scaffolding made from withies; a winch and a long roomy basket enabled persons and items to be conveyed in and out of the interior.

Antony and Cleopatra Colleen McCullough 2007

With that dead weight gone I could just keep my grip, and with a mighty heave hauled myself into the thicket, catching a stouter branch and getting a leg over it — and suddenly there was an appalling crack, the branch gave way, and down I went, entangled in a mesh of leaves and withies, under the surface, helpless in the grip of the current which swept me away.

Flashman on the March Fraser, George MacDonald, 1925- 2005