Example Sentences

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I have been a lonely man; a boughless, leafless trunk, shaken by the winter winds.

From The End of the World A Love Story by Eggleston, Edward

Drawn by the sea, he took his way through the dim solemn boughless wood, as if to keep a moonlight tryst with his early love.

From The Marquis of Lossie by MacDonald, George