crack willow

The door opened a crack and for a second I was tempted to give in again.

In a minute Bruce was back with his hat full of water from the creek that whimpered just beyond the willow patch.

This was a hard nut to crack, if his past were not to be ruthlessly severed from Angel's by a word.

What was equally important, a thick clump of cottonwood and willow furnished tolerably secure concealment.

There was no fight in his men; they ran like a pack of frightened coyotes at the first crack of a gun.

He swept Aristide aside like an intercepting willow-branch, and poured forth a torrent of furious speech upon his wife.