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Clorinda went home and upstairs to her little room under the eaves, where the great bare willow boughs were branching athwart her windows.

From Lucy Maud Montgomery Short Stories, 1905 to 1906 by Montgomery, L. M. (Lucy Maud)

The boy and the old man were for turning back before they lost themselves,—for at every turn there were branching ways.

From Unexplored! by Chaffee, Allen

Here were branching passages, great cavelike rooms—a world within a world, in all truth.

From Two Thousand Miles Below by Diffin, Charles Willard

It is time you were branching out some for yourself, anyway, son.

From Steve and the Steam Engine by Scott, A. O. (Arthur O.)

On every side were branching clusters of ice in the form of club-mosses, with here and there varicose veins of clear ice, and pinnacles of the prismatic structure, with limpid crockets and finials.

From Ice-Caves of France and Switzerland by Browne, G. F. (George Forrest)