Middlemarch vocabulary

Rock-a-bye baby on the tree tops,

when the wind blows the cradle will rock,

when the bough breaks the cradle will fall...

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A thrush had alighted on a bough not five metres away, almost at the level of their faces.

George Orwell. 1984 (1949)

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He tied fishing line to an arrow and shot it over the bough and then used the fishing line to hoist the rope, and so on.

Marilynne Robinson. Gilead, p.111 (2004)

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she was a little startled by seeing the Cheshire Cat sitting on a bough of a tree a few yards off.

Lewis Carroll. Alice in Wonderland (1865)

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her projects of happiness that crackled in the wind like dead boughs,

Gustave Flaubert. Madame Bovary

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On an apple bough, the phoebe teeters and wags its tail and says, “Phoebe, phoe-bee!”

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I scattered the crumbs, some on the stone sill, some on the cherry-tree bough,

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gravelled driveways which wound about through wide-spreading lawns and under the interlacing boughs of tall poplars.

Jack London. The Call of the Wild (1903)