The wood-frame buildings were covered with panels of decorative boughs.
The home they built was constructed out of poles covered with hemlock boughs.
However, a successful candidate had first to test his mettle by plucking a golden bough from one of the trees in the sacred grove.
The view was that there was a very urgent need for it to be taken up, otherwise the funding for it would wither on the bough.
The whole thing withered on the bough.
You do not cut the branches off a tree and expect the branches, the boughs and the flowers to develop future trees.
They see romantic love withering on the bough and all the rest of it.
We must pursue our policy so as to bend the boughs while they are still twigs.
