branch

The governor, who is the executive magistrate, is appointed by the legislature; is chancellor and ordinary, or surrogate of the State; is a member of the Supreme Court of Appeals, and president, with a casting vote, of one of the legislative branches. The same legislative branch acts again as executive council of the governor, and with him constitutes the Court of Appeals.

These young trees, and they were always the finest looking, retained their branches; they were laid on carts, and the horses drew them out of the wood.

The younger and lighter members of his tribe scampered to the higher branches of the great trees to escape his wrath; risking their lives upon branches that scarce supported their weight rather than face old Kerchak in one of his fits of uncontrolled anger.

As Tarzan approached, the beast turned, snarling, toward him, struggling to extricate itself; but one great limb across its back and the smaller entangling branches pinioning its legs prevented it from moving but a few inches in any direction.

"Did you see it?" I cried, with my arms round the branch and all my nerves tingling.

The division of them between the two branches of the legislature, assigning to one the right of accusing, to the other the right of judging, avoids the inconvenience of making the same persons both accusers and judges; and guards against the danger of persecution, from the prevalency of a factious spirit in either of those branches.

That impenetrable forest, with its innumerable trunks and branches, threw him into a terrible state of consternation.

It was with a deep sigh of relief that I saw him gain a higher branch in safety.

When the two listened to him he was shouting at the top of his voice, "And so I shall have a tribe of my own, and lead them through the branches all day long."

She could pass through the branches of the great trees now with all the agility and stealth of The Killer himself.

One morning he saw Teeka squatted upon a low branch hugging something very close to her hairy breast-- a wee something which squirmed and wriggled.

As I say, I leaped to meet her, and on the instant she leaped straight up into the air, catching an overhanging branch with her hands.

The Cock flying up, perched himself on the branches of a tree, while the Dog found a bed beneath in the hollow trunk.