The turtle tried again and again while a couple of birds sitting on a branch watched his sad efforts.

The size of the prey' s third toe is important because, among birds, long third toes are helpful for grasping branches and perching in trees.

All the while she wondered if any strange good thing might come of her being in her ancestral land and some spirit within her rose automatically as the sap in the twigs.

I pleaded my case and offered to clean up the branches and other litter in the museums garden if he' d let me in.

Its branches are long.