A group of dancers followed, twisting and turning in ritual movements older than Rome herself, waving cypress branches.

The cypress branches bent a gloomy, moss-trailing arch over the creek.

I wrapped the sash around his neck, then pulled it tight over the crook of a cypress branch.

The morning sun had only just begun to filter through the cypress branches when the strange thing happened.

As we drove away, I gazed out the window and saw a marsh hawk strutting on a cypress branch.

Sheets of Spanish moss draped over cypress branches rose and fell with the breeze.

He heard the faint sound of the water rippling beneath the light autumn breeze, the sway of the cypress branches.

She pulled back on a leafy cypress branch with both hands, so that it was as taut as a coiled spring.

There, on a twisted cypress branch, stood a huge white owl.

During the night you came back and found the treasure, probably using a flashlight on the cypress branch just as I did.