Torches had been tied to the dead boughs, and two other men with torches were out beside Bedwyr in the stream, lighting the work of dragging.

They grew tightly together, their dead boughs entwining, to present a barrier that seemed impassable.

Suddenly the bridle snagged on a dead bough.

Jaric selected a dead bough.

Then they piled on great dead boughs till they had a roaring furnace, and were glad-hearted once more.

Fuming in outrage, he began to scatter the wood, kicking dead boughs and brush out of his way as he reached toward the stake.

It was no light burden, at least so declared Brother John and Hans, who bore it between them upon a dead bough from the fallen tree.

They took only the dead boughs, which now lie scattered along the edges of the pastures like porous old bones.

It's been a long journey,' said the Vampire in a sibilant voice like the sound of a frigid wind blowing through dead boughs. '

Vines struck at her like strangling snakes, creepers wove webs between the trees, dead boughs crashed all around her.