A woman drags a withered and whitened branch.
Only then would he hang the burden of his shield upon a withered branch.
The solitary fruit that clings to a withered and twisted branch symbolizes hope or despair, depending on your point of view.
Touched by self-doubt, his imagination supplied visions of withered branches and trunks drained to sapless husks.
What was his dismay at finding the wreath, in effect, but a withered branch of myrtle, and the leathern pouches filled with sand and gravel!
It had the appearance of a moving peat-stack, with a solitary horn jutting heavenwards like a withered branch.
No green shoot could break through the planet's armor; the withered branches of the trees were skeletal hands clawing at the sky.
Brown leaves scattered from withered branches.
It comes with monster babies, giant flies, fingers like withered branches, hair like thornbushes, and grotesquerie galore.
"But now I could say: 'On a withered branch The tempest fell.... Dark summer's tears.'"