It hung behind the apple boughs like a great misty lantern, its light slowly waxing, as the sky around it darkened, to apricot and gold.

On the wall was a single picture, a bird on an apple bough, painted on silk.

The budding apple boughs showed lighter, in their young sorrel-and-green, than the slaty sky.

The light struck here and there among the tossing apple boughs, it glinted on the grass; but the lantern and the glowing face became the centre of the world.

Then all at once I saw the moon looking down at me through the apple boughs, jest like an old friend.

Opposite him, on another wall, was a single picture, painted on silk, representing a bird on an apple bough.

All ignorant we dared to own The joys we now dissemble; The greenfinch on the apple bough Could make my enemies tremble.

We found this pile of apple boughs here and couldn't resist the temptation to light it.

"With white apple boughs framing a moon," said Pat.

It was brilliant to-day; the apple boughs were lit with fresh leaves like torches of green fire.