On either bank bomas trembled ready to collapse their spiky branches, while masses of clingweed parted only in response to blasting on a high-pitched whistle.

The hedges, twice her height, were holly, but trees and fruiting bushes grew among the interwoven, spiky branches.

It should have been dead quiet beneath the spiky branches, but it wasn't.

David Sengel's "Kiss," of ebonized pear wood and locust, is a small work whose two spiky branches each bear a bulbous organic head.

He darted in over the coral, grazing his thigh on a razor-edged spiky branch, reaching down with his free hand into the dark holes.

He walked for hours through the gleaming metallic forests, listening to the wind sing in their spiky branches, and sometimes hearing the song of the dead Ashrai too.

They ducked beneath spiky branches that scratched their faces, and snagged their trouser legs on brambles.

It carried The Shadow dizzily past the spiky branches of pine and oak.

The inflorescences may be either panicle-like or raceme-like, with spiky branches.

Looking up you would see an alluring smidgen of sky through the spiky branches.