Examples from literature

• Moreover, fruit trees by bending their boughs towards the earth seem to offer their crop to man. 
• Sturdy maples threw curving, interlacing boughs across, through which the sun-light filtered and flickered. 
• The cold sunlight came through the golden maple boughs and lay in patches on the undergrowth of drying golden-rod and asters. 
• The natives cut the road, digging a ditch which they covered over with boughs and earth. 
• There were the beehives, and the bees humming among the orchard boughs.