The tree has delicate, slender ultimate branches and leaves that are no more than scales, making the tree look more like a wispy conifer.

But the tree lives on, its many long, delicate branches and budding leaves seeming to bestow a benediction on all who walk near it.

Here, the eggs swing safely out of the reach of monkeys and other predators who would never venture to branches so delicate they seem almost like twigs.

In "Tumbleweed," a profusion of delicate branches offer the natural equivalent of Pollock's all-over painting.

I jumped to my feet, miraculously avoiding getting tangled in the tree's delicate branches, and watched my father close the door behind him.

The long thin hands lay open like the thin delicate branches of a tree in winter, and the blood oozed down upon the floor.

This fish had lungs resembling delicate branches of red coral, and, if kept moist, it would exist upon the land for many hours like an eel.

Every three meters, larger ridges sprouted a circular array of vines and delicate branches, decreasing in circumference as they increased in altitude.

Then he threaded the balloon, in its sheath, into Mr. Ruo's artery, stopping at the exact spot in the delicate branch where the genes were to be inserted.

When the cool globe finally rested atop the delicate black branches, it seemed so close that Abby held out her arms and tried to touch it.