(1) A sprig of holly

(2) The knight wore no armor, but carried a sprig of holly in one hand, and an enormous axe in the other.

(3) He had come in peace, he said, for he carried a sprig of holly and wore no armor.

(4) At the shire-hall new-year celebrations, 15-year-old Ruth Hilton catches the eye of a 23-year-old sprig of the gentry.

(5) This great match of flavours was served with a little sprig of fresh fennel, which led the charge of the other flavours through the creamy goats cheese.

(6) To remove a leaf from its sprig , Patten grasped it gently by the stalk and pulled it back towards the branch of the limb to prevent tree damage.

(7) A sprig of the French nobility

(8) The long, white tunic the ghost wears is girded by a belt with a sprig of holly symbolizing winter tucked in it, but spring flowers hem the bottom of the tunic.

(9) You notice that there wasn't a sprig of parsley or even a strawberry on the plate.

(10) With not a sprig of holly in sight, it is the perfect anti-pantomime for the festive season.

(11) Ivy twisted through sprigs of flowers, adding green here and there, and rose trellises climbed the stone walls that encircled the gardens.

(12) I got the pine sprigs from a tree outside in the courtyard.

(13) There were sheer blousy dresses printed in watercolour soft roses, giant floppy corsages on silk dresses, floral printed silk damask statement coats and spriggy prints on voluminous ball skirts.

(14) This is a complex wine that will sparkle as an accompaniment to a tall glass of bone chillingly cold lemon sorbet with sprigs of mint.

(15) The task was difficult, as the sprigs were barbed with large thorns, and the fragrant resin stuck to their fingers as they broke the sprigs from the angular branch.

(16) A sprigged cotton dress

(17) Go for anything from delicate spriggy florals to big, bold retro prints.

(18) And when it is cooked, the oil will form small spriggy islands with streams of wine and tomato.

(19) Applied to almost anything spriggy and floral, it supposedly encapsulated everything that is fussy and backward-looking about British style.

(20) In 1984 Depue planted a dozen sprigs at Jacob's Fork, a mined mountain that had lain dormant for 20 years in McDowell County.