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  • The stump's bark is covered with the green of lichens that have made the stump their home.

    The Persistence of Life 2009

  • I'd always been fond of the guy, and he was lovely, but his conversation was about as stimulating as a stump's.

    All Together Dead Harris, Charlaine 2007

  • I leaned my head back against the big stump's rough bark and stared up through the silvered, shifting leaves of the surrounding eucalyptus trees.

    The Shape of Dread Muller, Marcia 1989

  • My rifle lay across the stump's roots, pointing straight at her; but she was not the game I was hunting.

    Secret of the Woods William Joseph Long 1909

  • After much vehement discussion, during which sundry inflammatory harangues were made from the stump's of trees near by, it was proposed, that the scroll should be read aloud, so that all might give ear.

    Mardi: and A Voyage Thither, Vol. II (of 2) Herman Melville 1855

  • After attaching the device to the stump of a rat's limb, the researchers hope to create a regenerative current at the stump's surface by adjusting the ionic composition of the solution inside the sleeve and by adding drugs that open or close ion channels in the membranes of the cells at the wound site.

    Next Big Future 2010

  • The other stump's design will be similar to the first, but with a smaller stack of books carved into it differently because that tree's wood isn't as strong.

    News 2009

  • This time almost 2,000 people have signed a petition to prevent the stump's removal and hundreds of worshippers have been gathering to recite decades of the rosary and light candles.

    European Tribune 2009

  • The other stump's design will be similar to the first, but with a smaller stack of books carved into it differently because that tree's wood isn't as strong.

    News 2009

  • An actual horse-drawn farm plow also was mounted to the finished stump's open-faced book at its top, but that design might not stick if it's too overwhelming on the tree, Bihlmaier added.

    News 2009

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