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  • In the forefront of the rush, hair flying and arms swinging free, flashing past the tree-trunks, and leaping the obstructing logs, came Thom.

    IN THE FOREST OF THE NORTH 2010

  • "But what a waste!" said one of the officers-a giant of a man with arms like tree-trunks.

    Finnegan teoriza la practica de cuerdas Carlos G.Tonda 2010

  • They would have been whole tree-trunks, grown tall and straight in dense woodland with a high canopy.

    Wildwood Roger Deakin 2009

  • To people who were prepared to lug bluestones 240 miles from Wales, spend thousands of hours quarrying chalk with antler picks or raise tree-trunks three feet thick in henges, natural materials were obviously of the greatest symbolic significance.

    Wildwood Roger Deakin 2009

  • To people who were prepared to lug bluestones 240 miles from Wales, spend thousands of hours quarrying chalk with antler picks or raise tree-trunks three feet thick in henges, natural materials were obviously of the greatest symbolic significance.

    Wildwood Roger Deakin 2009

  • I admired its simple architecture, equalled only by the kennels of hollow tree-trunks I had seen in southern Poland.

    Wildwood Roger Deakin 2009

  • They would have been whole tree-trunks, grown tall and straight in dense woodland with a high canopy.

    Wildwood Roger Deakin 2009

  • I worked outside at an improvised anvil of hefty two-foot oak and willow logs, cross-sections of tree-trunks heavy enough to take a firm hold of the workpiece.

    Wildwood Roger Deakin 2009

  • I admired its simple architecture, equalled only by the kennels of hollow tree-trunks I had seen in southern Poland.

    Wildwood Roger Deakin 2009

  • Encouraged by the results of the new technique, he tried the same thing on a bigger scale, with another artist holding the other end of a twelve-foot length of art paper as they galloped and wove through small charred trees down a ravine, registering the black abrasions of tree-trunks and the charcoal stipples and scrapings of saplings and shrubs.

    Wildwood Roger Deakin 2009

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