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  • The trees all around were black-barked and frosted with snow, and very few cars passed, the tracks of their tires leaving white furrows and never digging so deep as the asphalt.

    Songs of Love & Death George R. R. Martin 2010

  • The trees all around were black-barked and frosted with snow, and very few cars passed, the tracks of their tires leaving white furrows and never digging so deep as the asphalt.

    Songs of Love & Death George R. R. Martin 2010

  • Later that afternoon I rented a bike and went to Cavendish Grove, a park with biking and walking trails that connect to the national park and its woods of black-barked spruces draped with pale, beardlike mosses.

    Land of Green Gables 2008

  • The trees all around were black-barked and frosted with snow, and very few cars passed, the tracks of their tires leaving white furrows and never digging so deep as the asphalt.

    Songs of Love & Death George R. R. Martin 2010

  • Later that afternoon I rented a bike and went to Cavendish Grove, a park with biking and walking trails that connect to the national park and its woods of black-barked spruces draped with pale, beardlike mosses.

    Land of Green Gables 2008

  • Once more, Justen put his arm out to the lorken, except that now the black-barked trunk was surrounded not by a carpet of short green grass, but by sand that burned with the heat of the sun.

    The Order War Modesitt, L. E. 1995

  • Once more, Justen put his arm out to the lorken, except that now the black-barked trunk was surrounded not by a carpet of short green grass, but by sand that burned with the heat of the sun.

    The Order War Modesitt, L. E. 1995

  • I stood irresolutely on the curb and tapped father's stick against the black-barked tree.

    Prayers To Broken Stones Simmons, Dan 1990

  • I stood irresolutely on the curb and tapped father's stick against the black-barked tree.

    Carrion Comfort Simmons, Dan 1989

  • Beech and Black Cherry Tree, that refuse the Vale of _Ailesbury_ tho 'on some Hills there, yet will thrive in the _Chiltern_ or Hilly Country: So the Limes and other Trees about _London_ are all generally black-barked, while those in the Country are most of them of a Silver white.

    The London and Country Brewer Anonymous

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