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He was between a tree-stem and the saddle, with his leg over the steering lever and, so far as he could realise, not hurt.

The War in the Air Herbert George 2006

And I turned and ran for it, abandoning stealth for speed, and trusting to luck that I would not dash out my brains against a tree-stem in the darkness.

The Conquering Sword of Conan Howard, Robert E. 2005

I ran for it in good earnest now, abandoning stealth entirely for the sake of speed, and trusting to luck that I would not dash out my brains against a tree-stem in the darkness.

The Conquering Sword Of Conan Howard, Robert E. 2005

I ran for it in good earnest now, abandoning stealth entirely for the sake of speed, and trusting to luck that I would not dash out my brains against a tree-stem in the darkness.

The Conquering Sword of Conan Howard, Robert E. 2005

And I turned and ran for it, abandoning stealth for speed, and trusting to luck that I would not dash out my brains against a tree-stem in the darkness.

The Conquering Sword Of Conan Howard, Robert E. 2005

I ran for it in good earnest now, abandoning stealth entirely for the sake of speed, and trusting to luck that I would not dash out my brains against a tree-stem in the darkness.

The Conan Chronicles Howard, Robert E. 1989

It occurred to me that a little cocoa-nut with a hole at one end would be the sort of sleeping-chamber she would prefer, as being most like a hole in a tree-stem, in which, probably, nuthatches roost.

Wild Nature Won By Kindness Elizabeth Brightwen

All at once, Zöe jumped down and began a vigorous hammering at her tree-stem, as full of life as ever, and she was at once voted "a little impostor."

Wild Nature Won By Kindness Elizabeth Brightwen

She hung head downwards from the tree-stem and hammered at it on the ground, but it shifted about, and she made no way; then she carried it in her beak and tried fitting it into various places.

Wild Nature Won By Kindness Elizabeth Brightwen

Steadying influences in all this flux of tone are introduced by the vertical accent of the tree-stem and statue in the dark mass on the right, by the horizontal line of the distance on the left, the outline of the ground in the front, and the straight staffs held by some of the figures.

The Practice and Science of Drawing Harold Speed