tree-stumps

At last, however, when they had gone some considerable way further, and were passing some tree-stumps at the edge of a copse that bordered the road, he stopped and said kindly, `Look here, Mole old chap, you seem dead tired.

Archive 2007-01-01 Divers 2007

When you look at such a collection as he has formed, and bethink you that these elephantine bones did veritably carry their owners about, and these great grinders crunch, in the dark woods of which the forest-bed is now the only trace, it is impossible not to feel that they are as good evidence of the lapse of time as the annual rings of the tree-stumps.

Autobiography and Selected Essays 2003

The rest of it made you fit for one for the rest of your natural life, for it was one mass of broken lava rock, and here and there leviathan tree-stumps that had been partially blown up with gunpowder.

Travels in West Africa 2003

I had proposed lashing my hammock to one of the tree-stumps, which are here some ten feet tall, the people, who swing themselves for the purpose of felling, declare the upper wood to be softer than below.

Two Trips to Gorilla Land and the Cataracts of the Congo 2003

Slowly the fire died till nothing was left but falling ash and sparks; a bitter smoke curled above the burned tree-stumps, and blew darkly from the hill, as the first light of dawn came dimly in the sky.

The Fellowship of the Ring Tolkien, J. R. R. 1965

Slowly the fire died till nothing was left but falling ash and sparks; a bitter smoke curled above the burned tree-stumps, and blew darkly from the hill, as the first light of dawn came dimly in the sky.

The Lord of the Rings Tolkien, J. R. R. 1954

We reached a damp valley that lay west of a stretch of tree-stumps and scrubby undergrowth -- remnants of what was a thick leafy wood before the hurricane bombardments of July 1916.

Pushed and the Return Push George Herbert Fosdike Nichols

She was on the outlook for alligators, but only saw crowds of crabs on the rotten tree-stumps and black mud fighting as fiercely as the Okoyong people.

Mary Slessor of Calabar: Pioneer Missionary W. P. Livingstone

-- Rotting tree-stumps may be easily removed in this way: With a one-and-a-quarter-inch auger, bore a hole in the centre of the stump, eighteen inches deep, and put in twenty ounces of saltpetre; fill the hole with water and plug it tight.

Golden Days for Boys and Girls Volume XIII, No. 51: November 12, 1892 Various

I shall always remember Contay Woods, the huts with their floors of hard mud reinforced by harder tree-stumps, and the slimy path down to parade when we left.

The Story of the 2/4th Oxfordshire and Buckinghamshire Light Infantry Geoffrey Keith Rose