He can remember capturing wild horses by dropping from a tree onto their backs.
Acorn-loving Squirrel has been stashing nuts all season, but when the most perfect nut of them all drops from a tree, he HAS to have it.
They're affordable, capable, and, as I've learned, capable of surviving numerous drops from a tree stand.
So, for instance, though John reports in 6 13 that "the stars in the sky fell to earth, as late figs drop from a fig tree," I'd be disinclined to think that stars will literally fall to earth.
A chimp who describes a chimp chase as such: The chase ended only when Rotpeter — the Alpha Male and sole gubernative power over our pitifully tiny civilization, our sovereign, our lawgiver and enforcer, our Draco, Solon, Hammurabi and Caesar, oh you Leviathan, you, Rotpeter — you petty patriarch — dropped down from a tree and interpolated himself between us.
A pine cone may have dropped from a large tree and dented my scalp, but that is a minor inconvenience.
Considering this, the large pawpaw tree in front of me could be a clonal offspring, a seedling even, sprouted from dropped fruit of a tree that Thomas Jefferson planted in the early 1800s.
"I'm not going," Nate insists, shaking his head as if a bobcat had suddenly dropped onto him from a tree and buried its claws in his scalp.
Here come the well-worn examples of Isaac Newton with his revolutionary ideas about gravity that (supposedly) literally struck him when an apple dropped on him from a tree.
A man picking mushrooms narrowly escaped with his life after being attacked by a drunken bear that dropped on to him from a tree and bit him so savagely that it left one of its teeth in his body.
