I was in my backyard hammock one balmy summer day several years ago when I heard the unmistakable crack of a huge limb above my head, and the rustle of branches falling toward me.
I figured that all but two were lost — one red maple that was bowed beneath a toppled shagbark hickory and another that dropped a huge limb from its canopy.
The poet labels Tim Lincecum a sea monster: Huge limb lashing up and out, Whipping down, Near 100 MPH, On the overmatched fisherman, Cracking him, Through the bottom of the boat, Leaving the corpse to sharks.
Psychiatry is a branch of medicine, a huge limb, in fact, in need of continuous pruning, watering and shaping.
Huge tree limbs and piles of debris blanketed the campus, the power was out, and the grounds were extremely soggy.
During his three-hour tour, he encountered huge tree limbs, plastic foam, a yoga mat and what looked like "somebody's firewood from a wood pile". A sediment-laden brown streak covers nearly half of the the 200-mile-long bay.
Panicked parkgoers struggled to free her from a huge tree limb that had plummeted 30 feet.
Finally, I'm going to go out on a huge geographic limb and say that John Harvey's Nottingham-based Resnick series has always struck me as more LA noir than many books actually set in the city.
Her daughter Emma also suffered huge lower limb injuries as both her ankles were broken, her left leg was fractured, her left knee was dislocated, there was a severe laceration to her head and injuries to her right arm and hand.
