In the thickest part of the forest, we leaned against the rough trunks of pines and listened to the wind riling up the branches.
The tropical banksia is generally a small tree which grows to around 4 m (13 ft) or sometimes 7 m (23 ft) tall, with a rough stocky trunk, spreading crown, and crooked branches.
A rough-hewn tree trunk nightstand held sculptural appeal but was barely spacious enough to hold an iHome combination clock radio-MP3 player and a bedside lamp.
Moreover, many later theropods, particularly some Jurassic and Cretaceous maniraptorans, have been interpreted as arboreal [92], [93] [95], demonstrating a need to actively use claws (including manual unguals) to aid in climbing – in short, to regularly and readily place their claw tips in contact with rough, abrasive surfaces (tree trunks and branches).
WHAT HAPPENED As Terry B. Dunham and Lawrence R. Gustin reported in "The Buick: A Complete History" (Automobile Quarterly, 2002), prototypes went through the requisite testing, covering hundred of miles over the roughest surfaces, their trunks filled with sandbags, and there were no problems.
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Some species, which develop in rotting stumps, soil, or palm trunks, make a rough cocoon from frass.
Tim Meacock's sets were handsome: huge towering tree trunks made of rough wooden slats that shift continuously.
Sam Causer can do neat modern details – flush veneered panels, skinny steel window frames, large glass panels – and then throw in something from the realm of art installation, such as a rough wall of silver birch trunks, with bark still in place.
