Sentence examples for stump of a tree from inspiring English sources

First of all, emerging from stage left, the contestant touches the shellacked stump of a tree set on an Ionic column.

Even in his most proper coat and hat he reminds his daughter "of the blackened stump of a tree that had been blasted by lightning".

The very first memory recorded in the ghosted autobiography of 1936 was of "an enormous peasant seated on the stump of a tree".

They have the stump of a tree up on stilts behind a goal and every time we score he goes up and chops it off.

Kangaroo (the voice of Joan Bruce) is a surrogate mother to Dot (voice of Barbara Frawley) who we first see sitting on the stump of a tree weeping inconsolably.

Certain forms, when in relation to other forms, call meanings to mind, and this roughened ball on the end of what looks like the blasted stump of a tree calls to mind a human presence.

Short profiles included the tree root zone of a healthy large tree, the tree stump of a decaying tree and the pit-and-mound topography formed after a tree uprooting.

One way is to study tree rings, either by taking a core sample from a living tree or by examining the stump of a felled tree.

Imagine a $115 million universe in miniature, set amid 13,000 acres of rolling hills and peaceful lakes in southern China's Yunnan Province, with tiny dogs, tiny fruit trees, a 230-foot-high performance hall that looks like the stump of a prehistoric tree and standard-size guest cabins.

Q. Mushrooms are growing around the stump of a fallen tree in my yard.

Peering into the hollow stump of a redwood tree, Hayden Pheif, 5, finds a cache of treasured river rocks exactly where he left them.