Sentence examples for stump of the tree from inspiring English sources

It is sacred, the Piaroas say, the stump of the tree of life, cut down by an evil deity.

In case anyone today misses the connection, the Hangman's Tree, a bar in downtown Placerville, sports a plaster dummy hanging by the neck out front and is built (supposedly) over the stump of the tree used for the job.

"I looked out the window and all I saw was the stump of the tree.

The 20-foot stump of the tree was deliberately left standing.

Dig out the stump of the tree.

Emissions include those from (1) direct carbon loss of the extracted log (extracted log emissions ELE); (2) the top and stump of the felled tree, plus trees incidentally killed or severely damaged surrounding the logging gap (logging damage factor LDF); and (3) trees killed during the construction of logging infrastructure (logging infrastructure factor LIF).

Later scholars associated this tree with ailanthus and applied the metaphor to children who, like stump sprouts of the tree, will not develop into a worthwhile human being if they don't follow rules or traditions.

With just a few inches, Constable took the stump of the shattered tree and made us see it as a symbol of grief for the recent death of his wife.

The painting, titled "The Woodcutter's Song," shows an axe wedged in the stump of pine tree at the edge of a brushy, expressionistic forest à la Edvard Munch.

To try to ward off that brutality, contestants have rubbed an onstage stump called the Tree of Hope for good luck since the 1940s, Mr. Mitchell said.

The race, which was one lap around the stump of a tree, was won by Diomedes, who received a slave woman and a cauldron as his prize.