The Central German Uplands are traditionally the domain of the beech (Fagus sylvatica), a tree with a leaf canopy so dense that few plants can survive beneath it.
Three steps, the skeleton of a barn gable, a feeding trough filled with pine needles, a crescent of wooden stool: together they make an entire lifetime of sleeping, tending the cows, walking the forest, surviving beneath the Moon and the roof of home.
The Half Moon Battery was built around and over the ruins of David's Tower, two storeys of which survive beneath, with windows facing out onto the interior wall of the battery.
Water is an excellent solvent and has two other useful properties: the fact that ice floats enables aquatic organisms to survive beneath it in winter; and its molecules have electrically negative and positive ends, which enables it to form a wider range of compounds than other solvents can.
Conceivably, many shrubs and small trees could survive beneath Swietenia crowns, or under a Swietenia-dominated canopy.
Mr. Ferrozzo was asphyxiated, but Ms. Hill survived, pinned beneath him.
She survived — crouching beneath a table — but many of her neighbors did not.
Somehow Hersik and Joseph survived: Hidden beneath a heap of dead bodies, they dug themselves out and eventually found safety in a Displaced Person's (DP) Camp.
Aaron Garretson scrawls a string of hoped-for encomiums — "author of countless," "survived by adoring" — beneath a doleful self-portrait.
While the duel didn't put an end to Burr's public life, his status as one of the most brilliant, interesting, and far-seeing of the founders has not survived that encounter beneath the cliffs at Weehawken.
