stump-dotted

And just beyond the king's town the forest opened up into many stump-dotted fields, each with its little hut for the family that fanned there.

Enchantment Card, Orson Scott 1999

Entering its gloomy depths, they felt their way slowly and cautiously along the stump-dotted trail.

The Luck of the Mounted A Tale of the Royal Northwest Mounted Police Ralph S. Kendall

It was not with any particular enthusiasm that he came upon his crew at work, that his eye marked the widening stump-dotted area where a year before the cedars stood branch to branch, nor when he looked over the long ricks of bolts waiting that swift plunge down the chute.

The Hidden Places Bertrand W. Sinclair 1926

Back of these spread little gardens, and the green square of cultivated fields, and beyond in greater expanse the stump-dotted land that was still in the making.

Burned Bridges Bertrand W. Sinclair 1926

In the stump-dotted clearing, indistinct in the sullen dimness of the overcast dawn, rotted the buildings of the abandoned log-camp.

The Promise A Tale of the Great Northwest 1921

Each evening these forlorn remnants were wont to forsake their stolid-faced wives and yammering offspring and pick their way through the solitary stump-dotted street, past windowless, deserted buildings which were the saloons and dance-halls of better days, to foregather around the huge stove in the rear of Hod Burrage's general store, which was decrepit Hilarity's sole remaining enterprise, and there to brag and maunder over the dead town's former glory.

The Promise A Tale of the Great Northwest 1921

The pioneer days pass; the stump-dotted clearings expand into vast stretches of fertile farmland; the stockaded clusters of log cabins change into towns; the hunters of game, the fellers of trees, the rude frontier traders and tillers of the soil, the men who wander all their lives long through the wilderness as the heralds and harbingers of an oncoming civilization, themselves vanish before the civilization for which they have prepared the way.

IV. Citizenship in a Republic 1913

A wavering figure crept across the small stump-dotted "dead'ning" -- Anse

The Escape of Mr. Trimm His Plight and other Plights 1910

Sometimes he would look across the broad stump-dotted plain to the distant forest.

The Blazed Trail Stewart Edward White 1909

The trail led him first across a stretch of stump-dotted wet land with pools and rounded rises, green new grass, and trickling streamlets of recently melted snow.

The Rules of the Game Stewart Edward White 1909