tree-trunk

A hundred feet beyond, in a tangle of bushes, he overtook the wounded creature, knocked its head on a convenient tree-trunk, and turned it over to Granser to carry.

Page 3 2010

She was sitting upright, her back against a fallen tree-trunk, while he lay near to her, on his side, an elbow on the ground and the hand supporting his head.

Jack London's Short Story - Planchette 2010

Among designer and painter Carl Auböck's most memorable works are his tree-trunk tables.

Exclusively Austrian Modern Design Margaret Studer 2012

The 18-year-old Vena stood 6 feet, 4 1/2 inches in size-15 New Balance sneakers, with the nimble feet of a ballerina and tree-trunk legs that turned his road-running shorts into compression shorts.

N.J.'s Shot-Putter Extraordinaire Ben Cohen 2011

Being a thoroughbred, despite that he knew he was beaten by this two-legged thing which was not warm human but was so alien and hard that he might as well attack the wall of a room with his teeth, or a tree-trunk, or a cliff of rock, Michael leapt bare-fanged for the throat.

CHAPTER XXII 2010

I don't know what type of career he had in college or whether he was ever good enough to go pro but he looked like a guy who could block: big, thick, and with a tree-trunk for a neck.

Michael Simzak: The Men I Served With and the Sports They Loved Michael Simzak 2011

As the creeper that girdles the tree-trunk the Law runneth forward and back --

Why Life is Now More Complicated 2009

As the creeper that girdles the tree-trunk the Law runneth forward and back --

Why Life is Now More Complicated 2009

No fire-hollowed tree-trunk, that, throbbing war through the jungle depths, had been Bassett's conclusion.

THE RED ONE 2010

Putting on his mittens, he stepped to one side, so that the snow would not fall upon the new fire he was to build, and beat his hands violently against a tree-trunk.

First Version of To Build A Fire 2010