...They look like very old parts of the same range worn downto stumps by the disintegrating forces of the torrential rain and sun,and the dense forest growing on them...
Mary H. Kingsley 「Travels in West Africa」
...Our path lay through much pollardedforest, troublesome to walk in, as the stumps send out leafy shoots...
David Livingstone 「The Last Journals of David Livingstone, in Central Africa, from 1865 to His Death, Volume II (of 2), 1869-1873」
...Add to this thesilent sinuosity of his glide; he seems to oozearound the bumps and stumps, and bottle up hisfrightful energy for the final fearsome leap...
Ernest Thompson Seton 「Wild Animals at Home」
...Their eggs are laid in hollowsbeside stumps or under logs...
Chester A. Reed 「The Bird Book」
...This species is not common on the Atlanticcoast but in the interior it isthe most abundant of the Wrens,nesting in holes in trees, stumps,fences, bird boxes, tin cans, etc...
Chester A. Reed 「The Bird Book」
...In making a trail for fox, I take advantage of every good place I find either for trap or snares, either between bunches of weeds, trees, stones, stumps, roots, logs, fences, etc...
A. R. (Arthur Robert) Harding 「Fox Trapping」
...He goes along the shore and carefully examines the stumps, where the animals have been cutting trees for food...
Elmer Harry Kreps 「Science of Trapping」
...Forms in grass clumps were the usual resting place for cottontails, but others in brush piles, rock outcrops, and tree stumps were also used...
Donald W. Janes 「Home Range and Movements of the Eastern Cottontail in Kansas」
...In some places as many as fifty tree stumps were seen in one spot, within the compass of half an acre, all cut through at about eighteen inches from the root...
R.M. Ballantyne 「The Dog Crusoe and his Master」
...In South Africa theKafirs draw the stumps out with their teeth...
John H. Robinson 「Our Domestic Birds」
...The stumps of the trees stood up like huge charred canes...
James Oliver Curwood 「Baree, Son of Kazan」
...Many ouzels' nests are placedon the stumps of pollard trees, and in such cases the shoots whichgrow out of the stump often serve to hide the nest from view...
Douglas Dewar 「Birds of the Indian Hills」
...But as we felt constrainedin our movements, desiring, if possible, to keepso quiet that the birds would, after a while, seein us only two harmless stumps or prostrate logs,we had much the worst of it...
John Burroughs 「Bird Stories from Burroughs」
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