The balance of the shade and the sun on the tree-trunks and on the ground is beautiful beyond words.
They jab tree trunks to toughen their hands and practice squatting with other students sitting on their shoulders to build leg strength.
Lowland trees may lean to this side and that, though it is but a meadow breeze that bends them or a bank of cowlips from which their trunks lean aslope.
The cypress trunks themselves brought to mind the sturdy legs of large dinosaurs.
The clogs were made in one piece of the trunks of walnut trees which formed a rectangle with its roots.
On the defensive, they dig themselves dugouts protected by palm trunks, and then they crawl in and resist until some explosive or a human terrier kills them.
Stuart and his brother, Phillip, toured the festival in the uniforms they wear at their jobs as surf life-guards — bright yellow jerseys, red swim trunks, sandals, and red-and-yellow swim caps.
Gingerly we climbed over the fallen trunks, trying to keep the outline of the trail in sight.
Most were young, with such spindly branches that they resembled bushes more than trees, but there were also a few specimens with trunks the width of fire hydrants.
Termite tunnels scar a pair of tree trunks on Saint John island in the Virgin Islands.
How still the trees were, with their crinkly, innumerable twigs against the sky, and their grey, obstinate trunks rising from the Brown Bracken!
Moss covered torsos of men, women and children protrude from tree trunks and boulders.
Also, given how ridiculous the mesh trunks and pixie shoes have looked, it's worth saying that his redesigned costume is the first Robin suit to actually look menacing, practical and even cool.
Around the size of a domestic cat, it creeps around the rainforests of Madagascar, drumming its fingers on tree trunks - up to 40 times a minute - listening for subtle variations in pitch.
Their trunks are as gnarled as bonsai.
Football-shaped pods — striped in yellow and green and orange and brown — jut out from the trunks and branches of the cacao trees.
This was the first summer the coach let us boys wear swim trunk instead of those skimpy racing trunks.
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