Her little trunk, with Pierre's cradle, and some odds and ends of furniture, would follow in a few days, when her aunt had collected and packed them all.

Where there is plenty of free sunshine and other conditions are favorable, it presents a striking contrast in form to the Sugar Pine, being a symmetrical spire, formed of a straight round trunk, clad with innumerable branches that are divided over and over again.

I have a specimen block, cut from a fallen trunk, which is hardly distinguishable from specimens cut from living trees, although the old trunk-fragment from which it was derived has lain in the damp forest more than 380 years, probably thrice as long.

A runlet of water had been led through a hollow trunk into a troughalso hewn from a logclose by Elspeth's bower, where she could make her toilet unperplexed by other eyes.

All round him were trees with straight, tall grey trunks, and behind and beyond them yet other treestrees everywhere that stood motionless like pillars of stone supporting the dim green roof of foliage far above.

Dick buries his face in his hands, as he clings desperately to the smooth white-oak trunk.

The sandwiches were set out, with a bottle of olives to add to the attractiveness, and then the little kettle was put on the alcohol stove, which had been set up in the shelter of the great oak's massive trunk.

Emerging from a particularly tedious breadth of chaparral, I found myself free and erect in a beautiful park-like grove of Mountain Live Oak, where the ground was planted with aspidiums and brier-roses, while the glossy foliage made a close canopy overhead, leaving the gray dividing trunks bare to show the beauty of their interlacing arches.

Would it give you more pleasure to see this one burning?' said Monsieur D'Ambly, as he showed him another, divided into four enormous trunks, which shot from the same root.

Moreover, the almond trees in the garden just outside the western wall were in blossom, and the leaves upon the branches were as a screen, where only the bare trunks showed a fortnight ago.

Alas! What is the world without a governor, What, but a headless trunk?

Any object that broke the winda stunted pine, a broken tree-trunk, a Government road-posthad at its leeward side a high, narrow snow-drift tailing off to the dead level of the plain.

It was a garland of leaves and flowers two spans in width, which same was hung upon a stake in front of a broad tree trunk.

For near a hundred feet above the eye, the even round trunk was branchless, and then commenced the dark-green masses of foliage, which clung around the stem like smoke ascending in wreaths.

The sun, filtering through the snow-laden branches, cast a subdued golden light upon the ruddy upright trunks of the trees.

At this moment I heard another elephant close behind; and looking about, I beheld the "friend," with uplifted trunk, charging down upon me at top speed, shrilly trumpeting, and following an old black pointer named Schwart, that was perfectly deaf and trotted along before the enraged elephant quite unaware of what was behind him.

From the front windows of the Manor Farm house you see them, green between the brown trunks of the elms on the road bank.

I had always imagined that in virgin forests the trees had uncommonly thick and lofty trunks; I found that this was not here the case.

The distant trees blended into shadow, the nearer trunks dimmed and finally faded; the large, white northern stars emerged in infinite troops and companies, peering down through the rifts in the trees.

Come and see that lovely creeper I told you of; and when you have admired it hanging from the decayed trunk of the old tree that supports it, you shall help me to remove it to your bower, where it will be the fairest flower that grows, except the little fairy queen herself.' Henrich caught his sister's hand, and kissing her playfully, attempted to draw her from the bower.

" "Got all you give me checks for,seb'm pieces;" and he pointed to two strange articles of luggage waiting their turn to be lifted up,a long, old-fashioned gray hair trunk, with letters in brass nails upon the lid, and as antiquated a carpet-bag, strapped and padlocked across the mouth, suggestive in size and fashion of the United States mail.

Then, hurrying along, we found ourselves upon a track, on which we turned to the righta track, rough and deeply-rutted by the felled trunks that were dragged along it to the nearest river.

His trunk's come down already by cartand a mighty fine trunk.

They usually carried a little flat trunk filled with patterns, yard sticks, forms, and other paraphernalia of the trade.

All this and much more we learned from a friend who drew up beside us in a buggy, as I was drinking from a gleaming thread of water gliding down a mossed conduit of hollowed tree-trunks into an old cauldron sunk into the hillside, and long since turned in ferns and lichen.