3718 examples of trunks in sentences

We were among the trees now, and I glanced around, nervously; but saw nothing, save the quiet branches and trunks and the tangled bushes.

Given a fine day, and a certainty of route, it would have been simply grand; but as it soon poured in torrents, my situation was anything but enviablein fact, I was almost in despair, when a huge cart laden with trunks of trees came slowly from a turning near.

"Did it have trunks in it, Motherand cobwebs?" "Trunks, yes, but not cobwebs," smiled her mother, "for Aunt Beatrice was an excellent housekeeperwhen she was at home.

"Did it have trunks in it, Motherand cobwebs?" "Trunks, yes, but not cobwebs," smiled her mother, "for Aunt Beatrice was an excellent housekeeperwhen she was at home.

" "One of us would have had to sit on the trunks on the cart," chuckled Billie.

If you think I'm going to lug those trunks and provisions and things into the house all by myself, you never was so much mistaken in your life.

Trunks first!"

And too much surprised by this deluge of words to refuse, the old man turned to the trunks, and, assisted by the boy, carried them into the hall.

" "Say, fellows, we forgot to get our trunks," said Chet, interrupting himself in the midst of an earnest conversation with his sister.

The boys sat on the trunks among the provisions, and the girls went off into gales of merriment at their comical efforts not to step on the eggs or fall among the fruit.

Afterwards, the ground all about became overgrown with vegetation, and there was nobody to sprinkle and sweep about the tope; but a herd of elephants came regularly, which brought water with their trunks to water the ground, and various kinds of flowers and incense, which they presented at the tope.

Everybody went away with their trunks full of the Leithcourt's things.

We knew quite well that it would be an easy matter to die of starvation in that great trackless forest, therefore we kept on undaunted, while the yellow autumn sun struggled through the dark pines, glinting on the straight gray trunks and reflecting a golden light in that dead unbroken silence.

And as we glanced before us we saw that his quick, well-trained eyes had detected away in the twilight, at some distance, a path traversing our vista among the gray-green tree-trunks.

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.

The Mere, or Lake, is large, with a small island, on which there is a summer-house, shaded with great trees; some were hollow, and have seats in their trunks.

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.

For a space on the gate side of the spring, the sod was firm and smoothwith a gray granite boulder in the center of the little glade, and, here and there, wild rose-bushes and the slender, gray trunks of alder trees breaking through.

Dressed in soft brown that blended subtly with the green of the willows, the gray of the alder trunks, the russet of rose and blackberry-bush, and the umber of the swinging grape-vinesin the flickering sunshine, the soft changing half-lights, and deep shadowsshe appeared to grow out of the scene itself; even as her low-sung melody grew out of the organ-sound of the waters.

A pair of gray squirrels crept down the gray trunks of the trees and slipped around the granite boulder to drink at the spring; then scampered away againhalf in frolic, half in frightas they caught sight of the man and the maid.

Can't we get some this spring, Miss Harson, before it's all gone?" "We can certainly buy the sugar in town, Malcolm, if that is what you mean; but it does not grow on the trees in cakes, and we shall scarcely be able to tap the trunks and go through with the process of preparing the sap, even if it were not too late for that.

Sometimes two or three trunks shoot up together and spread out at the top in light, feathery plumes like palm trees.

Their venerable trunks, gnarled and rugged, are like the rough, marred binding of old books, shutting in a history going back to a far-off date.

The tall trunks of the trees resemble pillars of polished marble supporting a canopy of bright-green foliage.

To procure proper pieces, the largest and smoothest trunks are selected.

3718 examples of  trunks  in sentences