He sat down with his back against the jagged juniper stubs and listened sullenly, while the punchers chuckled in front of him and continued to eat with their knives.
The crowding to which they are subjected kills many of them as the tree reaches middle age, but the stubs do not drop quickly, and as many of the characteristic pins appear to be present as ever.
Young trees are limby, but early in life the lower branches die and fall, leaving few protruding stubs or knots.
Some of the finest forests of palmetto in Florida are much injured by fire that runs up the trunks to feed on stubs of leaves.
Those cigarettestubs are fresh, and were dropped last night, or yesterday.
Whereupon certain men would pinch out the glow of their cigarettes and grind the stubs into the sod under their heels, and go in to find partners.
Sitting on a boulder, he made a leisurely survey of the place and counted three cigarette stubs that had fallen short of the crevice toward which they had evidently been flung.
When this wild mass dashed onward into the swelling flood before us, there was no sign of Lyceum left, but stubs of foundation, and a mangled roof rolling over and over, like a hen-coop.
As they rounded the corner and turned toward the north, a sudden puff of wind jerked the shapeless straw hat from Luther's head and sent it careening dizzily over the stubs of the hay field at the right.
Unable to get his hands out of his sleeves in time to protect himself, he tripped forward awkwardly and scratched his face on the cut stubs of the meadow-grass.
Cornstalks, which were usually staple articles for fuel in that country, had been eaten almost to the very ground, but the stubs were gathered, the dirt shaken from them, and they were then carted to the house.
But for a young lady in long skirts to make her way down that balsam, squirming about and through the stubs and dead limbs, testing each one before she trusted her weight to it, was another affair.
The same statement is true of the shagbark hickory which has been trimmed back very severely leaving nothing but the stubs of large branches to be grafted immediately or for the purpose of grafting sprouts in the following year.
In very large hickories I have cut them hack to short stubs and have had a number of them die.
When cutting back the limbs in preparation for topworking it is well to leave as many as possible of stubs or branches of small diameter.
Every depositor should know from the record on the check stubs exactly how his account stands with the bank.
Them stubs and receipts on the table is all yourn.
Daylight pointed at the heap of receipts and stubs on the table.
I was only thinking it must have been a pretty intimate caller who would sit here and smoke with Mr. Gately--here are his own cigar stubs you see and of course, Miss Raynor came into my mind.
Of course, the cigarette stubs and the powder-paper helped, too.
As "God has made the back to the burthen," so the clay and coppice people make the dress to the stubs and bushes.
In turning the staffs it is the best plan to use double centers, but a piece of Stubs steel wire that will go into a No.
L represents the Stubs wire and B N the brass collet, with the balance seat shown at k.
Cigarette stubsmet her bewildered, troubled gaze--many of them.
You'll find the stubs on the porch railing if her ladyship's servants are not too exemplary.
Half-smoked cigarette stubs glowed in his wake;[2] his burly bosom echoed with incoherent oratory.
The word chinchilla would have occurred irresistibly to this observer from behind; he might also, if he were the father of a family, have had a fleeting vision of many autographed stubs in a check book.
There he stood making no sound or movement, like one of the lifeless stubs left by fire; and Peter looked up, as his master was looking, trying to make out what it was he saw in the sky.
Only the two lines of steel caught the moon-glow and the charred ends of the fire-shriven stubs that rose up out of the earth shroud and silhouetted themselves against the sky.
And then he looked to Cragg's Ridge, and along the bald crest of it, naked as death, he saw blackened stubs pointing skyward, painting desolation against the blue of the heaven beyond.
Half a mile farther on they came to a clearing where no stubs of trees stood up like question marks against the sky, and in this clearing was a cabin, a dark blotch that was without light or sound.
Good kindling sure to be dry underneath the bark in all weather, is procured by snapping off the small dead branches, or stubs of branches, that are left on the trunks of small or medium-sized trees, near the ground.
Pine knots are the tough, heavy resinous stubs of limbs that are found on dead pine trees.
Then he picked up one of the stubs and lighted it.
He had finished setting up the machine, and now went over to another drawer, from which he took the envelope of stubs which we had taken down at Whitney's office first.
Lockwood had been smoking, too, and he added the stubs of his cigarettes to the pile in the ash-tray on Whitney's desk.
Then from the pocket of his street coat he drew both the second envelope of ashes and stubs, the whole cigarette from Lockwood's case, and the stubs which both of us had saved from the cigarettes that had once belonged to Mendoza.
Half an hour later we were filing through the corn-stubs toward the creek.
In giving directions for magazines to be bound with stubs, state whether stubs are to be at the beginning or end of the volume.
If missing, instruct binder to bind in stubs so that they may be inserted when obtained.
Some willows had been burned off, and the short, sharp stubs were sticking up just where I stepped.
I had on buckskin moccasins, and one of these stubs ran into the ball of my foot, between the bones and the toes.
On good healthy vines, the stubs of the roots, when cut back, will be four to eight inches in length.
Canes may be renewed indefinitely, if care is exercised in keeping the stubs short, without enlarging the head from which the canes are taken out of proportion to the size of the trunk.
Grape roots can be cut severely if healthy stubs remain, the removal of small roots and fibers doing no harm, since fibers are of value only as indicating that the vine is strong and vigorous.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "stubs" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
