A little hill runs down there, and a high stump of a tree stood close beside a spruce.
How in all the world did he happen to lie on his back between that stump and the spruce tree?
The stump was about the same height as an elk, and it looked as if a storm had once felled a spruce.
The three-year-old lay on his back all the morning, wedged in between the stump and the tree-trunk.
A dry twig cracked, and in the clearing a pine stump shimmered with a greyish gleam.
The dunes were avoided on this route by passing over the point where the red-hot hand had been amputated and the stump frayed away by the winds of centuries.
Having reached the spot in question, he sat down on a willow stump and waited.
Often mounting a real tree stump his quaint stories and impressive manner gathered all his fellow laborers.
They were not slow in claiming that he would make a better stump speech than any one at the county seat.
You climb on the shoulder of a blind black stone god and watch that pig choose himself a palace for the night and stump in wagging his tail.
He will either push the stump out of the ground with his tusks, if he has any, or drag it out with ropes.
Beyond the lines of the dead, a broad blood-stained Arab spear cast aside in the retreat lay across a stump of scrub, and beyond this again the illimitable dark levels of the desert.
As I rode down the track to the road I looked back and saw old Howlett hard at work in a hole round a big stump with his long-handled shovel.
Anybody can see for himself that by a natural and necessary concatenation of causes this compelled the poor fellow to stumble over that jagged bamboo stump and to perish miserably.
Here in the gully there is a projecting tree-stump on which the ghosts perch waiting for a favourable moment to jump into the mouth of the cavern.
If a man stumbles, it is because a ghost has pushed him, and he fancies he perceives the frightful thing in a tree-stump or any chance object.
If a man falls on the path and wounds himself to death, as often happens, on the jagged stump of a bamboo, the natives conclude that he was bewitched.
Their mother brought them from an old hollow stump of a tree by the river, half a mile away.
The ball flew from his hand straight and swift towards the centre stump of the wicket.
Perhaps the addition of another stump might help towards the very desirable end of shortening the length of matches, and thus enable more amateurs to take part in them.
If Claus would take the bottle of yellow water, and pour it over the stump from which he had cut his staff, there would come seven green snakes out of a hole at the foot of the hazel-bush.
There he did as the master of black-arts had told him; he poured the yellow water over the stump of hazel from which he had cut his staff.
He threw away thestump of his cigar, deliberately lighted another, and leaned across the table towards me in a more confidential manner.
Jo added-- "I've catched a glimpse of him once or twice, as he darted from one stump to another.
Mr. Toombs announced on the stump that "the good sense, the firmness, the patriotism of the people, would shield the Union from assault of our own people.
General Longstreet heard of Toombs making stump speeches and "referring in anything but complimentary terms of his commander.
His power as a stumpspeaker was felt in eastern Georgia, where the people gathered at the "log cabin and hard cider" campaigns.
They accorded to Mr. Toombs "a very showy cast of talent--better suited to the displays of the stump than the grave discussions of the legislative hall.
However, he did run for Congress and scored the secret order on every stump in the district.
Among the young men on the stump that year was Benjamin H.
I hope," he says, "I will be able to take the stump again next week for old Zach.
He was strong on the stump and incomparable in a popular assembly.
Unconscious men were upon the tables, helpless in the hands of the surgeons,--to wake from a dreamless sleep with a limb gone, a bleeding stump of a leg or arm.
Some of the poor fellows have but one leg; others but the stump of a thigh or an arm, with the lightest possible dressing to keep down the fever.
If persons whose systems were reduced by inanition should by chance stump a toe or scratch the hand, the next report to me was gangrene, so potent was the regular hospital gangrene.
Some distance behind, on the stump of a tree, sat an old bagpiper with his pipes under his arm.
The groom still stuck to it like a leech, and allowed himself to be dragged along the ground, till at last his head came into collision with the stump of a tree and he fell back unconscious.
The flippers are also in bad shape, one being buried in the sand, while the other is entirely denuded of flesh, leaving a bony stump about 6 inches long and which moves readily in any direction.
One day as he was hurrying home to dinner, he climbed up on an old stump to look around and make sure that the way was clear.
Big Mr. Bob Cat found the hole in the stump right away.
When he thought it was safe, little Mr. Chipmunk crawled out of the old stump and hurried home.
Then, with great leaps, he came straight for the old stump on which little Mr. Chipmunk was sitting.
Mr. Bob Cat felt round and round inside the hollow stump and raked his long claws on the sides until little Mr. Chipmunk's hair fairly stood up.
Once Fred tripped over a stump and fell heavily down, where he lay crying silently, but without trying to get up again; and it was only by Philip dragging at him that he could be got upon his legs.
It was a sight to see the professionals bowling like demons for the hard cash, for whenever a stump was hit a pound was tossed to the bowler and another balanced in its stead, while one man took #3 with a ball that spreadeagled the wicket.
He sipped his whiskey, threw away the stump of his cigarette, and lit another before continuing.
William] Stump was a wealthy cloathier at Malmesbury, tempore Henrici VIII.
Anno 1647 I went to Parson Stump out of curiosity, to see his manuscripts, whereof I had seen some in my childhood; but by that time they were lost and disperse.
Stump threw himself into the river Pronoun to have drowned himself, but could not sinke; he is very full chested.
The souldiers did cutt downe that neer Glastonbury: the stump remaines.
The meeting was convened for the purpose of taking steps to fight the Scott Act in every county where it was submitted, and it was there resolved to employ the "Dodger" to again take the stump as the champion of their life-destroying traffic.
Where now there sit on kitchen chairs, with ink bottle tied to a stump the worse for wear, Messrs.
What is true of the Leg stump is true of the Off, care being taken of catch to Slips.
Or, do you ever drive a ball back from the leg-stump to long-field On?
A bat brought forward from the centre stump to a ball Off or to leg, must be minutely oblique and form an angle sufficient to make Off or On hits.
This mode of play will also lead to, what is most valuable but most rare, a correct habit of passing every ball the least to the Near side of middle stump clear away to the On side.
Hambledon Club, one foot high and two feet wide, consisting of two stumps only, with one stump laid across.
As Patsy sank down, too weary to speak, the figure above her took upon itself once more that suggestion of unearthliness that it had worn when she had discovered it at dawn--hanging to the stump fencing.
She rounded a bend in the road and came upon a stretch of old stump fencing.
Then, as if satisfied, he swung himself down from his perch on the stump fence, gathered up his kit, and in another minute had fallen into step with her; and the two were contentedly tramping along the road.
You know as well as I what I was doing--hanging onto the stump and trying to gather my wits.
Here were no longer pastures, tilled fields, houses with neighboring barn-yards, and unclaimed woodland; no longer was the road fringed with stone walls or stump fencing.
Ye can't be thinking of hanging onto that stump all day--now what road might ye be taking--the one to Arden?
I'm mortial glad ye didn't fall off that stump this morning afore I came by to fetch ye off.
She was beginning to feel cold, and it was very forlorn to sit there alone on a stump all night.
But there was no one answering to that name in the crowd, and Edna picked her way back to the stump where the porter had placed her, feeling very lonely and miserable.
Zbyszko grew pale with emotion; he sat down on the stump and was unable to ask another question for a while.
Suddenly they heard the barking of a dog; directly in front of them there was the deformed thick stump of a willow-tree upon which glistened in the light of the moon a crown of leafless twigs.
Macko sat down with Skirwoilla upon a pine stump covered with a bear skin.
