All that I had to do was to lay some reed-stumps horizontally within her reach, in the immediate neighbourhood of her usual haunts, namely, the nests of the Mason-bee of the Sheds.
It was easy to repeat the experiment without changing anything in the natural conditions, except the direction of the cocoons: all that I had to do was to hang up some bramble-stumps as I found them, vertically, but with the opening downwards.
The glass tubes and the reed-stumps are laid here and there, in fine disorder, close to the heap of cocoons and all in a horizontal position, for the Osmia will have nothing to do with upright reeds.
I experimented on Latreille's Osmia, using short and even very short stumps of reed.
Among the many bramble-stumps which I have collected, some few have presented a remarkable peculiarity.
They consisted of stumps of the great reed of the south, open at one end, closed at the other by the natural knot and gathered into a sort of enormous pan-pipe, such as Polyphemus might have employed.
Habitat:= On the stumps and trunks of oak and chestnut trees.
It is usually found in large clusters, similar to our illustration, growing upon decaying stumps and the trunks of various trees.
The inky Agaric is frequent about barn-yards, gardens, and old stumps in woods, and usually grows in such crowded masses that the central individuals are compressed into hexagonal shape.
Morgan, grew up amid the stumps of a New York farm.
Both these vessels had the tri-colored flag flying at the stumps of their masts.
Their heads looked like black stumps on the water!
Another of the stumps was just rising from the stream, but Phil fired instantly at the first face, and then sprang back, shouting, "The Comanches.
Upon high lands the stumps of the trees almost preclude the possibility of thus relieving the labourers.
Now, let me see if you have e'er a finger at all to show; for upon my honorable word they ought to be worn to the stumps long ago.
The road was hardly discernible, for it was so little travelled, that grass grew in the tracks, and the stumpsof trees were as difficult to avoid, as they were frequent.
The caterpillar, which is full grown in May, feeds on the inner bark of birch trees and bushes, apparently preferring the stumps left in the ground where stems have been cut down.
Headless, armless trunks were packed with the broken limbs, and the heads from which the brains were oozing, while the stumps of arms seemed lifted from the blackened heaps as if in mute supplication--too shocking for any human heart.
With some, even the stumps of arms were outstretched, as if in mute appeal.
Stumps recovered his balance and shook himself like a dog that has been in the water.
In spite of my rude remark, the young man she called Stumps had continued to smile happily.
Upon the word, as though shot from a cannon, the human whirlpool that was sweeping the deck amidships cast out Stumps and hurled him toward us.
He hailed them with frantic shrieks and shouts, and Stumps and the Lady Moya shouted with him.
After two hours Stumps and Kinney insisted on taking a turn at the oars, and Lady Moya moved to the bow.
Then, with Stumps at her side, she moved to meet the young man.
At the sight of the young man, Stumpsturned appealingly to the golden-rod girl.
And did you notice how angry the American got when he found Stumpstalking with you?
I looked at Stumps and he greeted me with the vague and genial smile that was habitual to him, but on being caught in the act by Aldrich he hurriedly frowned.
There, at a table near ours, we saw the lovely lady andStumps and the American.
I had noticed it; and I also recalled the fact that Stumps had said to the lovely lady: "He told me I could come on deck as soon as we started.
They went forward to a spot beyond the stone yard, on the opposite side from the burnt stables, which they saw had once been railed off, for the blackened stumps of the posts were still in the ground.
Thin kape wan eye on me an' the other before yeez, and advance whin Oi advance undher cover av the stumps and finces and things.
When the stumpswere thrown away, the colonel invited the comrades to visit his rooms for a moment before retiring.
One of the stumps was oddly shaped--almost like a human figure.
Two handless, rotting stumpsof arms waved blindly about--feeling--feeling.
If, however, the stumps are pulled out sooner (by which operation the bird suffers nothing), the feathers will be renewed in a few weeks or even days.
When, therefore, part of a feather is cut off, it does not grow out again; and a bird whose wings have been clipped remains in that condition till the next moulting season, when the old stumps are shed and new feathers grow out.
If you don't stir your stumps you'll miss your train.
The result was satisfactory, but felling the trees was too expensive to practise on a large scale, while the stumps were very apt to throw up a number of vigorous shoots that did as much harm as the parent tree.
If I thought I had done good enough to make up for my back-aches, and three fine stumps lost through chewing patriotic sentiments, why, of course I should be thankful, and make the best of my reward.
Write down thy mind, bewray thy meaning so, An if thy stumps will let thee play the scribe.
This one hand yet is left to cut your throats, Whiles that Lavinia 'tween her stumps doth hold The basin that receives your guilty blood.
Bits of the hide with the hair singed off were found about the fire, and on one piece were the stumps of the ears, the tips having been burned off.
All along the mountainside opposite to them were to be seen places where deep and wide grooves had been cut in the soil and, as they looked more closely, they could see the stumps of many trees that had been cut down by the slide.
On some of the trees or tree stumps by the sides of the roads one may still see the "camouflage" by which these exposed places were screened from the enemy observers.
A little to the right or south, on this bulk of spur, there are the stumps of trees and no grass at all, nothing but upturned chalk and burnt earth.
When trained over tree stumps or rough stakes and ultimately allowed to grow at will, it forms tangled masses which are very pretty.
One of the most picturesque methods of growing Ivy is to allow it to clamber over tree stumps placed here and there in suitable parts of the garden.
Then the trees positively injurious to coffee should be cut down and their branches lopped and piled on the stumps of the objectionable trees, and after this a certain proportion of the less desirable kinds should be felled.
Rooted stumps of these ancient trees have been uncovered, and their narrow leaves, often three feet long, are common as fossils.
On such occasions they prayed that stones, stumps of trees, and other obstacles might be taken out of the way of the warriors, and that their path might be wet with the blood of their foes.
I forget how many thighstumps I had, but I think as many as twelve.
What made it worse than Illinois or Indiana mud holes was that they were nothing but mud while this was full of treestumps and brush.
The timbers had been cut out of the road, yet it was full of stumps and it kept each teamster very busy to dodge the stumps and not break his wagon.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "stumps" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
