After wandering through several trunks and gloating over blouses, and skirts, and house-linen, and old friends the books were opened up, and before the Maluka became lost to the world Cheon favoured them with a passing glance.
Every one was happy and light-hearted, and the work went merrily forward, until a great pile of tree-trunks lay ready for the sawpit.
The sawing of the tree-trunks lasted for nearly three weeks, and the Dandy, being the under-man in the pit, had anything but a merry time.
Once the trunks were all in, Mac, the Dandy, and Johnny retired to the Quarters after a few more congratulations, Johnny continuing his flourishes all the way across.
Cheon however, with his charming disregard for conventionality being interested, settled himself on one of the trunks to watch the opening up of the others.
Great trunks of ivy grow up from the dining-room, and all the inner courts are carpeted with green turf, with hazel-bushes appearing here and there among the ruined walls.
The ground discloses the bracken fern, and gray lichen clings thickly to the trunks and branches of the trees.
The growth of English timber is slow, but some is still produced by the process of thinning the woods so as to make shapely trees, for otherwise the tall trunks would force themselves up almost without spreading branches.
Half an hour passed, and by little and little the trunks of the trees grew more clearly to be seen and we could well make out each other's faces.
To fare abroad on such a morn, among the gray tree trunks and by the brown woodland streams, was enough for our content.
The boys succeeded in getting two decent trunks at three dollars apiece, and ordered them sent to their room in Mott Street.
I will get the room ready for you, and you may bring your trunks when you please.
The birds tore out the eyes of the demons, and cut them in pieces until the earth was covered with the fragments, like the trunks of palm-trees.
The largest trees are uprooted, or have their trunks snapped in two; and few if any of the most massive buildings stand uninjured.
The material consisted of earth, gravel, and stones, and also in some places broken trunksor branches of trees.
The museum of the University of Michigan contains several fragments of well-preserved tree-trunks exhumed from wells in the vicinity of Ann Arbor.
There is abundant evidence that the Drift fell upon a land covered with forests, and that the trunks of the trees were swept into the mass of clay and gravel, where they are preserved to this day.
Professor Winchell says "Buried tree-trunks are often exhumed from the glacial drift at a depth of from twenty to sixty feet from the surface.
The encroachments of the waves upon the shores of the Great Lakes reveal whole forests of the buried trunks of the white cedar.
She had given careful instructions that one of her trunks should be sent at once to her room.
Each carried a small satchel, with change of clothing, till the trunksshould be overtaken.
All the trunks had Kwasind lifted, To the right hand, to the left hand, Shot the pine-trees swift as arrows, Hurled the cedars light as lances.
In the confusion at the pier while the numerous trunks were being disgorged, Vickers stood apart with Delia Conry and had an opportunity to observe the quiet, efficient manner in which John Lane arranged everything.
Beyond was the forest with its black tree trunks amid the clotted clumps of snowy underbrush.
Alice said, pointing to the white tree trunks across the street, and the vague fields beyond.
On the white path the trunks of frustrate trees show black, on the distant mountains there is gold and blood.
Both sides of the straight road olive trees contorted gouty trunks as they walked past.
A wiry, white-faced man with a little waxed moustache like the springs of a mousetrap climbed on the front seat, while burly people heaved quantities of corded trunks on behind.
Meanwhile the shadows of the pine trees had slowly swung around until they crossed the road, and their trunks barred the open meadow with gigantic parallels of black and yellow.
Ditches and banks of gravel, denuded hillsides, stumps, and decayed trunks of trees, took the place of woodland and ravine, and indicated his approach to civilization.
Now her thoughts turned to her trunksof unused finery.
I wonder how much the expressman will charge to bring my trunks from the station.
Jean had a little money of her own, so she packed her trunks while her aunt was away and went to Grafton to talk things over with Miss Lipton, who has known her since she was a baby.
But while her friends were busying themselves in her cause Grace was engaged in packing her two trunks and arranging her affairs at Harlowe House.
Some of the bottom lands in the lower Mississippi valley have produced splendid stands of willow oak, the trunks being tall and clear of limbs, and the wood sound.
Much of the growth is practically inaccessible, and the trunks are too small to tempt bark peelers, and cordwood cutters find plenty of material more convenient.
The bark of young trees is smooth, but on mature trunks it resembles the exceedingly rough bark of an old black gum.
Trunks may add nearly or quite an inch to their diameter per year when conditions are exceptionally favorable.
Trunks six feet through occur where trees have grown in the open, but such are not tall, and are not valuable for lumber.
In crowded stands the trunks are shapely, and often measure thirty or forty feet to the first limbs; but more commonly the trunk is short.
The principal use of the bark is for tanning and the trunks for piles.
The average size of trunksin Texas is fifteen or twenty feet high and a foot or less in diameter, but some much larger are found in Mexico.
Frequently the heartwood of large trunks is all gone, and the trees stand mere shells with scarcely enough sound wood left to support the diseased tops.
The wood possesses nearly the strength, hardness, and stiffness of longleaf pine, and the trunks are as large.
In thick stands the lower limbs die and the trunks remain bare, except an occasional small branch.
The product of the singleleaf pine forest cannot be measured in board or log feet, because of the smallness of the trunks and branches, but by the cord.
Trunks are seldom more than fifteen feet high and eight or ten inches in diameter.
He paused to hitch up his trunks and fix Dan with an amused eye.
Dan was awakened by the excited shouts of the other Cubs who were donning trunks for a pre-breakfast swim.
Of course they must stow everything into the canvas trunks I supplied, my lord.
Seize a porter, and do not leave him until he has brought two canvas trunks from the lady's rooms.
They start as large nerve trunks which divide and subdivide as they get farther and farther away from the central nervous system.
The large nerve trunks are arranged in pairs--those that spring from the brain are called cranial nerves; those that spring from the spinal cord are called spinal nerves.
She was almost prepared to say she was glad she had ventured when she left the train at Paulmouth and saw her trunks put off upon the platform.
Well--I'll have plenty of house dresses when mytrunks come.
When Louise went to unpack her trunks she found a number of things in the storeroom more interesting even than her own pretty summer frocks.
Cap'n Abe's chest was took back to the depot by Perry Baker when he brought your trunks over, sure 'nough.
Martie liked them all; their chatter of the fairyland of the stage, their trunks plastered with labels, their fine voices, their general air of being incompetent children adrift in a puzzling world.
The children had gone into the yard, 'Lizabeth and Billy charged not to let their little cousin get his clothes dirty; when the trunks came, with his overalls, he could get as dirty as he pleased.
I suppose I should hang these up; we may not get the trunks to-night.
She was embracing Fanny, and she did not glance at him as she responded: "You are very kind, but my trunks are arranged for.
Come, Gabriella, or you won't have time to get into yourtrunks before dinner.
The trunks were packed, the boxes were nailed down, and the two children were playing shipwreck while they ate a supper of bread and milk at a table made from the bare top of a packing-case.
Great must have been the triumph of the man who first discovered that the rushes or the trunks he had managed to tie together would, propelled by a stick or a branch (cf.
The tying of trunks together to form a raft is still not unknown in the lumber trade of the Danube or of North America, nor was it in early days confined to the raft.
It was days before the woodsman could get back along the smoking, smouldering trail, through black, fallen trunks and dead roots which still held the persistent fire in their hearts.
The rampikes, towering trunks of pine, fire-blasted and time-bleached, lifted lonely spires of silver over the enchanted solitude.
For a few minutes the moose rushed on through the morning woods, up and up between the tall trunks of the firs, half-forgetting his alarm in the triumph of his speed.
Two more negroes approached, and lifted one of the trunks which she was guarding.
After they had left the boat, and Pomp and Plato were hoisting the trunks into one of the wagons, Cicely came up.
Mr. Hugh Miller mentions four other huge trunks exposed in quarries near Edinburgh, which lay diagonally across the strata at an angle of about 30 deg.
Many silicified trunks of coniferous trees, and the remains of plants allied to Zamia and Cycas, are buried in this dirt-bed (see figure of living Zamia, fig.
I also imagined that the soil to which the roots were attached should have been different from the sandstone in which the trunks are enclosed.
Besides red and green shales and red sandstones, it comprises much soft white quartzose sandstone, in which the trunks of silicified trees have been met with at Allesley Hill, near Coventry.
A]] Among the remarkable fossils of the rothliegendes, or lowest part of the Permian in Saxony and Bohemia, are the silicified trunks of tree-ferns called generically Psaronius.
Forests might be torn up by such a flood, and thus the occurrence of the numerous trunks of trees dispersed irregularly through the trass, can be explained.
By the influence of such springs or vapours the trunks and branches of trees washed down during floods, and buried in tuffs on the flanks of the mountains, are supposed to have become silicified.
Its base consists almost entirely of pumice, in which are included fragments of basalt and other lavas, pieces of burnt shale, slate, and sandstone, and numerous trunks and branches of trees.
Her plight is very much like that of a ravaged lake with the leaves of its lotuses crushed by the trunks of elephants, and with its birds and fowls affrighted by the invasion.
And heads without trunks, and trunks without heads, lay covering the entire field of battle.
And the Rakshasa struck the monkey with his maces and spiked clubs while the monkey struck the Rakshasa with trunks of trees unshorn of their branches.
And those foremost of monkeys and bears began to exterminate with trunks of trees, the soldiers of the Ten-necked (Ravana), in his every sight.
And hundreds and thousands of animated beings were beheld with severed heads and separated trunks and with their skins and bones and joints rent asunder and broken.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "trunks" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
