| 单词 | stump |
| 例句 | I feel my fingers close around the stump that now completes his arm and hold fast. Catching Fire 2009-09-01T00:00:00Z “I was watching. It was still raw—the stump, I mean. Sort of bloody.” The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage 2017-10-19T00:00:00Z She meets my gaze and whacks the blanket a few times with her stump. Water for Elephants 2006-05-26T00:00:00Z She also doesn’t ask to see my stump. The Running Dream 2011-01-11T00:00:00Z Even as the four of them stepped into the high green and gold grasses, a small orange kitten was worrying a big old hen into a frenzy near a rotting stump. Orphan Island 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z More things are falling back in place, like when Axel sees Braviary hop and flap, just like Daniel, from the swing to a stump. A Bird Will Soar 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z Then I had an artificial leg made and fitted for my right stump. Ugly 2013-08-20T00:00:00Z At this moment Frightful, who had been sitting quietly on her stump, began to preen. My Side of the Mountain 1959-01-01T00:00:00Z They couldn’t move very quickly now; there were tree roots and stumps in their way, barely visible in the near blackness. Harry Potter And The Chamber Of Secrets 1998-07-02T00:00:00Z I go get it, sit out on a stump, running the whetstone over the blade. Shiloh 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z There was the downpour though, and a good bit of it has collected in a washtub near the chopping stump. Jazz 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z Curzon handed me a roll and pointed to a tree stump. Chains 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z He directed her to capture smaller things: a seedling pine reaching upward from a crevice; a stone balanced on a tree stump. Son 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z He had one full arm, the other was a stump that stopped before his elbow. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z Wormtail, slumped on the ground, cradling his stump of an arm. Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire 2000-07-08T00:00:00Z She stumbled toward me, then held out the sagging stumps of her melted arms. Dead End in Norvelt 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z I towed the panel away like a redneck removing a tree stump. The Martian 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z With his free hand, he’s eating a blueberry muffin, and he’s eating it the way he always eats his muffins, first the stump, then the top. A High Five for Glenn Burke 2020-02-25T00:00:00Z Wormtail’s robes were shining with blood now; he had wrapped the stump of his arm in them. Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire 2000-07-08T00:00:00Z “Yes,” said Chester, “but I’m not so keen on staying in a cage. I’m more used to tree stumps and holes in the ground. It makes me sort of nervous to be locked in here.” The Cricket in Times Square 1960-01-01T00:00:00Z Then the big mournful drunk shrugged yet again and scuffed over to the woodpile; seating himself on a pinon stump, he wiped his brow. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z I feel a hot spot forming on my stump—a warning sign Hank has told me I should pay close attention to. The Running Dream 2011-01-11T00:00:00Z The stumps of his lost fingers tingled as he drew the girl to her feet. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z He scratched the stump of his wrist nervously. Of Mice and Men 1937-01-01T00:00:00Z Then I got a savage poke in that bone that's the stump of a tail. Black Swan Green 2006-04-10T00:00:00Z She sat on the ground like a tree stump, making no effort to get up. Stardust 1998-10-01T00:00:00Z So Tjaden has rigged up the lid of a boot-polish tin with a piece of wire over the lighted stump of a candle. All Quiet on the Western Front: A Novel 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z And, in reply, a choir of seedlings arching their necks out of rotted tree stumps, sucking life out of death. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z “I bet I can get mine beyond that stump.” Harry Potter And The Chamber Of Secrets 1998-07-02T00:00:00Z The bears huddled behind the gosling and stared at the robot’s stump of a leg. The Wild Robot 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z It would soon be dark and she could keep her rendezvous with the mouse Abbot at the old stump. Redwall 1986-10-23T00:00:00Z Five khaki twins, each with the stump of a long eclair in his right hand, and their identical faces variously smeared with liquid chocolate, were standing in a row, puggily goggling at him. Brave New World 1932-01-01T00:00:00Z Yes, there it was, although it was only a small stump. Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z The stumps were chairs and tables and stoves, and leaves were dishes, and sticks were the children. Little House in the Big Woods 1932-01-01T00:00:00Z She shook the contents out on to the stump. Redwall 1986-10-23T00:00:00Z It’s like seeing each other from the waist up helps us forget about the stump lurking beneath the surface. The Running Dream 2011-01-11T00:00:00Z The skinny bald man settled himself comfortably against a stump and started drinking. Ship Breaker 2010-05-01T00:00:00Z For the second time Ron withdrew his arm from around Hermione and stumped over to the door. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z Now trees were growing up again, but there were tangled old limbs in piles and ancient stumps overgrown with lichens and moss and little green leaves and ferns. Miracles on Maple Hill 1956-08-01T00:00:00Z When she came back from behind the stump, the rat hid. Fablehaven 2006-07-30T00:00:00Z Then his body drops clean away and only his hands with the stumps of his arms, shot off, now hang in the wire. All Quiet on the Western Front: A Novel 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z In his dream he was sitting on top of his stump back in Connecticut, eating a leaf from the willow tree. The Cricket in Times Square 1960-01-01T00:00:00Z He took up the rope and made it fast over the stump nearest to the brink; then the other end he tied about his own waist. The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z He sat on a stump of driftwood, sipping coffee and looking out over the bay. Touching Spirit Bear 2001-01-09T00:00:00Z This time it seems to fit better, so he holds the fake leg so that the open end of the socket is facing my stump and says, “Just put your leg inside.” The Running Dream 2011-01-11T00:00:00Z An RPG had tossed his tiny body off the ground and he had landed on a tree stump. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z Using her stump as a support on die window sill, her good leg as a lever, she threw herself out of the window. Sula 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z There were stumps to burn aplenty as he cleared the land, but suddenly there was no need for potash in England and hardly any demand in Vermont. Lyddie 1991-02-01T00:00:00Z Hank slides a small ring up the dangling end, then stretches out the rest of the sock and doubles it up over the ring and over my stump. The Running Dream 2011-01-11T00:00:00Z She gave the other two an apprehensive look; they all took deep breaths and then dived at the gnarled stump between them. Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince 2005-07-16T00:00:00Z I looked around, confused, until my eyes landed on the tree stump. Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky 2019-10-15T00:00:00Z The hand, running high on its fingertips, scrabbled through the tall grass and up onto a tree stump. Coraline 2002-02-24T00:00:00Z She had reached the far corner of the garden, and there, at the edge of the woods where it met the fence, was a stump. Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH 1970-06-01T00:00:00Z He sits down on a section of stump at my table, which is a huge sandstone slab laid on three big boulders. On the Far Side of the Mountain 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z I moved my head, tried to look at the empty place...the stump. Kindred 1979-06-01T00:00:00Z He takes all sorts of measurements of my stump side, and of my good side, too. The Running Dream 2011-01-11T00:00:00Z When a truck carrying powerful chainsaws, along with something ominously called a stump grinder, shows up, well, you know you’re in trouble. Wishtree 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z Merry, Pippin, and Sam sat at their ease laughing and talking and singing, while the Shirriffs stumped along trying to look stern and important. The Return of the King 1955-10-20T00:00:00Z A tree stump that used to be there is now gone, and so is the rickety gate. Pride 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z He cut more hay, dug more ditches, dynamited more stumps, and spread more hot, black asphalt on Highway 101. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z But then it nudged itself off the edge of the stump and vanished in the underbrush. Tuck Everlasting 1975-01-01T00:00:00Z It was a lonesome place like a stump in the middle of the woods where nobody had ever been. Their Eyes Were Watching God 1937-09-18T00:00:00Z In consequence, over the next thirty years, nearly all the hills of northern Georgia were turned into sunny groves of stumps. A Walk in the Woods 1997-11-01T00:00:00Z Then she reached toward me with her deformed stumps and touched my face and at that moment I yelped out loud and dropped over dead. Dead End in Norvelt 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z “The magic square? You had me stumped with the flamingo theater. I was like, what in the world is a—” Emily’s brain caught up with her rambling mouth. Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z Aunt Polly’s yard was a fine place to play, because the stumps were so thick. Little House in the Big Woods 1932-01-01T00:00:00Z I had a little more trouble tanning these hides because the water in my oak stump kept freezing at night. My Side of the Mountain 1959-01-01T00:00:00Z The hero was jerking on the sand, the bright blood pouring from the ragged stump of his shoulder. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z Cyrus stumped over to him and grasped him by the arm so fiercely that he winced and tried to pull away. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z And for no reason at all that he could make out, his mind leaped to his father, stumping about on his wooden leg, rapping on his leg for attention with a walking stick. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z She lay there gnawing and licking at the stump of her missing leg, and the man sat still, one elbow on the bar, looking all around with an air of mild and knowing interest. The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage 2017-10-19T00:00:00Z The Hydras heads would only stop multiplying if we burned the stumps before they regrew. The Sea of Monsters 2006-04-01T00:00:00Z One leg was gone and the other was held by tendons and part of the trouser and the stump twitched and jerked as though it were not connected. A Farewell To Arms 1929-09-02T00:00:00Z Toward them especially she leaned a little, telling in three words the full story of the stumped life in the coffin behind her. Song of Solomon 1977-01-01T00:00:00Z Lev sits on the ground, I on a tree stump. What the Night Sings 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z He looked down, saw Longstreet rise, move off, shoulders bowed, wandering head down and lumbering, like a bearded stump, to stare out at the lines. The Killer Angels: The Classic Novel of the Civil War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z The bellowing, distressed cows lumbered among the stumps until they were exhausted and stopped giving the milk that was the farm’s principal cash product. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z Slash got his name from the dagger strapped to the stump where his hand used to be. I Survived the American Revolution, 1776 2017-08-01T00:00:00Z The woman's right arm ended in a bloody stump at her elbow, and her eyes didn't seem to see anything, even when die was looking right at it. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z But I knew that die wood floating up on the beach consisted mostly of branches or stumps that had been in the water for weeks or months. The Cay 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z The barn was gone now and one year they had cut the hemlock woods and there were only stumps, dried tree-tops, branches and fire- weed where the woods had been. A Farewell To Arms 1929-09-02T00:00:00Z Really stumped this time, Harry found nothing else to say. Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince 2005-07-16T00:00:00Z “No, Mary, it wasn’t a bear at all. There I had been yelling, and dancing, and waving my arms, all by myself in the Big Woods, trying to scare a stump!” Little House in the Big Woods 1932-01-01T00:00:00Z He held his breath when the driver nearly hit a tree stump while plowing through a parched wheat field. Shooting Kabul 2010-06-22T00:00:00Z By Friday the flower hung down over the rim of the waterless vase, its dead stump of a head shedding yellow dust in the pencil groove. Stargirl 2000-08-08T00:00:00Z I slip on the nylon, then pull on a stump sock. The Running Dream 2011-01-11T00:00:00Z The old clock stared at me from the dresser like a worm-eaten stump, all useless and dead. Worth 1998-06-01T00:00:00Z He stumped in on a crude wooden leg he himself had carved out of beechwood. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z They are bound to bits of clockwork, pieces of mirror, stumps of dripping candles. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z Darting through the huge crowd, across the muddy lawn, past Dave and his crew, around the massive saw, beneath the stump grinder, and finally, triumphantly up my trunk, was none other than Flashlight. Wishtree 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z We watched as she boiled two potatoes and gnawed on a stump of bread. Between Shades of Gray 2011-03-22T00:00:00Z I could almost imagine each new stick and stump it swallowed forcing the denner resin deeper into its gizzard, mixing it around, breaking it up, forcing it to dissolve. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z His eyes blinded with tears and he turned and went weakly out of the barn, and he rubbed his bristly whiskers with his wrist stump. Of Mice and Men 1937-01-01T00:00:00Z Beatrice made a chimpanzee face and pointed at a sharp stump where one of her incisor teeth used to be. Hoot 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z And as he did so I saw that he had no fingers but only stumps. Nectar in a Sieve 1954-01-01T00:00:00Z Candy laid the stump of his wrist on his knee and rubbed it gently with his hand. Of Mice and Men 1937-01-01T00:00:00Z She transformed it back into a stump the moment the child wasn’t looking. The Girl Who Drank the Moon 2016-08-09T00:00:00Z He still held the string between the stumps of his fingers, and kept yanking at it as if the drumming was sweet to his ears. Nectar in a Sieve 1954-01-01T00:00:00Z At first Bubber was stumped, and it was funny to watch his face while she talked the foreign language. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z All the tree stumps had been dug up, and their holes filled in with dirt. The Wild Robot 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z The nail of his right thumb is missing and the stump that remains is blanched and corrugated. Dreaming in Cuban 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z Her hand trembled, and she clasped it tight over her stump. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z There was a girl a few years older than Hazel sitting on a tree stump next to the big path. Breadcrumbs 2011-09-27T00:00:00Z In another letter to Anthony, Stanton confessed that she often wished she “were as free” as her unmarried friend so that she could “stump the State in a twinkling.” Votes for Women! 2018-02-13T00:00:00Z Tyrion snorted wine back up the scarred stump that had been his nose. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z I got most of the language arts answers right, but the math questions stumped me. Out of My Mind 2010-03-09T00:00:00Z “Several times. So, Jake, some viewers have sent in questions that they think will stump you. Are you game?” The Smartest Kid in the Universe 2020-12-01T00:00:00Z Like right now: We have the grass under our feet and Fluffernutter’s wagging stump and the spinning and the laughter and the sky growing dark above our heads. The Thing About Jellyfish 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z On the mattress lay a man with his legs gone to the hip and the stumps of them blackened and burnt. The Road 2006-09-28T00:00:00Z His wife, too, came from old island people—the Varigs, Art remembered, hay farmers and shake cutters with a few stump acres on Cattle Point—and her father had passed away not so long ago. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z ‘You have never been a chicken. And you have always been meant to fly. Now get up on that stump!’ Stella by Starlight 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z He swung its metal head into the stump in front of him. Healer of the Water Monster 2021-05-11T00:00:00Z Adam retired secretly and walked out of the house and into the woodlot to a sheltered place behind a stump that he knew well. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z After making sure no spies were watching, Duke would slap his paw on the stump because it had a secret wooden button. Dog Squad 2021-05-11T00:00:00Z “Wow, scary thought, the boy You-Know-Who,” said Ron quietly, as they took their places around one of the gnarled Snargaluff stumps that formed this term’s project, and began pulling on their protective gloves. Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince 2005-07-16T00:00:00Z Most of them were now only stumps or empty holes. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z Buddy is hacking into a stump with his chain saw. Landscape with Invisible Hand 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z One day I replaced the old stump I sat on with a three-legged stool, and then I replaced the three- legged stool with this comfortable chair. On the Far Side of the Mountain 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z I walked like a drunken elephant stumping from side to side. Hole in My Life 2002-03-26T00:00:00Z “You can put those away,” he growled, stumping over to his desk and sitting down, “those books. You won’t need them.” Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire 2000-07-08T00:00:00Z She stops rubbing her stump and picks up her sandwich. The Adoration of Jenna Fox 2008-04-29T00:00:00Z The cane-sucking habit in Kilanga was no doubt connected to the black stumps of teeth most everyone showed off when they smiled at us, and Mother never lost an opportunity to remark upon that connection. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z He inspects my stump, prods it, measures it, then says, “Outstanding!” The Running Dream 2011-01-11T00:00:00Z It’s just my thigh, my knee, and a stump wrapped in a mountain of gauze. The Running Dream 2011-01-11T00:00:00Z First came the stumps of the houses that had once contained the dreams of pioneers, and then the town proper in a line of ruined structures. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z “Béene, think,” he said patiently, as if I were one of his schoolboys stumped on an easy problem. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z If you are stumped by the final question, it might help to know that Coaching Principles was taught by Jim Harrick Jr., an assistant coach with the university’s basketball team. Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything 2005-04-12T00:00:00Z Her lack of fear for her safety—particularly among blacks, where she often stuck out like a sore thumb and seemed an easy target for muggers—had me stumped. The Color of Water: A Black Man's Tribute to His White Mother 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z Treebeard stood alone there now, like the distant stump of an old tree: the hobbits thought of their first meeting, upon the sunny ledge far away on the borders of Fangorn. The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z Down there was an empty space of fifty feet or so between the last stump and the stockade. My Brother Sam is Dead 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z But after a good deal of patient effort Hazel succeeded in working out enough of the stump to get a grip with his teeth. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z A flash of green glinted across a tree stump a few feet ahead, and she made her way toward it. Shadowshaper 2015-06-30T00:00:00Z Hank whips out a soft tape measure and circles the end of my stump. The Running Dream 2011-01-11T00:00:00Z Cousin Charley was a big boy, going on eleven years old, and he could jump from stump to stump all over the yard. Little House in the Big Woods 1932-01-01T00:00:00Z I tried to talk to Old Dan, but I may as well have talked to a stump for all the attention he paid to me. Where the Red Fern Grows 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z And then through the trees the familiar form: big man on a black horse, great round shoulders, head thick as a stump: James Longstreet. The Killer Angels: The Classic Novel of the Civil War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z Then she saw the stumps at the edges of the settlement, and gasped. Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z Then a prisoner stumbled, causing a tree stump just coming out of the ground to fall back in place, requiring it to be pulled out again. Surviving Hitler: A Boy in the Nazi Death Camps 2001-03-01T00:00:00Z The edge of the lake a riprap of twisted stumps, gray and weathered, the windfall trees of a hurricane years past. The Road 2006-09-28T00:00:00Z Emma set her doll and the little yellow flower on the stump and pulled out a ’kerchief to wipe her eyes and nose. Elijah of Buxton 2007-08-06T00:00:00Z She saw the old stump littered with her herbs and potions. Redwall 1986-10-23T00:00:00Z Until he slips the pipe over my stump. The Running Dream 2011-01-11T00:00:00Z They filled a grain sack with coins and bills, leased seven acres of stumps and vine maple, purchased a ploiv horse, and started clearing. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z He could engross himself in an inconsequential task for hours without growing restless or bored, as oblivious to fatigue as the stump of a tree, and almost as taciturn. Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z I tethered Frightful just outside town on a stump. My Side of the Mountain 1959-01-01T00:00:00Z My father no longer sat on the tree stump. Kira-Kira 2004-02-01T00:00:00Z He sat on a stump and stared at his hands, calloused where the hammer and saw handles rubbed against his skin. When I Was Puerto Rican 1993-09-20T00:00:00Z Elxa Dal set two thick stumps of candle down, one in front of each of us. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z A flap of skin hung limply over the raw stump. Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z “Second riddle: ‘You’ll find your next clue in the red stump.’” Mr. Lemoncello's Library Olympics 2016-01-05T00:00:00Z And for a while, she was stumped, too. The Woman All Spies Fear 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z The leg had a leather socket that covered my stump. Ugly 2013-08-20T00:00:00Z This seems to temporarily stump whoever I’m talking to. Allegiant 2013-10-22T00:00:00Z Dr. Trefusis accompanied them ashore, and ’twas my pleasure to escort him through the rough terrain of flat stump and loam we have made of the forest, down to the peninsula and to our tent. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves 2009-10-13T00:00:00Z The physical therapist teaches me how to care for my stump. The Running Dream 2011-01-11T00:00:00Z You could barely see a stump out by the road. A Long Way from Chicago 1998-09-01T00:00:00Z ‘Make it fast to that stump, Sam!’ he said. The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z Nocking an arrow to her bow, she peered over the stump. The Reader 2016-01-12T00:00:00Z A man and a woman carried over a huge chainsaw, followed by the stump grinder. Wishtree 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z I did not return to the merry-go-round until the snow was gone and the grass was greening among the stumps. Milkweed 2003-09-09T00:00:00Z And a tree stump became a very large, very pink, and very perplexed-looking bird, who sat sprawled on the ground, wings akimbo, as if shocked by its own existence. The Girl Who Drank the Moon 2016-08-09T00:00:00Z He tried to slide it over Roz’s stump, but the opening was too small. The Wild Robot 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z Cheered by this vision, he turned round at the edge of the ploughing and stumped off home. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z Werfel put on his glasses and stumped into the guest room to inspect it. The Assassination of Brangwain Spurge 2018-09-25T00:00:00Z Later I cut a blackgum twig to chew on and settled myself comfortable on the ground with the stump for a back rest. Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z The farmhouse that Harry set about building amid the tree stumps outside of town became a work perpetually in progress. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z She tried to hop to her stump and preen. My Side of the Mountain 1959-01-01T00:00:00Z Soon the parks were nothing but dry grass and stumps. Milkweed 2003-09-09T00:00:00Z ‘We need those tree stumps out of here by tomorrow,’ the contractor said. Hunger of Memory 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z Sam and Bando walked to the round stumps Sam had cut from the bole of a tree and sat down to watch Frightful. Frightful's Mountain 2001-05-21T00:00:00Z The smaller stumps he could jump two at a time, and he could walk on the top rail of the fence without being afraid. Little House in the Big Woods 1932-01-01T00:00:00Z I stood up from the stump and brushed the back of my skirt clean. Chains 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z Then I looked at Charles with a stumped expression and said I gave up. Nine Stories 1953-04-06T00:00:00Z He made his way down through the ruins of an old apple orchard, black and gnarly stumps, dead grass to his knees. The Road 2006-09-28T00:00:00Z So I sat there, holding as still as a stump, searching the clearing around the Licks. Old Yeller 1956-01-01T00:00:00Z Auntie Yeabu, the youngest wife of Uncle Abdullah, helped my mother bandage the man’s stump while I stood nearby, shaking with fear. Taking Flight: From War Orphan to Star Ballerina 2014-01-01T00:00:00Z It hugged tightly to my stump and was held on with a strap above my knee. Ugly 2013-08-20T00:00:00Z Before every mission, Duke, Nala, and Scruffy raced across a meadow filled with wildflowers to a stump. Dog Squad 2021-05-11T00:00:00Z It had showered the day before, and as Frightful and I passed an old stump, I noticed that it had collected the rain. My Side of the Mountain 1959-01-01T00:00:00Z It was dark when he returned to the fire and flopped down wearily on a stump. Touching Spirit Bear 2001-01-09T00:00:00Z She wags her stump and then stops, sniffing the air. Water for Elephants 2006-05-26T00:00:00Z My stump still hurts, especially since I’ve been off the meds. The Running Dream 2011-01-11T00:00:00Z Sefia switched positions as quietly as she could, but her bow and quiver rubbed against the inside of the stump. The Reader 2016-01-12T00:00:00Z I’d got into the habit of loosening the long laces that held the leather socket tight to my left stump when I sat down. Ugly 2013-08-20T00:00:00Z “The left, then the right. Below the ankle. You will have stumps available to use within six months. Then your hands, at the wrist. They heal somewhat quicker. Five months is a fair average.” The Princess Bride 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z He led them to an old, rotten stump on which a large white fungus was growing—a rounded, convoluted mass of creamy folds and wrinkles. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z In a little clearing outside the museum, an American Indian person was sitting on a tree stump smoking a long peace pipe. Walk Two Moons 1994-06-30T00:00:00Z There was also a haughty black cat, who sat on walls and tree stumps and watched her but slipped away if ever she went over to try to play with it. Coraline 2002-02-24T00:00:00Z Instead of palms and flowers, there were only rocks and the twisted stumps of long-dead trees. The Phantom Tollbooth 1961-09-01T00:00:00Z The artist carved it out of a humongous redwood stump, wooden feather by wooden feather. I'll Give You the Sun 2014-09-16T00:00:00Z Some boys kept insisting they could see people ahead of us, but it always turned out to be tree stumps they were seeing. Facing the Lion 2003-01-01T00:00:00Z She pulls off her prosthetic arm and rubs the stump. The Adoration of Jenna Fox 2008-04-29T00:00:00Z My eyes shift from her stump to her hands. The Adoration of Jenna Fox 2008-04-29T00:00:00Z Much more of this vending and his feet would be bloody stumps. A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z She rolled over and bashed her head against a stump. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z It’s like my stump is giving up being angry. The Running Dream 2011-01-11T00:00:00Z “The magic square? You had me stumped with the flamingo theater. I was like, what in the world is a—” Emily’s brain caught up with her rambling mouth. Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z “No, and this is where they like to stump you.” Dumplin' 2015-09-15T00:00:00Z He began to eat, and once more I saw that he had no fingers, only stumps. Nectar in a Sieve 1954-01-01T00:00:00Z "I only asked you for your name, dude, not how to calculate the speed of light. Still stumped?" The Sky at Our Feet 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z They were jumping from one stump to the next stump and shouting. Little House in the Big Woods 1932-01-01T00:00:00Z I had a dream that I was picking up Josiah from the tree stump and a gunman stood on top of me. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z The smooth stump had no grip, and it slipped around on the forest floor. The Wild Robot 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z We put a dollop on his ring-finger stump, too, since it was still a little scabby. Endangered 2012-10-01T00:00:00Z I scolded him and made him stay there till I could haul the tree stump into place. Old Yeller 1956-01-01T00:00:00Z The skull of old Major, now clean of flesh, had been disinterred from the orchard and set up on a stump at the foot of the flagstaff, beside the gun. Animal Farm: A Fairy Story 1945-08-17T00:00:00Z If there was a rock or a high stump by the roadside I would climb up on that and look on ahead. My Brother Sam is Dead 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z Harry passed her the pod in the bowl; he and Ron both snapped their goggles back over their eyes and dived, once more, for the stump. Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince 2005-07-16T00:00:00Z “Two or three,” I said, thinking of the rows of empty holes and broken stumps. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z He’s in a wife-beater undershirt and his tan pants are pinned under his stumps. Boy21 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z Finally we come to an upturned tree stump with a red ribbon caught in its dead, gnarled roots. Dry 2018-10-02T00:00:00Z But before we got away from the buildings, we saw a group of slave children gathered around a tree stump. Kindred 1979-06-01T00:00:00Z Now she remembered it, so instead of continuing to her house she turned toward the far corner of the garden and the stump at the edge of the woods beyond. Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH 1970-06-01T00:00:00Z The chaplain was stumped and at a complete loss for a reply. Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z “Save her, Todd,” he barks, wagging his little stump. The Knife of Never Letting Go 2008-05-05T00:00:00Z “Frightful will hop from the stump to my fist. She still can’t fly. Her wing feathers are only about an inch long. I think she likes me.” My Side of the Mountain 1959-01-01T00:00:00Z He dug tunnels under stumps in his neighbors’ pastures and pried them out of the earth with long iron bars. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z He thought of his meadow and the stump, the brook and the old willow tree. The Cricket in Times Square 1960-01-01T00:00:00Z Tree stumps poked out of the ground, making it too dangerous for us to run around. Taking Flight: From War Orphan to Star Ballerina 2014-01-01T00:00:00Z From where I sat, leaning against my tree stump and looking up, it seemed higher than a Ferris wheel. Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z “Dying. Just like me. But the difference is they dying like a stump. Me, I’m going down like one of those redwoods. I sure did live in this world.” Sula 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z He nodded, accepted, started off to his tree stump to eat. The Princess Bride 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z Bohr waspishly lectured G. P. Thomson of the Cavendish, who had been stumping for Cockcroft and Walton. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z It was almost like the spongy wood of his old tree stump— and felt much more like home than the cricket cage. The Cricket in Times Square 1960-01-01T00:00:00Z “A stump, an oak stump, would be perfect,” I said right out loud to that pretty bird. My Side of the Mountain 1959-01-01T00:00:00Z But this tree in the yard—this tree that men chopped down...this tree that they built a bonfire around, trying to burn up its stump—this tree lived! A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z Around another bend and a flock of turtles sunning on stumps, Grandma pulled for the remains of an old dock. A Long Way from Chicago 1998-09-01T00:00:00Z There’s just me and my ugly, useless stump. The Running Dream 2011-01-11T00:00:00Z We walked a little ways into the woods and sat on a couple of stumps whilst folks cleared out of the carnival. Elijah of Buxton 2007-08-06T00:00:00Z ‘Trot him from that stump yonder, back again to me.’ Johnny Tremain 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z Go a few miles here, a few miles there, out of sight of the picture windows, and you come to the land of stumps. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z In the clearing he had made last year, Pa was plowing around the stumps and putting in his crops. Little House in the Big Woods 1932-01-01T00:00:00Z Down the newly cut path I go, high-stepping over stumps and roots, following the soldiers and gentlemen. Blood on the River 2006-05-04T00:00:00Z Her legs dangled in the air until she pounded a foot and a stump against the hunter’s broad chest, leaned back, and pulled on the rifle with all her strength. The Wild Robot 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z Blowing breast feathers off the bangs covering her forehead, Stella emerged moments later lugging a bulging sack, which she carted over to the rust-colored stump. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z Ben was sitting on a stump, huddled in his frayed brown cloak. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z Wormtail, his job done, dropped to his knees beside the cauldron, then slumped sideways and lay on the ground, cradling the bleeding stump of his arm, gasping and sobbing. Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire 2000-07-08T00:00:00Z I put the top of the muffin next to my milk and the stump back on the plate. A High Five for Glenn Burke 2020-02-25T00:00:00Z Robins eyes grew wide when she saw the stump of his right hand, and I knew I would have some explaining to do later. Dragonwings 1975-01-01T00:00:00Z An unsmiling woman in uniform, ticket booklet in hand, was stumping towards them when Ginika jumped in and started the car. Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z Now he reached up inside his coat, cupped the stump of his arm in his right hand, and thought of all he had to do on account of the power being out. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z When these students were asked to read Of Mice and Men and complete a sentence beginning with “Although George,” many were stumped. The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z Once, when I was eight years old, I found a stone arrowhead embedded in the stump of an ancient oak tree up on the mountain behind my house. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z Then he was quiet, biting his arm, the stump of his leg twitching. A Farewell To Arms 1929-09-02T00:00:00Z The stumps of his fingers itched and twitched, but he kept his dagger in its sheath. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z She returns her prosthetic arm to her stump, wincing at the momentary pinch of the magnetic fields that hold it tight. The Adoration of Jenna Fox 2008-04-29T00:00:00Z He leans on a stump now, trying to catch his breath, embers from the fire falling around him like flaming confetti. Dry 2018-10-02T00:00:00Z I crossed a high hibiscus hedge through an unlatched gate and came upon a muddy backyard, strewn with logs and stumps like a carpenter's yard. How the García Girls Lost Their Accents 1991-01-04T00:00:00Z When Arya flinched back, startled, he opened his mouth wide and waggled his tongue at her, only it was more a stump than a tongue. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z I just stand there like a stump of a person. I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z She seemed to compress down into an even smaller version of herself so that she looked like an angry tree stump with short stubby branches for arms. Dead End in Norvelt 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z He held out his hand, and as Serafina daubed the steaming mixture on the bleeding stumps of his fingers he looked away and breathed in sharply several times, but he didn’t flinch. The Subtle Knife 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z And then the different anger that came in him when he looked on the stumps of Willie’s legs. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z At once, the prickly vines shot back inside, and the gnarled stump sat there looking like an innocently dead lump of wood. Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince 2005-07-16T00:00:00Z But then Axe muted the volume as he replayed my stump speech, removing my voice so that we could look more closely at my body language, specifically my facial expressions. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z Supporting herself against the stump, she stood up. Fablehaven 2006-07-30T00:00:00Z “The sticky stuff on my arms,” she said impatiently, and then she held a rounded stump up to her mouth, bit off a cooked chunk, and spit it into the trash. Dead End in Norvelt 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z A sheep's fleece curled from the bare nutty back of a pale stump, but the poor thing couldn't baa without nostrils or a mouth. How the García Girls Lost Their Accents 1991-01-04T00:00:00Z No sooner had I sat down on a stump thanI heard someone huffing and grunting up the path. Hope Springs 2021-08-10T00:00:00Z My right thigh is burning from holding up my stump as I push one more time. The Running Dream 2011-01-11T00:00:00Z A choir of seedlings arching their necks out of rotted tree stumps, sucking life out of death. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z The Greeks were stumped by Achilles’ infinite steps. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z Then he hands me a tube-shaped nylon to put over my stump, and has me put a “stump sock” on over the nylon—it’s like a regular sock only with no heel shape or seam. The Running Dream 2011-01-11T00:00:00Z A head staring sightlessly up at a homed moon, cheeks ripped and tom down to bloody bone, pits for eyes, neck ending in a ragged stump. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z I do my usual routine, then shut off the water and treat my stump the way I’m supposed to. The Running Dream 2011-01-11T00:00:00Z We wrapped the stump in a piece of cloth and we tied a rope above the wound to stop the bleeding. Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z He held up a finger, buried the axe in the stump, and ran around to the front of the house to make sure that the twins were still busy eating his mother’s pies. Out of Darkness 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z I could stand in it, lie down in it, and there was room left over for a stump to sit on. My Side of the Mountain 1959-01-01T00:00:00Z After a long dance, Cole finally sat on a stump near the fire to catch his breath. Touching Spirit Bear 2001-01-09T00:00:00Z They tied the rope to a cleat at the rear of the boat and rowed back across the lake, jerking the stump slowly behind them. The Road 2006-09-28T00:00:00Z I pulled back and said, “I told you the truth. I was sleeping. Like a stump. And I didn’t wake up until I heard sirens. After that, you were pounding on the door.” Confessions of a Murder Suspect 2012-09-24T00:00:00Z Her legs were as big around as the stumps of trees, and she moved with an ungainly shuffle. The Martian Chronicles 1950-01-01T00:00:00Z Nicolas made fun of his social concerns, arguing that only a fool with the calling of an apostle would go out into the world seeking misery and ugliness with the stump of a candle. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z Finally his lord father gave a command, and two of his guardsmen dragged the ragged man to the ironwood stump in the center of the square. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z Under her direction, I spent God knows how long beating biscuit dough with a hatchet on a well-worn tree stump. Kindred 1979-06-01T00:00:00Z Mrs. Frisby hopped closer and then, carefully, crept up the side of the stump and peered inside. Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH 1970-06-01T00:00:00Z I moved to sit on the edge of the water trough, but the thick planking crumbled under my weight like a rotten stump. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z From behind the tree’s remaining stump, a red head peeked out, blue eyes huge and terrified. Anya and the Dragon 2019-09-24T00:00:00Z The stumps of its branches, which they had trimmed away, formed the rounds of the ladder they climbed to the top. On the Far Side of the Mountain 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z He’s this huge guy with a big chest and belly and legs that look like tree stumps. The Young Man and the Sea 2004-02-01T00:00:00Z When Frightful is tethered to her stump, some of the animals and birds will only come close enough to scream at her. My Side of the Mountain 1959-01-01T00:00:00Z His stomach twisted as he imagined it, watching Ron and the others becoming wizards while he stumped around the grounds carrying Hagrid’s bag. Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone 1997-06-26T00:00:00Z The dog dances around his feet, her stump of a tail wagging furiously. Water for Elephants 2006-05-26T00:00:00Z There was no place to run to, no tip of the marsh where I could sit alone on a stump of driftwood and watch the water. Jacob Have I Loved 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z His craggy face looked like a mahogany stump, and on one tanned cheek was a scar in the shape of an M. Anybody could see that the guy was old—and tough. Flush 2005-09-13T00:00:00Z Willie felt the stumps of his legs with his dark, strong hands. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z I did not realize that I had stood up to take Josiah off the tree stump. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z He brought over a leftover chunk of plywood and set it on stumps to make a low table. Touching Spirit Bear 2001-01-09T00:00:00Z The next morning my father had us carve our names into the stump of the tree that fell away from our house. Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z Try that against an Indian, that glorious charge, saber a-shining, and he’d drop behind a rock or a stump and shoot your glorious head off as you went by. The Killer Angels: The Classic Novel of the Civil War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z Every time she split a stump, a loud roar of pain erupted from the poor pieces of wood. Healer of the Water Monster 2021-05-11T00:00:00Z When Cyrus stumped out into the night he was filled with a kind of despairing anger at Charles. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z The dressed stump of the felled tree looked very new. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z “I bet there isn’t a dame in history you can stump me on.” A Bird Will Soar 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z In the stump there was a hole, and out of the hole protruded something that looked a little like a leaf, but was not. Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH 1970-06-01T00:00:00Z Archer got Sefia to direct him to her hiding place in the stump, where her pack was still stashed, and then they walked into the woods—Archer leading, Sefia following. The Reader 2016-01-12T00:00:00Z It was squatting on a low stump and she might not have noticed it, for it looked more like a mushroom than a living creature sitting there. Tuck Everlasting 1975-01-01T00:00:00Z Nothing of it remains; blackened stumps dot the place where it’s been, as if there has been a forest fire. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z "You . . . you can see where Ghost . . . Jon's direwolf . . . you can see where he tore off that man's hand, and yet . . . the stump hasn't bled, look . . ." He waved a hand. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z Resting the urn on the stump of the dead tree, I can almost hear Baba's voice guiding me. You Bring the Distant Near 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z The old woman sat with her back to the stump. Fablehaven 2006-07-30T00:00:00Z They swirled around his stump, and Chester began to sneeze because the dust got in his nose. The Cricket in Times Square 1960-01-01T00:00:00Z I am a riddle solver, but this is one riddle that has me stumped. The Sky at Our Feet 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z Maybe the shrine was something natural, like a special bush or stump. Fablehaven 2006-07-30T00:00:00Z She slid out of the stump and unhooked the bow and quiver from her pack. The Reader 2016-01-12T00:00:00Z He points to the muffin stump on my plate. A High Five for Glenn Burke 2020-02-25T00:00:00Z Tool showed his teeth from where he sat on his stump. Ship Breaker 2010-05-01T00:00:00Z Knew an old man back in Illinois who lost his toes to frostbite, walked like he had a stump for a foot. Worth 1998-06-01T00:00:00Z She dropped her stump, and her hand fluttered briefly to her belly. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z For once in my eleven years, I think I have my dad stumped. Shiloh 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z Its stump squirts blood all over me, but I do not care. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z His hindparts shiver with the usual joyful, mindless ache to mount whatever happens near—the storm piling up black towers to the west, some rotting, docile stump, some spraddle-legged ewe. Grendel 1971-01-01T00:00:00Z Garikayi stumped on up the path, leaning on a twisted cane, until he was met by his two wives. The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm 1994-04-01T00:00:00Z I sought a seat for him in a hidden and lovely spot, a dry stump of a tree; nor did I refuse to let him, when seated, place me on his knee. Jane Eyre 1847-10-16T00:00:00Z He put the owls in hollowed-out tree stumps on the stage. Frightful's Mountain 2001-05-21T00:00:00Z He attempted an exploratory walk, leaning on his banner as he stumped gingerly around the room. Redwall 1986-10-23T00:00:00Z It's out of reach, so I hoist myself up on the stump, sari and all, resting one hand on Amit's shoulder for balance. You Bring the Distant Near 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z It made him look like a tree stump in yellow boots. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z Half the tube sock is now dangling from my stump. The Running Dream 2011-01-11T00:00:00Z It makes a motion with some of its stumps that must mean something. Landscape with Invisible Hand 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z “Steel, you mean,” said the man beside him, a greybeard whose left arm ended in a stump. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z Desmond and Fat Tom had dragged the man to the stump. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z The man with the garlicky breath was an the ground, blood pumping out die stump of his arm, but there were others all around, some with clubs in hand. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z Over the stumps and rutted tracks of the island, we saw the enemy militia land in their canoes and gain the isle. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves 2009-10-13T00:00:00Z The second stage was introduced as a change, by common consent Sir Grummore stumped off to one end of the clearing, while King Pellinore plodded off to the other. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z It was a beautiful antler, proud and pointed, but the other one was only a stump. The Birchbark House 1999-07-21T00:00:00Z But I managed to get that tree stump where I wanted it. Old Yeller 1956-01-01T00:00:00Z When I put my stump into the socket, the notched peg pushes down through a hole in the base of the socket. The Running Dream 2011-01-11T00:00:00Z Dad looked at me as if I had just crawled out from under a stump. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z Nali had simply placed a large bowl on top of a wooden stump next to the Cleaning tank on the eastern side of the chaha’oh and called it the washing area. Healer of the Water Monster 2021-05-11T00:00:00Z For a terrible moment, I thought she was stumped. The Battle of the Labyrinth 2008-05-06T00:00:00Z “She pays attention, and when she has the courage to ask questions, they’re deep, thoughtful questions. More than once, she has stumped me. Sent me scrambling back to my college textbooks.” The Miscalculations of Lightning Girl 2018-05-01T00:00:00Z Around a stump, over a mound of leaves, past a cedar tree—there were the saplings, and there lay the rat, still on his side. Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH 1970-06-01T00:00:00Z Standing beside the dead stump, I look up and see a golden piece of fruit dangling from an overhanging branch. You Bring the Distant Near 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z The skeleton saluted with its stump of a hand. The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z Fat staples run around my stump like a big ugly zipper, and the skin is stained dirty yellow. The Running Dream 2011-01-11T00:00:00Z Sam stepped back and braced his feet against a stump a yard or two from the edge. The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z He stumped over to a small crystal bottle standing on top of a sideboard and held it up to the light, examining the thick liquid within. Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince 2005-07-16T00:00:00Z There was a grunting snuffling sound in the bush behind the cub: his mother was investigating a rotten tree stump. The Incredible Journey 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z Now and then they found a stump with the marks of the axe on it, but mostly these had been carefully covered with brambles or altogether grubbed up. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z That little attic bursting with magenta and aquamarine and gold for five minutes, and then the radio switches off, and the gray rushes back in, and her uncle stumps back down the stairs. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z He bound the stump of his wrist tightly with a cloth, and he walked beside the gods back to Asgard, and he kept his own counsel. Norse Mythology 2017-02-07T00:00:00Z So I went outside, before I had breakfast or anything, back by those stumps I was talking about. Unusual Chickens for the Exceptional Poultry Farmer 2015-05-12T00:00:00Z She licks his other hand, wagging her stump. Water for Elephants 2006-05-26T00:00:00Z On the third day they woke to find a man that looked just like their father sitting on a stump not fifty yards away. Song of Solomon 1977-01-01T00:00:00Z No trees grew there; but among the rank grasses could still be seen the burned and axe-hewn stumps of ancient groves. The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z Bran's bowels went to water as the Greatjon struggled to rise, sucking at the red stumps of fingers . . . but then, astonishingly, the huge man laughed. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z Andrea grabbed the ax and soon got into a rhythm of chopping, stumping, and tossing firewood. Healer of the Water Monster 2021-05-11T00:00:00Z He’d seen other people’s wounds turn nasty, sick with rot and gangrene; seen their stumps crawling with maggots where they’d gone bad after having an amputation. Ship Breaker 2010-05-01T00:00:00Z When I turned into a teenager, I got older and bolder, and I’d argue with Dad about it, but he was stubborn as a stump. Mississippi Trial, 1955 2002-05-27T00:00:00Z If the stump was hollow, as it seemed to be, there was no telling who or what might be living in it. Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH 1970-06-01T00:00:00Z They tell her not to dress their stumps and wounds. Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z The boy put his hands over the stumps of his legs and shrank back close to the wall. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z In the old days, before Riemann saw that the complex plane was really a sphere, functions like 1/x would stump mathematicians. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z Presently the white, broken stumps, the split sticks and the tangle of the thicket refocused. Lord of the Flies 1954-09-17T00:00:00Z The stump of an elm guards a bottleneck in the path through the woods. Black Swan Green 2006-04-10T00:00:00Z The man looks as stumped as I feel. The Sky at Our Feet 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z “If you are stumped, you may take some time to study the masters.” Speak 1999-10-01T00:00:00Z Ida s wing was still firmly in its place, but only a stump remained of the other one. The Thief Lord 2002-09-01T00:00:00Z Even the wilderness is carefully husbanded there, and though that forest had been logged for centuries there were no waste places in it, no desolations of stumps, no eroded slopes. The Left Hand of Darkness 1969-03-01T00:00:00Z She sat on a stump under the breadfruit tree, her back to me. When I Was Puerto Rican 1993-09-20T00:00:00Z ‘Don’t dive yet until I find out if there are any stumps or shallow places,’ he said. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z He gave me a writing test, a geography test, then laid a bunch of math on me which stumped me. The Color of Water: A Black Man's Tribute to His White Mother 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z “We’re looking for a fire stone, a shelter, and food—all at once. Always, always you look for food. There, up along the edge of the clearing—you see those stumps?” The River 1991-06-01T00:00:00Z Just a bunch of hand mirrors resting on top of a bunch of tentacle stumps that shuffled around the corner together, out of sight. The Last Last-Day-of-Summer 2019-04-02T00:00:00Z There was just a sea of ugly stumps and barren, eroded dirt. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z The shed was actually a shack constructed around a large tree stump. Fablehaven 2006-07-30T00:00:00Z Jonathan looked over at the edge of the field, where his father’s flintlock musket leaned against a stump. The Fighting Ground 1984-04-01T00:00:00Z He was trembling violently, but he propped up his left hand with his right while the man spread more ointment over the stumps and wound a strip of linen tightly around the hand. The Subtle Knife 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z Well, we were a family all right, and my father is steady as a stump. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z We approached them from one side so that neither the children on the tree stump nor those on the ground were facing us. Kindred 1979-06-01T00:00:00Z She runs her fingers over her stump and grimaces. The Adoration of Jenna Fox 2008-04-29T00:00:00Z If I settle down on a stump somewhere at the edge of the village square, they’ll forget about me sooner or later, I’ve found. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z All we see of this is the odd stump, the fly struggling on the porch floor of the summer house in October, the fragment on the highway. The Lives of a Cell 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z Roy chained his bike to a gnarly old stump and picked his way through the tangled trees. Hoot 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z Sherlock’s bed was moved from the kitchen into the family room, and at first it was hard because he wouldn’t leave my stump alone. The Running Dream 2011-01-11T00:00:00Z He would perch on a stump, flap his black wings, and talk by the hour to anyone who would listen. Animal Farm: A Fairy Story 1945-08-17T00:00:00Z She was so quiet that Jody climbed on a stump and rode her most of the way home. The Red Pony 1937-01-01T00:00:00Z Her thoughts skittered between eagles that learned to fly, and men who were scared to jump off that stump, and Moses who said, “Let my people go.” Stella by Starlight 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z Pastor George sat down on a stump in the backyard and covered his face with his hands. The Lions of Little Rock 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z The filthy witch sat inside, her back against the tree stump, chewing on a knot in a bristly rope. Fablehaven 2006-07-30T00:00:00Z A boy sat waving at me from a tree stump at the edge of the woods. Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children 2011-06-07T00:00:00Z A pair of imps sat on the tree stump. Fablehaven 2006-07-30T00:00:00Z Edwin’s stump tipped over, and he fell backward in surprise. Touching Spirit Bear 2001-01-09T00:00:00Z A thirty-something father of two, he badly wanted this job, but he had barely passed his other exams, and first aid had stumped him. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z Now he has small stumps where his extra fingers used to be. Ninth Ward 2010-08-16T00:00:00Z If I'm to sit here like a stump, I had as well paint a target on my breastplate. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z They passed massive boulders, the stumps of newly sawed trees, splinters of shattered ones. The Killer Angels: The Classic Novel of the Civil War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z I tell him everything worked just like he said it would, and the Mary Rose is high and dry, but now I’m stumped. The Young Man and the Sea 2004-02-01T00:00:00Z “And now I’m stumped with the clue I found in The Maltese Falcon. That’s what I thought you could help me with.” Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z All day long, using only axes and chains, they pulled out tree stumps to make way for a road. Surviving Hitler: A Boy in the Nazi Death Camps 2001-03-01T00:00:00Z We make our way down to the truck, which still waits for us by the upturned stump, and Jacqui hops in the back, pushing things out of the way until she gets to the box. Dry 2018-10-02T00:00:00Z The Greeks were stumped by the problem, but they did find the source of the trouble: infinity. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z Tiny shards of twigs were flung in every direction and the stump split in two. Healer of the Water Monster 2021-05-11T00:00:00Z He scratched the stump of his missing arm. Milkweed 2003-09-09T00:00:00Z What he thinks is a pump in the distance is an ax handle still lodged in a stump. Jazz 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z They sprinted down the dirt road, Ben taking a commanding lead with every stride, until he heard Sammy trip over a stump and somersault into an oleander bush. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z “I’ll go take it off, hang on . He stumped out of the cabin, and they saw him washing himself vigorously in the water barrel outside the window. “Eau de cologne?” said Hermione in amazement. Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire 2000-07-08T00:00:00Z After a long moment, she said, “My grandfather says I could outquiet a stump.” Out of Darkness 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z Opposite the bench was a statue that appeared to have been shaped out of the oak stump rooted there in the ground: a deer’s head. Huntress 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z I said, “I was asleep by eleven fifteen. And I sleep like a stump.” Confessions of a Murder Suspect 2012-09-24T00:00:00Z “Tell Sela that the Abbot will see her two days from tonight at ten o’clock in Mossflower Wood. She must come to the old tree stump, and mind you tell her—no tricks!” Redwall 1986-10-23T00:00:00Z They found short work at a sawmill in Bear, then an afternoon pulling stumps at Crossland, finally steady work in Goshen. Jazz 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z Blood was pulsing strongly from the stumps where his fingers had been, and his jeans and shoes were sodden already. The Subtle Knife 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z He steadied a log upright on a tree stump, and with an ax that looked bigger than he was, he gave it a whack and chopped it in half. Moon Over Manifest 2010-10-12T00:00:00Z It’s up on four stumps now, and it’s stuck on tight. Unusual Chickens for the Exceptional Poultry Farmer 2015-05-12T00:00:00Z Harry glanced at Ron, who looked as stumped as he was; Hermione’s hand had shot into the air. Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone 1997-06-26T00:00:00Z “And now I’m stumped with the clue I found in The Maltese Falcon. That’s what I thought you could help me with.” Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z “Is that cyclone why the woods around here are full of uprooted pine stumps?” the Methodist preacher said finally. Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z Irregular jobs, such as painting the back porch or removing a stump from the front lawn, were awarded on a low-bid basis. Cheaper by the Dozen 1948-01-01T00:00:00Z I would put her on her stump with a long leash and step back a few feet with some meat in my hand. My Side of the Mountain 1959-01-01T00:00:00Z When they were finished Harry balled the papers neatly and stuffed them into a hollow tree stump. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z The strips of bandage that bound her feet had been taken off and her stumps of feet, hard little hooves with the toes bent under, were soaking in a pan of water on the floor. Homesick 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z The stump from the fallen white pine now holds one of Byrd’s clay planters on top. A Bird Will Soar 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z She spoke in a whisper as she steered around a jagged tree stump, but the sound carried over the still water like a shout. Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky 2019-10-15T00:00:00Z I take the stump of charcoal and drill through the air right to the face of the aurochs. The Truth as Told by Mason Buttle 2018-01-23T00:00:00Z The other eleven kids started looking around the motel grounds, searching for a brightly painted tree stump. Mr. Lemoncello's Library Olympics 2016-01-05T00:00:00Z Queenie’s white tail stump is visible for only a moment before she burrows further into the straw, like a crab in sand. Water for Elephants 2006-05-26T00:00:00Z The stump end of the dead mesquite was big and heavy. Old Yeller 1956-01-01T00:00:00Z Apart from the bloody stump, the hand was so completely whitened as to resemble a plaster cast. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z He stood alone in a treeless field, nothing but stumps and dead limbs scattered around him. Where Things Come Back 2011-05-03T00:00:00Z “It is a mere stump—a ghastly sight! Don’t you think so, Jane?” Jane Eyre 1847-10-16T00:00:00Z And there are wastes of stump and bramble where once there were singing groves. The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z He was arranging his blackboard against a tree stump on the first day of classes when a woman, some relative of Special Julius’s, brought her daughter. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z I nod, and he gets down on his knees and slips the socket over my stump. The Running Dream 2011-01-11T00:00:00Z The revelation that one could find free food just sitting on a stump in the woods landed on Joe like a thunderbolt. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z The stump is broad and gnarled and cracked. The Sea in Winter 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z It’s a way for us to try to stump wise old Pops, which is no fun for anyone, and so we all say no. All The Bright Places 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z He ran a hand over the top of his head, a tic of his that meant a student’s question had stumped him more than usual. Anger Is a Gift 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z As the warhorse plodded south along the river, the shops grew smaller and meaner, the trees along the street became a row of stumps. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z I ran with it to the tip of the island, to my driftwood stump, and sat down to open it, my hands shaking so they made a poor job of it. Jacob Have I Loved 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z Strapped to the stump of his right wrist was an iron hand. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z This time she landed on the very tip-top of a pointed old stump. The Birchbark House 1999-07-21T00:00:00Z Eventually we were sitting at a round table on stumps and rocks, all level to the same height. The Marrow Thieves 2017-05-10T00:00:00Z It rolled away into the grass, leaving a flailing stump, which immediately stopped bleeding and began to swell like a balloon. The Sea of Monsters 2006-04-01T00:00:00Z The dirt around the stump is soft and crumbly. A Step from Heaven 2001-04-30T00:00:00Z Sitting on the stump, my back to the swamp and the village, I was crying aloud, so that I did not even hear the crunch of her galoshes. Jacob Have I Loved 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z The only part of me that gets daily attention is my stump. The Running Dream 2011-01-11T00:00:00Z “Also,” said Sierra, “‘Dumpster’ and ‘red stump’ are spelled with the same letters.” Mr. Lemoncello's Library Olympics 2016-01-05T00:00:00Z Charlie led Joe among the stumps and downed trees, teaching him how to understand what lay beneath the bark of the fallen logs. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z Mrs. Corry, dancing lightly in her elastic-sided boots and holding her skirts daintily with her hands, disappeared in the other direction with her huge daughters stumping noisily behind her. Mary Poppins 1962-10-27T00:00:00Z Wreckage everywhere, mounded bodies, smoking earth, naked stumps of trees. The Killer Angels: The Classic Novel of the Civil War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z And this time, instead of slamming the gate and stumping noisily across the courtyard as usual, he had slipped as silently as his hulk would allow up the stairs and into his room. The Golden Goblet 1961-04-24T00:00:00Z My neck was clenched as hard as a tree stump. Hole in My Life 2002-03-26T00:00:00Z In the spring, when the sap was running, it jetted up out of the stumps three or four feet into the air after the trees finally toppled over. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z Gulls wheeled overhead like vultures or perched ominously on barnacle-encrusted stumps peeking out of the green water. The Reader 2016-01-12T00:00:00Z The old woman withdrew into the shack and crouched behind the stump again. Fablehaven 2006-07-30T00:00:00Z Then the weakened roots, having grown accustomed to the poison, responded one day to severe pressure, and the tooth fell free, leaving a ragged stump behind. The Bluest Eye 1970-01-01T00:00:00Z I stepped back as it gave way, the wagon splintering as if its wood were rotten as an old stump. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z I rolled a small stump over beneath the glass, climbed on top, and peered inside. How the García Girls Lost Their Accents 1991-01-04T00:00:00Z Her eyes that night: hollow like an old stump. The Marrow Thieves 2017-05-10T00:00:00Z The meeting place was a grassy sward dotted with pale grey mushrooms and the raw stumps of felled trees. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z Beside the stump, dressed in crude rags, sat a wiry old woman gnawing at a knot in a bristly rope. Fablehaven 2006-07-30T00:00:00Z Before my very eyes, the pale blond stumps distinguished themselves into heel and toe; the high arches made S's of the bottoms of her feet. How the García Girls Lost Their Accents 1991-01-04T00:00:00Z Beside her, Ess listened, mouth hanging slightly open, to the tale of a tree that gave everything it had to a boy—its apples and its branches, until the tree was nothing but a stump. Orphan Island 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z I cut me a pole and was soon perched on a stump, fishing and eating fried chicken. Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z He set his package on the tree stump. Chains 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z “I hopped down from the stump and went off toward the smell,” said Chester. The Cricket in Times Square 1960-01-01T00:00:00Z The knobs on our dressers were whittled down to damp stumps, and our beds were matted with fine, short hairs. Me Talk Pretty One Day 2000-05-02T00:00:00Z The snows around the stump drank it eagerly, reddening as he watched. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z He drew a picture of my henhouse on the stumps, only it wasn’t really realistic, because he drew it walking through the woods, like the stumps were feet, and you know that’s impossible. Unusual Chickens for the Exceptional Poultry Farmer 2015-05-12T00:00:00Z Crossing her yard to a large rust-colored stump, she quickly drove the two nails side-by-side into the block, then sat down on a nearby sawhorse to sharpen her ax with a file. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z When I’d used the Preacher’s old rusty gun to shoot stumps and stones, it didn’t feel nowhere near’s heavy as this one. Elijah of Buxton 2007-08-06T00:00:00Z We were stumped as to why he was kind enough to send us Nelson, though. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z Then she points and says, “Do you see that? That old growth stump?” The Sea in Winter 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z The man fell back, and his pinscher dæmon, who had been baring her teeth at the mild-mannered golden monkey, instantly cowered and tucked her tail stump as low as it would go. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z The head struck his maimed hands, bounced away from the stumps of his fingers, and landed at his feet, raining maggots. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z Ammu said, so loudly that Murlidharan, who had hopped off the milestone to stare into the Plymouth, backed off, his stumps jerking in alarm. The God of Small Things 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z The stump of his amputated arm throbbed, or more precisely it was as if the arm were there again but half-numb, a phantom limb. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z He was pointing at all that was left there, a little stump. Elijah of Buxton 2007-08-06T00:00:00Z “Gotcha!” yelled Ron, pulling a second pod from the stump just as Hermione managed to burst the first one open, so that the bowl was full of tubers wriggling like pale green worms. Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince 2005-07-16T00:00:00Z For an hour he worked with Charlie over the problem that had stumped him—explaining this way and that, until the boy understood. Carry On, Mr. Bowditch 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z James and Matthew looked to Emily, waiting for her direction, but she was stumped. Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z It fell from his shoulder after he had crossed the clearing, and as we ran away, I saw him pulling on the bag, which was stuck between tree stumps. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z Standing among the stumps, there were more houses than Laura could count. Little House in the Big Woods 1932-01-01T00:00:00Z He sat down at the table and cupped the stump of his amputated arm in his hand, then rubbed and squeezed it gently. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z She saw me and smiled me over to a stump where she’d helped prepare supper the night before. The Marrow Thieves 2017-05-10T00:00:00Z He simply wrapped his left hand around the stump of his right and squeezed it as hard as he could, to slow the spurt of blood to an ooze. Norse Mythology 2017-02-07T00:00:00Z A second daughter, Polly, was born that year, and as his business took root Harry bought a stump farm—160 acres of recently logged land southwest of town. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z As the winter went on, the trees around the merry-go-round disappeared one by one, until soon there was nothing but stumps. Milkweed 2003-09-09T00:00:00Z “Well, I need to sit down,” I finally tell them, because my stump is throbbing. The Running Dream 2011-01-11T00:00:00Z I stare at the stump and then the artificial leg. The Adoration of Jenna Fox 2008-04-29T00:00:00Z He’s dark skinned, about six feet tall, and one of his arms ends in a stump because he lost his hand in the Games he won thirty years ago. Catching Fire 2009-09-01T00:00:00Z “This is for tree stumps, for clearing land.” Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z Nali ignored the plate he made for her and went to the woodpile and began to furiously slam the ax into innocent stumps. Healer of the Water Monster 2021-05-11T00:00:00Z The night before we moved, my father and uncle sat on a tree stump across the road. Kira-Kira 2004-02-01T00:00:00Z Gum Baby bounced on my shoulder and nearly fell off as I hurdled a stump. Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky 2019-10-15T00:00:00Z She sat down on a log stump at the table and decapped one. Frightful's Mountain 2001-05-21T00:00:00Z He was led out to a clearing among the tree stumps. Milkweed 2003-09-09T00:00:00Z It’s almost another hour of adjustments and testing and warnings about not overdoing it, watching for hot spots, and avoiding stump blisters at all cost before I walk out of there. The Running Dream 2011-01-11T00:00:00Z Thinking all the time was too much even for Francis, and often when he was stumped by his equations he used to pump my reservoir of phage lore. Double Helix 1968-02-27T00:00:00Z Aunt Saba let a cigarette burn down to a stump between her fingers and flicked it into the air when it stung her. Habibi 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z It takes a few scoots because the stump is very tender. The Running Dream 2011-01-11T00:00:00Z When I reached to drag the stump away, he snarled and lunged at me with bared fangs. Old Yeller 1956-01-01T00:00:00Z She found a small hollow in a stump and squeezed inside. The Reader 2016-01-12T00:00:00Z The house was still only half completed when he decided to sell the car repair shop and move his family out to the stump farm. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z “It’s called a nursery stump,” Mom tells me. The Sea in Winter 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z It is wonderful how much exploring you can do with a stump of candle in a big house, or in a row of houses. The Magician's Nephew 1955-05-02T00:00:00Z Two of them were standing on the wide flat stump while others stood around watching. Kindred 1979-06-01T00:00:00Z I blink, momentarily stumped for an answer, and my eyes dart quickly to Ren’s. Warcross 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z I heard a ball smack into a stump somewhere near me. My Brother Sam is Dead 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z Virtually every proper application of this humble mark utterly stumps the people who write to us officially, who paint signs, or who sell us fruit and veg. Eats, Shoots & Leaves 2003-11-06T00:00:00Z She looked relieved that my Vents hadn’t tied me to a stump behind the woodshed and given me a beating. Drums, Girls, and Dangerous Pie 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z The man had a lame foot but got around agilely, his scabby stump pivoting and tilting as he maneuvered. Endangered 2012-10-01T00:00:00Z I examined the raw stump of a tail, oozing blood. Hattie Big Sky 2006-09-26T00:00:00Z Mr. Leroy sat on a stump and I sat on one next to him. Elijah of Buxton 2007-08-06T00:00:00Z It was early Saturday morning, a week after the carnival, and Pa and Old Flapjack and me and Cooter were down on Mrs. Holton’s land uprooting stumps. Elijah of Buxton 2007-08-06T00:00:00Z Stuart threw himself down against a stump and tried to strike an easy attitude, as though he were accustomed to taking girls out. Stuart Little 1945-10-17T00:00:00Z He could repel people if he chose by wearing to class a short-sleeved shirt that revealed the scar tissue on his stump. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z “Now, there’s still one stump in the way,” he said. Where the Red Fern Grows 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z The man was reaching sideways for something, and after a few moments a marvelous soothing coolness spread into his hand from the stumps of his fingers as the man massaged a salve into his skin. The Subtle Knife 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z I pushed her off the stump, sending her small body sprawling on the dirt. When I Was Puerto Rican 1993-09-20T00:00:00Z “Even if it was only a stump, you thought it was a bear. You’d have hit him on the head with a club, if he had been a bear, wouldn’t you, Pa?” Little House in the Big Woods 1932-01-01T00:00:00Z When the giant stumped toward me, I cut off his head. The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z Candy leaned against the wall beside the broken collar while he scratched the wrist stump. Of Mice and Men 1937-01-01T00:00:00Z I nod because my stump is getting warmer and warmer. The Running Dream 2011-01-11T00:00:00Z There’s a play set inside, two long logs that look like they could’ve come from the fallen trees at Axel’s own house, and a bunch of smaller stumps. A Bird Will Soar 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z I walked around toward a big blackberry bush and found some dirty sawhorses next to a bunch of stumps. Unusual Chickens for the Exceptional Poultry Farmer 2015-05-12T00:00:00Z Sitting next to Longstreet, on a stump, also whittling, was a tall slim man with an extraordinary face, eyes with a cold glint in them, erect in posture even as he sat, cutting a stick. The Killer Angels: The Classic Novel of the Civil War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z He puts the straps aside, then produces a short, very thin stocking, which he pulls onto my stump. The Running Dream 2011-01-11T00:00:00Z Fear alone made it possible; we should have run even if our feet had been shot off;—we would have run on the stumps. All Quiet on the Western Front: A Novel 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z It was a shock at first, but then I started shaking my left stump wildly until my artificial leg fell off entirely. Ugly 2013-08-20T00:00:00Z The stump of his right leg was twitching. The Things They Carried 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z His other hand was missing, severed at the wrist, the stump bound up in leather. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z James and Matthew looked to Emily, waiting for her direction, but she was stumped. Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z Harry thought he recognized a Snargaluff and gave the wizened stump a wide berth. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z At the stump on her corner, she would stick a pinch of Happy Days snuff in her lip and spit juice straight as an arrow. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z I covered his eyes with my fingers and pulled him from the tree stump. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z I remembered staring at the bloody stump, and then at the severed finger, which Luke brought in and placed on the counter. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z Though it was not Monday, some woman had spread out a washing on the bushes and stumps by her house. Little House in the Big Woods 1932-01-01T00:00:00Z My fingers feel his stumps, where his sixth fingers were trying to grow. Ninth Ward 2010-08-16T00:00:00Z This was one’s right as a defendant, and though the request became a regular occurrence, Van Rensburg would almost always be stumped. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z In Oklahoma they put two-ton winches on the fronts of their trucks to rip out tree stumps and even then, some of them won’t move. Everything Sad Is Untrue 2020-08-25T00:00:00Z She places them on the sand, where waves can lap at their stumps. Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z Minerva was dark, round, and tiny like a tree stump. The Marrow Thieves 2017-05-10T00:00:00Z He gave a small, smug nod, as if he had stumped me with that one. A Walk in the Woods 1997-11-01T00:00:00Z She held up the smooth, tapered stump of her wrist and said, “I don’t mind. Have an ogle.” Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z Maybe Mr. Chris knew about flowers and birds and things, but Joe was the one who knew about bugs and the queer plants that grew on stumps and fallen trees. Miracles on Maple Hill 1956-08-01T00:00:00Z Everyone else seemed to be just as stumped as I was. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z Everybody retreated into the small cabin, sitting crowded on the bed, chairs, and stumps that Garvey carried in. Touching Spirit Bear 2001-01-09T00:00:00Z Up close it was a strange, crude-looking thing, its head a stump of rounded clay, its face a smeared thumbprint. Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children 2011-06-07T00:00:00Z I held my breath as I walked over and sat down by a post oak stump. Where the Red Fern Grows 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z I take good care of my stump, watching for hot spots, avoiding chafing and blisters. The Running Dream 2011-01-11T00:00:00Z He said, “I look like a boy to you? I’m not here about work. I’m looking for the owner. And if you put another hand on me you’ll be pulling back a bloody stump.” Elijah of Buxton 2007-08-06T00:00:00Z As we run, she yips and wags her tail, which is really just a stump because someone cut it off when she was born. The Thing About Jellyfish 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z Plunking tiredly down on an uprooted stump near the truck, he snapped open another tallboy; she leaned on the front hood, facing him, wearily letting the smoke drawl out between her lips. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z A few weeks later, he was back on the stump again, this time talking to the rookie camp at the NBA. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z A new tree had grown from the stump and its trunk had grown along the ground until it reached a place where there were no wash lines above it. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z A red fox perched on a stump, two dusky kits peeking around the vixens back. Bone Gap 2015-03-03T00:00:00Z He was sitting on a stump at the base of a ragged old shagbark hickory. The Season of Styx Malone 2018-10-16T00:00:00Z Despite myself I could not keep my eyes off his hands; the harder I tried to keep my gaze fixed elsewhere, the more it fastened itself to those stumps. Nectar in a Sieve 1954-01-01T00:00:00Z Stuck in a half-finished house surrounded by rotting stumps and wild animals of all sorts, she felt as far removed as ever from the sophisticated life that she envisioned for herself. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z I can’t walk evenly, my body is tender all over, my stump is throbbing....I need to take my leg off and rest. The Running Dream 2011-01-11T00:00:00Z “Those policemen asked me the same thing, Tandy, and I cannot imagine how anyone could have entered your apartment without a key. I’m stumped on that one.” Confessions of a Murder Suspect 2012-09-24T00:00:00Z I swing my stump over the side of the tub and stand straddling the curb, trying to figure out the next step of this obstacle course. The Running Dream 2011-01-11T00:00:00Z I collected my books and stumped off muttering, “There’s an awful lot of this going around.” The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate 2009-05-12T00:00:00Z Pa unharnessed the chains off of Old Flapjack and tied him to the stump we’d been pulling on. Elijah of Buxton 2007-08-06T00:00:00Z They had given him a white slate with a stump of pencil tied to the comer. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z I have to lie down on the swampy ground, propped against a stump to avoid getting too wet, until it’s time for me to be alive again. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z The stump, the grass, the creek, he’s seen them all before, all from right here, only now they are different. A Bird Will Soar 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z The cousins played jumping from stump to stump without ever touching the ground. Little House in the Big Woods 1932-01-01T00:00:00Z Once there were elm trees lining both sides of the Poitou here—nothing but stumps now, because over the last three years they’ve all been cut down for firewood. Code Name Verity 2012-05-15T00:00:00Z Now that bad weather had come, almost no one ever sneaked away alone any more to peek through bushes like a pervert at the moldering stumps. Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z She pushes up as far as her left stump will allow, and she whispers into my ear. The Adoration of Jenna Fox 2008-04-29T00:00:00Z I began to slip down the steep hillside from stump to boulder. My Brother Sam is Dead 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z King would be stumping throughout the Tarheel State for his longtime friend, black gubernatorial candidate Dr. Reginald Hawkins. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z Dad finished wrapping his stump and leaned back on his elbows. The Marrow Thieves 2017-05-10T00:00:00Z These clues are tire tracks, a Diet Coke can where it doesn’t belong, stumps and branches, and mud. A Bird Will Soar 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z The legs were stumps, the ends were logs, and there was a ceiling of branches. Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z I also got a good tip from Hank—I put antiperspirant on my stump. The Running Dream 2011-01-11T00:00:00Z A suction sleeve liner goes right over my stump, and it has a two-inch notched metal peg sticking out of the bottom of it. The Running Dream 2011-01-11T00:00:00Z The stumps of his thighs jerked in time to the music. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z |
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