| 单词 | trunks |
| 例句 | After securing their two trunks, we took the elevated train home. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z He could see a few yards into the wood, and between the trunks of the first trees. I'm the King of the Castle 1970-09-03T00:00:00Z I weave through the tree trunks all along the row. The Truth as Told by Mason Buttle 2018-01-23T00:00:00Z His gaze narrowed as it dragged over tree trunks and up to the lush green canopy where sunlight filtered through. Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z "It will eat away at our minds. You'll become like tree trunks." March Forward, Girl 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z She rushes across the street, and it takes me a while to follow her, because my legs feel like tree trunks. Pride 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z It has erased all but the great tree trunks, making my mountaintop home as simple as it was when I first came here more than two years ago. On the Far Side of the Mountain 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z Sometimes Sefia would stop in the middle of the path to look up and watch them flickering between the tree trunks, and the boy would pause by her side, looking too. The Reader 2016-01-12T00:00:00Z These good souls worked with people whose legs were swollen to the size of tree trunks, whose numb limbs had become as twisted as jungle vines. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z An old villa nestled in the shade of some weird-looking pine trees with thin curvy trunks that shot up thirty or forty feet, then sprouted into puffy canopies. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z He lopped the branches, split the trunks, and trimmed his puncheons true. The Odyssey 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z It was cut by fences and the white of the road showed through the trunks of a double line of trees that crossed the plain toward the north. The Sun Also Rises 1926-10-22T00:00:00Z People are beginning to shout at the squad cars, drum on the window glass and the trunks. Native Speaker 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z In my room, I dig through my drawer for my swim trunks. Al Capone Does My Shirts 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z Quite a few single poles and blackened tree trunks stuck up from the ground, and here and there a skeleton of a building rose forlornly. A Place to Belong 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z “Don’t worry....As long as he keeps wearing red trunks we’re bound to win.” Lawn Boy 2007-06-12T00:00:00Z Ahead, he could see the dark, blue-green line of oak trees, with the black spaces in between their trunks. I'm the King of the Castle 1970-09-03T00:00:00Z Maybe she frowned as she sat in the baggage car, rocking along with the boxes and trunks, unable to see the land she was traveling through. Jazz 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z Over the carcass of the horse, they built a platform of hewn logs; trunks of smaller trees and limbs from the greater, and the thickest straightest branches they could find. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z I lurch my way toward the riverbank, using tree trunks to keep me upright, till I make it to the dock. The Knife of Never Letting Go 2008-05-05T00:00:00Z We passed enormous fallen trees, with trunks so large the truck could have driven inside them. Between Shades of Gray 2011-03-22T00:00:00Z Several cedar chests, so large that Molly wonders how they got up here in the first place, are lined up against a wall next to a stack of steamer trunks. Orphan Train 2013-04-02T00:00:00Z “You’d better get on, Harry, I want the trunks ready tonight, if possible, so we don’t have the usual last-minute scramble.” Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince 2005-07-16T00:00:00Z Mother long ago had shoved all the trunks and boxes as far as they could go under the eaves, leaving prime space for Luke’s brass bed and circular rag rug and books and toys. Among the Hidden 1998-03-01T00:00:00Z It contained half a dozen trunks, several of them secured with locks. The Shakespeare Stealer 1998-05-01T00:00:00Z I pulled out the leg of my trunks. Winger 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z Where the bark was peeling from die trunks it lifted in tiny tendrils, almost fluffs. Hatchet 1987-01-01T00:00:00Z Yet the trees were tall with sturdy trunks, packed tightly together, the canopy up above thick with leaves. The Maze Runner 2009-10-06T00:00:00Z The sun was spearing, now and again, through the network of leaves, and rippling over the tree trunks like water. I'm the King of the Castle 1970-09-03T00:00:00Z What excuse could she make to get into her trunks today? The Witch of Blackbird Pond 1958-12-01T00:00:00Z In the southwest corner there were boxes and trunks with tarps pulled over them to protect them from uninitiated eyes. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z Trees store vast amounts of carbon in their trunks, branches, and leaves. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z It’s also notorious for Captain Picard’s vacation attire: extremely short silver swim trunks that only a Frenchman could pull off. Darius the Great Is Not Okay 2018-08-28T00:00:00Z Shouting advice, we ran around the trunks excitedly. Red Scarf Girl: A Memoir of the Cultural Revolution 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z Harry turned and saw something monstrous cutting through the water toward them: a human body in swimming trunks with the head of a shark. Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire 2000-07-08T00:00:00Z “Seven trunks of clothes, all the way from Barbados just for a visit?” The Witch of Blackbird Pond 1958-12-01T00:00:00Z The two Elephants with their trunks and a few dwarfs with their little axes soon got it all undone. The Magician's Nephew 1955-05-02T00:00:00Z They held their great shields above them like a roof, while in their midst they bore two trunks of mighty trees. The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z Sawed circular tree trunks were stacked on their sides, creating a massive wall behind the chaha’oh. Healer of the Water Monster 2021-05-11T00:00:00Z The other passengers in their muddy clothing and with their various trunks alighted at the Merrimack Hotel. Lyddie 1991-02-01T00:00:00Z He followed the line of her finger, past the mottled, mossy tree trunks. The Inquisitor's Tale 2016-09-27T00:00:00Z The girl had to grab on to the spindly trunks and branches clinging to the slope to keep from falling backward. The Girl Who Drank the Moon 2016-08-09T00:00:00Z The great, smooth trunks stood motionless in their green shade, the branches spreading flat, one above another in crisp, light-dappled tiers. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z We walk around the twisting trunks, going off the beaten path toward the trilling croaks of more tree frogs. They Both Die at the End 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z "That storm dragged it out to sea. It wasn't half dangerous with all them tree trunks falling. There must have been some kids still in it." Lord of the Flies 1954-09-17T00:00:00Z Despite the cloudless sky, the old trees ahead cast deep, dark, cool shadows, and it was a few seconds before Harry’s eyes discerned the building half-hidden amongst the tangle of trunks. Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince 2005-07-16T00:00:00Z Tree trunks became rivers and spruce needles waterfalls. Frightful's Mountain 2001-05-21T00:00:00Z For half a moon, they rode through the Forest of Qohor, where the leaves made a golden canopy high above them, and the trunks of the trees were as wide as city gates. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z At that very moment in the world of Cittàgazze, the assassin-priest Father Gomez was making his way up a rough track in the mountains between the twisted trunks of olive trees. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z He looked away at the trees that edged our clearing, their firelit trunks and the black ness beyond. Hollow City 2014-01-14T00:00:00Z There were palm trees— real palm trees with sturdy trunks. One Crazy Summer 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z Holding a cup of coffee in his fist, Gene grinned at the soldiers and rumbled, “Don’t touch my trunks.” The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z Not so long ago, the woods must have extended further, because you could see here and there ghostly dead trunks poking out of the soil, most of them broken off only a few feet up. Never Let Me Go 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z The harpy had made a nest for herself between two old steamer trunks. The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z The vertical piles are still standing, like the trunks of dead trees, and part of the cross-planking is attached to them, but the railings are gone. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z Still they came to trees across the road where they were forced to unload the cart and carry everything over the trunks and then repack it all on the far side. The Road 2006-09-28T00:00:00Z As soon as we got there, Michael changed from his suit to swim trunks and went sprinting into the ocean. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z Their throwing arms were made from the trunks of old oaks, and banded with iron to keep them from splitting. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z The ground was covered with a thick carpet of pine needles and the charred trunks of pine. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z “I think there are more trunks to bring up.” Ash 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z A lone gust of wind from the west blows through the tree trunks. The Last Cuentista 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z After breakfast, Ash sat on the front steps and watched her father and his driver loading trunks onto the carriage. Ash 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z The dogs pulled to the left and jumped up at one of the tree trunks, barking. Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z I start down the steep hillside, holding on to branches and tree trunks. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z The early light came filtering palely through the wood, making the tree trunks like watered silk. I'm the King of the Castle 1970-09-03T00:00:00Z Here thick black trunks crowded close together while twisted branches wove a dense canopy overhead and misshapen roots wrestled beneath the soil. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z Sweating in the equatorial sun, some of the researchers admiringly fingered the plump, pendulous green fruit, each the size of a baby’s head, wrapped in clusters around the trees’ sturdy trunks. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z He’s pushing trunks against the wall, obscuring Camel. Water for Elephants 2006-05-26T00:00:00Z People were fashioning makeshift gurneys from baby carriages and trunks nailed to roller skates, pulling them themselves. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z The room seemed dressed up with the glowing new quilts and the repainted trunks. Red Scarf Girl: A Memoir of the Cultural Revolution 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z Below that, where her legs should’ve been, were two massive snake trunks, mottled bronze and green. The Battle of the Labyrinth 2008-05-06T00:00:00Z I smoothed out the letter from Mountford Prep, and folded it back along the creases, and put it in the bottom drawer of my dresser with my swim trunks. Absolutely Almost 2014-06-01T00:00:00Z We walked past the hill, crossed the stream, and headed toward the trees in the back, where a large boulder sat between several trunks. Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky 2019-10-15T00:00:00Z ‘I don’t think so. At least not like any I've seen. Dracaenae have two serpent trunks for legs. These guys just have one.’ Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z The creatures wheeled around to talk together, their trunks moving elegantly in time with the sounds they made. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z They were roughly the same size as the grazing creatures, but leaner and gray-colored, with horned heads and short trunks like elephants’. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z I flail around, trying to use vines and trunks to right myself. Catching Fire 2009-09-01T00:00:00Z Boomer and I duck beneath the wire and weave between the trunks, keeping clear of the patches of poison oak. How to Disappear Completely 2020-04-28T00:00:00Z She was passing through one of the trunks, not really minding where she was going, when she smacked her nose. Aru Shah and the End of Time 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z In the tight trunks he seemed very naked. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z When elephants walk through the cave at night, they navigate by their sense of touch, probing the floor ahead of them with the tips of their trunks. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z "Use the passages. I've left trunks for you that contain all you need." The Belles 2018-02-06T00:00:00Z The roads are mostly empty, because it’s the war, though once in a while there’s a truck loaded with cut tree trunks or fresh lumber, trailing its perfume of sawdust. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z Camel calls from behind the row of trunks. Water for Elephants 2006-05-26T00:00:00Z He’s in swimming trunks, she in a long blue coat. I'll Give You the Sun 2014-09-16T00:00:00Z These trees were beeches, whose trunks are always more beautiful in a pearly light, and among the beeches there was the smallest movement and a silvery dink. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z I crawled out from behind the trunk and felt my way across the black room, banging painfully against racks of weapons and corners of trunks. The Shakespeare Stealer 1998-05-01T00:00:00Z He swings the door open and walks to the row of trunks that obscures Camel. Water for Elephants 2006-05-26T00:00:00Z Instantly their heads snapped around, trunks held out, glittering eyes facing forward. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z “We’re going into the trunks tonight. It’s time to make your selections.” Warriors Don't Cry: A Searing Memoir of the Battle to Integrate Little Rock's Central High 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z He was clambering heavily among the creepers and broken trunks when a bird, a vision of red and yellow, flashed upwards with a witch-like cry; and this cry was echoed by another. Lord of the Flies 1954-09-17T00:00:00Z The two oaks grew close together; there was a gap of only a few inches between the trunks at eye level, an ideal place to see but not be seen. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z But near Enugu, the civil defenders had blocked the road with tree trunks and old rusty drums. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z He remains in the corner as I pull the trunks out and retrieve Camel. Water for Elephants 2006-05-26T00:00:00Z Little by little, Mary realized that their trunks were playing a part in communication, too. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z They cruised low to the ground, skimming over bushes, dodging tree trunks, and swishing past branches. Fablehaven 2006-07-30T00:00:00Z Ekon was still running, still moving between the tree trunks, but it was too dark, too loud. Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z In return, they let her feel their trunks. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z I’ve always felt that a special ring of hell should be reserved for kidnappers who place their victims in the trunks of cars. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z On the way home from Dad’s I take as many photos as I can: Naked branches and tree trunks. Piecing Me Together 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z Inside are hundreds of buckets, lined up two deep in front of trunks and clothes racks, with names or initials painted on the sides. Water for Elephants 2006-05-26T00:00:00Z Dark trunks traveled up into the distant sky, connecting this world to the one above. Breadcrumbs 2011-09-27T00:00:00Z There were palm trees— real palm trees with sturdy trunks. One Crazy Summer 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z In front of the house he saw wagons and carts and men loading them with furniture, chests, trunks, boxes— even old portraits. Johnny Tremain 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z My eyes followed the leather tree trunks up and the leather turnt to blue jeans, then the blue jeans turnt into a calico shirt stretched ’crost the wide back of a giant man. The Journey of Little Charlie 2018-01-30T00:00:00Z I approach the door and glance nervously at the trunks laid end-to-end across the back wall. Water for Elephants 2006-05-26T00:00:00Z Servants put up privacy screens and unpack trunks. The Belles 2018-02-06T00:00:00Z She was as happy to read the magic books from her Uncle Marcos’s enchanted trunks as she was to contemplate the Liberal Party documents her father kept in his study. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z I’d worn Granddad’s old trunks, and Dad had worked my corner. Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky 2019-10-15T00:00:00Z He could make out Parker Head heading down to Thayer’s haymeadow and the coast; its snowy backside showed between the bare trunks. Lizzie Bright and the Buckminster Boy 2004-05-24T00:00:00Z I thought of Grandma getting married so long ago, bringing the four beautiful trunks full of gifts her mother had sent from Tianjin to Shanghai. Red Scarf Girl: A Memoir of the Cultural Revolution 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z As they approached, they suddenly saw Hawkbit sitting among the thorn trunks, cleaning his face with his paws. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z The trees have slight bends in their trunks, careful angles of their palm leaves. I Can Make This Promise 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z I saw how he raked the trees with his forepaws—great deep gouges in the trunks, they were. Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z Now there were only trees, their gray-brown trunks scaled with lichen, and every so often the sound of a squirrel or rabbit bounding through the underbrush. Huntress 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z I run como Un chango, In my orange Swimming trunks, Jumping up and Down, pounding The mushy grass With my feet. Neighborhood Odes 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z Cabinets and trunks line the walls, boxes of files are stacked in tidy rows. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z George and Aunt Daisy squeezed through the crowd, weaving around trunks and stepping over sleeping children. I Survived the Sinking of the Titanic, 1912 2010-06-01T00:00:00Z There was not enough soil for them to grow to any height and when they reached perhaps twenty feet they fell and dried, forming a criss-cross pattern of trunks, very convenient to sit on. Lord of the Flies 1954-09-17T00:00:00Z Their trunks made patterns of alternating light and dark beneath the canopy of branches. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z The journey was uncomfortable, owing to the fact that they were jammed in the back of the taxis with their trunks. Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire 2000-07-08T00:00:00Z Inside there was an apartment of many rooms furnished with chairs carved out of polished tree trunks, with cushions of rose and gold and green silk. Huntress 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z So she watched her roommates pack their trunks and listened as they chattered about whom they would see and what they would do, and tried not to mind. Lyddie 1991-02-01T00:00:00Z Two of the men lowered over the side the seven small leather trunks that held all of Kit’s belongings and piled them, one beside the other, on the wet planking. The Witch of Blackbird Pond 1958-12-01T00:00:00Z Taylor tried to lead the way, but many of the girls ran scattershot for the forbidding jungle, scrambling over brambles, scraping their tender flesh against the prickly trunks of the palms. Beauty Queens 2011-05-24T00:00:00Z Under all of my pairs of swim trunks that were too small for me to wear anymore, that’s where it was. Absolutely Almost 2014-06-01T00:00:00Z Not only was the current swift, but the waters were laden with all kinds of debris: tree trunks, brushwood, drowned animals, and once the bloated corpse of a man. The Subtle Knife 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z He was well over seven feet tall, closer to eight, with massive shoulders and arms thick as the trunks of small trees. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z The mist seems to thicken in the canopy above us, like the tree trunks are growing directly into the clouds. The Sea in Winter 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z There they were in the center of the room, the old trunks given to Grandma India as a young girl. Warriors Don't Cry: A Searing Memoir of the Battle to Integrate Little Rock's Central High 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z Thick vines around the trunks seemed to curl like fingers beckoning me closer. Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky 2019-10-15T00:00:00Z “Did you bring any swim trunks? We have an indoor pool and Jacuzzi.” Winger 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z "What I want with your stinking Polack trunks?" The Contender 1967-01-01T00:00:00Z Sitting on his lap had been like sitting on a pair of tree trunks. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z The velvet armchair slides forward from a corner packed with trunks and scarves while the tailcoat floats up from it like a shadow, obediently hanging itself in a wardrobe. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z The woods here were not thick, but shadows drenched the high tree trunks and the sun broke through only in jagged streaks. The Book of Three 1964-03-12T00:00:00Z By late afternoon, they were riding through a forest of trees with trunks wider than the length of the wagon they had left behind in Jilin. Huntress 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z “My feet are better now, I’m dying to see my books again, and if I see one more tourist in swimming trunks I shall scream. But before I leave, let me give you this!” Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z All around him were crates and trunks and bags neatly stacked on shelves and lined up on the floor. I Survived the Sinking of the Titanic, 1912 2010-06-01T00:00:00Z Their thin bare trunks reach up up up into the sky so that I must lean back to see them completely. Beast Rider 2019-03-01T00:00:00Z The wood looked different from here, the leaves seemed higher and much farther away, and the trunks were at an odd angle. I'm the King of the Castle 1970-09-03T00:00:00Z She squeezed between the trunks of two mesquite trees in an attempt to avoid going around. Summer of the Mariposas 2012-10-20T00:00:00Z Then it's too late to fight, because a jut-jawed brute with arms like tree trunks tackles me. An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z All through the late spring and early summer the water rose and at last it lay like a great sea, lovely and idle, mirroring cloud and moon and willows and bamboo whose trunks stood submerged. The Good Earth 1931-03-02T00:00:00Z We’d stack our gifts—along with the sacks of flour and sugar, blankets, and trunks that other families were taking— on top of the bus in a great towering pile. Malala: The Girl Who Stood Up for Education and Changed the World 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z We children would help Song Po-po polish the mahogany table and Grandma’s four prized red-and-gold dowry trunks until we could see our reflections in the wood and leather. Red Scarf Girl: A Memoir of the Cultural Revolution 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z By deftly lifting and twisting the claw, they could slip it out of the hole, and then they used their trunks to examine the wheel all over, cleaning the rim, checking for cracks. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z We stay close to the trees, believing their trunks can hide us from the world. The Sky at Our Feet 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z He could hear tree limbs succumbing to the wind, great exhalations as their trunks fell on streets and roofs. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z Gene loaded his trunks into the van by himself and set off for Reston. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z They gobble and fly off, miraculously missing limbs and trunks as they zip through the forest. On the Far Side of the Mountain 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z On the last day of August, his grandmother packs his clothes: his bathing trunks with the elastic band broken at the waist, his buckled sandals, the round straw hat he’s taken to wearing indoors. Dreaming in Cuban 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z We head through the Crooked Forest, with its bent trunks, since the Milkwood is dangerous at night. The Cruel Prince 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z Their twisted, giant trunks were bunched together like some sort of crowd...or guards. Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky 2019-10-15T00:00:00Z They stopped in the center of the village, and the others, who had seen them coming, gathered around raising their trunks and speaking words of welcome. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z Then the sunlight was fractured by thin trunks of tilting trees. The God of Small Things 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z They always see you first, and grow still as tree trunks. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z It bent trunks and shook branches and then—thunk thunk thunk!—pinecones began raining down. The Wild Robot 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z Enraged, Anastasia paced around the clearing, beating against tree trunks, ripping up shoots, and hurling them into the air. Endangered 2012-10-01T00:00:00Z “Hello. I am Joey Pow. I am beating all my opponents in four and a half seconds. It is because I wear the red trunks my sponsor says are good luck. This is my sponsor.” Lawn Boy Returns 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z She buys me treats at the tourist shop—chocolate bars with hazelnuts, German swimming trunks, and more underwear than I could possibly use. Dreaming in Cuban 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z Meanwhile, Mrs. Johnson has been draping the rest of the material in the trunks across the table and chairs. You Bring the Distant Near 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z We’re in the forest again, only now the trees are square, the branches growing out between windows in the trunks. The Light in Hidden Places 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z The sound caromed off the trunks of pine trees, carrying past the meager beach out over the water, where I floated on an inner tube, reading Love Story. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z On the way we pass through a devastated wood with the tree trunks shattered and the ground ploughed up. All Quiet on the Western Front: A Novel 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z The second it moves, we get up and drag the trunks from the wall. Water for Elephants 2006-05-26T00:00:00Z Then she saw the dogs again and they were racing after the stag, his brown flanks flashing between the trunks. Ash 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z His shoulders were white and narrow, and his trunks were royal blue. Nine Stories 1953-04-06T00:00:00Z The only other items in the room were eight trunks, just like the one containing the knives in the weapons basement. The Maze Runner 2009-10-06T00:00:00Z And up from the quiescent, waiting land a faint mist rose, silver as moonlight, and clung about the tree trunks. The Good Earth 1931-03-02T00:00:00Z My mother gave quick instructions to our porter, pointed to our two small trunks and handed him money, as if she had done this every day of her life. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z “Yours? Seven trunks? What can be in them?” The Witch of Blackbird Pond 1958-12-01T00:00:00Z Their great trunks ran like pillars down each side. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z At least a dozen mortal guards stood on the balcony, plus two monsters—reptilian women with doublesnake trunks instead of legs. The Titan's Curse 2007-05-11T00:00:00Z In his room, Ben packed his gym shoes and trunks into a blue zippered bag that had the Marine Corps seal stamped in white on the outside. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z Kaede and the Huntsman passed through a forest of giant trees, their trunks black with age, the sun obscured by thick, tangled vines. Huntress 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z She dangled our swimming gear before our eyes: Kat’s bikini, two sets of goggles, my trunks. The London Eye Mystery 2007-01-01T00:00:00Z I look at the sinewy green trunks around me. Catching Fire 2009-09-01T00:00:00Z Heavy branches stretched out almost at right angles to the thick trunks and gave Nhamo the idea of making a platform. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z One hundred wedding trunks could not buy Awaiting Marriage even a hunchbacked, lame-footed husband. In the Year of the Boar and Jackie Robinson 1984-10-12T00:00:00Z She whipped it back and forth past the dark columns of tree trunks, shooting through them at top speed, so fast that her hands and face collected dozens of scratches from the branches blurring by. Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z I imagined the searchers ransacking the trunks and drawers and drilling holes in the walls to look for hidden valuables. Red Scarf Girl: A Memoir of the Cultural Revolution 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z Walter hauls the trunks away from the wall and retrieves Camel. Water for Elephants 2006-05-26T00:00:00Z Through the broken doorway was a fallen tower of trunks and dressers; a failed blockade. Hollow City 2014-01-14T00:00:00Z I string the fencing around the trunks of three small trees, for corner posts, and then back to the pine tree again where I fasten it with wire. Shiloh 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z Among them were the mighty water monsters, giant lizards whose toes were as thick as the trunks of fully grown pine trees. Healer of the Water Monster 2021-05-11T00:00:00Z He saw only rain bending the branches of the hemlocks and running in rivulets down their trunks. Frightful's Mountain 2001-05-21T00:00:00Z I shake my fists at heaven and God, and when I finally subside into uncontrolled sobbing Queenie creeps out from behind the trunks and slides into my lap. Water for Elephants 2006-05-26T00:00:00Z Two dracaenae slithered in—snake women with double serpent trunks instead of legs. The Battle of the Labyrinth 2008-05-06T00:00:00Z Mr. Weasley dashed across the road to get trolleys for their trunks and they all hurried into the station. Harry Potter And The Chamber Of Secrets 1998-07-02T00:00:00Z Lightning came, now, making the tree trunks white as it forked down. I'm the King of the Castle 1970-09-03T00:00:00Z Petey pulled more paper from the tree trunks, the bushes, the flowers, whatever wasn’t strung up too high. Bone Gap 2015-03-03T00:00:00Z “As long as he keeps wearing red trunks...” Lawn Boy 2007-06-12T00:00:00Z I used to have to rub and grease them at night, just like my dad used to, and it was like putting lotion on two tree trunks. Patina 2017-08-29T00:00:00Z The long streaks of yellow light lay between the shadows of the tree trunks, and the snow was colored faintly pink. Little House in the Big Woods 1932-01-01T00:00:00Z It was a family tradition that Mama and Grandma would review our Lenten commitment as we shopped the trunks. Warriors Don't Cry: A Searing Memoir of the Battle to Integrate Little Rock's Central High 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z He reluctantly releases her, following as she walks through the trees, reading bits of verse on branches and trunks. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z I was still just in swim trunks, but they had blood on them now. Everything Sad Is Untrue 2020-08-25T00:00:00Z Taryn and I walk past the Lake of Masks and through the far corner of the Milkwood, picking our way past the pale, silvery trunks and bleached leaves. The Cruel Prince 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z Gene Johnson, the Ajax of this biological war, paced back and forth across the loading dock among a pile of camouflaged military trunks—his stockpile of gear from Kitum Cave. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z It was quite dark now, but the fire lighted the trunks of the trees and the curving branches overhead. Of Mice and Men 1937-01-01T00:00:00Z They carried shields made from flattened cars, and clubs that were tree trunks with rusty spikes bristling at the end. The Battle of the Labyrinth 2008-05-06T00:00:00Z Their foliage was dense and dark green, their vast trunks gold-red in the heavy evening light. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z His legs were like tree trunks, and nestled in the top of one of his long socks was a comb. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z Clumps of grass rose high among fallen tree trunks and withered branches. The Black Cauldron 1965-06-01T00:00:00Z In the end, I made no attempt to force the trunks or locate the play book. The Shakespeare Stealer 1998-05-01T00:00:00Z From the waist down, they had double snake trunks instead of legs. The Last Olympian 2009-05-05T00:00:00Z The boy’s red swimming trunks are dripping wet, leaving a pool of water beneath him. Dumplin' 2015-09-15T00:00:00Z He’s not wearing the trunks I sewed protective herbs into either. I'll Give You the Sun 2014-09-16T00:00:00Z I gaze out at the sea, visible between the trunks of the trees. The Cruel Prince 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z Some of the grain bins were so full, in fact, that the tree trunks which served as their legs broke and tipped the bins to the ground. The Girl Who Married a Lion: and Other Tales from Africa 2004-12-07T00:00:00Z I went back inside the house and slipped into some trunks. 100 Sideways Miles 2014-09-02T00:00:00Z Their twisted trunks, roots, and vines wrapped themselves around the ruins like gigantic boa constrictors, crushing and swallowing the overturned stones. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z The custodian and the taxi driver lug the trunks to Mrs. Johnson's office. You Bring the Distant Near 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z Giant tulip poplars grew in the coves and at the foot of the hills, some with trunks as wide as seven or eight feet in diameter. Outliers 2008-11-18T00:00:00Z Owls hooted to one another in a disgruntled sort of way over the babble and the scraping of heavy trunks. Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone 1997-06-26T00:00:00Z And like she was delivering the weather, Mother said, “Constantine is no longer employed here. Now let’s get all these trunks unpacked before you ruin your clothes.” The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z Around the front, there are two black cloth hammocks between tree trunks tied low to the ground. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z “You did a nice job on the trunks,” Grandma said. Red Scarf Girl: A Memoir of the Cultural Revolution 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z Three trunks were stacked against the far wall; there was an old wheelbarrow, garden tools, a coil of rope. Ash 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z Nivea took charge of Clara’s trousseau, since Clara did not show the slightest interest in the contents of the sandalwood trunks, and continued her experiments with the three-legged table and her divining cards. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z Their shadows wave on the tree trunks and the forest floor. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z For our next meeting, a minivan taxi hauls my grandmother and five big trunks to Carver School. You Bring the Distant Near 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z She continued on, and the trees began to grow more thickly, until all around her were slim white trunks. Huntress 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z They took a bus to a place Rasheed called the Shar-e-Nau Park, where children pushed each other on swings and slapped volleyballs over ragged nets tied to tree trunks. A Thousand Splendid Suns 2007-05-22T00:00:00Z I make my way in the dark, up the hill, sleet rustling around me, hauling myself up by branches and tree trunks, my shoes slipping on the packed icy snow. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z For miles it was either entirely barren or covered in the spindly trunks of dead trees, a few still weakly standing but most toppled. A Walk in the Woods 1997-11-01T00:00:00Z But even so, there was hardly any space to walk around the two double beds, the two tiny nightstands, and the various trunks and bandboxes of the inhabitants. Lyddie 1991-02-01T00:00:00Z Very delicately their trunks moved, sorting through the stalks in the same counting movement she’d been making, or turning the pages of the book. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z I stared down at my college trunks, terrified by the thought of unpacking here. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z She moved away from the door and felt her way across the cellar until she came to her father’s trunks pushed against the far wall. Ash 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z Charred and limbless trunks of trees stretching away on every side. The Road 2006-09-28T00:00:00Z How many trunks have fallen or stand like an unlit match? Paradise on Fire 2021-09-14T00:00:00Z Two grey trunks rubbed each other with an evil squeaking that no one had noticed by day. Lord of the Flies 1954-09-17T00:00:00Z Now the room was practically empty; the wooden pallet on which she’d once slept was piled with trunks and old bedding. Interpreter of Maladies 1999-05-22T00:00:00Z He walked drearily between the trunks, his face empty of expression, and the blood was dry round his mouth and chin. Lord of the Flies 1954-09-17T00:00:00Z Lemos agreed and got two large trunks packed and on the wagon, plus a mattress and a featherbed. The Great Fire 1995-04-01T00:00:00Z There are scores and scores of his versions scattered about the room, myriad trunks of him, thistling branches, specied and catalogued, a thousand stills of him from every possible angle. Native Speaker 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z While Jonas carried the trunks back upstairs, Ash lit the fires and began to prepare supper. Ash 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z Tall trunks bore unexpected pale flowers all the way up to the dark canopy where life went on clamorously. Lord of the Flies 1954-09-17T00:00:00Z They had to scramble up the sides of the bank here, and hold on to roots and trunks to keep balance, standing sideways and edging along. I'm the King of the Castle 1970-09-03T00:00:00Z Two of the three sailors had already started back along the road, but Nat still stood beside the trunks and looked down at her. The Witch of Blackbird Pond 1958-12-01T00:00:00Z I was searching the ground for the lacy flowers of the wild carrot when I caught a shift in the shadows ahead of me, a flash of motion among the tree trunks. Ella Enchanted 1998-09-01T00:00:00Z He dropped his bow and picked up a sword from a fallen...well, he actually wasn’t sure what it was—some sort of reptilian lady warrior with snake trunks instead of legs. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z I stood there in front of my house, wearing nothing but a pair of white swim trunks, and as soon as the smell hit me, I knew what was about to happen. 100 Sideways Miles 2014-09-02T00:00:00Z Their straight trunks and dark green canopy seemed to defy distance, being so clearly visible at what must have been many miles away. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z The guys all had on surf trunks and flip-flops. We Were Here 2009-10-05T00:00:00Z But if we wait too long, the hurricane winds will come back, and the skinny tree trunks and boulders won’t be enough shelter. The Last Cuentista 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z A luggage carrier strapped to the roof was piled high with trunks, suitcases, and whatever cargo Bull deemed necessary for the first few hours in their new house. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z Fragments of timber and ivy whistled in all directions, clattering against the trunks of trees and slashing through the undergrowth. Fablehaven 2006-07-30T00:00:00Z Sky lizards are already scurrying into holes inside the trunks, guided by some instinct they’ve known from a millennium of eight-hour wind cycles. The Last Cuentista 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z A small wickerwork basket stood beside the heap of trunks, spitting loudly. Harry Potter And The Prisoner Of Azkaban 1999-07-08T00:00:00Z In one spotlight, I saw Joey in his red robe and trunks. Lawn Boy Returns 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z She continued to step deliberately through the trees, and soon her brightness was striped by their thick black trunks. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z From her aisle, Anna said, “Sure do! Especially when they spray water from their trunks. What about you, Petey?” The Last Last-Day-of-Summer 2019-04-02T00:00:00Z Most of the wood was so rotten that when they pulled it broke up into a shower of fragments and woodlice and decay; but some trunks came out in one piece. Lord of the Flies 1954-09-17T00:00:00Z Kaede twisted back in her saddle and stared at the bare trees behind her, trunks the color of ash. Huntress 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z She made her way around Amelia and Prudence’s bed and trunks to the side of the bed that she shared with Betsy. Lyddie 1991-02-01T00:00:00Z The vein-trees, like the cushion, had a nap on their trunks. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z Their great grey trunks were of mighty girth, but their height could not be guessed. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z There were oak trees here, with enormous trunks, wrinkled and grey like the legs of elephants. I'm the King of the Castle 1970-09-03T00:00:00Z Jojo trailed not far behind, picking up rocks and pitching them at tree trunks. Stella by Starlight 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z Put him in boxing trunks and the sight was almost obscene. The Chocolate War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z He could see it plainly between the gaunt trunks of the water oaks and across the stretch of yellow camomile. The Awakening 1899-01-01T00:00:00Z But the way I see it through my Adah eyes it is a flat plank clipped into pieces, rectangles and trapezoids, by the skinny black-line shadows of tall palm trunks. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z Dad and Ji-yong finally finished the second coat of dye on the trunks. Red Scarf Girl: A Memoir of the Cultural Revolution 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z Some have trunks and capes, others carry birdcages or silver-topped canes. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z In the beam of my flashlight, the gnarled trunks looked like faces. Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky 2019-10-15T00:00:00Z The narrow path changed direction often, winding up the slope and down again; here and there, near it or away off among the massive trunks of the hemmens, stood the small, forest-colored houses. The Left Hand of Darkness 1969-03-01T00:00:00Z Momma swung the flashlight’s arc over the path and weeds and scary tree trunks. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z There were solid black trunks and flimsy tan suitcases bound with thin rope and more laundry bags than she could count. A Place to Belong 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z Deep among the trees she lay on a fallen log and gazed far up branchless trunks. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z For twenty minutes, the rails clacked beneath us, the posts holding up the rock roof blurring past like a subterranean forest of gray tree trunks. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z They gathered around the pod and touched it delicately with those powerful, flexible trunks, and she found herself interpreting the soft chirrups and clicks and hoots they were making as expressions of disapproval. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z One huge branch had recently broken off and fallen, and three pine trunks lay bent double under its weight. Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH 1970-06-01T00:00:00Z Before the clink there were just the beeches, but immediately afterward there was a knight in full armour, standing still and silent and unearthly, among the majestic trunks. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z As the darkness grew, the fire began throwing odd shadows on the tree trunks around him. A Single Shard 2001-04-23T00:00:00Z “Tonight we’ll pick our special cloth from the trunks and get going on a design for all of our dresses and for Conrad’s shirt.” Warriors Don't Cry: A Searing Memoir of the Battle to Integrate Little Rock's Central High 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z It's a teenager with arms as thick as tree trunks. Born Behind Bars 2021-09-07T00:00:00Z Harry was on the very end of the line, next to Krum, who was wearing swimming trunks and was holding his wand ready. Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire 2000-07-08T00:00:00Z He was vomiting and the vomit ran down his chest and stomach and dirtied his swimming trunks. Bless Me, Ultima 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z And his gaze traveled upward from legs planted so firmly they might as well have been tree trunks to a torso carved of stone, immovable, ivory arms, up to a blanched face that— Bone Gap 2015-03-03T00:00:00Z The tree trunks were painted with quicklime, but the ants continued to climb, sparing neither pears, oranges, nor apples. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z Fallen boulders and rotten trunks and the roots of gnarled trees left only a tight way to steer. A Wizard of Earthsea 1968-11-01T00:00:00Z Back at home, White and his family struggled to pile “seven trunks, four bundles, four valises, two baskets, and one hamper of provisions” onto a wagon. The Great Fire 1995-04-01T00:00:00Z Tree-ear was so called after the mushroom that grew in wrinkled half-circles on dead or fallen tree trunks, emerging from the rotten wood without benefit of parent seed. A Single Shard 2001-04-23T00:00:00Z The sun was just beginning to drive its first splinters of light through the pines, bouncing against tree trunks and earth. Sounder 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z Little prickly firs grow out of every crevice and yellow vines with thorns wrapping themselves around the firs’ trunks and you can see and hear yellow razor lizards hissing at us as we pass. The Knife of Never Letting Go 2008-05-05T00:00:00Z Ash clambered down off the high driver’s seat and started to untie the trunks from the rear of the carriage as Lady Isobel greeted her sister. Ash 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z Everything was green: the trees, their trunks covered with moss, their branches hanging with a canopy of it, the ground covered with ferns. Twilight 2005-10-05T00:00:00Z It had stopped snowing and the cedar trees lay about in hillocks of snow and broken limbs and a few standing trunks that stood stripped and burntlooking in that graying landscape. The Road 2006-09-28T00:00:00Z Two big trunks sat in front of the fireplace. Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z One week previously he had returned home, without any voice, unable to breathe, and almost skin and bones, with his wandering trunks and his wastrel’s accordion, to fulfill the promise of dying beside his wife. One Hundred Years of Solitude 1967-05-30T00:00:00Z In the next, a heavy downpour of rain made the trunks difficult to see. Aru Shah and the End of Time 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z Its long beams pour, white and sharp, between the trunks of trees, their clarity fading as they recede into the powdery, misty distance of beech woods at night. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z Way high up there with the sunlight falling reddish-brown on the palm trunks and the boys’ narrow limbs, they look beautiful. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z “Sure. Brown is warm. I miss brown. Everything that’s supposed to be brown — tree trunks, rocks, dirt — is all covered up with squashy green stuff here,” I complained. Twilight 2005-10-05T00:00:00Z I remember trees with trunks bursting through the asphalt providing some shade from the sun. Ugly 2013-08-20T00:00:00Z One night he left without saying goodbye, leaving behind his trunks, his books, his weapons, his boots, and all his belongings. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z The sap went down into the roots during the cold nights, came up strong when the sun warmed the trunks during the day. The Birchbark House 1999-07-21T00:00:00Z When, they had left Boston, packing had taken weeks, with trunks and crates and loads of straw to cushion whatever might break. Lizzie Bright and the Buckminster Boy 2004-05-24T00:00:00Z So the trunks stayed where they were and Petra Cotes set about reconquering the husband by sharpening the only weapons that his daughter could not use on him. One Hundred Years of Solitude 1967-05-30T00:00:00Z Her attention had turned again to the row of trunks. The Witch of Blackbird Pond 1958-12-01T00:00:00Z Roses, azaleas, and bougainvillea climbing the trunks of tall palms. Dry 2018-10-02T00:00:00Z Their heads clustered above the trunks in the green shade; heads brown, fair, black, chestnut, sandy, mouse-colored; heads muttering, whispering, heads full of eyes that watched Ralph and speculated. Lord of the Flies 1954-09-17T00:00:00Z They’ve got huge green leaves at their tops, and their bare trunks curve upwards like fingers reaching for the sky. Blood on the River 2006-05-04T00:00:00Z There were six beds total, two against each wall, steamer trunks at their feet. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z He was playing skins and had his shirt tied around his head; as he ran, the sleeves swung like elephant trunks. Eleven 2014-01-06T00:00:00Z The buildings seemed to have been situated to make room for giant trunks and root systems, and in the wavering torchlight, they looked almost as if they had grown out of the trees themselves. Huntress 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z “I put each trunks worth in its own box, eight boxes total. They’re all in there.” The Maze Runner 2009-10-21T00:00:00Z A dwarflike being with legs as thick as tree trunks: knocker. Huntress 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z I stagger to the row of trunks against the back wall and lean over them. Water for Elephants 2006-05-26T00:00:00Z Branches whipped at my face and cut it, and vines and tree trunks caught at my feet and tripped me. Bless Me, Ultima 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z Posters go up in the market, on tree trunks in the Place Chateau-briand. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z There are cots arranged in two straight rows, with trunks beside them for what we brought with us, and large windows with elegant curtains on the opposite end of the room. Allegiant 2013-10-22T00:00:00Z Dribbling down some of the tree trunks were little runnels that looked like dried sap. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z The walls of their flat tremble with the dragging of furniture, the packing of trunks, the nailing shut of windows. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z But once there she remembered that in the morning she would need a fresh gown from the trunks to replace the soot-stained calico. The Witch of Blackbird Pond 1958-12-01T00:00:00Z The trunks right themselves instantly, but Hector picks up the cage to inspect the damage. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z We walked on the road between the thick trunks of the old beeches and the sunlight came through the leaves in light patches on the grass. The Sun Also Rises 1926-10-22T00:00:00Z When he points, I train my camera on the knotty dead trunks of Japanese maples and the cherry and ginkgo trees—gnarled limbs reaching toward blue sky. Love, Hate & Other Filters 2018-01-16T00:00:00Z They were called liars and unbelievers, and while they were never physically harmed, even children laughed at them — at their strange crimson costumes and heavy, dusty books locked in huge, iron-bound trunks. Ash 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z All round the place of assembly the grey trunks rose, straight or leaning, and supported the low roof of leaves. Lord of the Flies 1954-09-17T00:00:00Z When the railroad police came through the train, impaling the haystacks to flush out stowaways, the trainers packed the boys into tack trunks. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z Grasses were tall near the marsh, even around tree trunks, and they grazed my knees. Root Magic 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z The tree trunks and the creepers that festooned them lost themselves in a green dusk thirty feet above him, and all about was the undergrowth. Lord of the Flies 1954-09-17T00:00:00Z Tree-ear’s gaze followed the sweep of the trunks and branches until he saw their outlines clean and pure against the sky. A Single Shard 2001-04-23T00:00:00Z But for my twin who now teaches school and murders tree trunks I have heard various words applied by our neighbors, none with much fondness. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z But then we started going through a couple of old steamer trunks. A Long Way from Chicago 1998-09-01T00:00:00Z “There’s not much moonlight. Why do I have two trunks?” The One and Only Ivan 2012-01-17T00:00:00Z The wet, black trunks of trees loomed out of the foggy half-light. Homecoming 1981-01-01T00:00:00Z “Headless trunks were tossed out of the vortex to linger a moment on the surface and sink out of sight.” The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z He said, “Right. Flying elephants. Big flapping ears. Doing yo-yo’s with their trunks.” Fourth Grade Rats 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z They all seem to be a hundred feet tall, with no branches along their trunks except at the very top. Dragons in a Bag 2018-10-23T00:00:00Z Albert stands at the snack counter in his swim trunks, with his little towel draped over his wide back, and contemplates his selection of ice cream. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z They packed the trunks that morning, first dragging them up from the cellar and then — loudly — back downstairs again. Ash 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z It grasped at the land with long yellow fingers and made the mottled trunks of sycamores look like people’s skin. Homecoming 1981-01-01T00:00:00Z Slowly Alfred stuffed his sweatshirts, trunks, supporters, socks, his secondhand boxing shoes into a paper shopping bag. The Contender 1967-01-01T00:00:00Z The trees around are denuded, as if they’ve been burnt; webbing sheathes their trunks. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z As I expected, the door was locked as surely and securely as those locked trunks. The Shakespeare Stealer 1998-05-01T00:00:00Z The four trunks were part of Grandma’s dowry. Red Scarf Girl: A Memoir of the Cultural Revolution 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z By the time they stopped, the sun had already sunk between the tree trunks, casting slanted yellow beams and bands of shadow through the undergrowth. The Reader 2016-01-12T00:00:00Z “Arthur tried to borrow Ministry cars for us,” Mrs. Weasley whispered to Harry as they stood in the rain-washed yard, watching the taxi drivers heaving six heavy Hogwarts trunks into their cars. Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire 2000-07-08T00:00:00Z “Do you mean to say that every one of those trunks is full of dresses like the one you have on?” The Witch of Blackbird Pond 1958-12-01T00:00:00Z In addition, Anthony had an extensive collection of articles and memorabilia that she had collected over the years and stored in scrapbooks, trunks, and boxes. Votes for Women! 2018-02-13T00:00:00Z Jaja and Obiora were already at the tap in the tiny backyard; old car tires and bicycle parts and broken trunks were piled in a comer. Purple Hibiscus 2003-10-01T00:00:00Z The horse lines were to the north, and beyond them, two dozen elephants grazed beside the water, pulling up reeds with their trunks. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z Dicey picked up a long stick and swung it at tree trunks, trying to work things out. Homecoming 1981-01-01T00:00:00Z I will admit that my inside-out sock was bothering me, but all I had besides school clothes were running shorts, sweats, and my new swim trunks. Winger 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z “In Arizona, trees are everywhere. Even ones with green trunks. Mesquite. There’re green cacti, too.” Towers Falling 2016-07-12T00:00:00Z Two large trunks stood open on the floor. Harry Potter And The Chamber Of Secrets 1998-07-02T00:00:00Z I watch them lug suitcases and portfolios and boxes out of car trunks, hug parents who are peering at each other with eyes that say, Maybe this wasn’t such a good idea. I'll Give You the Sun 2014-09-16T00:00:00Z Then the owl came out to hunt, and foxes, weasels and strange wild cats stalked among the tree trunks. Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH 1970-06-01T00:00:00Z Walter brings his fist down on the blanket beneath him and Queenie scurries behind the row of trunks that used to hide Camel. Water for Elephants 2006-05-26T00:00:00Z Other trunks were tucked away under the eaves, so it took us all morning to go through everything. A Long Way from Chicago 1998-09-01T00:00:00Z Sometimes he would mime the shooting of a bow and slip soundlessly away into the forest, and she would know he’d spotted quarry between the tree trunks. The Reader 2016-01-12T00:00:00Z Mr. Trepid made his way to the last stone marked on the map, kicking dirt clogs ahead of him, and smashing his shovel into tree trunks. Ruby Holler 2002-02-01T00:00:00Z The Elves sat round the fire upon the grass or upon the sawn rings of old trunks. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z He threaded among willows and sycamores and wild blackberry vines in the riverbed, patted the trunks of live oak and scrub oak, madrone, laurel, toyon. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z Bringing empty trunks down the attic stairs they sounded like coffins French Lick. The Sound and the Fury 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z The patches of mold disappeared from the tree trunks, and the drooping plants rose upright, their leaves turning bright emerald as they basked in the blossom's light. City of the Plague God 2021-01-12T00:00:00Z There was a clearing in the forest, a wide sward of moonlit grass, and the white rays shone full upon the tree trunks on the opposite side. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z "And in this corner, in white trunks"—the crowd began to cheer loudly and steadily— "weighing one hundred seventy-four and one- half pounds, from New York City . . . Willie Streeter." The Contender 1967-01-01T00:00:00Z They passed behind a group of trees—Mark heard a few hard thunks as darts buried themselves in the branches and trunks—then they were in the open again. The Kill Order (Maze Runner, Book Four; Origin) 2012-08-14T00:00:00Z We had no medicine or speed balls, no proper boxing trunks or shoes, and no mouth guards. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z At first she only saw the trees: tall trunks edged with moonlight, fading into black-upon-black in the distance. Ash 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z The travellers reached a low ridge crowned with ancient holly-trees whose grey-green trunks seemed to have been built out of the very stone of the hills. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z As Neel crawled around the tree trunks and through the bushes, Rupa followed his movements with the flashlight. Tiger Boy 2015-10-01T00:00:00Z Why didn’t they just lock him in one of the trunks in the attic and be done with it? Among the Hidden 1998-03-01T00:00:00Z Now Luke climbed on top of one of the largest trunks and looked down through the vent. Among the Hidden 1998-03-01T00:00:00Z Now the fire was nearer; those volleying shots were great limbs, trunks even, bursting. Lord of the Flies 1954-09-17T00:00:00Z My wet swim trunks hung across the top of the shower door. 100 Sideways Miles 2014-09-02T00:00:00Z But I told her I looked like I was wearing a big pillowcase with elephant trunks sticking out of the sides. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z Just as woodpeckers specialise in extracting insects from the trunks of trees, the first humans specialised in extracting marrow from bones. Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z Their trunks had been brought up for them and stood at the ends of their beds. Harry Potter And The Chamber Of Secrets 1998-07-02T00:00:00Z She walked between fallen trees, and when there was no room between the trees, she climbed up and walked along their trunks. I Survived the Eruption of Mount St. Helens, 1980 2016-08-01T00:00:00Z The size of the room had not been lost in the clutter of boxes and trunks stacked almost to the ceiling beams. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z He banged the lids of his trunks shut and locked them. Harry Potter And The Chamber Of Secrets 1998-07-02T00:00:00Z Once familiar oaks and alders appeared strange to Taran; their dead leaves clung to the tangled branches and the black trunks jutted like charred bones. The Black Cauldron 1965-06-01T00:00:00Z Vines covered most of the tree trunks, but their colors were oversaturated, almost lurid in their brightness. Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z He’d been trying not to look beyond the ragged edge of the backyard to the bulldozed mess of branches, trunks, leaves, and mud that had once been his beloved woods. Among the Hidden 1998-03-01T00:00:00Z I felt as if I were sitting on a pair of tree trunks. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z Now, I heard the snap of branches and groan of falling trunks. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z The two girls rested their heads gratefully on twin tree trunks, but only for a short time. Copper Sun 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z The late-afternoon sunlight leaped lightly from leaf to leaf, slid along branches and down trunks, and dropped finally to the ground in warm, luminous patches. The Phantom Tollbooth 1961-09-01T00:00:00Z Sekani and Daniel run around in their trunks and push unsuspecting people in. The Hate U Give 2017-02-28T00:00:00Z The porter will bring down his trunks, I shall catch a glimpse of them in the luggage lift, with new-plastered labels. Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z The preparations for the trip kept the family busy for two weeks, and the house became a clutter of trunks, steamer baskets, and valises. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z The cool high shade of the woods was a relief, the sculpted intricacies of the tree trunks enchanting. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z The nearer trees, or at least their trunks, had a human form. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z Arch was six-and-a-half-feet tall, broad of shoulder, huge of belly, with legs like tree trunks, hands the size of hams, and no neck to speak of. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z They looked like a cross between antelopes and motorcycles, but they were stranger than that, even: they had trunks like small elephants. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z Fine steam began to rise up from the sodden ground, and the tree trunks, and the smell of it came thickly into Kingshaw's nostrils. I'm the King of the Castle 1970-09-03T00:00:00Z Off to the right there were short trees with wide trunks. Fallen Angels 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z I relate the way the poor Tree Man’s extremities hung from him like gnarled trunks, and with that disturbing image firmly planted in my head, I’m pumped, confident, and take a bigger bite. I'll Give You the Sun 2014-09-16T00:00:00Z I catch him by his trunks and pull them way up, almost to his neck, until he has the worst wedgie ever. The Hate U Give 2017-02-28T00:00:00Z The trees at the jungle’s edge bend in the exact easterly direction of the wind, explaining their curved trunks. The Last Cuentista 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z Huts made of tree trunks and mud and bristles of pine needles. The Kill Order (Maze Runner, Book Four; Origin) 2012-08-14T00:00:00Z It’s like a masquerade party; they are like oversize children, dressed up in togs they’ve rummaged from trunks. The Handmaid's Tale 1985-01-01T00:00:00Z Sometimes they just lean into each other, their trunks twirled together like jungle vines. The One and Only Ivan 2012-01-17T00:00:00Z I visited the temples: the Govindji, with its great hall and its row of columns like tree trunks and its high ceilings where neat rows of bats hung like small furry pennants. Homeless Bird 2000-03-01T00:00:00Z A painted cart piled high with trunks rolled into the courtyard, pulled by a weary nag in bright trappings. Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z Along walls and on top of tables, jade trees, whose trunks were as thick as ankles, stood stoutly, green now and without the pink skin the sun gave them in the spring. The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z For the next hour, we rummaged through Grandma’s trunks filled with fabrics she had collected over the years. Warriors Don't Cry: A Searing Memoir of the Battle to Integrate Little Rock's Central High 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z I let go, and he falls on the grass, his trunks so far up his butt it looks like he’s wearing a thong. The Hate U Give 2017-02-28T00:00:00Z Stuart planned to wear his swimming trunks under his clothes so that he could dive off the lily pad into the cool stream. Stuart Little 1945-10-17T00:00:00Z The arrival of their trunks and their servants was advertised by the clamor of feet, heavy-laden, in the hall. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume I: The Pox Party 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z Will and Lyra climbed up once more, and the other creatures looked closely at their balance and checked the stirrups with their trunks, as if to make sure they were safe. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z At least football players wore uniforms, but boxers wore only the trunks. The Chocolate War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z Like the empty shells of locusts left on tree trunks, they were no longer needed. The Old Willis Place 2004-09-20T00:00:00Z I whispered, jerking forward, struggling to make my eyes sear through the dark trunks and vines. Grendel 1971-01-01T00:00:00Z But I remember it was a scorching summer day and I was driving up a rutted dirt road, nothing on either side but sunbaked bushes, gnarled, spiny tree trunks, and dried grass like pale straw. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z Inside, the gold light from the candle illuminated old furniture, boxes, wrought iron signs, and empty trunks marked for Christmas. The Marvels 2015-09-15T00:00:00Z Boston was teeming with students, double-parked on side streets, unloading trunks. Tuesdays with Morrie 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z Seven times he returned, bending his tall frame to enter the doorway, and with wordless disapproval set down one after the other the seven small trunks. The Witch of Blackbird Pond 1958-12-01T00:00:00Z There’s something about the vegetation, too, that I respond to instinctively—the stunning bougainvillea, the flamboyants and jacarandas, the orchids growing from the trunks of the mysterious ceiba trees. Dreaming in Cuban 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z The day the trunks arrived was a harsh reminder to Ash of how much her life had changed since the summer. Ash 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z I briefly wondered how he looked in swim trunks. From Twinkle, with Love 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z Then after dinner she said, “You two are going to have to climb up to the attic and go through them trunks again.” A Long Way from Chicago 1998-09-01T00:00:00Z There are old, broad fir trunks with knobby twists in their bark. The Sea in Winter 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z He could see a sunlit river glittering through their trunks. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z Porters hauled great trunks from the baggage cars. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z “Hattie has five and a half trunks, Mother. And I have only—” Olive stopped speaking to count on her fingers. Ella Enchanted 1998-09-01T00:00:00Z As far as you could see, it was a graveyard of black, soaring trunks. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z They nodded and murmured and stroked her with their trunks as she stepped down. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z When she’d tagged more than a dozen trunks, she doubled back, the spirits still storming along with her in long strides. Shadowshaper 2015-06-30T00:00:00Z “Is that him?” croaks Camel from behind the trunks. Water for Elephants 2006-05-26T00:00:00Z Gray squirrels streaked down mottled trunks of rubber trees that slanted towards the sun. The God of Small Things 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z She lives on or near the ground, fluttering about among low vegetation or creeping up tree trunks. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z Small white flowers bloomed all around them, and as they walked the flowers became vines that climbed up the tree trunks until it was as if the trees were hung with blossoms made of snow. Ash 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z Ice, under the pale, strong sun, melted slowly on the branches and the trunks of trees. Go Tell It on the Mountain 1953-05-18T00:00:00Z He slid down the curve of one trunk and stopped himself just at the bottom, where all four trunks came together. Homecoming 1981-01-01T00:00:00Z Camel spends his days hidden behind the trunks, lying on blankets that Walter and I arrange to cushion his ruined body from the floor. Water for Elephants 2006-05-26T00:00:00Z He wore those white Lastex kind of swimming trunks, and he was always going off the high dive. The Catcher in the Rye 1951-07-16T00:00:00Z They were barefoot and wore singlets over trunks that dripped onto the floorboards. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z He’s wearing his old brown huaraches and a pair of swim trunks with parrots on them, both arms extended to the sun, and June is summarily scooped up into them. Red, White & Royal Blue 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z Shadrack stood at the foot of the hospital steps watching the heads of trees tossing ruefully but harmlessly, since their trunks were rooted too deeply in the earth to threaten him. Sula 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z Sitting up in bed, my arms felt light, yet hard as tree trunks. The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind 2009-09-29T00:00:00Z That afternoon Kit climbed to the attic and surveyed the seven small trunks. The Witch of Blackbird Pond 1958-12-01T00:00:00Z Billy put on his groin protector and slipped into the green trunks he always wore. 145th Street: Short Stories 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z The tree trunks expand and contract as if they are breathing. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z It was green and amber and alive, quivering in splotches on the padded ground, fanning into sturdy stripes between the tree trunks. Tuck Everlasting 1975-01-01T00:00:00Z This tree looked like an umbrella, held overhead by four trunks that spread out from their common source. Homecoming 1981-01-01T00:00:00Z Pirates Island had thickets of honeysuckle and tall trees with trunks gnarled from the yearly spring floods. Turtles All the Way Down 2017-10-10T00:00:00Z The house became a clutter of trunks, of animals in jars of formaldehyde, of Indian lances and sailor’s bundles. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z She continued forward, sidestepping open trunks that held plumed garments from every period, curled wigs, and ostentatious hats. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z Sometimes on those hot summer days, we wore swim trunks, at least if we thought any adults might be around. The Boy on the Wooden Box 2013-08-27T00:00:00Z Ralph was standing by a contraption of palm trunks and leaves, a rude shelter that faced the lagoon and seemed very near to falling down. Lord of the Flies 1954-09-17T00:00:00Z He kept his eye pressed against the sight as he tracked the deer between the crisscrossing tree trunks, and all I could think about was my twitching sphincter. Dead End in Norvelt 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z He’s taken off his shirt and is only wearing swim trunks, so I can finally see the lean, smooth muscles of his shoulders and chest and stomach. Everything, Everything 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z I run my hands along the trunks of the trees as I walk, listening to the golden crunch of the leaves under my feet. How to Disappear Completely 2020-04-28T00:00:00Z I remember Mitt pointing at the gnarled trunks of my father’s tanned bowlegs bared beneath his shorts and saying, “Grandpa’s a bulldog.” Native Speaker 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z Their eyes wrinkled, their trunks waved, they tossed their heads—and from their throats came the unmistakable sound of merriment. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z Taking their cue from the innocent Johnny, they sat down on the fallen palm trunks and waited. Lord of the Flies 1954-09-17T00:00:00Z All his friends, woken up by this cry, leapt to their feet and ran towards the fence of tree trunks, beating drums and shouting threats at the lion. The Girl Who Married a Lion: and Other Tales from Africa 2004-12-07T00:00:00Z This last piece of shop brought sniggers from the choir, who perched like black birds on the criss-cross trunks and examined Ralph with interest. Lord of the Flies 1954-09-17T00:00:00Z Beyond falls and cliffs there was a gash visible in the trees; there were the splintered trunks and then the drag, leaving only a fringe of palm between the scar and the sea. Lord of the Flies 1954-09-17T00:00:00Z Great shadows fell across them; trunks and branches of trees hung dark and threatening over the path. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z Inside, in the light of a candle, I could make out a figure crouched over one of the property trunks, lifting some object from it. The Shakespeare Stealer 1998-05-01T00:00:00Z As Ash unpacked Clara’s trunks, her stepsister reported that progress had been made with Lord Rowan. Ash 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z Cots, trunks, and rickety shelving occupied the space. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z Soon this habit of outside resting was extended to caves, outbuildings, and culverts and to the foliage and trunks of orange trees. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z Cord on cord of oak and ash were stacked to make tall, crooked walls between the trunks of trees. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z A slamming door sends a stack of trunks and cases tumbling in his dressing room, toppling a cage full of doves. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z Harry couldn’t see how eight people, six large trunks, two owls, and a rat were going to fit into one small Ford Anglia. Harry Potter And The Chamber Of Secrets 1998-07-02T00:00:00Z And beyond the dead trunks, maybe sixty yards away, was the boat, sitting beached in the marshes under the weak sun. Never Let Me Go 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z Florida trailed them, kicking at rocks and tree trunks as she went. Ruby Holler 2002-02-01T00:00:00Z We drove past a barbed-wire fence, through a gate, and into an open space where trunks and sacks and packages had been dumped from the baggage trucks that drove out ahead of us. Farewell to Manzanar 1973-01-01T00:00:00Z But as reality crept back into her consciousness — the chill of the cellar, the smell of it — she felt her way back to the trunks against the far wall. Ash 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z They were not squirrels, nor the cubs of men, they could not wriggle up the trunks of trees, clinging with soft pink paws and clumsy feet. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z I noted that they had clean, smooth trunks, with none of the countless tiny marks on their bark made by climbing meerkats. Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z At six she had discovered the magic books in the enchanted trunks of her legendary Great-Uncle Marcos and had fully entered the world-without-return of the imagination. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z Border-patrol cops leaned into every car, talked to every driver, scanned tires, backseats, popped open trunks, checked under hoods. We Were Here 2009-10-05T00:00:00Z I watch how the leaves bend and curl with the breeze and the way the trunks of trees cast long, dramatic shadows. The Sky at Our Feet 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z Most of the trees are unfamiliar, with smooth trunks and few branches. Catching Fire 2009-09-01T00:00:00Z Glittering light streamed through leaves, branches, and tree trunks, casting diagonal streaks and shadows in the forest. "You never forget spotting your first mushroom in a Finnish forest": My day with the Mushroom Queen 2021-11-19T05:00:00Z Some of his favorites, white-breasted nuthatches, find spots on tree trunks to cache sunflower seeds. A concise guide to birding in your own backyard 2020-12-10T05:00:00Z I raced down it, awed by the size and beauty of the great mahua trees around me, trunks 10 feet wide. The Cool, Wild and Very Remote Andaman Islands 2022-11-22T05:00:00Z I will never forget the terrible swimming trunks we wore, the nylon abominations in a paisley pattern that still summon for me the stylistic cruelty of the 1970s. | Float, Memory 2014-05-06T13:00:33Z In three paintings from 1901, she turns lone birch trunks, seen up close, into expressive figural presences. Paula Modersohn-Becker and Her Thwarted Ambitions 2016-02-25T05:00:00Z As Irwin reminds us, good stories move around, and at least some of these action-filled fantasies — in one, battle elephants fight with swords attached to their swinging trunks — probably originated in Persia or India. In these medieval Arab tales, a heavy dollop of spice 2015-04-01T04:00:00Z On the small screen, the current crop of Love Island contestants mug for the cameras in tiny swimming trunks, all the better to display their perfect six-packs. Gym, eat, repeat: the shocking rise of muscle dysmorphia 2019-07-17T04:00:00Z “The whole structure works like a clearing in a forest. The tubes are like the trunks of trees,” Gang explained. Inside the National Building Museum’s new ‘Hive’ installation 2017-07-03T04:00:00Z North Judson, Ind., police recently surprised a crowd of 76 cockers and spectators who fled a makeshift arena, scattering into the bitter winter cold to hide in ditches and tree trunks. Baby chimpanzee killed by adult at L. A. Zoo 2012-06-27T13:33:00Z Their trunks are shaggy with the desiccated foliage of previous seasons, which eventually falls off to reveal treelike bark. Joshua Tree National Park: Into the wild, hours from L.A. 2018-10-10T04:00:00Z They jolted the stone downhill to Milford Haven using tree trunks as rollers and once at the estuary, attached it to a simple boat, with the intention of sailing it across the Bristol Channel. Secrets of Stonehenge 2010-07-23T12:29:00Z “I knew in my heart that so much of the history was in the basement, trunks and attics,” Bunch said on a recent morning in his offices in the Capital Gallery Building in Southwest Washington. The artifacts and stories that brought the African American museum to life 2016-09-14T04:00:00Z They created three, large Tiffany-inspired windows with some skinny palm tree trunks as vertical focal points. A Florida Garden Brings Louis Comfort Tiffany’s Work to Life, in Bloom 2023-04-25T04:00:00Z Five dozen elephants used their trunks on Monday to scoop up bananas, melons and pineapples from baskets at a special buffet laid on in Thailand's ancient capital of Ayutthaya to celebrate the national animal. Thailand lays out buffet for elephants in national celebration 2017-03-13T04:00:00Z As air travel and lightweight luggage replaced ocean voyages and steamer trunks, society women lost interest in couture dresses and the girdles and fittings they required. Books Of Style: Balenciaga’s World of Mystery: Books of Style 2013-01-26T00:03:55Z The lawn was framed by a double row of sycamores, whose big, unforgiving trunks marked our sidelines. Dah Dah Doo Dah Dah Dah Dah Dah Doo Dah La Ti Mi Fa La So Fa Mi 2016-09-19T04:00:00Z A rare discovery of 81 Anglo-Saxon coffins made from the hollowed-out trunks of oak trees may provide new insights into how people lived in the early days of Christianity in Britain, archaeologists said on Wednesday. Anglo-Saxon coffins found in England may shed light on early Christians 2016-11-16T05:00:00Z In its place, two thick tree trunks lay side by side over the water. In Idaho, Tracing What Remains After the Flames 2014-08-15T04:00:00Z Last year’s Rim Fire burned all this land, and the road winds through charred tree trunks and bare rock glittering in the sun. What a Trip: In Yosemite, appreciating John Muir at 8,000 feet Their back yard is a tangle of ghostly eucalyptus-tree trunks that stretch into a leafy canopy. In excellent spirits: Whiskey tours in Tasmania Alec Guinness, perfectly cast, might not look so good in a pair of skintight trunks, but Smiley's brains and guile are worth all of Bond's gadgets put together. Your next box set: Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy 2011-01-14T08:00:04Z One afternoon, as Mr. Minter recalls, he headed outside, gathered the windblown trunks of a gum tree and started carving African totems. House Proud: Joe Minter’s African Village in America 2013-04-24T22:17:36Z The reporters have bureau cars with extra rations packed into the trunks in case they have to stay where they are going for a while. Journeys: Correspondents Select Some of Their Favorite Roads 2012-05-20T22:47:22Z “Tree” assembles two trees together from segments of fallen trunks harvested in southern China, using a traditional Chinese technique involving giant screws and that adds a kinetic twist to their natural shape. | Berlin Gallery Week 2011-05-03T21:11:06Z She left Ankara, the Turkish capital, for Hollywood in 1941 with eight trunks of clothes. Zsa Zsa Gabor, high-living actress of outrageous wit, dies 2016-12-18T05:00:00Z Its roof is supported by a phantasmagoric pair of giant concrete “trees” with swelling trunks and thick branches, the surreal forms contradicting the otherwise right-angled, Modernist structure. Arata Isozaki, Prolific Japanese Architect, Dies at 91 2022-12-29T05:00:00Z Arata Isozaki’s Qatar National Convention Center is monumental: a pair of tree trunks are a major part of the building’s facade. What’s New in Doha? Basically Everything 2019-04-09T04:00:00Z Everywhere were ruined and demolished structures, remnants of houses, and jagged tree trunks. The search for Hurricane Katrina survivors: Door to door in St. Bernard Parish 2018-08-20T04:00:00Z Then tonal contrasts begin to sort out: The trunks of the park’s living trees are loamy browns and blacks; those of the cedars, a dry gray-going-white. In Maya Lin’s ‘Ghost Forest,’ the Trees Are Talking Back 2021-07-01T04:00:00Z The flash mobs — in traffic, dancing on the roofs, hoods and trunks of lowrider vintage cars in Miami traffic, disrupting museum openings and a developer's planning meetings — are a brilliantly choreographed, well-shot and sharply-edited treat. 'Step Up Revolution' taps into flash-mob phenomenon 2012-07-26T00:36:03Z I couldn’t help but think of the people watching the same sunset from the beach in their sandals and swim trunks. In Hawaii, Surf, Sun and Snow 2015-05-29T04:00:00Z They’re mounted on wood panels, some rectangular and others cut to the shapes of the trunks and branches they depict. Review | In the galleries: A heightened homage to trees and what they can teach us 2021-05-06T04:00:00Z Commanding the aisle nearby was a man in only silky boxing trunks doing calisthenics in between spits of chewing tobacco. Skrillex and Diplo Ring In the New Year in New York 2015-01-01T05:00:00Z He also likes mud, thatch and wonky tree trunks. Chiswick House: 2010-06-12T23:04:00Z She applied layers of burlap, which she frayed into loose string, “like the roots and trunks of trees or the veins in my hands.” | A Love Eternal 2014-04-09T13:00:01Z Steamer trunks typically fit in a passenger car, but if moving the trunk yourself isn’t possible, both companies offer pickup and delivery, with the price for both trips in Silver Spring totaling $75. How to fix up an old steamer trunk 2017-08-25T04:00:00Z At the same time, she continues to develop her own formal lexicon: elephant trunks and other strange proboscises, tilted planes within planes, lines that abruptly swerve or boomerang. Last Chance: At Sikkema Jenkins, Amy Sillman?s Boldness 2010-05-10T20:44:00Z And so I followed him through a portal to Zanzibar of yore: Hand-carved wood-and-brass trunks teetered against one wall; vintage cigarette ads from India and political posters from Tanzania formed a retro pastiche on another. Zanzibar in the Rain 2020-01-22T05:00:00Z He’s showing signs of age—he now struggles with heavy trunks—and is unceremoniously demoted to bathroom attendant, but he can’t admit as much to his family and his neighbors. Five Films to Stream on Kanopy While New Yorkers Still Can 2019-06-28T04:00:00Z Her “O2 — Intersections of Nature” features both precise paintings and unruly drawings, but nearly all begin with the shapes of trunks, branches and leaves. Review | In the galleries: Artists, too, might someday be replaced by machines 2018-07-05T04:00:00Z Because the trunks were built to be lightweight, he said, the wooden parts are thin. How to fix up an old steamer trunk 2017-08-25T04:00:00Z “But with Louis, we’ve kind of got trunks. That’s why we based a lot of the work around the trunks, because it’s what we’ve got in the archive. It felt the right thing to do.” How to Celebrate the 200th Birthday of a Man Everyone Knows and No One Knows 2021-07-29T04:00:00Z Standing in front of a collection of trunks, he grabs sight gags like a New England Patriots helmet that doubles as a Kleenex dispenser or goofy objects like Croc shoes pasted to toy crocodiles. How Carrot Top Wins in Vegas (Yes, He Can Be Funny) 2018-05-06T04:00:00Z I bought a pair of green Hartford trunks and took them in a rolled-up towel to the Olympic swimming pool in London’s East End. | Float, Memory 2014-05-06T13:00:33Z Recently, Eagle Scout Andrew Jones, 18, organized a tree-caging event — putting wire mesh around large tree trunks to protect them while conserving beaver habitats. With beavers in the suburbs, park officials look to balance needs of humans and ‘nature’s engineers’ 2021-10-04T04:00:00Z Thankfully I never had to squeeze into the trunks that Daniel Craig wore – it takes a lot of hard work to look like that. Roger Moore: ‘Being eternally known as James Bond has no downside’ 2014-08-30T04:00:00Z We scrambled over stinging nettle plants that poked through our clothing, and clutched tree trunks to keep going forward. Climbing Over Rocks, Holding on to Vines and Then, at Last, Gorillas 2018-04-04T04:00:00Z This goes on — with wild berries, with tree trunks. The San Francisco Symphony Plunges Into a New World 2020-10-28T04:00:00Z “If you start working big,” she says, as if to explain the difference between these monster trunks and a fist-size waving frog, “it is hard to reduce. Looking up is more exciting.” Emilie Brzezinski is her own kind of power player: an artist with a chainsaw As he spoke, the camera was angled from the ground up so that all you see are the tops of trees; the trunks, skinny and tall, look like ropes. Dance Review | David Neumann: A Meeting of ?Giselle? and Hasselhoff 2010-03-05T23:59:00Z Ursula Achternkamp draws diagrams on chipboard to illustrate how tree trunks are cut into boards, and Judith Goodman places two model chickens inside a battered metal canister as an anti-memorial to the “Factory Farm.” Review | In the galleries: Tiny contemporary monuments to transient phenomena 2018-10-18T04:00:00Z Meanwhile, writers from the 1830s and 1840s prodded men to aspire to svelte bodies, strong trunks and no excess body fat. Why do men obsess over six-packs 2021-03-01T05:00:00Z A wintry landscape of bare trunks and branches, this piece is as stark as “Flora Domestica” is lush. In the galleries: Expect the unexpected as two artists engage in a ‘Surreal Dialogue’ 2017-01-05T05:00:00Z To reveal attractive trunks, also remove branches growing inward toward center of plant. Crepe MyrtleEssential Southern Plant 2010-03-31T16:28:00Z In Paul Miller/DJ Spooky’s update of the latter’s fable, the wolf emerges from a forest whose tree trunks resemble a product bar code. In the galleries: You’ll definitely use your head at ‘Interface,’ at G Fine Art 2016-03-30T04:00:00Z The birds build them 85 to 115 feet off the ground, in huge trees with trunks up to eight feet in diameter. High in their treetop nests, this biologist discovered the truth about eagles 2016-08-12T04:00:00Z Whenever these weekends end, we sling muddied goods into trunks and reverse the drive, reliving weekend highlights as we go. For a Seattle writer, trips to the Olympic Peninsula made time to reconnect with outdoors, others 2022-04-07T04:00:00Z Eventually Vuitton will release a book chronicling the collaboration, as well as exhibit the physical trunks and hold a charity auction with Sotheby’s. How to Celebrate the 200th Birthday of a Man Everyone Knows and No One Knows 2021-07-29T04:00:00Z They are dressed, by Miranda Hoffman, in whimsically ill-assorted attire that suggests dutiful foraging in amateur theatricals costume trunks as well as the sales racks at Urban Outfitters. | 'Godspell' : ?Godspell? at the Circle in the Square - Review 2011-11-08T03:00:04Z The young puppets in jaunty swimming trunks, although they magically execute flashy dives and swim through air, are, if anything, more poignant still. Or You Could Kiss Me ? review 2010-10-09T23:06:00Z They make him drink a lot, say “Skoal”, and take a sauna with them where he refuses to take off his swim trunks. Welcome to Sweden: Amy Poehler’s brother takes American charm abroad 2014-07-10T04:00:00Z For Ms. Carlin, this gift relieves her of what she said was “the honor and the burden” of holding onto these possessions, which she estimated filled about “eight to 10 steamer trunks.” George Carlin’s Belongings Find New Home at National Comedy Center 2016-05-10T04:00:00Z We kept them moving through the jungle by thrusting bananas and melon into their eagerly outstretched trunks. 2 weeks, 1 country and a world of wonders in Thailand 2017-01-25T05:00:00Z He wanted to examine them, really look, and he does, making their trunks fleshlike and sinewy, turning their branches into proscenium curtains of black crepe. Art Review: ?Claude Monet: Late Work? at Gagosian Gallery 2010-05-06T22:49:00Z Close–up shots will find a deeper meaning in their bark and the creatures, such as beetles and woodpeckers that call them home or the fungi and lichen that cling to their trunks and branches. Capture the history of Britain's ancient trees 2011-08-01T06:00:01Z A new study by researchers at the Georgia Institute of Technology shows that elephant trunks are pretty cool — but also complicated. What’s to know about elephants’ trunks? A lot more than people think. 2021-06-18T04:00:00Z Namor’s original costume leaves little to the imagination — he is clad only in swim trunks. Who Is Namor, the ‘Black Panther: Wakanda Forever’ Villain? 2022-11-11T05:00:00Z With humans’ help, elephants clasped paintbrushes in their trunks and giraffes held brushes in their mouths as the animals produced their artwork one stroke at a time. Animal artists? Zoos use paintings as way to raise money for conservation. 2015-09-11T04:00:00Z The cheeky luggage tags also attested to her exuberant acquisitiveness, although the contents of the Vuitton trunks — and indeed the trunks themselves — are hers no more, of course. Auction Shows Elizabeth Taylor?s Star Still Shines 2011-12-16T23:29:38Z In other paintings, tree branches seem to detach from their trunks and engage in an airborne colloquy. Review: At Northwest African American Museum, works you’ll want to touch — but don’t 2017-05-02T04:00:00Z There is none of the detritus common to private facilities, because nothing is allowed: no food or beverages, no newspapers, and no clothes except bathing suits and trunks. The Swimmer: Manhattan Edition 2014-09-24T04:00:00Z It is lyrical in its luminous lighting and the use of a few telling objects — a line of five tree trunks, a row of chairs — to create a setting. Review | A beautiful ‘Onegin’ takes a late bow at WNO 2019-03-10T05:00:00Z Tragedy had struck Billy in the form of no swimming trunks packed. Billy Connolly: 'I hate going on holiday' 2013-01-26T09:00:00Z Let it be a layer of no more than two inches and don’t pile mulch against trunks or stems. Winter-battered plants may look dead — but don’t give up on them yet 2018-03-27T04:00:00Z The wooden trunks have been successfully used by residents to put out small blazes, Mr. Parker noted, but trying to imagine them as recourse against flaming fuselage, he just shook his head. Last Stop on the Way to the Cosmos? No Thanks. 2021-08-21T04:00:00Z It’s striking, but what really catches the eye are the bed’s cables, medical tubing that look like elephant trunks and are attached to Saul’s pale, bare hands and feet. ‘Crimes of the Future’ Review: The Horror, the Horror 2022-06-02T04:00:00Z This species eats ants, hence its tendency to feed on the ground rather than scamper around trunks. The percussive appeal of the woodpecker 2019-07-16T04:00:00Z Louis Vuitton is, as the brand founded on trunks endlessly reminds us, about travel. Louis Vuitton’s Future Shock 2018-10-03T04:00:00Z With soft, very straight trunks, which is why the Lenape dug giant canoes out of them. When Manhattan Was Mannahatta: A Stroll Through the Centuries 2020-05-13T04:00:00Z Trees bore the telltale signs of elephant damage: leaves stripped by their trunks, bark scraped off while sharpening tusks or scratching itchy hides, entire trees uprooted by tons of force. The Wonder Women of Botswana Safari 2017-08-22T04:00:00Z They discovered that its black patches blend into the dark tree trunks and shadows. A giant panda is big and black and white. Surprisingly, it can hide in plain sight. 2021-11-29T05:00:00Z Imagine applying for a job in Venice where you'll open two trunks sealed since 1728 and study their contents, which might contain treasure. Donna Leon's 'The Jewels of Paradise': A Venetian mystery 2012-09-26T22:15:04Z The handling of color — pinks that verge on golden and brown-green in the tree trunks' sunlit bark — is unusually bold for Ziegler. The Greathouse touch: Several exhibits at the Frye reveal the canny curatorial eye of former director Ida Kay Greathouse 2010-07-29T20:34:00Z I can still feel that frantic need to learn who had stolen the plans, or hidden the jewels, or switched the trunks on the cruise ship. Young Sleuths Hot on the Trail of Their Own Identities 2022-07-22T04:00:00Z “We all dropped our trunks right there and jumped in,” he says. Purists v partiers: the battle between two popular nudist resorts 2019-11-25T05:00:00Z The trunks play a starring role in the show’s most emotional segment, a cathartic dance to a Frank Ocean song led by a shirtless dancer in the kaleidoscopic rain forest. Four Takeaways from Rihanna’s New Lingerie Spectacle 2020-10-02T04:00:00Z Thirty seconds later, I had my own private beach, almost: a lone surfer in long trunks the colors of a sunset was standing a good 100 yards down the sand, staring at the breaking surf. Frugal Traveler: A Post-Spring Break Jaunt to Florida's Beaches 2011-04-19T21:52:22Z Even if the soul of the luggage is in the craft, why create a book that was longer in the making than the trunks themselves? A Tender Tome of Travel History 2010-06-14T12:00:00Z Never cover trunks, stems, or leaves, and keep mulch 4 to 6 inches away from the trunks of trees. How much mulch is too much mulch? 2022-05-02T04:00:00Z Some lizards look like leaves and some like tree trunks and some like thorns and some like beetles. Things That Are by Amy Leach – review 2013-06-07T08:00:15Z In any case, after all this, Wheeldon returns us to the 1992 rehearsal room with a trenchant gesture: The dancers pull the linens away to reveal the bed as a bunch of tour trunks. Review: In ‘MJ,’ No One’s Looking at the Man in the Mirror 2022-02-01T05:00:00Z Jacob Riis Beach lay just over the bridge in the Rockaways, and I’d brought my swim trunks, but though the sun was shining, the wind was picking up and the temperature was dropping. Sleeping Under the Stars in Brooklyn 2010-05-12T03:00:00Z The set, designed by David Rockwell, with storybook lighting by Tyler Micoleau, sketches a forest in the simplest terms — descending birch trunks, a rising moon. ‘Into the Woods’ Review: Do You Believe in Magic? 2022-07-10T04:00:00Z Beatrice Welles discovered the relics last year in boxes and trunks and decided to put them up for auction. Orson Welles' camera, other items up for auction 2014-03-31T23:37:21Z Two live musicians underscore a lot of the action, and Patti Kalil’s storybook set features two-dimensional painted tree trunks that fancifully join functional beds and benches at the base. Review | Women’s Voices notes: An exotic ‘Imogen’ and a down-home ‘Hound’ 2018-01-21T05:00:00Z Half a dozen narrow birch trunks lean against a wall of black leaves in one piece. 3 Art Gallery Shows to See Right Now 2021-06-09T04:00:00Z But our jaws didn’t drop until we went further into the dark forest and saw the butterflies clustered on tree trunks and branches, covering them in orange and black. Monarch butterflies in Mexico allow brush with fragile beauty 2017-11-24T05:00:00Z Many are accessed by spiral staircases that twirl around tree trunks. Gorgeous photo books will draw you out to the beach or up into the trees 2016-06-08T04:00:00Z You can convert a topped tree into a pollarded tree, but this is viable only on young crape myrtles whose trunks are no more than three inches across, and preferably smaller. Don’t commit a ‘crape murder’ 2015-03-17T04:00:00Z “At shift change, there are a lot of AR-15s and Mini-14s going into the trunks and under the front seats of patrol cars.” The road to Ferguson: This 1980 bank robbery changed how American police are armed 2019-06-09T04:00:00Z George Sotelo’s swimwear for men is all funky colors and patterns applied to traditionally cut bathing trunks that come in two styles: Apollo and Titan. Your Guide to New York Fashion Week: Men’s 2017-07-07T04:00:00Z An inventory was done in 1981, and about 15 years ago, four more trunks were donated by the University of California, Los Angeles. The Costumes in Modern Dance’s Attic 2018-06-19T04:00:00Z You can’t put them in the short trunks — it looks like a cheerleader skirt.” Fine Points: The Latest Men?s Swimwear 2010-06-02T20:59:00Z Remember four years ago, when it was all, Oh, hey, isn’t it refreshing to have a candidate who looks good romping around in his trunks? Paul Ryan flaunts his political muscles 2012-10-11T21:07:00Z Until then, images of the trunks will be displayed in Louis Vuitton store windows for 100 days, starting Aug. 4 — the founder’s birthday, the impetus for the whole project. How to Celebrate the 200th Birthday of a Man Everyone Knows and No One Knows 2021-07-29T04:00:00Z Tree celebrates the Chinese custom of displaying distinctive tree trunks and curiously shaped roots as home decorations. The New Tate Modern Museum Wing Makes Room for Art by Women 2016-06-17T04:00:00Z As the models, in thick woolens and body-conscious tailoring, walked through the “woods” — tree trunks that will be recycled into furniture — the Corneliani show expressed the spirit of modern men’s fashion. 2010-01-16T06:40:00Z David Koepp's script had them walking in a forest, coming across a tree trunk, then three more, the trunks turning out to be legs – a much more Spielbergian alternative to the version Spielberg gives us. Jurassic Park 3D: revisiting the film that put machismo on the extinction list 2013-04-01T15:07:59Z Fire is nothing new in the West or to redwoods, as evidenced by burn scars in their stumps or the hollowed-out trunks of burned trees, still standing a hundred years later. The Quiet Strength of an Old-Growth Forest 2021-06-15T04:00:00Z He painted them the color of tree trunks. Outdoor Dining Offers Fresh Air and Fantasy to a City That Needs Both 2020-07-09T04:00:00Z A crowd is going wild as they watch the performing elephants, then jostle to snap pictures sitting on elephants’ knees or raised high on curled trunks. Thailand’s elephants say goodbye to the circus – and a life of cruelty 2019-02-24T05:00:00Z Some of the models carried big boxed bags that echoed old-fashioned travel trunks, or large PVC shopping bags emblazoned with Versace writing. Versace plays with prints and leather for its spring/summer designs 2018-09-21T04:00:00Z Conceivably Pynchon may have disguised himself to play the musclebound "spiritual coach" in the orange swimming trunks. Inherent Vice review: a free range freak-out for California dreamers 2014-10-04T04:00:00Z They matched up the trunks of the trees in the Tiffany-like windows with the trunks of the real trees to make it look like the real trees were growing out of the art. A Florida Garden Brings Louis Comfort Tiffany’s Work to Life, in Bloom 2023-04-25T04:00:00Z His manuscripts were stored in steel trunks that remained in a son’s house until the 1940s, when they were transferred to the Cambridge University Library. From 25,540 Paper Fragments, How Darwin Himself Evolved 2017-03-13T04:00:00Z Black, limbless tree trunks jut from the toxic water, the skeletal remains of the trees that once grew here. On Great Inagua Island in the Bahamas, the flamingos are many and magnificent Mr. Hogenauer identified trees as we made our way north: red and white oaks, the ramrod-straight trunks of tulip trees, the deeply rutted barks of chestnut oaks, the ubiquitous beeches. South Mountain Reservation in Essex County, N.J. 2012-07-12T21:26:53Z “I can’t tell what the look is,” I said to an H & M salesclerk referring to a pair of $17.95 tight navy square-cut nylon trunks with a red, white and blue rope belt. Does This Swimsuit Make Me Look Fat? 2011-06-08T20:34:03Z What are the best male swimming trunks on the planet and what do they do for you in and out of the drink? | Float, Memory 2014-05-06T13:00:33Z The crinkling yellow leaves cast penumbral light around pale aspen trunks, while the air is redolent with that sweet, sharp smell of change found only in the autumn aspen groves of Colorado. Leaf Peeping Is Not Canceled: 6 Drives and Hikes to Try This Fall 2020-10-02T04:00:00Z There were no screaming children or grown-ups in pajama bottoms wheeling luggage the size of fat steamer trunks. The Getaway: Private Flying for (Some) of the Rest of Us 2013-08-22T15:26:06Z And then, finally, you notice, to the left, the big punch line: the enormous paws and legs like tree trunks of a Great Dane or a dog of a related breed. Art Review: Captured: A New York Minute, or One in Havana 2011-06-09T23:00:29Z I notice how the birches’ white trunks perch at odd angles as the ground shifts. Where Van Gogh the pastor became Van Gogh the painter 2015-02-19T05:00:00Z “I didn’t expect to see this much burn in the Trinity Alps,” he said, gesturing at the stands of black trunks that surrounded us. Heat, Water, Fire: How Climate Change Is Transforming the Pacific Crest Trail 2022-08-31T04:00:00Z The handles on steamer trunks are typically attached with clinched nails — nails hammered in from the outside and then bent over tightly on the inside. How to fix up an old steamer trunk 2017-08-25T04:00:00Z “They don’t want to try on the shorter trunks because they’re too revealing, and I tell them, ‘What, you think those long board shorts hide your belly?’ Fine Points: The Latest Men?s Swimwear 2010-06-02T20:59:00Z They will be only too happy to clothe you handsomely by doing what they do best: rummage in the trunks of the past to adapt to the future. Trading Up: The Town Coat, Between Sport and Overcoat 2011-11-11T17:28:02Z |
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