| 单词 | bole |
| 例句 | After repeated blows I had created a tiny dent in the cylindrical wall of the bole. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z Sam and Bando walked to the round stumps Sam had cut from the bole of a tree and sat down to watch Frightful. Frightful's Mountain 2001-05-21T00:00:00Z The boles of the trees glowed with a soft green like young grass: early spring or a fleeting vision of it was about them. The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z He had played here as a boy, skipping stones across the cold black pool beneath the weirwood, hiding his treasures in the bole of an ancient oak, stalking squirrels with a bow he made himself. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z He had spent three days sitting inside the bole of an artificial oak tree, three nights crawling on his belly through the heather, hiding microphones in gorse bushes, burying wires in the soft grey sand. Brave New World 1932-01-01T00:00:00Z The day waned, and dusk was twined about the boles of the trees. The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z Will drew himself behind the massive bole of a cedar, and looked where she was pointing. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z At ground level, a full-sized tree would be ten feet through its bole, more than twenty feet around. A Walk in the Woods 1997-11-01T00:00:00Z She found one close against the bole of the hemlock. My Side of the Mountain 1959-01-01T00:00:00Z From one such island rose a weirwood gnarled and ancient, its bole and branches white as the surrounding snows. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z As he climbed slowly up Frodo passed many flets: some on one side, some on another, and some set about the bole of the tree, so that the ladder passed through them. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z Nowhere had I to stand, no way of climbing, the root and bole being far below, and far above my head the branches and their leaves, massed, overshadowing Kharybdis pool. The Odyssey 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z Then he carried her to the gigantic hemlock tree on the mountain and into its hollowed-out bole. Frightful's Mountain 2001-05-21T00:00:00Z He was settled in the bole of an oak, eyes closed, shivering violently. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z If they ask me about the bole, what will I say? A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z He shrank against the bole of the tree. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z Frightful stayed in her church tower, Drum settled closer to the bole of the tupelo tree. Frightful's Mountain 2001-05-21T00:00:00Z On two chairs beneath the bole of the tree and canopied by a living bough there sat, side by side, Celeborn and Galadriel. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z Eventually he sat, resting himself against the bole of a tree. The Killer Angels: The Classic Novel of the Civil War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z The bole of an oak loomed before her, and she lunged to drive her point through it, grunting "Joffrey, Joffrey, Joffrey." A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z Then again beneath the bole of a great tree on the very edge of the wood more prints were discovered. The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z Sometimes I would find him just sitting quietly on a limb next to the bole of a tree, all fluffed up and doing nothing. My Side of the Mountain 1959-01-01T00:00:00Z I must have pushed the two boles apart as I stepped up into the place where they joined, and then when I stupidly let go again they closed on my foot like a trap. Grendel 1971-01-01T00:00:00Z He crawled forward through the tent flap and stood up, blinking, swaying, one hand against the bole of a tree. The Killer Angels: The Classic Novel of the Civil War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z Tentacles of giant bull kelp were strewed everywhere like the bodies of monsters from the deep, the high-tide line marked by lengths of driftwood a hundred feet long with boles thicker than I am tall. Explorer: Hiking Washington State’s Rocky Olympic Coast 2012-07-13T16:31:29Z And the tremendous ribbed trunks of the cottonwoods that ringed it were like the boles of old English willows. Favorite Place: In Taos, N.M., an Ordinary Field Evokes the Extraordinary 2012-04-06T20:05:28Z It’s full of walls of bee boles, cobbles, and potting sheds: a beautiful monument to hard work, anonymous labor, and shattered innocence. The Stunning Grounds, and Tragic History, of the Lost Gardens of Heligan 2019-08-02T04:00:00Z NW96 is thought to predate 1580 because of a lead ingot cast from a furnace, known as a bole, which fell out of use around that time. Isle of Wight rare shipwrecks granted protected status 2022-12-15T05:00:00Z In medieval and pre-modern Europe hives were often kept in boles, or wall recesses that housed wicker and mud skeps that served as the hive. Honey, I love you: our 40,000-year relationship with the humble bee 2017-05-24T04:00:00Z “On a nice day you’re not going to get a breeze next to the bole of that tree,” Downey says as she peruses the project area. Thinning project pitched to save big pines in Oregon forest 2016-12-05T05:00:00Z They offered little here beyond their opening "bole", an energetic and co-ordinated invitation to enter a physical contest. Ireland XV demolish Fiji as Craig Gilroy stakes claim with three tries 2012-11-17T20:46:53Z Like telephone poles scattered in patches across the vast landscape, tree boles remain as remnants of forests that once were. Green Blog: Snapshots in Time: The Dynamics of Trees 2012-07-23T16:08:07Z Sprays of vegetation began to leap from the boles of the mossy banyans lining the tracks. The Odd Couple: Singapore and Malaysia Team Up on Development Zone 2012-07-09T06:05:29Z The dense forest of straight black bare boles alone reveals the might and fury of a bush fire.' Australian Pictures Drawn with Pen and Pencil 2012-04-02T02:00:28.873Z This is cleaned bole, made into a paste, and applied in a solution not too thin. Practical Bookbinding 2012-04-02T02:00:23.047Z The river carried the bole or cradle, in which the children were lying, into the Tiber, which had overflowed its banks far and wide, even to the foot of the woody hills. Walks in Rome 2012-03-31T02:00:36.010Z Of or pertaining to bole or clay; partaking of the nature and qualities of bole; clayey. Webster's Unabridged Dictionary (2nd 100 Pages) 2012-03-24T02:00:19.387Z I also discovered that the bird feeds exclusively on the ground, close to the boles of low-branching trees, where there is usually an accumulation of fallen bark, dead leaves, and other rubbish. Argentine Ornithology, Volume I (of 2) A descriptive catalogue of the birds of the Argentine Republic. 2012-02-26T03:00:17.560Z When disturbed it flits away with a shrill querulous cry, passing to the nearest tree with a rapid undulating flight, and conceals itself by running round the bole to the opposite side. Argentine Ornithology, Volume II (of 2) A descriptive catalogue of the birds of the Argentine Republic. 2012-02-26T03:00:16.210Z Look how the light is coming red through the boles of the trees! Pine Needles 2012-02-20T03:00:19.367Z Ascending big steps cut on the bole, they reached, near the top, a pleasant thatched arbour, large enough to seat a dozen men. With Drake on the Spanish Main 2012-02-20T03:00:17.357Z He is leaning his head and the upper part of his body against the bole of a huge, cavernous oak. Life and Writings of Maurice Maeterlinck 2012-02-19T03:00:16.920Z You have thrown your arms about a drift of leaves, Or bole of an ash-tree changed into her image. Poems 2012-02-15T03:00:33.707Z In the evening I listen to the winds' lisping, While the conflagrations of the sunset flicker and clash behind me, Flamboyant crenellations of glory amid the charred ebony boles. Goblins and Pagodas 2012-02-14T03:00:24.740Z The sunbeams, penetrating through them, danced in sportive glee upon the chequered ground, while between the boles we caught picturesque glimpses of the ocean. Antigua and the Antiguans, Volume I (of 2) A full account of the colony and its inhabitants from the time of the Caribs to the present day 2012-02-09T03:00:15.267Z These staples they drove one by one with the mallet into the boles of the five trees selected for the day's operations. With Drake on the Spanish Main 2012-02-20T03:00:17.357Z Lad arrived at the tree bole barely in time to collect a mouthful of cloth from the climber's left trouser ankle. Lad: A Dog 2012-02-08T03:00:19.720Z She uttered a single “Yow!” and leaped straight out of Agnes’ arms to the bole of a maple tree standing just inside Mrs. Adams’ fence. The Corner House Girls How they moved to Milton, what they found, and what they did 2012-02-03T03:00:26.090Z In and out amongst the boles of the trees I saw him wind. Lawrence Clavering 2012-02-01T03:00:11.667Z There came an evening in the middle of May when she burst her sheath like any bud on the bole of one of her chestnut trees. The Turnstile 2012-01-29T03:00:09.260Z Here the trees were in bud, and the sunlight, split by the boughs, dappled with light and shadow the glossy coats of the horses as they were led in and out amongst the boles. The Truants 2012-01-28T03:00:26.257Z The boles of the trees grew denser—almost blue. The White Peacock 2012-01-14T03:00:21.627Z He had stood up, lashed against a slender palm bole, and died on his feet. The Code of the Mountains 2012-01-07T03:00:15.050Z For 'tis not form, or aught we see In leaf or branch or bole. The Melody of Earth An Anthology of Garden and Nature Poems From Present-Day Poets 2011-12-31T03:00:17.930Z Suddenly from everywhere came forth trees with their dry branches dovetailed and interlocked together, while their boles moved, swaying like drunken men. The Legend of Ulenspiegel, Volume I (of 2) And Lamme Goedzak, and their Adventures Heroical, Joyous and Glorious in the Land of Flanders and Elsewhere 2011-12-10T03:00:17.800Z For a considerable distance I pulled along the stumps of what had once been large forest trees, the stubby boles showing plainly through the clear water to a very considerable depth. Down the Columbia 2011-12-10T03:00:16.583Z Turning back about fifty yards, he urged his horse between two almost perpendicular masses of rock, and then made his way among the boles of the trees for perhaps a quarter of a mile. Perils in the Transvaal and Zululand 2011-12-02T03:00:22.447Z A little red squirrel clawed itself up a tree bole, and squatting in a fork chirked angrily and impudently at him from its place of safety. The Heath Hover Mystery 2011-12-01T03:00:22.357Z Softly at dawn a whisper stole Down from the Green House on the Hill, Enchanting many a ghostly bole And wood song with the ancient thrill. The Melody of Earth An Anthology of Garden and Nature Poems From Present-Day Poets 2011-12-31T03:00:17.930Z The profound bass of the naked branches and boles booming like waterfalls, the quick, tense vibrations of the pine-needles, now rising to a shrill, whistling hiss, now falling to a silky murmur. The Adventures of a Grain of Dust 2011-11-22T03:00:12.257Z She was passing through one of the woods of which her husband's property seemed chiefly to consist, and was resting on the bole of a tree, when she heard the sound of wheels. A Duel 2011-11-20T03:00:13.840Z Then he came back to the tree where I was still lying insensible, and, seeing that I was out of his reach, twisted his trunk round the bole and tried to tear it up. Perils in the Transvaal and Zululand 2011-12-02T03:00:22.447Z There is a wood where the fairies dance All night long in a ring of mushrooms daintily, By each tree bole sits a squirrel or a mole, And the moon through the branches darts. Poems - First Series 2011-10-28T02:00:21.917Z The ranks of gigantic boles showed the glory that had been. Notwithstanding 2011-10-19T02:00:22.340Z In an effort to relate the context of the phrase, this has been changed to "branches and boles" in this text. The Adventures of a Grain of Dust 2011-11-22T03:00:12.257Z After a time fire was applied, and quickly, as in the case of resinous trees, or with long, slow smolderings of half-rotted, hollow giants, the huge boles were consumed. Jungle Peace 2011-10-06T02:00:42.363Z I thought we should both go over together, but just at the last moment I seized the bole of the tree and swung myself round. Perils in the Transvaal and Zululand 2011-12-02T03:00:22.447Z Ingenious devices have been invented for this purpose; among the most effective of these are vessels of oil, fastened closely around the bole of the tree. American Pomology Apples 2011-10-03T02:00:29.477Z The Invisible Man had smiled, and at the same moment there had shown round the bole of the beech a second smoky shape, this one without teeth, but with white and mobile eyes instead. A Crooked Mile 2011-10-03T02:00:26.870Z Through this tangle of vines, bushes, and briers she slowly made her way, until, suddenly, the long, regular rows of Ann's dead cotton-stalks, with their empty boles and withered leaves, stretched out before her. Ann Boyd 2011-09-29T02:00:14.220Z There they had to blast the boles of the trees with dynamite before they could get them out of the ground. Fifty Years of Golf 2011-09-14T02:00:50.627Z While the Body stooped, whispering, we caught sight of the white face of yet another, behind the great bole of a tree. The Divine Adventure Volume IV 2011-09-04T02:00:03.717Z There were other great trees with compound boles, built literally of bundles of round stems, intricate gothic pillars, some of the props having fused in places. The Sea and the Jungle 2011-08-30T02:00:30.350Z It had always been associated in my mind with the shriek of the wind, the roar of the surf and the explosive detonations of snapped coco palm boles. Down the Yellowstone 2011-08-29T02:01:06.730Z For answer the forester leaned forward and seized his cross-bow which was leaning, ready drawn and with bolt in groove, against the bole of a sapling near at hand. Cedric, the Forester 2011-08-17T02:00:29.077Z Around the bole, where the grasses grow, Is a circle white as of melting snow. The Dales of Arcady 2011-08-16T02:00:42.740Z In the foreground, the columned boles and the graceful plumes made a great haunt of emerald shade, a dream place of cool recesses and long cathedral aisles. The Locusts' Years 2011-08-16T02:00:41.777Z Though we could not get ashore, there was enough to watch, if it were only the men leisurely driving palm boles into the river, making a pier for us. The Sea and the Jungle 2011-08-30T02:00:30.350Z V-points of red and yellow flame suddenly flecked the bole of a tall, dead pine beside the path, and right ahead. Carolyn of the Corners 2011-08-10T02:00:14.997Z When we had obtained about three brace of birds, however, I heard a sudden crash among the underwood, when I immediately jumped behind the bole of a tree, and kept closely against it. The Confessions of a Poacher 2011-08-05T02:00:44.470Z The rabbit has pushed his way up from an old bury, so that the sand he dug fell down behind him into the larger bole. Wild Life in a Southern County 2011-08-04T02:00:27.037Z But as the shadows of the tall cocoanut trees closed around her, she grasped a slender bole with both arms and leaned against it, panting. The Locusts' Years 2011-08-16T02:00:41.777Z The trees mostly were arborescent laurels I believe, with smooth brown boles which were blotched through their outer cuticle peeling away, much in the manner of that of the plane tree. The Sea and the Jungle 2011-08-30T02:00:30.350Z When the corpse has stiffened, they bury it beneath some forest tree, cutting a great cross into the bole, not forgetting some mysterious signs to its right and left "for the other gods." For the Right 2011-08-01T02:00:10.250Z It has a dead bough almost at the bottom of its bole, and upon it there sits a grey-brown bird. The Confessions of a Poacher 2011-08-05T02:00:44.470Z Our adjutant escaped here as by a miracle, the bole of a very small tree having stopped the ball that would have pierced his body. Twenty-Five Years in the Rifle Brigade 2011-07-21T02:00:19.027Z Being tired with my trudge in the sand, I sat down outside, with my back to the wall, and saw the setting sun paint with saffron the boles of the pines. A Book of Ghosts 2011-07-08T02:00:19.203Z A rough pier was being thrown out on palm boles to receive us, but it was not ready. The Sea and the Jungle 2011-08-30T02:00:30.350Z At once he leaped up with his fore-feet against the bole of the tree. Ruth Fielding At Sunrise Farm What Became of the Raby Orphans 2011-06-14T02:00:19.177Z Coming to a large tree he sat down upon the ground, and leaned back against the bole. If Any Man Sin 2011-06-12T02:00:05.887Z Her figure went before me between the bare larch boles, taking care not to tread on flowers. My Little Sister 2011-05-27T02:00:14.023Z Presently, with increasing boldness, they fasten the boat's chain round the bole of a tree, and clamber upon the bank. The Last of the Vikings 2011-05-09T02:00:04.200Z The pallid boles of the trees, the sentinels by the water with the press of verdure behind them, stand, as we pass, like soundless exclamations. The Sea and the Jungle 2011-08-30T02:00:30.350Z Here and there, along the water’s edge, a tall tree seemed floating in the air, its bole and roots cut off by the drifting mist. Ruth Fielding At Sunrise Farm What Became of the Raby Orphans 2011-06-14T02:00:19.177Z A giant oak, shrouded with ivy, stretched out long protecting arms and almost hid it from view; the roof was built against the very bole of the tree, whose branches sheltered the windows. For the School Colours 2011-04-28T02:00:12.693Z The floor is generally level, interrupted in places by great steps, channels, and boles; and by huge blocks of many tons’ weight scattered about, testifying mutely to the tremendous power of the sea. A Month in Yorkshire 2011-04-24T02:00:10.977Z So, secretly they found the right bole of the tree where an excrescence grew and it was cut out. The Woodcraft Girls in the City 2011-03-27T02:00:11.007Z We had been under way for more than an hour when my eyes opened on the illuminated panorama of leaves and boles unfolding past the door of my cabin. The Sea and the Jungle 2011-08-30T02:00:30.350Z I couldn't be mistaken, for she was singing David's "O ma maitresse," as I watched her from behind the bole of a great huldoo tree. The Taming of the Jungle 2011-03-23T02:00:16.887Z His horse shied, and carried him past, out of reach, while the blacksmith stepped precipitately toward the bole, exclaiming angrily: 'Don't ride me down, Hi Kelsey!' The Prophet of the Great Smoky Mountains 2011-03-22T02:00:18.637Z The moonlight seems to drip down the boles of the monarchs of the wood like molten silver, to lie here and there upon the underbrush around their feet. 'O Thou, My Austria!' 2011-03-04T03:01:01.630Z A group of children were playing ball with a woody excrescence which they had found in the bole of a tree. The Woodcraft Girls in the City 2011-03-27T02:00:11.007Z Another, which I supposed to be of the leguminous order, had a silvery bole, and a texture of pale green leafage open and light, which at a distance resembled that of the birch. The Sea and the Jungle 2011-08-30T02:00:30.350Z The boles of the trees became ruddy, and they smelt the acrid smoke which curled upward in wreaths to find an outlet through the solid-looking roof of foliage, There was no vegetation below. The Plowshare and the Sword A Tale of Old Quebec 2011-02-24T03:01:05.143Z She leant against the bole of the tree and folded her arms across her belt. A Practical Novelist 2011-02-19T03:01:38.957Z It was the tree-yucca, and a huge bole of bayonet-shaped leaves crowning its corrugated trunk shaded a spot of grass-covered turf, on the very edge of the escarpment. The Guerilla Chief And other Tales 2011-02-10T03:00:53.627Z Even at a short distance it would be difficult to distinguish the gray coat or jacket from the bole of a tree. Toronto of Old 2011-02-10T03:00:45.907Z Scarcely allowing the sorter time to deposit them in their respective pigeon boles, Ryecroft approaches and asks if there be any for him—at the same time giving his name. Gwen Wynn A Romance of the Wye 2011-02-09T03:00:45.007Z It is not yet mid-April, but the Spirit of Life has stirred in every bole and bough; every twig and tendril. A Maid of the Kentucky Hills 2011-02-04T03:00:15.877Z When she forced her way among the drooping boughs up to the mighty bole, she was sure that the tree thrilled with happiness, and she heard it murmuring—murmuring under its spicy breath. A Practical Novelist 2011-02-19T03:01:38.957Z At nightfall, all the guests being already assembled, the yule-log, the huge bole of an olive tree, was, with great ado, brought to the house. The Pobratim A Slav Novel 2011-01-11T03:00:27.460Z She saw Jack Murray's horse tied to its bole. The Rider of Golden Bar 2011-01-04T03:01:06.347Z Thus grown, the huge bole has seldom any great length, throwing out these timber branches at from six to ten feet from the ground, and immediately afterwards the trunk is divided into several stems. Wayside and Woodland Trees A pocket guide to the British sylva 2010-12-25T03:00:16.510Z I seemed to stand in a ghost land; everything was shadowy; even the rough boles appeared tenuous, ready to dissolve and disappear at a breath of wind. A Maid of the Kentucky Hills 2011-02-04T03:00:15.877Z A rosy and saffron mist hung between their thronging boles. The Pioneers 2010-12-20T17:12:11.787Z "I am to watch my Forester's body, and feed you through the west bole, for three days." Wilson's Tales of the Borders and of Scotland Volume 8 Benson's hands were like ice as standing behind the bole of a giant spruce he watched the progress of the aeroplane. The Trail of Conflict Then there was the Ash whose bole had been cleft that it might be a "sovran" remedy for infantile hernia. Wayside and Woodland Trees A pocket guide to the British sylva 2010-12-25T03:00:16.510Z However, he lay back against the bole of a fir awhile as resting himself. Idonia: A Romance of Old London A bit back in the bare brown woods he saw the flash of a marble pillar; it shone white and clear in the setting of russet and against the boles of the trees. The Sentimental Adventures of Jimmy Bulstrode She bit her lips, as by sheer strength of elbow and knee he snapped the offending bole short off—one of those quick exhibitions of reserved strength that every woman likes. The Valiants of Virginia Tell me, tell me, have you gone Through the fields and woods of dawn, Meadowlands and trees that roll, Great of grass and huge of bole, To the Land of Hearts Made Whole? A Voice on the Wind and Other Poems Though the stout cylindrical bole is short, its erect trunk towers to a height of eighty or a hundred feet, supporting the massive pyramid, beautiful on account of its fine foliage and handsome flowers alike. Wayside and Woodland Trees A pocket guide to the British sylva 2010-12-25T03:00:16.510Z They followed close after Blake, around the monstrous bole of the baobab. Into the Primitive A haze of tender diaphanous green clung to the boles of the smirched elms, softening the sooty decay that made their antiquity so grotesque and so dishonourable. Sinister Street, vol. 1 They forget, no doubt, that in the scrub at the feet of their own boles the habit persists. Springtime and Other Essays Moya was dodging boles and ducking under branches, the dapple-grey behind her, her arm through the reins, when all at once these tightened. The Shadow of a Man The bole has seldom any pretensions to symmetry, and is usually more or less crooked like the older branches. Wayside and Woodland Trees A pocket guide to the British sylva 2010-12-25T03:00:16.510Z In the sense of stem or trunk of a tree, “bole” is from the O. Norwegian bolr, of. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 4, Slice 2 "Bohemia" to "Borgia, Francis" Gently he deposited Trakor to a sitting position beside him, permitting the boy to rest his back against the tree's bole. The Return of Tharn Browning, too, is scientifically safe in letting his chaffinch sing now “that the lowest boughs and the brushwood sheaf round the elm-tree bole are in tiny leaf.” Springtime and Other Essays Elsie seized a block of paper, and with soft pencil began to sketch them both against the background of mysterious blackness, out of which a pine bole gleamed ashy white. The Captain of the Gray-Horse Troop A comparison of the photographs from the boles of the two species will show a great difference: that of the Mountain Ash being smooth, whilst that of the Service is rugged. Wayside and Woodland Trees A pocket guide to the British sylva 2010-12-25T03:00:16.510Z Most bole differs from ordinary clay in not being plastic, but in dropping to pieces when placed in water, thus behaving rather like fuller’s-earth. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 4, Slice 2 "Bohemia" to "Borgia, Francis" She stopped her climb then and leaned her head weakly against the bole, panting and shivering from strain and utter relief. The Return of Tharn And the old enchantment falls On the blue-gray orchard walls And the purple high-top boles, While the orange orioles Flame and whistle through the green Of that paradisal scene. Later Poems The floor was uneven, the log walls merely whitewashed, and the beams overhead were rough pine boles. The Captain of the Gray-Horse Troop As the snails crawl up the bole or over the moss at its base, it is not easy at a glance to say which are snails and which bud-envelopes. Wayside and Woodland Trees A pocket guide to the British sylva 2010-12-25T03:00:16.510Z Large quantities of bole occur as red partings between the successive lava flows of the Tertiary volcanic series in the north of Ireland and the west of Scotland. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 4, Slice 2 "Bohemia" to "Borgia, Francis" Quickly he lowered his captive to a broad branch, stuffed a handful of leaves into its mouth, bound them there with a short length of vine, then lashed the wrists to the tree bole. The Return of Tharn In the young tree, the bole is straight and upright, and one or two leading branches rise above the rest. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 5, Slice 5 "Cat" to "Celt" There are other men who would take the last nugget and destroy the last bole. The Holy Earth The Hornbeam is frequently passed by as a Beech, to which it has a very close superficial likeness, but a comparison of leaves, flowers, or bole would at once make the differences obvious. Wayside and Woodland Trees A pocket guide to the British sylva 2010-12-25T03:00:16.510Z In front of me is a clump of trees—fine, tall trees they are, with shining grey boles—standing erect and strong in spite of the fury of the gales. Windyridge After two hours of plodding along the winding game path, flames from the smoking torches casting eerie shadows among the thick foliage and heavy tree boles, Trakor could stand this uncertainty no longer. The Return of Tharn Between their iron-grey boles were flashes of red—the blood-red of the Mikado's bridge. From Sea to Sea Letters of Travel The black wet boles are vacant and dead. A Pushcart at the Curb The vitality of the Beech is so high that quite frequently the bole divides at its upper part into several trunks, which rise straight up, and each attains the dimensions of a complete tree. Wayside and Woodland Trees A pocket guide to the British sylva 2010-12-25T03:00:16.510Z "I know I'm an old fool," whimpered Miss Tabby, as she wiped her eyes, and leaning up against the bole of the tree. Tried for Her Life A Sequel to "Cruel As the Grave" He sat with his back comfortably against the tree bole, his shock of black hair falling almost to his shoulders in back and rudely hacked off above his eyes. The Return of Tharn When first known to the whites there were five boles starting from the ground, but these are now reduced to two, and are probably shoots from the original tree cut down or girdled by Dearborn. The Journal of Lieut. John L. Hardenbergh of the Second New York Continental Regiment from May 1 to October 3, 1779, in General Sullivan's Campaign Against the Western Indians With an Introduction, Copious Historical Notes, and Maps of the Battle-field of Newtown and Groveland Ambuscade And full in the center of the drawing was an immense web stretched between the boles of two jungle giants. Death of a B.E.M. A section of the trunk will not show a circular outline, but rather an ellipse, the bole appearing to have been flattened on two sides. Wayside and Woodland Trees A pocket guide to the British sylva 2010-12-25T03:00:16.510Z He wormed backward to the bole of a small tree. Stalemate While from the depths of tangled undergrowth near the bole of that tree, a pair of glowing yellow eyes were fixed in an unblinking stare upon the swiftly approaching girl! The Return of Tharn Kirk, perspiring freely under the folds of his topcoat, halted in the shelter of a tree bole, and waited. Twelve Times Zero The bole and dead limbs of nearly every tree in the main forest-belt are ornamented by conspicuous tufts and strips of a yellow lichen. My First Summer in the Sierra The bole of the Yew is short but massive, covered with a thin red bark, that flakes off in patches much after the manner of Plane-bark. Wayside and Woodland Trees A pocket guide to the British sylva 2010-12-25T03:00:16.510Z Motioning for the girl to seek the concealing foliage of a tree, Tharn slipped behind the bole of another bordering the pathway. Warrior of the Dawn Standing there near the clearing's edge, she peered intently at the waist-high grasses shrouding the boles of trees on both sides of the trail. The Return of Tharn Temple darted after it, caught it in his hands and bashed its life out against the bole of a tree. Voyage To Eternity Among the willows, perhaps, the bole of some birch stands out white and spectral. The Story of the Trapper Supplementary photographs are given, in many cases, of the bole, which exhibit the character of the bark, and should prove a valuable aid in the identification of species. Wayside and Woodland Trees A pocket guide to the British sylva 2010-12-25T03:00:16.510Z Placing Alurna in a sitting position here, her back against the tree's bole, he tore free a length of stout vine and bound her wrists securely behind her back. Warrior of the Dawn Quickly Tharn propped the torch of gumwood against a tree bole and dragged the two corpses into the brush. The Return of Tharn Soon he saw her, coming with swift feet and flying skirts and bare head, through the boles of the cypresses. A House-Party Don Gesualdo and A Rainy June The bole is straight and free from limbs and the top is short and compact. The Forests of Mount Rainier National Park Trees growing freely in the open are of less height, and are made to appear comparative dwarfs by the huge proportions of the bole. Wayside and Woodland Trees A pocket guide to the British sylva 2010-12-25T03:00:16.510Z During some recent storm a lightning bolt had torn a jagged streak in its bole, close to the ground, leaving a strip of white wood gleaming in the sun. Warrior of the Dawn His attention given for the moment to Pratt Sanderson, Frances had risen and dodged behind the bole of the tree against which she was leaning, a carefully watched prisoner. Frances of the Ranges The Old Ranchman's Treasure The stockade, boles of stout young trees sawed off in lengths of twenty feet and sharply pointed at the upper end, the other end deeply sunken into the ground, began to grow apace. The Story of Old Fort Loudon Both sides found complete shelter behind the giant trunks of the trees, and each fired at insignificant portions of the anatomy allowed to momentarily protrude beyond the impenetrable boles. Si Klegg, Book 3 (of 6) Si And Shorty Meet Mr. Rosenbaum, The Spy, Who Relates His Adventures Before the tree is cut down the bole is stripped, the first ring being taken from just above the roots to a height of two and a half feet above. Wayside and Woodland Trees A pocket guide to the British sylva 2010-12-25T03:00:16.510Z There sounded a singing "twang" and a polished bolt flashed in the sunlight, passed the tree's bole by a good foot and disappeared into the foliage. Warrior of the Dawn Enoch, finding himself shielded from the rays by the thick bole of a tree, scrambled into its branches. Call Him Savage This shows the absurdity of bands of cotton, etc., placed about a tree when the bole is covered with worms, "to keep them from going up." The Apple The leaves were changing from green to gold, for the sap was receding into the boles and roots of the trees. The Corner House Girls in a Play How they rehearsed, how they acted, and what the play brought in The Mountain Ash attains a height of from thirty to fifty feet, and has a straight clean bole, clothed in smooth grey bark, scarred horizontally as though it had been scored with a knife. Wayside and Woodland Trees A pocket guide to the British sylva 2010-12-25T03:00:16.510Z Whirling, he scooped up the girl and placed her on a thick branch, close to the bole. Warrior of the Dawn Original Thickness of the Antrim Lavas.—It is impossible to determine with certainty what may have been the original thickness of the accumulated sheets of basic lavas with their associated beds of ash and bole. Volcanoes: Past and Present Bands smeared with sticky material put tightly around the tree bole early in February has stopped many a female from crawling up to lay her eggs. The Apple He was looking off through the tree boles and Nan, also looking, found the distance dim and felt the sorrow of youth and spring. Old Crow The Walnut is a handsome tree, growing to a height of forty to sixty feet, with a bole twenty feet or more in circumference, and a huge spreading head. Wayside and Woodland Trees A pocket guide to the British sylva 2010-12-25T03:00:16.510Z Tharn watched her intently from behind the bole of a mighty tree. Warrior of the Dawn Volcanic ash, or bole, is frequently found separating the different lava-flows; and in the upper amygdaloidal sheets numerous secondary minerals are found, such as quartz, agate and jasper, stilbite and chlorite. Volcanoes: Past and Present Latham fell back against a tree bole and stood motionless, staring into glittering feral eyes. One Purple Hope! There was no view, no vista, save the infinitely repeated umbrageous tangle beneath the trees, where their boles stood more or less distinct or dusky till merged indefinitely into shadow and distance. The Mystery of Witch-Face Mountain and Other Stories It is distinguished by having the base of the bole covered with coarse, rough, and blackish bark, the smooth leaves looking as though their base had been cut off, and the twigs warty. Wayside and Woodland Trees A pocket guide to the British sylva 2010-12-25T03:00:16.510Z Far into the night, the great gaunt boles of trees stood amid wreathing flame. Cedar Creek From the Shanty to the Settlement Antrim, showing successive tiers of basaltic lava, with intervening bands of bole. Volcanoes: Past and Present The Indian gazed upon each tree scrutinizingly, and no knothole in the rough boles escaped his attention. With Ethan Allen at Ticonderoga By this time the strong sunshine pierced in a thousand places the pine-thatch of the forest, fired the red boles, irradiated the cool aisles of shadow, and burned in jewels on the grass. The Works of Robert Louis Stevenson - Swanston Edition Vol. 7 (of 25) If two measurements of the bole's diameter be taken at right angles to each other, they will be found to differ greatly. Wayside and Woodland Trees A pocket guide to the British sylva 2010-12-25T03:00:16.510Z He could not have passed it previously without notice of its sombre shade and massive boles. Cedar Creek From the Shanty to the Settlement After they had eaten, Nelson leaned back against the thick bole of a tree and found himself studying the girl. The Happy Man The two deer at the lick and the boy who now, from behind the massive bole of a tree, surveyed them, seemed the only living objects within view. With Ethan Allen at Ticonderoga There was a short section of the bole of a large tree, with a flattened base, lying on the ground near the stairway. The Record of Nicholas Freydon An Autobiography Its bole sometimes has a girth of twenty feet. Wayside and Woodland Trees A pocket guide to the British sylva 2010-12-25T03:00:16.510Z He is a comical fellow, too, prying around at you from the bole of a tree or from his nesting hole therein. Birds, Illustrated by Color Photography, Vol. 1, No. 2 February, 1897 They are usually so industriously engaged that they seem to give little attention to your presence, and hunt away, tapping the bole of the tree, until called elsewhere by some more promising field of operations. Birds, Illustrated by Color Photography, Vol. 2, No. 4 October, 1897 Wichter and Joyce dropped their guns to cling more tightly to the bole of the drooping branch that was their only security. Astounding Stories, April, 1931 "I have not much to tell," she answered, and sank on the tree bole. The Broom-Squire They actually exist in the bole of the Yew, which presents the appearance not of a single trunk, but of several trunks that have coalesced. Wayside and Woodland Trees A pocket guide to the British sylva 2010-12-25T03:00:16.510Z There rose a rough-barked red-brown tree, and from it, near the ground, projected a blackish bole. The Pathless Trail Its bark is loose and shaggy, being shed rapidly, and gives one the thought of the old grape vine; hanging in bunches, the 43 bole has always a ragged appearance. Trail Tales These are the leafy hills and listless vales Of iridescent Autumn—this the oak Against whose lichened bole I leant and looked Away the sunny hours of afternoon. Nirvana Days The bank had to be surmounted, and in Mehetabel's condition it taxed her powers, and when she reached the top she sank out of breath on a fallen bole of a tree. The Broom-Squire Hour after hour she sat in the darkest place she could find, leaning against the bole of a great tree. The Shepherd of the North When he had stepped aside McKay looked again for the puzzling bole. The Pathless Trail It is wonderful how swiftly the night comes in among the boles of the great oak trees. Dwellers in the Hills The greenery was fresher and brighter than he remembered; the tree boles and the branches were marvels of grace and strength. Second Sight The tree bole on which she was seated was rotting away; a huge fleshy fungus had formed on it, and the decaying timber emitted a charnel-house smell. The Broom-Squire He felt the ferny undergrowth all about him, the thick boles of tree-ferns emerged out of the mist. Astounding Stories of Super-Science, May, 1930 In their tops the breeze was singing sonorously, but among their massive boles the silence was so tense that twigs cracking under her feet sounded like gun-shots echoing through the dim aisles. The Heart of Thunder Mountain So the villagers were convinced, and they set to work and cut down the great boles, and built the monastery such as my friend saw. The Soul of a People Forgetful that he was weary he climbed well up the bole of a shaggy old friend, to peep in at the opening of a deserted woodpecker’s home. A Breath of Prairie and other stories The sun in far-splashing splendor slanted from peak to peak, painting purple shadows on the snow and warming the boles of the tall trees till they shone like fretted gold. They of the High Trails Its uprightness is forceful and strong, and its clean and shapely bole impresses the beholder as a joining of gently outcurving columns, ample in strength and of an elegance belonging to itself alone. Getting Acquainted with the Trees And finally, through the gray boles of the beech trees in the lowland, I saw two men at work digging a pit. The Boy Scouts Book of Stories The two walked side by side along the snowy path, the lantern flashing fitfully amongst the bare branches and dark boles of the trees. The Silver Maple Its bole, five feet of stalwart diameter, rose straight and tapering to the first right-angle limbs, each in itself almost a tree. The Roof Tree When, finally, he was come up to the great bole, he stood quietly for minutes, gazing everywhere round about. Heart of the Blue Ridge While in the close forest it towers up with a smooth, clean bole, in open places it assumes its naturally somewhat conical form very promptly. Getting Acquainted with the Trees Wherefore the Capponi, having seen that Raffaellino's picture was a rare work, caused a frame to be made for it, all carved, with round columns richly adorned with burnished gold on a ground of bole. Lives of the Most Eminent Painters Sculptors and Architects Vol. 04 (of 10), Filippino Lippi to Domenico Puligo The shell, which was a large one from a four-inch howitzer, entered the willow bole, burying itself in the soft wood all but about half an inch of the base. "The Red Watch" With the First Canadian Division in Flanders Another feature of the village is the now disused workhouse, a solid old brick building overlooking a horsepond: another, the bole of a superb elm, quite rightly stationed in the carpenter's sawyard. Highways and Byways in Surrey And the two men groped and stumbled their way without more ado to the place where Walford was still seated, with his back resting against the giant bole of the tree. The Voyage of the Aurora The sun slants fiery red between the boles of the old fruit-trees, burns little crimson patches on Belle's fair skin, and turns Honor's cheeks to the hue of wild poppies. Only an Irish Girl As soon as she was gone he jumped up, shook the straw from himself, and said in a very passion of longing, Bo, boll, bill, bole. Once on a Time Between them were a sea of hedges and green brown boles of pollard willows. "The Red Watch" With the First Canadian Division in Flanders By Send churchyard stands the bole of a mighty elm, riven and iron-bound. Highways and Byways in Surrey Gral lifted the thing of his creation ... and just a little way distant, his glance caught the bole of a tree. The Beginning Taking shelter behind the boles of trees, or the bodies of their dead horses, they answered the fire shot for shot, coolly, with perfect aim, without haste or hurry. The Red True Story Book I say my spell every now and then—you remember the one: 'Bo, boll, bill bole. Once on a Time The two last consist of calcareous earth united to phosphoric acid, and the Armenian bole and marl may contain iron. Zoonomia, Vol. II Or, the Laws of Organic Life Not much younger than the ruins, perhaps, are the gnarled and twisted boles of the Betchworth sweet chestnuts. Highways and Byways in Surrey Grimly, he buried his stone there beneath the bole and made his way back to the great ledge. The Beginning Presently a third one, in dull plumage, came into view, having been hidden till now behind the bole. The Foot-path Way "He stood up and holding up his hand said impressively: "Bo, boll, bill, bole. Once on a Time Looking from the old-fashioned windows of Mrs. Gouverneur's front parlor, he praised the beauty of the winter scene, and admired especially the spotted boles of the great buttonwoods in Washington Square. The Faith Doctor A Story of New York Built on to the bole of an old oak by the obelisk is an apartment engagingly labelled "Ye Village Cage." Highways and Byways in Surrey But Gral gathered quickly, and departed, and was soon at the far place by the great bole, where he retrieved his stone and set feverishly to work. The Beginning It was between an oak bole and the wall of the garden, and the bushes behind had grown so that their branches half covered it. The Ghost Girl Just as a man clings to a mast in a hurricane, deaf, blind, all his life and energy in his arms, Adams clung to the tree bole above the branch upon which he was. The Pools of Silence The mature forest-grown tree has a long, straight, cylindrical bole, clear of branches for at least two thirds of its length, surmounted by a short, open, irregular crown. Seasoning of Wood This was a very natural conclusion, and the boys crept behind the bole of a tree and waited for what seemed to them a long time. Boy Scouts in the Canal Zone The Plot Against Uncle Sam The monstrous boles, strangely curved and divided, were coloured like green-rusted bronze; overhead the branches mingled like the upper tracery of some ancient cathedral window. The Dukeries Following Mrs. Dempster's directions, Douglas went to the tree and leaning his back against the bole began to play a number of old familiar hymns. The Unknown Wrestler You can see nothing but the foliage, and the tree boles just around, yet the place is full of life and war and danger. The Pools of Silence The woodpeckers amble up the boles and branches of trees, and when they wish to descend, as they do occasionally for a short distance, they hitch down backward. Our Bird Comrades When she put her hand on the bole of the tree beside which she stood, she could still feel the initials V. O. which Oliver had cut there in the days before their marriage. Virginia On either hand rose thick walls of snow-white boles, and in the mystic glow of their gilded leaves the face of the girl shone with unearthly beauty. The Forester's Daughter A Romance of the Bear-Tooth Range Is not something visible behind the broad smooth bole of yonder beech tree? Hopes and Fears or, scenes from the life of a spinster There was nothing visible but two small black hands clutching the tree bole; then the gollywog face, absolutely split in two with a grin, appeared and vanished. The Pools of Silence Instead of clinging to the upright bole of a tree, Master Nuthatch perched crosswise on a twig like a robin or a chickadee, and smoothed his ruffled plumes. Our Bird Comrades The cion starts growth rapidly, only one shoot being allowed to remain; this shoot forms the trunk or bole of the future tree. The Apple-Tree The Open Country Books—No. 1 He admired the ease and skill with which the older man put his shining blade through the largest bole, and wondered if he could ever learn to do as well. The Forester's Daughter A Romance of the Bear-Tooth Range As swift as sight, 'Gene Frady dashed close to the bole and caught the falling creature in his hands. A Tar-Heel Baron Thrashing about among some dead boles, and making a great to-do, were a pair of small woodpeckers, which closely resembled the well-known downies of our eastern longitudes. Birds of the Rockies My awkwardness had broken into a hollow which opened to the light on the other side of the rotten bole. Edge of the Jungle Thousands of perished buds and branches are the price of a straight bole and great clear sheets of boards. The Apple-Tree The Open Country Books—No. 1 And on the boles and boughs Green water-lights make rings, already paling. American Poetry, 1922 A Miscellany The bole and door next the street were walled up, and a fine new door opened in the middle, flanked on either side by a great window. The House with the Green Shutters Silently he swung from bole to bole for a few minutes, and then disappeared. Birds of the Rockies Root merged with trunk, and great boles became roots and then boles again in this unreasonable land. Edge of the Jungle He now moved slowly and leaning against the bole of a tree regained his breath while he listened for the expected sounds of pursuit. The Secret Witness Then Christ said, ‘For your selfishness, you shall become a bird, and seek your food ’twixt bark and bole.’ Ballads of Mystery and Miracle and Fyttes of Mirth Popular Ballads of the Olden Times - Second Series It was a gaunt, gray building with never a window, but a bole high in one corner for the sheaves, and a door low in another corner for auld Rab Jamieson. The House with the Green Shutters He would peel the bark from the bole of a tree and with a sharp stone instrument carve deep into the wood figures of feather-decked chieftains, of drums, arrows, wild beasts. Blue Ridge Country Quickly I grabbed the wash basin, and slop bole, and placed each under a leg of my chare. The Bad Boy At Home And His Experiences In Trying To Become An Editor - 1885 Up slid the moon, till Main Street was a phantom cloister, the maple boles huge columns casting purple shadows on a milky floor. Stubble Upon his shield—a sight to hold men mute— Was seen the head of the Nemean brute; Within one hand a gnarlèd club he bore, Hewn from an oak bole in the forest hoar. The New England Magazine Volume 1, No. 6, June, 1886, Bay State Monthly Volume 4, No. 6, June, 1886 "My children," said a temperate Camel to her young, "let this awful example teach you to shun the bole." Humour of the North Between the red-brown boles of the trees there showed something white. The Call Of The South 1908 Long banners of light fell athwart the grey boles. Lucy Maud Montgomery Short Stories, 1909 to 1922 She leaned against a slim white bole of a young birch behind her and looked at him wretchedly. Lucy Maud Montgomery Short Stories, 1907 to 1908 Some threads reached from tufts of grass to little hummocks or to the twigs which form the boles of elm trees. Gossamer 1915 As soon as they were seated he took Kate's gun from her hand, and leant it with his own against the bole of the tree. Tom Gerrard He was standing against the bole of a masa'oi tree, leaning on his rifle. The Call Of The South 1908 The woods all about him were a vast rubbish-heap; the jagged, splintered boles of leafless trees rose in every direction from heaps of brass shell-cases, of tin cans, of bits of uniform and equipment. One Man's Initiation—1917 Another tooth-powder was composed of coral, Portugal snuff, Armenian bole, "ashes of good tobacco which has been burnt," and gum myrrh; and ground up "broken pans"—coarse earthenware might be substituted for the coral. Customs and Fashions in Old New England The retreating sun, that for a while had shot its flaming arrows through the black boles and branches, had sunk now and was gone. Bonaventure A Prose Pastoral of Acadian Louisiana The gentle hillside above was clothed by plantations, and a grove of ancient beech trees, whose pale, smooth boles stood out from among undergrowth of lustrous hollies and the warm russet of fallen leaves. The History of Sir Richard Calmady A Romance There, at least, they could not be reached by shot from the windows, while out in the open or under the uncertain shelter of tree boles, who knew what might happen? The Dew of Their Youth On the edge of a high bluff overlooking the rollways and the rushing waters she paused, leaning wearily against the bole of a giant birch. The Promise A Tale of the Great Northwest Now and then one reached an area in which the trees were very high indeed, with clean boles running to a height of thirty to forty feet. Reminiscences of a South African Pioneer Here a new scene met my gaze: a strange-looking man was running across the platform, with a huge firebrand,—the bole of a burning pine-tree,—which he waved in the air. The Hunters' Feast Conversations Around the Camp Fire Squirrels, disturbed in the ingathering of their winter store, whisked up the boles of the great trees and scolded merrily from the forks of the high branches. The History of Sir Richard Calmady A Romance And as far as you can see on every side stretch these silver boles, dusted with sunlight; in straight lines, in oblique columns, until the eye loses itself in the argent shadows of the distance. The Best Short Stories of 1919 and the Yearbook of the American Short Story Once he sat down on the bole of a fallen coco-palm, leant his chin upon his hands, and seemed lost in thought. Edward Barry South Sea Pearler The earth was carpeted with brilliant moss, which ran over the old stumps and climbed the boles of the great forest-trees; woodland flowers were crushed beneath his feet, and the sunlight danced amongst the leaves. In the King's Name The Cruise of the "Kestrel" All the tree boles were pierced and perforated, and boughs had been severed so that they littered the way. Campaigns of a Non-Combatant, and His Romaunt Abroad During the War Its ingredients consisted of moss growing on the head of a thief who had been hanged, mummy dust, human blood, suet, linseed oil, and Armenian bole, a species of clay. Primitive Psycho-Therapy and Quackery That of Berlin is composed of Armenian bole, red clay, dragons’ blood, powdered rose-leaves, powdered galls, and powdered subcarbonate of lead. History of Circumcision from the Earliest Times to the Present Moral and Physical Reasons for its Performance Smooth boles ascended inconceivably toward a brightening sky, trees bizarre as the forests of the Carboniferous age. Pygmalion's Spectacles Mr Rowe quotes from a 'botanical writer,' who examined some of them: 'The bole of this tree was about three feet high, and its total height to the topmost branches fifteen feet. Devon, Its Moorlands, Streams and Coasts He had a pale skin, his fingers, were long and bony, and he rode dexterously in and out, among the tree boles, with his hat in his hand. Campaigns of a Non-Combatant, and His Romaunt Abroad During the War And on a bole of the tree there was a bason of copper. King Arthur's Knights The Tales Re-told for Boys & Girls Ashby's post was in front of the silver bole of a great beech. The Long Roll The dazzlingly white surface was crisp and flaky, and around the tree boles curving hollows had formed. The Trail of '98 A Northland Romance This he did, until he arrived at the gnarled old bole, and then he leaped into the branches and was filled with delight. The Ape, the Idiot & Other People I tied my horse to a tree, the bole of which had been gnawed bare, and found the landlord to be an old gentleman named Paine, who appeared to be somewhat out of his head. Campaigns of a Non-Combatant, and His Romaunt Abroad During the War The timber buyer now wants a tree of long, clean, bole with few knots, of large size,—at least 16 inches in diameter at breast height. Northern Nut Growers Association Report of the Proceedings at the Forty-Second Annual Meeting Urbana, Illinois, August 28, 29 and 30, 1951 Steve took to the woods, and found sanctuary behind the bole of an oak. The Long Roll This struck Rob very strongly as he stopped at last peering round the bole of a huge tree. Rob Harlow's Adventures A Story of the Grand Chaco Steep banks rose from the riverside and lost themselves in a haze of frost, through which, more eminent, stood the boles and giant members of vast gaunt trees, their upper branches fretting the starry sky. Doom Castle Arrived, apparently, at our destination, we were set down, and immediately bound with llianos or monkey-rope to the bole of a huge tree. The Congo Rovers A Story of the Slave Squadron Neither in limb nor bole was there a single cavity where a Titmouse, Wren, or Bluebird might construct a bed for its young. The Bird Study Book The two men stopped beside the bole of a giant beech, silver-grey, splashed with lichens. The Long Roll The boles of the trees might have been the pillars in some ancient temple, with the branches for roof. For the Sake of the School Great tree boles stood up like hosts of silent Indian warriors, ready to pounce down on one. A Little Girl in Old Detroit By keeping close to the boles of the large pine trees, where the wind had swept circular places, leaving the snow shallow, we were soon out of sight of our late companions. A Canyon Voyage The Narrative of the Second Powell Expedition down the Green-Colorado River from Wyoming, and the Explorations on Land, in the Years 1871 and 1872 Then all three crept along cautiously among the huge boles of the trees, feeling very mysterious and important. The Young Mountaineers Short Stories Some accounts say he took a barrel of powder; others, that he wrapped powder in a huge bole of birch bark. Canada: the Empire of the North Being the Romantic Story of the New Dominion's Growth from Colony to Kingdom The boat had been hidden from them by the bole of a great tree which rose from the grass at the water's edge. The Tragic Muse But there they stand with glossy boles, spreading arms, and glittering crest; and those two by themselves on the summit, known all over Badenoch as "the Giants"—their "statures reach the sky." Recreations of Christopher North, Volume 2 Down this they climbed with much difficulty, swinging themselves by creepers and holding on to the boles of saplings until they gained the foot of a deep ravine. Jack Haydon's Quest The square billet, or corbel bole, used for supporting a blocking course. The Principles of Gothic Ecclesiastical Architecture, Elucidated by Question and Answer, 4th ed. It has four separate boles, springing from one root, leaning a little away from each other, the thickest just a foot in circumference. Dead Man's Plack and an Old Thorn Chris swore harshly and beat her fists against the bole of a tree. Badge of Infamy A grove in winter, bole and branch—leaves it has none—is as dry as a volume of sermons. Recreations of Christopher North, Volume 2 He was peering very intently through the boles of the trees as if he was not quite sure that what he saw was really there. The Lost Valley The flare of torches wavered afar between the tree boles, and above the lapping of the waves walled a drear hymn. The Henchman Vye made the light leap to the bole of the dead tree, balanced out on it over the water, moving slowly as the trunk settled a little under his weight. Star Hunter The conscientious oilmen, less anxious with respect to colour, substitute for this poison the more harmless pigment, called Armenian bole. A Treatise on Adulterations of Food, and Culinary Poisons Exhibiting the Fraudulent Sophistications of Bread, Beer, Wine, Spiritous Liquors, Tea, Coffee, Cream, Confectionery, Vinegar, Mustard, Pepper, Cheese, Olive Oil, Pickles, and Other Articles Employed in Domestic Economy The sap, indeed, has sunk down from his bole and branches—down into his toes or roots. Recreations of Christopher North, Volume 2 A regiment might have been hiding behind the boles of the trees without him being one whit the wiser. The Lost Valley He saw them pass on along the trail; his still form in the shadows was blotted out from them by the tall boles of the trees. Wolf Breed He huddled against the bole of a tree when he made out the curve of a round bulk holding tight to the tree trunk aloft. Star Hunter A quick glance upward showed her a bare stretch of bole with the nearest limb on her side of the tree just barely beyond her reach. The Short Cut He noted how between the widely separated boles the grass was thick and rich and untrampled; reserved against the time of need. Man to Man A man might be hiding behind the bole of the oak or might even be above in the branches. Daughter of the Sun A Tale of Adventure Felicitous strokes like that in which he says, "No tree has so fair a bole and so handsome an instep as the birch," are rare. The Last Harvest None came, and he dared to slip around the bole of the tree under which he stood, listening intently for any corresponding movement overhead. Star Hunter The light, among the fanlike branches, looked like sea-water streaked with gold; the tall boles of the beeches were like the pillars of a temple sunken in the sea. Franklin Kane The roar of a blaster, of two blasters, drowned out the clamor of the apes as Dane drew his fire ray, set his shoulders against a tree bole and prepared to fight it out. Voodoo Planet To the fight— "Then rode we with the old king across the lawns Beneath huge trees, a thousand rings of Spring In every bole, a song on every spray Of birds that piped their Valentines." Early Reviews of English Poets Those that still clung to the sleek upper boughs were no more than a delicate yellow cloud or glowing autumnal atmosphere suffusing the black bole of the tree with a light of pure enchantment. The Best Short Stories of 1921 and the Yearbook of the American Short Story Casts of huge boles of trees are found among our fossils, inducing the belief that in some bygone age quantities of vegetable matter, absolutely enormous, were produced on the earth's surface. The Continental Monthly, Vol. 5, No. 2, February, 1864 Devoted To Literature And National Policy The background of either bay is a noble forest, a wall of green, the items being often 150 feet high, with branchless white boles of eighty, perpendicularly striping the verdure. To The Gold Coast for Gold, Vol. II A Personal Narrative Dane slid his hand about the bole of the tree and touched Jellico, watched the captain's gray eyes open with a similar awareness. Voodoo Planet She spoke wearily, rising and leaning against the rough bole of the tree at her back, with both hands tightly clasped behind her. The Lighted Match Through the slender boles of the trees, the sunlight fell in bars on the carpet of pine-cones. The Miller Of Old Church Another league, and I touch the goal,— The mystic rune on the poplar bole,— When the dusky eyes and the raven hair And the lithe brown arms shall greet me there. Ballads of Lost Haven A Book of the Sea When evening comes the sun's last smiles reach far into the timber and linger lovingly on the boles of the trees with a tender beauty. Some Summer Days in Iowa The warm skin of the plant and the woody bole of the pod would be so easy to uproot. Someone Comes to Town, Someone Leaves Town Radisson then tore the bark off a birch tree, filled the bole with powder, and in the darkness crept close to the Iroquois barricade and set fire to the logs. Pathfinders of the West Being the Thrilling Story of the Adventures of the Men Who Discovered the Great Northwest: Radisson, La Vérendrye, Lewis and Clark On and on! winding among boles, creeping beneath branches, climbing ledges, vaulting over fissures and chasms, I reached the open plain at last, and halted unnerved upon the brink of the abyss. Tales of the Chesapeake Here was a man built like the bole of a tree, alight with fire, determination, love of sport, and hunger for the task in hand. Football Days Memories of the Game and of the Men behind the Ball The smooth boles of the tall beech-trees looked grand in their winter nakedness, rising like columns from the white frost-bespangled ground. Round About the Carpathians M. Falkirk's answer was to take a few steps to a large white pine tree, and make a huge dash of white chalk upon its broad bole. Wych Hazel Sixteen feet to the ground he bounded, and twenty-two feet out from the bole of the tree he landed, and—well, what d'you think of that? The Way of the Wild So he led her with grave courtesy within the gate, and placed her on a garden seat in front of two trees large of bole, and interceptive of possible missiles. Two Knapsacks A Novel of Canadian Summer Life In spite of its delicate qualities, it is not a trivial tree, for I have seen it with a bole of more than forty feet in length, measuring eighteen inches through at the ground. The Garden, You, and I Once she ran squirrel-like out on the bole of a great tree leaning to its fall over the cliff, hung her piggin on a broken limb, and told him he must go after it. The Quickening He was lying under a group of giant walnut-trees, whose boles were sheltered from the road by a natural hedge of red dogwood and brambles. The Mormon Prophet "This is great!" the Governor exclaimed, as he seated himself upon the ground, and leaned back against the bole of the tree. Rod of the Lone Patrol She was standing very lancelike and straight by the slender bole of a silver birch. Destiny She turned swiftly in at the neat garden-gate that had a green space before it, where numerous boles of trees, lopt of their branches, lay about in picturesque confusion. The Vicissitudes of Bessie Fairfax After understanding there followed another long silence, until Hetty drew herself up against the bole of the tree and shivered. Hetty Wesley The beech wood grew thick upon it; the afternoon sun struck its slant sunbeams across their boles. The Mormon Prophet I threw her a blanket, which she wrapped around her, and we cowered close to the bole of a pine. Montlivet High up on the bank of the brook which flows down from Break Neck Falls Jasper sat leaning against the bole of a large tree. Under Sealed Orders On the oak planks forming the deck of the vessel were found boles and lines marking out the game, the holes being made to receive pegs. Amusements in Mathematics Proudly they lifted their crests to the wind and the sun, while down below, their great boles were wrapped in perpetual shade and calm. The King's Arrow A Tale of the United Empire Loyalists He seated himself, leaned back against the bole of the catalpa tree and stretched his legs, cramped from a long day in the saddle. The Pride of Palomar We dug a little below, bored a bole, and the father slipped through a pickaxe handle, and fainted away as he felt the little one slide down again but rest on the handle. The Voyage of the Rattletrap The horse was fastened to a stake that once had been the bole of an ancient willow. Foes Its smooth and shapely bole does not tempt the sketcher's eye alone. Miscellanea On the park-like level, clean-swept between the boles of the great pines, she again put Challenge to a lope until she came to the edge on the upper mesa. Sundown Slim Structure of wood: If one examines a cross-section of the bole of a tree, he will note that it is composed of several distinct parts, as shown in Fig. Studies of Trees It was an enchanting picture of woodland bloom, lighted with sprinkled sunshine, in the cold blue setting of the lake, which was visible on all sides, between the boles of the trees. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 13, No. 79, May, 1864 For some moments she stayed so, with hidden face, unmoving against the bole of the tree, like a relief done of old by some wonderful artist. Foes These nuts are in much esteem for making beads for paternosters, boles of tobacco pipes and other toys: and every small shop here has a great many of them to sell. A Voyage to New Holland The solid bole Had ne'er a hole To hide a living thing! The Poetical Works of Thomas Hood The great gray boles of the palms reminded him of some fabulous Grecian temple. The Ragged Edge He did not look at me for the minute, but stared instead at the gray-blue, shadowed woods, the brown boles of the pines, the bright trickle of water playing it was a real brook. A Woman Named Smith I remember setting my shoulder-blades firmly against the bole of the tree. Sir John Constantine Memoirs of His Adventures At Home and Abroad and Particularly in the Island of Corsica: Beginning with the Year 1756 Little light remained when she reached its outskirts, and she peered curiously between the dim boles for a few minutes before turning for her homeward ride. Lady Good-for-Nothing He watched the gray gown move through sun and shadow, until it was lost beyond the thickening boles of mountain pines. Heart's Desire He laughed, and flicked his whip at a wizened monkey-face that peered at them round the bole of a tree. The Keeper of the Door The form, color, and expression of the boles are to be noted. Doctor and Patient "A moment, sir," said I, and, laying two fingers on the Commandant's arm, I nodded towards the bole of a stout pine-tree across the clearing. Sir John Constantine Memoirs of His Adventures At Home and Abroad and Particularly in the Island of Corsica: Beginning with the Year 1756 Then comes a forest region of luxuriant chestnut-trees, giants with pink boles just bursting into late leafage, yellow and tender, but too thin as yet for shade. Sketches and Studies in Italy and Greece, First Series He leaned against the straight, sternly unyielding bole of the tree, folding his arms and staring at the house. The Brimming Cup It required steady nerve to walk this trunk, such as I did not possess, therefore I found it safer to hang from the levelled bole by my hands and travel across in that manner. In the Amazon Jungle Adventures in Remote Parts of the Upper Amazon River, Including a Sojourn Among Cannibal Indians It rains at last, a solid down-pour; certain tree-trunks grow black, and the shining beech and birch and poplar get a more vivid silver on their wet boles. Doctor and Patient Blackbirds played hide-and-seek beneath the boughs, blue and white violets hid in the tall grass around the boles, and the spaces between were carpeted with daisies to the edge of a streamlet. The White Wolf and Other Fireside Tales The girl was leaning against the storm-ripped bole of a fallen tree. The Man in the Twilight It was still falling steadily, in large flakes, grey in the upper air, feathery white and pure against the opposite houses and the boles of leafless trees. Lewis Rand And even the leafless walnuts were full of alien life, for in their hollow boles chippering starlings made furtive nests, and in their topmost forks jackdaws worked with clamorous zeal. Jaffery In Psalms XVII, 12, bole occurs in the sense of "a lion's den." Scandinavian influence on Southern Lowland Scotch Their most graceful pirogues were dug from its bole, and its odorous bark served to roof their rude houses. Lippincott's Magazine, August, 1885 He waved a hand significantly while he stood his shotgun against the bole of the tree. The Thunder Bird Fairfax Cary followed, and they took that portion of the circular bench which had between it and the house the giant bole of the tree. Lewis Rand They love the sea and will grow with their boles dipped at high tide in the salt water. White Shadows in the South Seas He had to stow all the various articles which she extracted from her pockets into a hole in one of the willows, which bole she called the cupboard. Abbe Mouret's Transgression I have seen one or two of these having a capacity of fifty barrels dug from a single tulip bole. Lippincott's Magazine, August, 1885 Bartley made for the side of the gulch and, catching hold of the bole of a juniper, drew himself up. Partners of Chance Yet, year by year it grew, ringed like the bole of his palms. Mardi: and A Voyage Thither, Vol. II He walked now into the thick night of a close-grown clump of dwarf-oaks, which weaved so dense a thatch above his head that he knocked against the boles. Clementina And then I looked up and down along the boles of the great North Wood, taking in the straight line of the way. Hills and the Sea Young tulip-trees about fifteen inches in diameter were cut down and their boles sawed into lengths of three feet. Lippincott's Magazine, August, 1885 They had reached the pine tree, and she put out her hand to steady herself on the bole. The Rim of the Desert Again and again he quixotically charged the bole of the tree, no doubt thinking it to be myself in a new shape. Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 15, No. 87, March, 1875 Tall, slender, delicate, its bole is clean as an organ-pipe and its terraced feathery branches seem to float in air. The New North Opposite lay the Park, its trees, in their smooth bark whipped bare, and gray as nuns, the sunlight hard against their boles. Every Soul Hath Its Song The bole, or stem, rose sixty feet, tapering but slightly, to where some heavy and gnarled limbs put forth, their extremities lost in masses of peculiarly dark, rich foliage. Lippincott's Magazine, August, 1885 This left a low and narrow portal under the clean bole between the first thick bough and the wall. The Rim of the Desert His arms were akimbo, with hands on the hips, hips which looked like the boles of a mighty oak-tree. Kimono Oje certainly was after his rifle, for he slid down cautiously, keeping the bole of the tree between himself and the bears. Boy Scouts in Northern Wilds These were of sandstone marl, the caps consisting of hard red and green shales, while the swelling boles, colored by gypsum, were as white as loaf-sugar. Overland The wild plantains, or pacovas, thronged the spaces among the trunks of the tall trees; their boles were short, and their broad, erect leaves gigantic; they bore brilliant red-and-orange flowers. Through the Brazilian Wilderness The trees were very big, and the gnarled, fantastic limbs and boles were wrapped in thick bronze moss. The Rim of the Desert Then, for miles between the grazed and quivering boles, crashed the missiles of destruction, startling bear and deer and squirrel and raccoon, and leaving traces of their passage which are even still occasionally discovered. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 03, No. 19, May, 1859 The boys walked for what seemed to them two hours more, and then Thede, who was in advance, stumbled over a tree bole lying at the foot of a gentle slope. Boy Scouts in Northern Wilds His loud croaking note was heard at all times in the deep woods, and his great size and his frequent hammering upon the resounding boles of the trees attracted every one's attention. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 03, No. 17, March, 1859 To make this definite she sat upon the bole of a felled oak beside the path while Patricia jiggled up and down in eloquent objection to the untimely halt. The Wrong Twin He slipped the knife in between the ends of the wires and the bole, clawing, prying, twisting. The Rim of the Desert Markham sat for a long while, his back against the bole of a tree, pipe in mouth, gazing into the embers of the fire. Madcap The cache contained six 9-inch howitzers, two hundred thousand rifles and a million rounds of ammunition, and was skilfully concealed under the bole of a tree. Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 156, April 30, 1919 They looked for the story in the windings of the checkerberry-vine and blue-eyed periwinkle, on the lichens curiously growing on the boles of aged trees; but for all these they had no dictionary. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 08, No. 49, November, 1861 The gnarled habit of the Oak is conspicuous even in the most crowded forest, and coniferous woods are apt to be disfigured by dead branches projecting from the bole. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 08, No. 46, August, 1861 Her shoulders shook, she stumbled a few steps to the poplar and, throwing up her arm against the bole, buried her face, sobbing, in her sleeve. The Rim of the Desert He looked at her keenly, then leaned against the bole of a tree, listening. Madcap Moreover, round the bases of the bark Were left the tracks of flying forest fires, As you may see them on the lower bole Of every elder of the native woods. The Poems of Henry Kendall With Biographical Note by Bertram Stevens The jungle undergrowth was scantier and the spaces between the boles of the forest trees more open. The Monster Men These trees are remarkable for their smooth cylindrical boles, which run up to a height of sixty, and even ninety feet, with a nearly equal diameter, and without a single branch. The Voyage of the Beagle She put out her hand, steadying herself on the bole of the pine, then: "I've wanted to tell you," she began. The Rim of the Desert Down to the ground he came in the utter blackness of the close-set boles and the overhanging verdure of the jungle. Tarzan and the Jewels of Opar His broad shoulders and his close-cropped head rested in luxurious ease against the rough bole of the palm. Son of Tarzan From between the closely-neighboured boles astonished nymphs press forward with loud cries - And deerskin-vested satyrs, crowned with ivy twists, advance;And put strange pity in their horned countenance. Intentions Tarzan put a broad shoulder beneath the bole of the tree, and as he did so his bare leg pressed against the cat's silken side, so close was the man to the great beast. Beasts of Tarzan I waited, flattening myself to the bole, but the thunder of the river must have drowned the sound; the Indians did not stir. The Rim of the Desert The ground rose in little mounds and ridges about the base of the bole, the tree tilted—in another moment it would be uprooted and fall. Tarzan and the Jewels of Opar Nimbly the lad sprang to its bole, clinging cat-like for an instant before he clambered quietly to the ground below. Son of Tarzan He paused, leaned against the bole of a tree. The Tarn of Eternity Some of them were dozing against the boles of trees, while others roamed about turning over bits of bark from beneath which they transferred the luscious grubs and beetles to their mouths. Beasts of Tarzan Then the front wheels rolled up across the bole; he slipped to the ground and grasped the outer one, steadying it down. The Rim of the Desert One he seized in the coils of his trunk and broke upon a huge bole, dropping the mangled pulp to charge, trumpeting, after another. Tarzan and the Jewels of Opar She had been listening attentively to Meriem for an hour, propped against the bole of a tree while her lithe, young mistress stretched catlike and luxurious along a swaying branch before her. Son of Tarzan The cameras were stationed about a mile to the southeast, partly concealed by the bole of a tree, and the bunch of eland were skillfully rounded up and a good specimen was singled out. Stories from Everybody's Magazine Fortunately, I passed between the boles of trees; had I struck one of them I should have been badly injured, if not killed, so swiftly had I been catapulted by that enormous hind leg. Warlord of Mars It was roofed by the boughs of two pines, and the boles of the trees offered secure hold. The Rim of the Desert He reared up with his forefeet against the bole and reached high toward them with his long trunk; but Tarzan had foreseen this and clambered beyond the bull's longest reach. Tarzan and the Jewels of Opar He lugged his burden to the higher safety and greater comfort of a broad crotch, and there he propped it in a sitting position against the bole of the tree. Son of Tarzan Perry was much interested in the unique habitation, which resembled nothing so much as a huge wasp's nest built around the bole of a tree well above the ground. Pellucidar The others hesitated a moment and then broke for the trees, some running nimbly among the branches, while others lost themselves to us between the boles. The Land That Time Forgot Whichever way you entered a twilight alley set with tree boles lay before you. The Blue Lagoon: a romance By this time the strong sunshine pierced in a thousand places the pine-thatch of the forest, fired the red boles, irradiated the cool aisles of shadow, and burned in jewels on the grass. Prince Otto, a Romance Upon the bole of a large wayside tree a fresh, new placard stared them in the face. The Mad King Dense undergrowth choked the ground to a height of eight or ten feet around the boles of the close set trees. The Oakdale Affair I put Weena, still motionless, down upon a turfy bole, and very hastily, as my first lump of camphor waned, I began collecting sticks and leaves. The Time Machine You can see the vine tendrils and the flowers, the orchids and tree boles all lit as by the light of an emerald-tinted day. The Blue Lagoon: a romance Clad in rich, glossy plumes, with gray lichens covering their smooth, tapering boles, perfect trees of this species are truly noble objects and well worthy the place they hold in these glorious forests. Steep Trails California, Utah, Nevada, Washington, Oregon, the Grand Canyon Through the shadows of the wood he made his way for perhaps a hundred yards when he was suddenly confronted by a figure that stepped from behind the bole of a tree. The Mad King And Holiness that so the bole Be solid at the core; And Plague and Fever, that the whole Be changing evermore. The Stark Munro Letters She had handed Presley the platter, and was now sitting with her back against the tree, between two boles of the roots. The Octopus : A story of California On the edge of the green sward, between a diamond-chequered artu trunk and the massive bole of a breadfruit, a house had come into being. The Blue Lagoon: a romance On the boles of the younger trees and on all the branches, the bark is so smooth and seamless that it does not appear as bark at all, but rather the naked wood. Steep Trails California, Utah, Nevada, Washington, Oregon, the Grand Canyon Miles and miles of thirsty gutters — strings of muddy water-holes In the place of 'shining rivers' — 'walled by cliffs and forest boles.' In the Days When the World Was Wide and Other Verses She led him along swiftly, fumbling nought with the paths betwixt the pine-tree boles, where it was as dark as dark might be. The Well at the World's End: a tale Surely, if its bole exceeded that of all others, its height must do the same. The Lost World There are at this day certain traces recognizable, such as old boles of burned trees, which mark the site of these poor bivouacs trembling in the depths of the thickets. Les Misérables The bark on the older sections is nearly black, so that the boles and branches are clearly traced against the prevailing gray of the mountains on which they delight to dwell. Steep Trails California, Utah, Nevada, Washington, Oregon, the Grand Canyon Against the boles of near-by trees leaned their long, oval shields of thick buffalo hide, and the spears of those who were doing the scooping. Jungle Tales of Tarzan And therewith she sat down on the grass by the bole of a great oak. The Well at the World's End: a tale For an hour or two we stalked one another between the buckeye boles, and then I stepped on a rotten log which crumbled and threw me noisily. The Trail Book She came towards me, half feeling her way between the tree boles, and though a child it seemed clung to her skirt, it swerved into the leafage like a rabbit as she drew nearer. Traffics and Discoveries Many of the long, slender boles so abundant in these woods are saved for spars, and so excellent is their quality that they are in demand in almost every shipyard of the world. Steep Trails California, Utah, Nevada, Washington, Oregon, the Grand Canyon Backing off fifteen or twenty feet from the bole of the tree beneath the branches of which Tarzan worked upon his rope, Gazan scampered quickly forward, scrambling nimbly upward to the lower limbs. Jungle Tales of Tarzan Gradually they, drew abreast a tavern standing back a distance from the road, embowered in a grove of trees between whose ancient boles the tap-room windows shone enticingly, aglow with comfortable light. The Black Bag Within that forest world of twilight green Ambushed with unknown perils, one endless day I travel down the beetle-trail between Huge glossy boles through green infinity ... Georgian Poetry 1920-22 She stops at last below An old and twisted plum-tree, whose last petal is gone, Leans on the comfortable, rugged bole, And stares through the green leaves at the drooping sun. Georgian Poetry 1918-19 The trees were mostly straight in the bole, and their shade covered the ground in the densest places, leaving only small openings to the sun. Steep Trails California, Utah, Nevada, Washington, Oregon, the Grand Canyon Tibo had seen a squirrel scampering up the bole of a great tree. Jungle Tales of Tarzan He set Nycteris down under a tree, in the black shadow of its bole, strung his bow, and picked out his heaviest, longest, sharpest arrow. Stephen Archer and Other Tales Dark as it was, it seemed to me that something more solid than either night-shadow, or branch-shadow, blackened out of the boles. Villette The bole of the trunk was 20 feet in length and of nearly uniform thickness; and the proportion of heart-wood to sap-wood was about three quarters of its diameter. Scientific American Supplement, No. 417, December 29, 1883 How beautiful seemed the golden sunbeams streaming through the woods between the warm brown boles of the cedars and pines! Steep Trails California, Utah, Nevada, Washington, Oregon, the Grand Canyon "The blood of the kill," thought Tarzan, huddling himself closer to the bole of the great tree beneath which he stood. Jungle Tales of Tarzan The hut was indeed her library, for in that bole stood, upright with its back to the room, in proper and tidy fashion, almost every book she could call her own. Heather and Snow The bole bears sharp, broad-based thorns; the wings or flying buttresses are larger; several trunks rarely anastomose; the branches seldom stand out horizontally, nor are the leaves disposed in distinct festoons. To the Gold Coast for Gold A Personal Narrative in Two Volumes.—Volume I He said: I see the boles of goodly trees, and betwixt them the gleaming of a great water. The Water of the Wondrous Isles Wraith-like, grey shreds of mist drifted between the serried boles of trees, or, rising, veiled the moon's wan and pallid face, that now was low upon the horizon. The Brass Bowl Like a cat the heavy anthropoid scampered up the bole of his sanctuary. Jungle Tales of Tarzan The "giant boles" are dragged in primitive fashion to the banks of the stream by elephants and buffaloes, and shipped in rafts. The English Governess at the Siamese Court Being Recollections of Six Years in the Royal Palace at Bangkok It was something which made Ab leap from the excavation as he heard it and reach the side of Oak as the latter came literally tumbling down the bole of the tree of watching. The Story of Ab A Tale of the Time of the Cave Man But what gave to this spot a strange and almost weird character was the number of great hoary willows, thirty or forty feet high, with gnarled and twisted boles, scattered over the dark green grass. Two Summers in Guyenne The tree will stand, with its deep roots and its firm bole, unmoved, though wildest winds may toss its branches and scatter its leaves. Expositions of Holy Scripture: St. John Chaps. XV to XXI Silently he slipped to the ground with the bole of the great tree between himself and the feaster. Jungle Tales of Tarzan I tried my strength daily on thicker and thicker boles. Alton Locke, Tailor and Poet An Autobiography He looked across anxiously at a slender brown thing lying asleep, coiled so close to the bole of the tree to which she was bound that she seemed almost a part of it. The Story of Ab A Tale of the Time of the Cave Man "The chenar is a delightful tree; its bole is of a fine white and smooth bark; and its foliage, which grows in a tuft at the summit, is of a bright green." The Complete Poems of Sir Thomas Moore Collected by Himself with Explanatory Notes They fell upon little people with faces of a dusky pallor, one of them crouched against the bole of a tree, a wizened monkey of a man who in all that vastness looked small. The Ghost Kings He sniffed the bole of the tree, and with his keen eyes he sought to find upon the bark some sign of the way the quarry had taken. Jungle Tales of Tarzan When they hear that, they have got to come up from the cellars, and down from the garrets, and out of flour boles, all the blessed little creatures. Little Eyolf Then, releasing her, he said gleefully and chucklingly, "follow me;" and they clambered down the bole of the beech together until they reached the biggest and very lowest limb of all. The Story of Ab A Tale of the Time of the Cave Man I went and got a bole of peas for 4. American Prisoners of the Revolution As the sun set they passed within the Fence, and laying down the litter without a word by the bole of the tree, turned and departed. The Ghost Kings It suggested something to do, so he sought his quiver which lay cached in the hollow bole of a lightning-riven tree. Jungle Tales of Tarzan But Stern, leaning his back against the bole of the great oak, encircled Beatrice with his arm. Darkness and Dawn Charity and prudence are not parasitical plants which require boles of falsehood to climb up upon. Friends in Council — First Series A peculiarly attractive bole not far from the sea, gleaming rosy in the sunshine, tempts me to recline at its foot. Alone |
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