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The Yale Literary Magazine
You see that fearful chasm, a sabre-cut from the hand of Almighty power,
spanned by the boughless trunk of a fallen tree. Over that frail bridge, beneath
which dashed the mountain torrent, passed a fearless youth and lived ; yet he
knew not ...
2
A Voyage Round the World in the United States Frigate ...
The cocoa-nut tree is the first that attracts the eye ; its stem rising boughless, high
up, and terminating with long branching leaves, which curve over gracefully like
an umbrella, at the junction of which with the stem, the fruit clusters at the head ...
Fitch Waterman Taylor,
1842
3
A Voyage Round the World: And Visits to Various Foreign ...
The cocoa-nut tree is the first that attracts the eye ; its stem rising boughless, high
up, and terminating with long branching leaves, which curve over gracefully like
an umbrella, at the junction of which with the stem, the fruit clusters at the head ...
Fitch Waterman Taylor,
1848
4
The Christian Examiner and Religious Miscellany
A singular tree, called the grass-tree, appears like a boughless stump, but
bearing at its extreme topmost point a tuft resembling long grass. In New South
Wales, from Sydney to Moreton Bay, near the sea-coast, Hodgkinson, Mitchell,
and ...
Alvan Lamson, Ezra Stiles Gannett, George Edward Ellis,
1854
A singular tree, called the grass-tree, appears like a boughless stump, but
bearing at its extreme topmost point a tuft resembling long grass. In New South
Wales, from Sydney to Moreton Bay, near the sea-coast, Hodgkinson, Mitchell,
and ...
6
The Life and Recollections of E.M. Davenport, Major, H.M. ...
In the centre is a very fine yew tree, (said to be 13 ft. in circumference,) whose
stem is perfectly straight and boughless until it reaches the height of the
surrounding walls, when it branches out and overtops them. The trees all round
have a ...
E. Montagu Davenport,
1869
7
The thistle and the cedar of Lebanon
... the world looking like a young roasting lamb of Lilliputian breed, ready trussed
up for cooking. All the mulberry trees in the plantation, with the exception of some
six or a dozen, present the lamentable spectacle of so many boughless stems ...
8
Arthur Arundel: A Tale of the English Revolution
Behold yon huge trunk, doubtless the monarch of the district some centuries ago,
now hollow, and boughless, but not dead, for a few leafy shoots still flutter about
its ragged brows, like youth garlanding old age. How stubbornly it grapples the ...
9
Explorations of the Highlands of the Brazil: With a Full ...
They shoot up boughless before spreading out, as high as possible, the better to
fight the battle of life and to plunder their weaker neighbours of goodly sun and
air, light and heat. The disposition of the few branches also is varied by the shape
...
Sir Richard Francis Burton,
1869
10
The End of the World (Volume 2 of 2) (EasyRead Super Large ...
I have been a lonely man; a boughless, leafless trunk, shaken by the winter
winds. But you are my niece. You know how to be faithful. I am proud of you!
Henceforth I call you my daughter. If you were my daughter, you would be to me
all that ...