Trunks

Examples

• The baggage-car was divided into three compartments--one for trunks and packages, one for the mail, and one for smoking. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
• The palish, gnarled trunks showed ghostly, and like old priests in the hovering distance, the fern rose magical and mysterious. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
• It was so dark now you could only see the flakes blowing past and the rigid dark of the pine trunks. Hemingway, Ernest. For Whom The Bell Tolls.
• He _serred_ the trunks which she left in his charge with the greatest care. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
• Broken trunks of trees are lying all about. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
• Many of these plants took the form of huge-stemmed trees, of which great multitudes of trunks survive fossilized to this day. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• He had passed back, on and among the trunks of trees again, and has passed on to the water-side and had begun undressing on the grass. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
• He looked through the tree trunks where the whiteness lay and up through the trees to where the sky was now clear. Hemingway, Ernest. For Whom The Bell Tolls.
• The earliest way to get upward from the ground was that adopted by climbing animals in clambering up tree trunks, and by man himself in shinning up trees by aid of his arms and legs. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
• The lightning, darting and flashing through the blackness, showed wildly waving branches, whipping streamers and bending trunks. Edgar Rice Burroughs. Tarzan of the Apes.
• At length the chaise arrived, the trunks were fastened on, the parcels placed within, and it was pronounced to be ready. Jane Austen. Pride and Prejudice.
• However, my word was passed and my maid had already begun to pack my trunks. Harriette Wilson. The Memoirs of Harriette Wilson.
• The girls were up at four this morning, packing her trunks, sister, replied Miss Jemima; we have made her a bow-pot. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
• As for my maid, she was already dressed and busy with my trunks, searching out my clean linen. Harriette Wilson. The Memoirs of Harriette Wilson.
• The trunks remain still and firm as pillars, while the boughs sway to every breeze. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.

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