Sentences with phrase «against a tree trunk»

It hoisted itself, pushing off the ground with one arm, and sat back against the tree trunk with its legs spread out before it, like somebody resting from a difficult job of labor.

He leaned against a tree trunk for a moment and watched them — their tangled bodies swaying in a half circle, her small hand pressed against the boy's cheek, her kisses wide - mouthed and devouring.

She was crouched tensely against a tree trunk beneath some fallen branches, her little face and body tight with stress and panic.

Not exact matches

On our first afternoon, Hiro and Louisa ran to the backyard, discovered the juniper orbs all over the ground and immediately invented a new game later titled, Avocado Smash, in which the helpless fruits were lobbed against the trunk of the tree leaving smears of luscious green on the bark and busted avocados on the ground.

Until the 19th Century, peppered moths were predominantly pale - coloured, and used this to camouflage themselves against lichen - covered tree trunks, which made them almost invisible to predators.

So, for instance, it can take an image in which a chameleon is concealed against the trunk of a tree and enhance subtle color differences so that the chameleon stands out blue against an orange background.

«These specimens were most likely blown into the tacky resin, or were plucked from an animal as it brushed against resin on a tree trunk,» lead author Ryan McKellar told Discovery News.

Public lands are considered one of America's best defenses against rising greenhouse gas emissions because the forests there pull vast quantities of carbon from the atmosphere and store it in tree trunks and roots.

Weirdly stylish, at the same time as being grotty and gaudy, the film features an insane climax set against a Boschian landscape of burned tree trunks, which the final shots of The Neon Demon appears to echo.

Morgan had been sitting under the great, creaking fig tree by the seawall, his back against the trunk, his eyes closed, smoking a cigarette.

He stood close to the trunk of the nearest tree and felt its rough bark against his back.

In the wild, they were also observed to remove dirt from from the roots of the wild ginger by holding the plant with their trunks and hitting the roots against a tree or their leg before eating the ginger.

Throughout his adventure, Mario will race down giant tree trunks, traverse a haunted pop - up book, and compete in a series of mini-games against a blue chimp, to name but a few of the odd ventures Mario partakes in.

In one photograph the mirror is oriented so the painted lines on a road continue in the reflection of the mirror and then again beyond it; in another, a mirror leans against a tree which borrows a reflected trunk to become whole.

She also began making free - standing sculptures from hollowed tree trunks and wooden slabs that could rest against gallery walls.

The overlapping of realism and abstraction is nowhere as pungent as in the work of Galesburg, Illinois artist Lynette Lombard, whose oil «Ox - Bow Tree and Lagoon» (2010) poses a thick white gestural trunk against planes of blue and orange, and whose work «Waverock» (2009) takes the viewer from expressionist fervor towards the cogent essays as to how realism can effect abstract economy in such works as «Cliff and Sea, Spain» and «Chicago Railbridge» (both 2010).

And in the third, a steel hoop is attached to a tree trunk fixed against a large cement wall, not unlike a DIY handball wall.

For the event, the artist has populated the gallery with felled, cast - iron tree trunks, nearly sixteen feet in length, and a series of iron root sculptures set against the backdrop of a new wallpaper installation.

Ironically, it is these burning fir trees that pose the only real fire threat to their sequoia symbionts, the burning trunk of a fir leaning up against the sequoia can lead to exactly the type of fire hollowing damage that we observe and that ultimately makes it possible for a dead sequoia to fall over at all, otherwise they might remain standing dead for a thousand years [not much good even for the squirrels].

Today it's Wednesday, a sunny September, and again I'm walking past the two churches, past the welcome sign — a giant slice of tree trunk sitting under a crabapple tree where the corner of a farmer's field butts up against the Baptists» lawn.

A suit whose claim in tort is prest Upon a mangled tree's behest; A tree whose battered trunk was prest Against a Chevy's crumpled crest; A tree that faces each new day With bark and limb in disarray; A tree that may forever bear A lasting need for tender care.