Sentences with phrase «great hollow trees»

It is the spook that haunts old barns, belfries, great hollow trees, and caves.

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In Indonesian mosques the time for prayer is announced by powerful beating on a great drum made of a thick, hollow tree trunk covered with buffalo skin; then the call to prayer is usually chanted either from the mosque itself or from the roof of the mosque.

Angle especially where there is an eddy, or good cover for fish, such as a hollow bank, or great roots of trees, or long weeds floating above in the water where the fish may hide themselves at certain times when they choose.

Martín Ramírez, from the Argentinian Museum of Natural History and co-author of the study, commented on the habitat specificity of this species, «confined to the oldest and extensively hollow myrtle beech trees in the humid forests in the western part of the Great Otway National Park, or in mountain ash trees, upon which the myrtle trees depend,» thus making an important case for the conservation of such habitats.

Hogwarts decks the halls every year with a giant Christmas tree in the Great Hall, Harry receives his invisibility cloak on Christmas morning in the Sorcerer's Stone, Mrs. Weasley's signature Christmas gift is a knitted sweater, the Yule ball is set during the holidays in the Goblet of Fire, and Harry and Hermione find themselves going back to Godric's Hollow on Christmas Eve in the Deathly Hallows Part 1.