So if there's moisture stress, that tree trunk will shrink.
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The rings, like those of a tree trunk, show longevity.
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" The base of the tree trunk, she observed, was "powdery.
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In comparison, the hair looks like a massive tree trunk.
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Can you tell what animal is hiding in this tree trunk?
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There was my teacher sitting on top of a tree trunk.
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"A tree trunk," insists a third, feeling his way around a leg.
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"Selenite, in its natural form, almost looks like a tree trunk," she says.
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The only clue left was the word "Croatoan" carved into a tree trunk.
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Nailed to the tree trunk is a black board, where the beam terminates.
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So, how exactly does he carve such intricate castles into a tree trunk?
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Leaning against the tree trunk, I practiced filling up my body with air.
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Sloan, slumped against the tree trunk, lit a cigarette and couldn't stop laughing.
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He has already inked the mountains and is now completing a tree trunk.
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We drank the palm wine at a table: a piece of palm tree trunk.
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And I would prefer not to get my fanny stuck in a tree trunk.
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The same blocks and bars appear on a portion of an old tree trunk.
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They captured close-ups of termites and of nesting birds inside a tree trunk.
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His lithe brushstrokes are in the flourish of a silvery wind-rubbed tree trunk.
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And other things come too, in silent waves: I stiffen like a tree trunk.
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There was the time he shimmied up a tree trunk next to a fence.
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They had laid a tree trunk across the road to stop outsiders from entering.
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Throw a shanty on a tree trunk and the world immediately becomes a beautiful place.
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He told me he had found something interesting -- some innocuous markings on a tree trunk.
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Set within a grove of trees, it is painted as a trompe l'oeil tree trunk.
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The tree has an exposed tree trunk made with real wood, adding to the realism.
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Milling a tree trunk into standardized lumber uses energy and wastes much of the tree.
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She thinks she sees a body, but it turns out to be a tree trunk.
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This deity, Guanyin, which embodies compassion, was carved about 900 years ago from a tree trunk.
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Each piece is carved into a burl, which is a deformed part of a tree trunk.
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An American flag flapped in the distance on a crooked pole carved from a tree trunk.
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" A seductive female leg, carved from wood, stretches out from a tree trunk — Allora & Calzadilla, "Untitled.
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When the water level crept up the tree trunk, stopping at about six feet, they prayed.
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Cardona counts among his favorite freebies a table made from a tree trunk and a violin.
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But they embodied the organic, rapid growth of the city's reconstruction, like rings in a tree trunk.
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Inside, there are four bedrooms and five bathrooms, a walk-through tree trunk, and a wooden bridge.
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A goat, tied to a fallen tree trunk and scavenging for food in the dirt, bleats noisily.
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The tree trunk itself absorbs sunlight and re-emits it as heat, melting the snow around it.
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It depicts a cross-section of a tree trunk and is the color of faux wood paneling.
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These so-called cookies are round slices of tree trunk whose surfaces reveal a pattern of rings.
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There was a John Deere tractor, which he avoided, and a downed tree trunk, which attracted him.
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A brief frame in the European-produced Maya the Bee shows a penis drawing on a tree trunk.
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While the other women were literally shoveling shit inside a barn, Corinne pouted on a tree trunk outside.
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"When you think of Rihanna's voice, you think of this whole, rich thing, solid like a tree trunk."
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He then quickly glances around, grabs a huge rock and flings it full force at the tree trunk.
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There are weird lines around it like a tree trunk — they've been there since I was a baby.
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They're looking for a perch, and some of them like legs because they think it's a tree trunk.
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A dark brown wooden fence listed toward a house, bent under the weight of a large tree trunk.
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Carved out a tree trunk, the First Lady's sculpture appears to be waiving towards her hometown of Sevnica.
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ERIE, Pa. — T.J. Abraham is a block of a man with a tree-trunk neck and a lantern jaw.
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After a chimp discovered and captured a tortoise, it repeatedly smashed its plastron, or shell, against a tree trunk.
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It is the periwinkle blue of the sky, and the dark, ivy covered tree trunk that are most disorienting.
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We soon glimpsed a spectacular orange-and-black frog clinging to a mossy tree trunk: a poison dart frog.
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A reedy man with a long, sandy mullet presses a chain saw to the base of a tree trunk.
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She comes across what she fears is a body, though it turns out to be just a tree trunk.
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There's another reptile with a temper, the Cuban boa, tightly coiled in the shade of a small tree trunk.
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In the shade of a tree trunk, Mark peered into the screen of his phone and googled her name.
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If you look at the tree trunk in the background, you can see where the Z7 offers better dynamic range.
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In many fish, body tissue calcifies and shows growth layers — like rings on a tree trunk — that scientists can count.
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The pulses alternate between one side of the tree trunk and the other, which experience has shown encourages water uptake.
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It's more portable than carving their initials together on a tree trunk, but the style has the same sweet aesthetic.
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A large concrete pillar was flanked by a leather bench, and resin-coated tree trunk ottomans served as a centerpiece.
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The static objects on the floor — rocks, a tree trunk, a duo of chairs — are set into motion by mirrors.
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A film still of a foreshortened tree trunk on a light box resembles a nuclear blast of reds, oranges, and yellows.
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One was waiting in the nest, a hole in a slender tree trunk, while its mate was out searching for food.
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Some dinosaurs hop up a tree trunk, with feather-assisted bounds, while others sail effortlessly to the top of the canopy.
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In the best circumstances, attractive plants can keep people and dogs from walking on and compacting dirt around the tree trunk.
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I still saw a girl with tree-trunk legs and a flabby stomach who wanted to eat ice cream for breakfast.
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In your case, it will pay off in the speed with which you can hand-saw a section of tree trunk.
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A massive tree trunk sat on debris of a building they'd spent a year renovating into a family-friendly kids' store.
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"The Old Master," showing a tree trunk spray painted with the familiar phallic graffiti, can arguably sit in all of these camps.
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This spunky squirrel makes easy work out of avoiding this husky, by just whipping around a tree trunk as quick as possible.
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If you can reach a high surface, such as a tree trunk or the top of a car, that can also help.
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At the spot where Makki was stabbed along a residential road, people have left flowers and photos taped to a tree trunk.
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You can hide the squirrels (which squeak!) inside the tree trunk and let your pup try to nuzzle or paw them out.
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Lean-muscled, tall and intimidating, Walkup looks as if he could chop through a tree trunk with one swing of a blade.
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Adam Sackler was an odd specimen of boy: as big as a tree trunk yet affected in his tastes, particularly sexual ones.
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During a hike, the physicists sat on a tree trunk and discussed the unlikely possibility that its atoms had split in two.
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The plush puzzle toy features a tree trunk filled with squeaky stuffed squirrels, meant for your pup to sniff around and hunt for.
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In the nearby village of Julbach, emergency services discovered the body of a drowned woman draped over a tree trunk in a stream.
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Carved from a tree trunk, with an American-flag base, its curvaceous, nude subject boasts a working automobile headlight embedded in her belly.
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The disease, known as "sudden oak death," creates ugly cankers on the tree trunk that bleed out sap — a fatal condition for some trees.
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A Latvian woodworker named Rihards Vidzickis recently posted a mesmerizing video of a recent project: creating a dugout canoe from a single tree trunk.
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In cross-section, dinosaur teeth display growth rings, called von Ebner lines, that are reminiscent of the annual growth rings of a tree trunk.
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First, the "percussive technology," in which the tree trunk was used as an anvil, can be construed a precursor to tool use in primates.
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Think of it this way: A patient's cancer cells all start off with the same tree trunk, but then grow different kinds of branches.
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But then, 25 apes at a Dutch zoo prop a tree trunk against the wall of their enclosure, climb out and raid the restaurant.
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To show off this skill, she had hidden a vial with an anise-soaked cotton swab in a tree trunk along our walking route.
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Motorized boats are prohibited in Camarones Bay, so he took the three of us out in a canoe made from a single tree trunk.
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He said the center of the building acted as a tree trunk while the unique design of each floor acted as the tree's branches.
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When it rains, the rain trickles down the tree trunk running over the orchid roots that absorb bits of each drop as they pass.
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Most of the bathroom was lined with white subway tile, though a tree-trunk stool in the long rectangular shower was an appealing feature.
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Venture into the North Woods, and you could almost overlook the third work, which Halvorson painted to resemble a tree trunk on one side.
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The action unspools on what looks like a giant slice from a tree trunk, with large cracks in the wood initially holding protruding bamboo sticks.
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Some poor sap is now without their bike because this mad man thought sawing through a tree trunk was easier than breaking a bike lock.
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It captured subtle detail on the tree trunk and even in the bushes beyond that the S8 missed (and that the LG simulates with its oversharpening).
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To come up with the piece, he took a massive tree trunk and carved it away, ring by ring, to show off the tree's earliest self.
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The painting has the vertical composition of a tree trunk, but Fugazzi is not interested in precisely rendering the texture or the color of tree bark.
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The camera stays on the strangely anthropomorphic tree trunk, which could be waving or asking for help but is of course also a piece of wood.
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In the garden on the ground floor, a large Buddha made from a tree trunk shares the natural habitat with Peter Agostini's bronze and David Hayes's sculpture.
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This is the year you should chop your own Christmas tree, and not just because there's something incredibly cathartic about hacking at a sweet-smelling tree trunk.
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The male Bombay night frog mounts the female from the back, its tiny hands not even touching the female, but holding onto a leaf or tree trunk.
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The product, which wraps around the bottom of fake Christmas trees to make the plastic base look like a real tree trunk, was created by Ryan Kenny.
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What of the scenario the dermatologist mentioned—the idea that the muscle tissue and my fatty stowaways had merged like a tree trunk enveloping an iron railing?
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Le Guin claims the form "sounds like a sodden tree trunk in a bog" and calls her own attempts "more trivially personal" than those that inspired her.
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We bargained with local fishermen to take us there, and climbed into their rickety dugout canoe, literally a floating mango tree trunk with its insides scooped out.
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We have a big backyard and a big family (though everyone's grown up), so I think a big tree trunk bench would be fun for family photos!
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To the right of the tree trunk, hovering amid the vines, are three horizontal bodies rendered in glowing shades of orange and yellow, the seraphim of the title.
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Some in our group of six suggested that wild pigs had made these marks, while scratching up against the tree trunk, others suggested it was teenagers messing around.
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Tree squirrels also seek out advantageous locations with built-in support, like the juncture of several branches emerging from a tree trunk or a tangle of grape vines.
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The SUV careened off the road after it hit a tree trunk the villagers had put in the road and ended in a small, dry riverbed, police said.
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Protesters in Zeta, outside the capital, Podgorica, pelted police with rocks, injuring four, and used a tree trunk to briefly block the road leading to Montenegro's main airport.
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If you are swept up in a turbulent current, your best course of action is to cling to something that floats, such as a door or a tree trunk.
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You see, the small dachshund was found trapped inside a tree trunk in Salem, Kentucky, on Thursday, and it took a handful of dedicated rescuers to get him out.
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Elsewhere, a demon is riding a wine vessel with animal legs, and further off, a naked woman—symbolizing luxury—hides inside a tree trunk, offering herself to the saint.
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Given Goop's cheerful warning that the smoothie included ginger to offset its "slightly swampy flavor," I expected this to taste like gourmet moss harvested off an organic tree trunk.
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At one point, they assemble at a table set on a giant disc representing a thick slice of a tree trunk, and take a photo using a selfie stick.
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In a decorated tray in the middle of the tree trunk table was an assortment of ingredients: sesame seeds, peanuts, fried broad beans, fried chickpeas and fermented spicy tea leaves.
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Biju's team posited that a firmer grip on a branch, tree trunk, or leaf "might function to avoid falling and interrupting mating" though admittedly this doesn't work all the time.
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In this work, the artist has printed an image of an illegal building that was partially destroyed by the local government on aluminum sheets wrapped around an upended tree trunk.
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When David and his girlfriend Syd have a late-night conversation on a swing set, it's made from a large mossy tree trunk held aloft by two giant metal loops.
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Oddest of all, it was ringed, like a tree trunk — as if a chunk of chocolate had been dropped in the center and somehow made waves out to the edges.
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Outside there's a garden for growing clover — the game's main form of currency — and inside you'll find a cozy reading nook and a table and chair carved from a tree trunk.
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There are still a few tree-trunk big men who live on islands at the elbows, but most other players are simply passing through the midrange DMZ as quickly as possible.
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The 2017 champion and former world number one has been carrying the injury since March, when he injured the wrist striking a tree trunk on his follow-through with a swing.
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The best sculpture of the lot is at the Chelsea Boone: a magnificent twisting, almost cyclonic tree trunk whose massive branches are themselves bluntly attached tree trunks — an arboreal Frankenstein monster.
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Pareidolia — which could also be called the art of seeing faces in unusual places (Jesus in a tree trunk or a taco) — suggests some kind of trickery or artistic sleight-of-hand.
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Sometimes you're lucky enough to have an outdoor space that's so beautiful it can stand on its own — whether it's a beautiful warped tree trunk, or a body of water, or both.
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Jack — a tree trunk of a man who coaches footy and uses more Aussie slang than most of Parliament — provided me with more history and context than I could have ever imagined.
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The character looks as though he's been carved out of a massive tree trunk, but Brolin's calm, considered reading of the character bestows this conquering beast with an unexpectedly resonant emotional dimension.
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" As for Judge, the 6'7", 275-pound man-monster is still using the now-famous piece of lumber, which he presumably fashioned himself by ripping up a tree trunk with his bare hands.
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I'm still thrilled to get a close-up view of a resident cardinal's inquiring eyes, or to watch a red-bellied woodpecker, another year-round New Yorker, drumming away on a tree trunk.
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PIETRASANTA, Italy — Shading his eyes from the warm Tuscan sun, the artist Giuseppe Penone watched as a crane hoisted a bronze tree trunk into position to cradle an 11-ton carved marble block.
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The funereal-looking sculpture features Lech's face — carved and painted and set inside a circular frame in a large tree trunk — with a solemn, sedated expression, his eyes open, looking to the sky.
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Rather than capturing anthropological scenes from events, she presents formal portraits of the involved and adorned characters, mostly framing individuals against neutral backgrounds such as a building's exterior, a tree trunk, or patterned wallpaper.
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As Where None* advances through the woods, down into hollows, up over ridges, it is sometimes hidden by vegetation; from certain angles, one's view of the overall line is impeded by a tree trunk.
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In a lovely autumn setting that looks like a straight up GAP ad, William, Kate, Prince George, Princess Charlotte, and baby Louis are seen gathered on a tree trunk near their Anmer Hall home.
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In 2015, Vida Kwotuah was sitting on a bench in a park in London a few yards away when a tree trunk supporting a swing toppled and crushed her 5-year-old daughter, Alexia.
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The leaves of "Winter," for instance, which represent the hair of a man with a face like a tree trunk, cascade from his gnarled head in crisp, thin sheets that feature subtly bulging veins.
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Other works in Ground Control are fairly apolitical, save perhaps Cuban sculptor Yoan Capote's "Naturaleza Urbana" (2012), which consists of a giant pair of handcuffs clipped onto a tree trunk and a nearby sapling.
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Whether Levin is writing words or equations, she finds inspiration just outside her gallery window, where a giant cloth-and-paper tree trunk hangs from the ceiling almost to the factory floor three stories below.
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And once the tree gets closer you'll notice there's actually A MAN inside there who's so committed to his holiday wardrobe that he even wore some pants that resemble the bark of a tree trunk.
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Other mantises resemble gnarled twigs, scraps of tree bark or decomposing leaves, blending in beautifully with forest underbrush, tree trunk or canopy, a cryptic approach to fool would-be prey and their own predators alike.
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Lurking in Light's bedroom, however, is the actual killer: A mischievous Japanese death spirit named Ryuk (voiced with cackling relish by Willem Dafoe), who resembles a rotting tree trunk and behaves like an annoying goad.
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As the man speaks ("I've wanted to come back for a long time"), the camera at last stops, the image now centered on a tree trunk with two long branches that look like outstretched arms.
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"2008_02zl20133" (all photos in this series are titled this way), a close-up shot of a bearded man as he sleeps on a mossy tree trunk, seems to have been taken surreptitiously, without the subject's permission.
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Of course, Amsterdam isn't like Tokyo, so I also carried a second chain lock (wrapped around the saddle post) to lock the X2 to a bike rack (tree trunk or lamp post) when not in use.
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Since that time in high school, those same "tree trunk" legs have taken me to college for soccer, they've gotten me through multiple marathons and half marathons, and they've walked hundreds of miles around the world.
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The study found that when ants are faced with a predator, they will jump into thin air from high branches and use their legs to maneuver through the air and glide back toward the tree trunk.
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But she (or her stunt double) more than holds her own in the no-holds-barred beatdowns, and what she lacks in tree-trunk-sized biceps, she more than makes up for with her ferocious magnetism.
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A more typical location for a Cyna caterpillar to pupate would be a tree trunk or rock in that forest, but this one weaved a delicate silk cocoon, just 1.5 inches long, on an indoor wall.
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Runner-up is Kun-Yong Lee's "Corporal Term," (2014) at Gallery Hyundai, a tall, stripped tree trunk with its roots embedded in a cube of dirt as sharp-edged as Tony Smith's proto-Minimalist black box.
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"Study of a Tree Trunk with Lichens and Fungi," from 89503 to 1814, looks almost abstract and modern, while a "Corner of Greenwich Street" (1810) captures the spot where the World Trade Center would later stand.
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I encourage them to jump out of that birdhouse or off that tree trunk they are clinging to — try a new major, learn a new language, go join that poetry club or band or dance class.
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I strolled with the bemused taxista Ray through the lonely field in golden light, reading names from overgrown gravestones — one shaped like a tree trunk — and pausing at a gazebo until the mosquitoes drove us out.
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That night in the hospital a doctor showed me, with the tip of his pen, the tree trunk of my spine, where two vertebrae had compressed and begun to leak fluid, and where my spine had fractured.
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Bryan Nash Gill's somber wood relief print of a tree trunk cross-section, "Ash" (2003), presents a trace (the internal rings that constitute the tree's record of aging) by means of a trace (the print's inky impression).
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For Rodgers, the star pieces are a mounted flat screen TV that looks as though it's built into the wall, and the one-of-a-kind tree trunk table they brought over from their former home together.
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Hundreds flock to the Kunnatri Ruttharam temple every week to pay respects to the enormous dead tree trunk, which is draped in flowers and offerings from worshippers who believe rubbing its bark can reveal winning lottery numbers.
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A little while later, Phil Mickelson, who began Friday just four strokes off the lead, found himself in the woods, where he tried a recovery shot that ricocheted off a tree trunk and disappeared in a bush.
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Moments after telling my co-op partner how much I liked the new, free-flowing quest system, an NPC got stuck inside of a tree trunk, preventing us from talking to him and finding a new objective.
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Using 24 foot-long heart pine beams salvaged from the original roof as cladding, they built an abstract rectangular tree trunk that rises through the cutout first level of the addition and is the home's poetic core.
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A highlight is "Rockin Around the Penis Tree #1 (NO XMAS)" (2005), a work on paper depicting Elvis and a woman in a miniskirt dancing on either side of a massive tree trunk bearing penises and vaginas.
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Slightly built at 5 feet 6 inches tall and weighing about 103 pounds, he was usually accompanied by his favorite sidekick and bodyguard, Hugh McIntosh, a 6-foot-4 mobster with a frame like a tree trunk.
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The unusual metal fireplace in the center of the room, with a bowl-like base and a hood that resembles a tree trunk, was designed by Lee Kelly, a sculptor whose public commissions can be found throughout Oregon.
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In "Small Landscape at Traunsee" (August 1907), loose swirls of paint articulate a blue sky and verdant green meadow; the canvas is bisected vertically by the willowy black line of a tree trunk carved into the thick pigment.
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Etched Champagne Flutes, Set of 2, available on Uncommon Goods, $85 If you're looking for more familiar and less formal champagne flutes, this etched set honors the couple with the same sweetness of carving initials into a tree trunk.
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His other high-scoring words were periagua (an American Indian canoe made from a hollowed tree trunk; 76 points), sundri (an east Indian tree; 28 points), and gynaecia (the plural of gynoecium, the female part of a flower; 95 points).
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It's impossible to know, yet meditating on each curious watercolor — a golden heaven or a man walking the fractured wood of a tree trunk like a tightrope — suggests something of the artist's passions and anxieties about their place in the world.
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The swollen bend of the tree trunk in front of the woman extends to the left, mirroring the swell of the cape, which is arcing to the right, while the leafy crown of the tree reaches over the woman's head.
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Readers were discussing knife handles made from these tree trunk outgrowths, and the commenter picked up the image of a burl from the website of a well-known photographer, QT Luong, to show other Blade Forums members what they look like.
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In the weeks leading up to my birthday I kept telling everyone my tree theory, so I felt truly seen on the day itself when my beloved presented me with a bread board made from a slice of tree trunk.
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The décor, inspired by Mr. González's 12th-century summer house in Florence, Italy, includes a kitschy 1950s garden table made out of a giant tree trunk and a folding cash desk painted with wild horses that he found in Turin, Italy.
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WIJINT, Peru (Reuters) - Just before dawn, Shainkiam Yampik beats a drum carved from a tree trunk at the start of a Roman Catholic prayer service in Wijint, a hamlet of thatched-roof huts in the heart of the Peruvian Amazon.
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The painting in this show that feels the most unencumbered, joyfully so, by the weight of history or current events is "Seraph" (2017), dominated by a pinkish-purple tree trunk encircled by light purple vines, against the variegated greens of the forest.
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An exception starts the meal in the form of the house-baked bread — instead of a warm pide, it's a proper sourdough served, in the Nordic way, on a slab of polished tree trunk with freshly churned salted butter on the side.
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And what would Cézanne make of this verge—oak-gold water, river stones, wet, tawny leaves and this impossible shade of deep and jade where water slides over the shadow of a tree trunk, runnelling body of darkness, is it sable-green ?
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And the most recent pieces, three canvases from 2017, include two, "Snowed" and "Marked Man," that render a creek as a narrow tree trunk, and a third, "Slings and Arrows," that simplifies this idea even further, into a kind of punning blackboard diagram.
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"Tozhu men are used to urinating near the house, often on a hollow stump, or even in a urinal specially constructed for reindeer: a tree trunk with a trough carved in it, adapted to height of reindeer mouths," writes Stépanoff in a 553 journal article.
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KATHMANDU (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - It was shortly before lunch on a January afternoon when rebels stormed a village school in the mountains of central Nepal, dragged headmaster Muktinath Adhikari from the classroom, tied him to a tree trunk, and shot him in the head.
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But signs of former life are everywhere - from the portable basketball court lying on its side in the middle of the street to the tiny children's bike next to a tree trunk, to a Bambi lawn ornament still intact in the rubble of one home.
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A 1962 promotional photograph of Arthur Mitchell as Puck in A Midsummer Night's Dream shows him crouched in dense foliage with a crown of leaves in his hair, a choker around his throat and his taut naked arms extended to touch a nearby tree trunk.
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"The Road" is centered on a wavy blue line that might be a tree trunk, a road, or just a line, and the speckled white birches in his Klimt homage "The Kingdom" become an Op Art swathe of stripes in the canvas's upper third.
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In Meijer's case, the manufacturing was surprisingly crude: In 2003, she pilfered a stack of newspapers from her parents' house and used a paint roller to glue them together, sheet by sheet, until she had created a 10-inch roll, like a stout tree trunk.
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In old spy novels, when two secret agents need to communicate with each other out in the field, one of them often leaves a document in an assigned place—tucked in the hollow of a tree trunk or between the pages of a certain library book.
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I was not, until a class last year taught me about the dormant bud, or NODE, that forms each bump on a living stem or tree trunk and waits, patiently, for a broken branch to create a window of light for the node to leap into action!
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And it is then that they wander through the sun-dappled woods, doing all the things which would end up in the Winnie-the-Pooh stories and poems: playing Pooh Sticks, building a house out of twigs for Eeyore, attaching a door to a tree trunk for Owl.
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During the afternoon outing, 5-year-old George, who dressed in a H&M polo shirt, and 4-year-old Charlotte, who wore a floral dress by Rachel Riley, clambered into the stream, checked out the treehouse and got to see a hollowed-out tree trunk that is used as a play tunnel.
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"This race is the No. 259 pickup for Republicans in the entire country," Mr. Stauber, 52, boasted after he took his turn in the log-loading contest, which consisted of climbing aboard a huge orange rig and carefully maneuvering its claw to stack one thick slice of tree trunk, painted with the face of Paul Bunyan, over another.
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In "Glimpse" (10 ½ by 8 inches, 2017), which is the darkest and moodiest drawing of this extraordinary group, there is a tree trunk paralleling the drawing's right border; Marsh pays notable attention to the bark of the trunk, which rises sturdily from near the bottom of the sheet until it is cropped at the drawing's top.
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Between these two very different yet bonded ways of drawing, each of which activates the space around the form differently, Marsh depicts an ethereal, ghostly stream that enters the composition from the lower left edge, widening in girth as it moves partway up the paper before diminishing in size and moving toward the upper right edge, behind the tree trunk.
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Watching these strangers' stories, I began to relive my own visits — there was the set of bells that greets you from the left of the entrance; the gold shrine that houses a statue of Buddha before the main building; and the tree trunk behind that shrine, which doubled as an oasis in the middle of the city that housed remains of those who've gone to the afterlife.
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Sequestered at the end of the hall, the master bedroom remains his father's domain, the long credenza below a broad picture window scattered with objects that he accumulated throughout his life, from a disk of pre-Columbian pottery painted with a primitive design of a man climbing a tree trunk to a slab of petrified wood, its polished concentric circles like an unblinking eye.
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In The Witch Elm (the only one of French's books that's not part of the Dublin Murder Squad series, narrated by a suspect rather than a detective), Toby's life is nearly destroyed by the dead body hidden in a tree trunk in the garden of his family's lush country home, and as Toby unravels further and further, the house begins to decay all around him.
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At times you do wonder if the sellers did have some intention to beautify their images, like the person who chose to use a vase of vibrant flowers to demonstrate scale (versus a seller who aligned the base of a mirror with a broom), or the person who propped a mirror that would be at home in Versailles on a tree trunk to reflect an idyllic landscape.
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Marking the speedster could be a challenge but the amateurs' coach Chris Ackerley said he had the perfect man for the job at right back — a "thick-set lad" by the name of Bryce Fielder from local champions Killarney District FC. "I think Usain Bolt will know he's been in a game, especially if he gets a few tackles in on him because Bryce has got tree-trunk thighs," said Ackerley, whose father Stan captained Australia's national Socceroos side in the 1960s.
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