She was watching a tree ride wildly down that roiling current.

Somebody was riding the tree.

The marine was alone, for they were impatient people and by now would have vied to knock him from the tree.

The only extended view possible to anyone less tall than the fences was that obtained from an upper bough of the apple tree.

From high in the tree, the whole block lay within range of the eye, but the ground was almost nowhere visible.

Once, then -- for how many years or how few does not matter -- my world was bound round by fences, when I was too small to reach the apple tree bough, to twist my knee over it and pull myself up.

They would be lolling under a tree sipping Ouzo, relishing the leisurely life, assuring him that the day was yet young.

So choosing a good tree, he clambered up into it, found a comfortable notch, and curled up in it to sleep, like the tousled bear he was, with his hands across his chest, as though surfeited with honey.

A chance remark about Lenin's sealed train brought the rejoinder that this was a myth akin to George Washington's cherry tree.

Another poultice was made from the inner bark of the elm tree, steeped in water until it formed a sticky, gummy solution.

His unconcerned stroll down the side of the house to a pear tree, with crowds already gathering in front of the building and Sawyer guarding the side door, was odd.

Acantha, was the spirit of the acanthus tree, and Apollo had one of his other liaisons with her.

Apollo granted the request by turning him into the Cypress named after him, which was said to be a sad tree because the sap forms droplets like tears on the trunk.

The palm tree was also sacred to Apollo because he had been born under one in Delos.

Although most extant species of Asteraceae are herbaceous, the examination of the basal members in the family suggests that the common ancestor of the family was an arborescent plant, a tree or shrub, perhaps adapted to dry conditions, radiating from South America.

At one point, his Spanish pursuers urinated at the bottom of a tree he was hiding in, but did not discover him.

Since 1977, New Zealand has celebrated Arbor Day on June 5, which is also World Environment Day, prior to then Arbor Day, in New Zealand, was celebrated on August 4 – which is rather late in the year for tree planting in New Zealand hence the date change.

In computer science, an AVL tree is a self-balancing binary search tree, and it was the first such data structure to be invented.

The node that was found as a replacement has at most one sub tree.

In January 894 Bergamo fell, and Count Ambrose, Guy ’ s representative in the city, was hung from a tree by the city ’ s gate.

Furthermore, the persistent nature of dioxins, erosion caused by loss of protective tree cover, and loss of seeding forest stock, meant reforestation was difficult or impossible in many areas.

There currently stands a tree in the village that MacGregor was reputed to have climbed and hid in to escape the clutches of the law.

* In 2007, 66-year-old Al Hill amputated his leg below the knee using his pocketknife after the leg got stuck beneath a fallen tree he was cutting in California.

Metsähallitus accused Greenpeace of theft and said that the tree was from a normal forest and had been left standing because of its old age.

The red panda is specialized as a bamboo feeder with strong, curved and sharp semi-retractile claws standing inward for grasping of narrow tree branches, leaves and fruit.

The Great Wood, which once extended from Deadwood Plain to Prosperous Bay Plain, was reported in 1710 as not having a single tree left standing.

Various creatures live around Valhalla, such as the stag Eikþyrnir and the goat Heiðrún, both described as standing atop Valhalla and consuming the foliage of the tree Læraðr.

One afternoon of November, 1868, in the Park at Hawarden, I was standing by Mr. Gladstone holding his coat on my arm while he, in his shirt sleeves, was wielding an axe to cut down a tree.

A massive birch tree standing atop a burial mound and located beside a farm in western Norway is recorded as having had ale poured over its roots during festivals.

Davidson notes that there is no mention of a sacred tree at Þingvellir in Iceland yet that Adam of Bremen describes a huge tree standing next to the Temple at Uppsala in Sweden, which Adam describes as remaining green throughout summer and winter, and that no one knew what type of tree it was.

A mnemonic used to teach the tying of the bowline is to imagine the end of the rope as a rabbit, and where the knot will begin on the standing part, a tree trunk.

On 19 August 1800, when Anning was 15 months old, an event occurred that became part of local lore ; she was being held by a neighbour, Elizabeth Haskings, who was standing with two other women under an elm tree watching an equestrian show, being put on by a travelling company of horsemen, when lightning struck the tree.

Shakespeare scholars describe unicorns being captured by a hunter standing in front of a tree, the unicorn goaded into charging ; the hunter would step aside the last moment and the unicorn would embed its horn deeply into the tree ( See annotations of Timon of Athens, Act 4, scene 3, c. line 341: " wert thou the unicorn, pride and wrath would confound thee and make thine own self the conquest of thy fury "

It is noteworthy that the sacred fire, as standing for and representing the terrestrial origin of the community, could be lit only by the friction of two pieces of wood, one of them being necessarily an arbor felix auspicious tree, ( probably an oak ) and cave in shape.

On some cameras this is indicated by symbols ( head-and-shoulders ; two people standing upright ; one tree ; mountains ).

Modern Maya still often respectfully leave the tree standing when harvesting forest timber.

Flavius Philostratus recalled one of his anecdotes: " And I have read in the discourse of Juba that elephants assist one another when they are being hunted, and that they will defend one that is exhausted, and if they can remove him out of danger, they anoint his wounds with the tears of the aloe tree, standing round him like physicians.

The gods threw Tantalus into the underworld, where he spends eternity standing in a pool of water beneath a fruit tree with low branches.

It is a still standing mature camphor tree remembered for its importance to the hay trading marketplace of the towns of Hynes and Clearwater, which later incorporated as Paramount.

Hewing occurs from the bottom of the stem upwards towards what was the top of the standing tree, reducing the tendency of the broken fibers to migrate inwards towards the eventual beam.

The oak tree is clearly visible from Bromfield Road, and the adjacent rock wall is still standing to this day.

It is the largest ( by volume ) but not tallest species of tree in New Zealand, standing up to 50 m tall in the emergent layer above the forest's main canopy.

Another tree, Kopi, in Omahuta Forest near the standing Hokianga kauri, was the third largest with a height of 56. 39 metres ( 185 ') and a diameter of 4. 19 metres ( 13. 75 ').