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Usage examples of bole.

He raised the staff, the eye in the bole glittering at Regis Aurum, holding him motionless, transfixed, while Thayne poured what thoughts he had left into the bole until he could see Regis through all its power and its eye.

In that moment of his dazedness, the Cumberian leaped, caught his arms, wrestled him toward the bole of the great black oak.

Everything about him was suddenly limned in an unnatural brightness, and the bole of the great tree was shrunken by a brilliant entasis that attacked from the north.

New Glitterer during the time it grew brighter and moved from its drift back to its place near the split in the bole of the pattern of the High Tree.

Yet the slow drifting of the New Glitterer and the small flames that shot from its side to move it back to its place near the split in the bole of the High Tree argued against it being a construct of the gods.

ASTONISHMENT and a lucky reflex caused Snuffy Gonner to pitch behind a palm tree bole instantly after the bullet clipped his ear.

In the centre was a raised pool, empty of water but filled with weeds, and in one corner of the courtyard a young hornbeam had pushed its way through the tiles, cracking them around its bole.

I remember a few years ago, out that way, there was a straight, tall, limbless bole right near the road.

To stand by a bole so ancient it is older than the oldest living memory of man gives such a sense of place in the world.

Burne had limped away and leaned his hand against the ice-slick bole of a tall ponderosa pine.

On reaching the height at which the first fern-shaped boughs sprang from the bole, we stepped without any difficulty upon a platform made of boards, nailed from one bough to another, and large enough to accommodate a dozen people.

It comes out of the ground as two ivy trunks on opposite sides of the stoutest bole, but at a height of four feet from the surface the two join and ascend the tree as one round iron-coloured and iron-hard stem, which goes curving and winding snakewise among the branches as if with the object of roping them to save them from being torn off by the winds.

Above a set of huge limbs that grew spokewise from the tremendous bole, a bolt of lightning had struck at some time long in the past.

I put Weena, still motionless, down upon a turfy bole, and very hastily, as my first lump of camphor waned, I began collecting sticks and leaves.

His companion was unhandily trimming branches from a pine bole, using an ivory-handled poniard.