"Tree stump" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... They're able to overtake us if they want to, and if they want to do anything to us, they will. We can't help ourselves. I'm not going another step. I'm going to sit down here and see what happens." As she spoke, she sat down on a tree stump. Hard laughed ruefully. ...
— Across the Mesa • Jarvis Hall
... responsible for your good treatment. I won't take no for an answer. If you have no objections, Mr. Sawyer, I wish you would keep your eye on those books when they are put into the team, for those Cobb boys handle everything as though it was a rock or a tree stump." And Uncle Ike, taking his kerosene lamp in one hand and his looking glass in the other, cried, "Come in," as one of the Cobb boys ...
— Quincy Adams Sawyer and Mason's Corner Folks - A Picture of New England Home Life • Charles Felton Pidgin
... They are tokens of the mimic earnest with which child-life is ever seeking to sober itself, and rushing unsummoned into the workaday fields of an aimlessly frantic world. They are houses, and the stone boundaries are walls. This tree stump is an armchair, this board a velvet sofa. Not more truly is "this thorn-bush, my thorn-bush; and ...
— Meadow Grass - Tales of New England Life • Alice Brown
... sure," Max remarked; "Toby hasn't tumbled down into a hollow tree stump! His yells sound ...
— With Trapper Jim in the North Woods • Lawrence J. Leslie
... us for the tree stump at the top of the mountain with the initials cut on it; also for the patch of sugar-cane and other traces of man which we had met with in the course of our rambles over the island. And we were much saddened by the ...
— The Coral Island - A Tale Of The Pacific Ocean • R. M. Ballantyne |
