With a bound the squirrel cleared the fallen beech trunk and was at his side, wiping the dirk blade on the grass.

The Major perched gracefully on the fallen beech trunk.

Jess Squirrel and Sam went haring up the beech trunk.

The beholder can almost feel the shagginess of a maple's bark versus the sensual smoothness of the neighboring beech trunk, both of them speckled with sunlight.

Telemark braced against a beech trunk, as, whipped by terrible energies, the darkness over his head roiled and broke, transformed to a red-gold sheet of inferno.

Trembling, Matthias took refuge in an old beech trunk that had once been riven by lightning.

Traveling in small jerky runs, the creature was moving down the beech trunk toward the ground.

The hollow carcass of a beech trunk lay, across it, speckled with bright, toxic droplets of red and orange fungi and old rodent droppings.

And that rustling sound: was it the woods, was it Gutenberg with his rustling beard, whishing between beech trunks, whishing through bushes?