Each dead trunk had only one bough left.

Hood ever have believed I could pun like this, dead trunk?

Everybeast joined in to roll the big dead trunk uphill.

Somehow, rolling and clutching at one another, they moved a short distance from the dead trunk of the apple tree.

Wil Trace was in the trunk, recently dead, covered with vomit.

But where that dead trunk rose from the earth there's now a stiff green brush of new elderberry stems, two feet tall.

And beyond the dead trunks, maybe sixty yards away, was the boat, sitting beached in the marshes under the weak sun.

The larvae do not damage crops, but instead grow in dead, decaying trunks and other organic matter.

Two will get you twenty nobody's been carried anywhere in that trunk, dead or alive.

And soon, a fence will go around what some call the squirrel tree, a twisted dead trunk favored by the park's bushy-tailed set.