"Horde explored, adored the gourd," he announced, cracking a smile like a smoking cleft in a lightning-struck tree.

A lightning-struck tree had fallen almost to the ground before being caught between two others.

Finding a large, lightning-struck tree with a hollow trunk, he went inside, built a small fire, and made tea.

Seedlings sprouted from mossy rotting logs, and saplings vied for a place in the sun where a lightning-struck tree had taken several more down with it.

Where Nadir camp-fires had lit the valley like fallen stars, now there was only the shimmering grass, the lonely boulders and a long-dead lightning-struck tree.

Mowgli finds a burning branch from a lightning-struck tree and ties it to Khan's tail.

Then she came around a bend in the path and saw the lightning-struck tree blocking her course.

There were plenty of them here on the bank, and the lightning-struck tree made a perfect barricade.

The Yezda tottered like a lightning-struck tree, then toppled, his sword falling beside him.

A hand on the shattered trunk of the lightning-struck tree helped.