His broken arm hit a root protruding from the earth.

Dorrin's grin is wiped away as his staff bangs the side of his face, knocked there by an ice-covered root protruding from the canyon wall-just high enough for the three to ride underneath, just low enough to catch the tip of Dorrin's staff.

Niall stepped forward and looked down into the hole, with its torn roots protruding from loose brown earth.

There was the dead stump of a tree with the roots protruding lying in the grass near by.

A gob of mud on one of the roots protruding into the trench quivered, fell, and became an indistinguishable part of the greater muddiness below.

Her cry turned to a wail, and she tripped over a root protruding from the loam.

I was almost as far as I needed to be when my suited foot caught a root protruding from the ground.

Then he tied the horses to a scrubby root protruding from the loose rock.