Carefully, he studied the glittering surface of the waters, searching for what troubled him, then shifted his attention to the far bank and the shadowed trees.

The night-draped wilderness, all rolling ground and underbrush hidden until it was underfoot, shadowed trees thick against the sky, allowed no great speed in any case.

The hillside was there as it had been, the shadowed trees, the lakes beyond sinking into darkness.

Moonlight glinted from the man's bald pate, and he seemed colossal as he strode through the shadowed trees.

Burke remained as still as one of the tall shadowed trees.

Silent and still beneath the shadowed trees, the raider captain waited as the young people's conversation fell apart and their eyes lulled in afternoon drowsiness.

There was about a half mile of nothing before the first shadowed trees.

He laughed at my fear, but I could see his own in the gleam of his eyes and the wary way he glanced around at the shadowed trees.

I pointed at my eyes, and then around at the shadowed trees, trying to ask him if he knew where the loup-garou was, but he shook his head.

He eased among the shadowed trees, circling toward where he'd heard Beau.