Loose branches and splintered trunks shredded through vegetation and troopers and animals and wagons.

The king lands squarely on the yew tree: the splintered trunk pierces his body, and he hangs there, impaled on the yew.

They found Shelley at the edge of the forest amid the vast splintered trunks and limbs of a grove of beech trees.

By the brief glare of spinning fireballs they saw a wreck of tangled branches, splintered trunks, and tumbled bodies.

Far down at the base of the cliff I saw, as I looked over, a tangled mass of branches and splintered trunk.

There was a big old dead tree with a splintered trunk.

He came to rest in dead branches, against a splintered trunk, his back to us.

The scrub oak had grown up around the splintered trunks of the trees, the tops of the new growth of pines barely visible above.

There were a few splintered trunks projecting a foot or so from the ground, but there were not many branches lying around.

Trees sent out erratic withes from their splintered trunks.