 | 1872 - 828 lapas
...feet overhead stretch out its great white arms, each as large as the biggest trunks themselves of most eastern forests, and whose massive head is one of...those which lifts itself so high above the surrounding tree-tops. The tall, shaft-like trunks of pecans, sweet gums or ashes, occasionally break on the sight... | |
 | 1872 - 824 lapas
...feet overhead stretch out its great white arms, each as large as the biggest trunks themselves of most eastern forests, and whose massive head is one of...those which lifts itself so high above the surrounding tree-tops. The tall, shaft-like trunks of pecans, sweet gums or ashes, occasionally break on the sight... | |
 | 1910 - 566 lapas
...feet overhead stretch out its great white arms, each as large as the biggest trunks themselves of most eastern forests, and whose massive head is one of...those which lifts itself so high above the surrounding tree-tops. The tall, shaft-like trunks of pecans, sweet gums, or ashes, occasionally break on the sight... | |
 | George F. Peterken - 1996 - 542 lapas
...hundred feet overhead stretch out its great white arms, each as large as the trunks themselves of most eastern forests, and whose massive head is one of...hundred, feet before the first branches are thrown out. These forests, which, with their emergents, buttress roots and vines, must have been reminiscent of... | |
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... those old sycamores, for which the rich alluvial bottoms of the western rivers are so famous, with a trunk thirty or even forty, possibly fifty or sixty, feet in circumference, while perhaps a hundred feet overhead stretch out its great white arms,... 