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Meanings of blacken stumps in English

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Usage of blacken stumps in English
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The once fine covers and thickets are converted into fields thickly dotted with blackened stumps.
Woodcraft
2
The clearing was dotted by charred and blackened stumps, and covered with piles of brushwood.
Woman on the American Frontier / A Valuable and Authentic Histor...
3
Northward stretched a flat, unlovely vista of fire- blackened stumps.
Big Timber: A Story of the Northwest
4
Soon, among the blackened stumps, corn and barley were growing on the present site of Pittsburg.
A Brief History of the United States
5
His head and arms were blackened stumps.
The Guardian
6
Davey smiled then, showing blackened stumps.
Someone Comes to Town, Someone Leaves Town
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Each placed himself behind one of the blackened stumps of the roughly-cleared forest, and opened fire upon the Indians.
With Wolfe in Canada: The Winning of a Continent
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Wastelands of blackened stumps are broken only by scorched trunks and twisted boughs of baobab trees resistant to fires.
Reuters
9
The hands were blackened stumps.
Death du Jour
10
There was a region where sunflowers were scarce, half-grown seedlings growing among the blackened stumps of a recently burned forest.
Ringworld
11
On the other side of it Thorpe unexpectedly found himself in an extensive clearing, dotted with the blackened stumps of pines.
The Blazed Trail
12
They could see far and wide and for miles the great forest fire had left only blackened stumps and dead trees.
Bob Hunt in Canada
13
It was an odd sight, a house with swings and a paddling-pool in the middle of an ocean of blackened stumps.
The Lost Continent
14
On both sides of the road were houses flattened by artillery, charred wheat fields and the blackened stumps of palm trees.
The Guardian
15
The trees aren't charred and blackened stumps; they're harps between the knees of the hills, played on by the wind and sun.
The Glory of the Trenches
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The soft summer breeze puffed out the first two matches he lit, and he dropped their blackened stumps onto the riveted steel.
The stand