The figure stood as it had stood before, its arm raised, a fire- blackened tree still gesturing with its branch.

The few scattered and blackened tree stumps showed the ravages made by a forest fire in the years gone by.

Johan Edderbo, a doctor of philosophy, is among the volunteers hosing down the ashy forest floor and blackened tree stumps.

Then I saw emerge, from beneath the branches of a small, ash- blackened tree just inside the wights' gate, a familiar figure.

Just wait until you see the blackened tree to which he was bound, and then you won't ask such a question.

The picture of that blackened tree below the Saléve had stuck in both our minds from the time that we were boys.

The rail fences shone silver in their coat of frost, and from the blackened tree above her pendants of ice were shot with light.

The sun had set before we reached our landmark, which was a felled and blackened tree, selected to furnish fuel for our night fire.