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Meanings of charred stumps in English

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Usage of charred stumps in English
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There are likewise rotten and charred stumps of several other trees.
The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 18, No. 110, December, 1866 / A Mag...
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In the end, only charred stumps and ashes remained.
Celtic fire
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One man, staggering on charred stumps of legs, was carrying a dead baby upside down.
Reuters
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Unfortunately it stood so full of charred stumps that it was impossible to get through there.
Over Prairie Trails
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There were charred stumps, and the growth was small stuff, with some saplings pushing up through.
Cat and Mouse
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Even after we've left behind the charred stumps near the fence, we're still tripping over decomposing bodies.
Mockingjay
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The settler had in every case cut down the more manageable trees, and left their charred stumps standing.
Talks To Teachers On Psychology; And To Students On Some Of Life...
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The men, clothed in odious black, are scattered here and there over the garden like so many charred stumps.
Mark Twain: A Biography. Volume III, Part 1: 1900-1907
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To the left of the line there was a misty glimpse of water over a foreground of charred stumps.
Lady Merton, Colonist
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The resulting expanse of charred stumps and logs, producing little but ferns, is a small farm asset at best.
Practical Forestry in the Pacific Northwest / Protecting Existin...
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He made a clearing and lived a hard life of peril, wearily waiting for the charred stumps to rot away.
Westways: A Village Chronicle
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All the ledges are covered with charred stumps, a picture of desolation, where nature had made everything grand and fair.
A Lady's Life in the Rocky Mountains
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Dead trunks, blasted and black with fire, stood grimly upright amid the charred stumps and prostrate bodies of comrades half consumed.
France and England in North America, Part I: Pioneers of France ...
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His feet were smoldering, and within a few lines it would be morning and he would have nothing left but charred stumps.
First among sequels
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The whole region is black with streams of spiked and jagged lava, meandering over it, with charred stumps of trees rising out of them.
The Hawaiian Archipelago
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Everything was painted with the hellish glow, and the skyline far across the waters was as black as charred stumps against the fiery sky.
Patient Zero
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