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Some locusts make their holes in fence rails or in old stumps.
2
Right opposite on the other bank are those two old stumps-
3
The poor soldiers were pelted with mud, stones, old stumps, and broken bottles.
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As far as the eye could reach were the old stumps of pine trees.
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Perhaps these old stumps upon the knoll remember when anciently this lake gleamed in the horizon.
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He skulked along among the rocky hummocks, and the old stumps which dotted the pasture thickly.
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By seed, sown during the rains; from shoots cut from large trees; and by transplanting old stumps.
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Yet we miss the dear old stumps.
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Carre, for his part, is well-inclined to eat; but what can he do with his old stumps?
10
Poor people often made light by burning pine knots, or bits of pitch pine chopped out of old stumps.
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Jim had been busy during the day in picking up pine knots, and digging out old stumps whose roots were charged with pitch.
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As long as there are old stumps in a field that you must plough around I haven't got much use for the land.
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On the other hand, it is dangerous if there are many old stumps and logs in which fire may smoulder to make trouble later.
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What had happened to the parson he could easily guess, for the place was full of old stumps, half protruding from beneath the snow.
15
There is a most beautiful old farm-house, with great thatched barns and old stumps of oak trees, like that of Skelton, one field off.
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"They are to be grafted on my poor old stumps," said Blizzard.
