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  • Harvath watched as the headlights bounced off of large rocks and thick-trunked trees.

    Foreign Influence Brad Thor 2010

  • Eva looked over at the thick-trunked trees that ringed the glade.

    The Search For WondLa Tony DiTerlizzi 2010

  • They could see down the hill only as far as the first curve in the road, the wet asphalt shining in the rain until it vanished between thick-trunked Douglas firs a hundred feet tall.

    Come Again No More Jack Todd 2010

  • They could see down the hill only as far as the first curve in the road, the wet asphalt shining in the rain until it vanished between thick-trunked Douglas firs a hundred feet tall.

    Come Again No More Jack Todd 2010

  • They could see down the hill only as far as the first curve in the road, the wet asphalt shining in the rain until it vanished between thick-trunked Douglas firs a hundred feet tall.

    Come Again No More Jack Todd 2010

  • In the first five she flawlessly navigates the brambles and bushes and thick-trunked trees that web the opening of the forest into field to catch a fast-moving tennis ball.

    INSIDE OF A DOG ALEXANDRA HOROWITZ 2009

  • In the first five she flawlessly navigates the brambles and bushes and thick-trunked trees that web the opening of the forest into field to catch a fast-moving tennis ball.

    INSIDE OF A DOG ALEXANDRA HOROWITZ 2009

  • The native cedar was felled for housing, shipbuilding, furniture, and export, while the thick-trunked palmetto was used for roof thatch, to weave fashionable hats, ropes, and baskets, and even to concoct a potent alcoholic beverage.

    Bermuda subtropical conifer forests 2007

  • Babi sat at the foot of a thick-trunked acacia tree reading a paperback.

    A Thousand Splendid Suns Hosseini, Khaled 2007

  • But most of the trees around him were soaring and thick-trunked, much too large to be felled by anything smaller than an ax or a chainsaw.

    Among the Free Margaret Peterson Haddix 2006

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