Her torso, outlined in light, was like the trunk of a cypress tree just entering the soil.

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Kinney sat against the trunk of a palm tree.

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For example, the density of wood in a palm tree trunk varies, depending on the load it must support.

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Sunday's fire broke out amid a group of apartment blocks on the 2km-long Trunk of the island, which is shaped like a date palm tree.

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If they were branches of a tree weighed down with snow, they would be torn from the trunk in the first breeze.

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Rachel McDonald, the pub's owner, said there was "lots of mud everywhere" and said the river had been blocked by a fallen tree trunk.

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Andrew Rettie, secretary of the Scottish Games Association, the body which decides the length of the tree trunk used in tossing the caber, says that the average Highland games attracts a mere 3, 000-4, 000 people.

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The tear-shaped frame of the Treetent is constructed from steel, covered in canvas and anchored to a tree trunk.

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