How To Use Stump In A Sentence
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Yovich was next to go, bowled for four by a beauty that clipped the top of off stump as it swung away from him.
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Zaheer bowled a good length in the final overs and got one right in the blockhole to shatter the stumps of Sami and after that Moin was clean bowled by Balaji and India won by 40 runs with Pakistan allout for 253.
Archive 2004-03-01
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She was stumped by a question that asked her to construct a triangle with given angles and sides.
Times, Sunday Times
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The front was embossed with a teal hummingbird sitting on a tie-dyed tree stump.
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Sometimes crime investigation is so difficult, like the real stumper for Fort Worth, Texas, detectives.
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On an ancient stone stump, about three feet thick and three feet high, used for securing ships by ropes to the shore, and called a bollard or holdfast, an elderly gentleman sits facing the land with his head bowed and his face in his hands, sobbing.
Back to Methuselah
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Edwards gave a speech which drew very heavily on his stump speech.
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Vic Craven edged a ball on to his stumps to make the former England star only the fifth bowler currently playing anywhere in the world to have joined the elite club.
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Haley walked into the kitchen and two minutes later Trevor came stumping into the kitchen.
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Trott tried to whip Lee to leg, and the ball deflected off his thigh pad and back onto the stumps without dislodging the bails.
Australia v England - live! | Rob Smyth
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Manker himself tried to find the tree in 1955 but found only stumps of cut old-growth trees in the area.
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The cold air would become extremely painful on his amputation stumps.
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The ball went past the batsman and hit the stumps.
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Dean has most of the Hollywood glamour; both Martin Sheen and Rob Reiner were here stumping for him in recent days.
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With Charles II. the embroidered gloves seem to have vanished along with the stumpwork pictures, of which more anon.
Chats on Old Lace and Needlework
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Prior looked every inch an England prospect for his work behind the stumps and with the bat.
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In the 1950s, a housing boom multiplied the timber industry's reliance on stumpage from public lands, and the agency enjoyed a dramatic boost in political prestige and congressional appropriations.
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All five macaque species occurring in Thailand are present, namely rhesus Macaca mulatta, crab-eating M. fascicularis, pig-tailed M. nemestrina, Assam M. assamensis and stump-tailed M. arctoides.
Huai Kha Khaeng Wildlife Sanctuary, Thailand
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John is stumped by an unexpected question.
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This innocent-sounding question has stumped mathematicians from Cantor's time to the present.
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That he already has - courtesy of a knockabout image cultivated in an era when a lunch break durry, card games as you waited to bat, and several post-stumps beers wouldn't put you on the front pages.
NEWS.com.au | Top Stories
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stumps...had uncanny shapes as of monstrous creatures
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After last week's stumper, we'll end the round on an easy one.
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The left winglet had torn away, leaving a jagged stump, the left wing had bent upward, and along its upper surface some of the skin was separating from the internal structure.
William Langewiesche on the Amazon air crash
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Indeed," she led the way across a narrow linoleumed hall, so beeswaxed that one had to stump along carefully erect.
Some Everyday Folk and Dawn
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The ball was old and the pitch was slow and Jones, as was his wont, was moving around the crease to disrupt the bowler's line. Jack decided to stand up to the stumps.
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Adults like fresh stumps, slash, and logging debris.
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The larva would have pupated in the stump and emerged on the threshold of summer to find a mate.
Country diary: Wenlock Edge
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In the late '50s, his paintings became populated with stumpy, beastlike figures, often adorned with military medals.
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Pollock bowled a yorker aimed at off-stump which Kumble edged towards the third man boundary.
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The school was one of four to win a set of equipment, including bats, pads, gloves, balls and stumps as well as a scorebook, rule book and kit bag.
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People ask me why I want to get into advertising and I'm always stumped to give them a real answer that they can honestly believe.
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He went from wrestling in tights and a feather boa to stumping across the state in jeans and a leather jacket discussing policy with legislators in suits and ties.
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Every Stumpy would say, " Martha, I'd like to ride in that airplane.
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There was a large tree stump on top of it.
Times, Sunday Times
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I love using this process when I'm feeling a little stumped staring at a big 12 X 12 page -- it's kind of like freewriting to remedy writer's block.
Progressive pages...
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Well sir, of course I don't mean real English cabbage stumps and potato parings, same as we has at home, but what answers for 'em here, and coky-nut huxes and shells, and banana rinds, and a nasty bad smelling kind o 'fruit as they calls doorings.
Middy and Ensign
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Instead, it boiled down to here's my stump speech, he's wrong, so vote for me.
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A Glikkun youth with no teeth and no feet or calves, on his stumpy knees in a box, begging.
WICKED: THE LIFE AND TIMES OF THE WICKED WITCH OF THE WEST
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Lehmann steered a ball from Strong to third man and called for a second run but he had not anticipated Brown hitting the stumps with a fast throw from the boundary edge.
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He sounds like he is on the campaign stump and, of course, he is.
Times, Sunday Times
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Once I slipped, and my legs fell in, and my alpenstock; but I clung to the stump till hauled up.
The Romance of Isabel Lady Burton
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You can also drill several holes in the trunk, near the root ball, and inject stump killer into the holes with a baster.
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Heinz has made a habit of posing playful questions on its ketchup bottles “Are your french fries lonely?” and the next one may be a stumper: “Guess what my bottle is made of?”
A new spin on the Heinz ketchup bottle
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Jeb Bush was stumped by a math problem that reportedly was on the state's standardized test for high school students.
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From the Stumptown Trade Review's article and podcast, I learned about Kenan Rubenstein's single-sheet "oubliette" comics.
Archive 2009-05-01
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Nowadays, between scraps of undulating green parkland, there are stumps of surviving Victorian tenements.
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Before he began hitting sixes he adjusted the bails of the stumps and analysed the pitch.
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Call me silly, but I just don't care whether or not a candidate lugs a spouse along while he or she is stumping for votes.
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Metastases had formed on the stump, on his groin and in his abdomen.
Times, Sunday Times
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This is the first indication that he is going to be the first president to deliver a partisan stump speech as his inaugural address.
Times, Sunday Times
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Women get attacked in public bathrooms all the time, and if the cops could not remove men who were in there they were stumped about what they were going to do.
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Thurstan batting the second time scored 155 for the loss of 3 wickets when stumps were drawn.
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As a train approaches from either direction, two bells on stumpy posts in between the tracks begin to toll in a steady rhythm.
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We stumped up eight quid each.
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But at his best he was also capable of delivering among the most clinical yorkers in the game, the ball arrowing in toward the batsman's toes, often leaving them sprawled on the floor as they jabbed their bat futilely at the ground as the stumps cartwheeled behind them.
The Paradox of Shoaib Akhtar
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The sun was setting between Eigg and Rum as we reached the deserted beach, only to find "VALHALLA DANCEHALL" spelt out in seaweed letters two foot high, which stumped even the locals.
Weird and wonderful: Scotland's Away Game music festival
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Though far remote from the ivy chaplet on Wisdom's glorious brow, yet his stump of withered birch inculcates a lesson of virtue, by reminding us, that we should take heed to our steps in our journeyings through the wilderness of life; and, so far as in him lies, he helps us to do so, and by the exercise of a very catholic faith, looks for his reward to the value he supposes us to entertain for that virtue which, from time immemorial, has been in popular parlance classed as next to godliness.
Chambers's Edinburgh Journal, No. 437 Volume 17, New Series, May 15, 1852
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After surviving all that, a kind of blissed-out surety had settled over him-of course Roland would stump Blaine, who would then keep his part of the bargain and set them down safe and sound at his final stop (whatever passed for Topeka in this world).
Wizard and Glass
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The man's chest and shoulders were magnificent, but the stump of a right arm, beyond the flesh of which the age-whitened bone projected several inches, attested the encounter with a shark that had put an end to his diving days and made him a fawner and an intriguer for small favors.
THE HOUSE OF MAPUHI
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One of his favourite gambits on the stump is: ‘I used to be a prizewinning actor.’
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They stumped up the hill.
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After an epic legal battle the UK's top court decreed the lie was no reason not to stump up.
The Sun
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And if he too was stumped, it would be no small consolation to my ego.
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As shore as the Vine doth the Stump intwine thou art my Lump of Sackkerrine
A Child-World
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They have these little statoliths or balance organs in the back of their head and we can section those and look under a microscope and have daily rings just like tree rings in a tree stump.
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The stumps were pitched, the look-outs appointed, and the Captain gratified by the first innings.
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But something was wrong with the picture - the bails remained firmly on the wicket, despite the leaning leg stump.
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The scrawny, stumpy plants - in winter a mass of black aimless twigs with a few odd drops of white fiber still clinging to them - is hardly pure or virgin.
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The man's chest and shoulders were magnificent, but the stump of a right arm, beyond the flesh of which the age-whitened bone projected several inches, attested the encounter with a shark that had put an end to his diving days and made him a fawner and an intriguer for small favors.
THE HOUSE OF MAPUHI
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On one beach, hemmed in by cliffs on either side and palm trees at the back, some Grenadians are playing cricket, three sticks jammed into the sand for stumps.
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To facilitate animal traction, migrants cut down big trees, cleared bamboo bushes, and uprooted stumps.
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The dogs chase him for a while: one is red, with short stumpy legs and long hair.
A MEANS TO EVIL
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Really barkless, not interesting bark, this stump planter offers lots of nooks and crannies that create shadow art.
Bark « Fairegarden
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Stumpie's an awfu 'peppery budy, an' though the Smith leuch when he made his joke at the tailor's precentin ', Mertin got as raised as a wasp, and he yattered back -- "You'll maybe be better aff i' the ither place, wi 'your auld horse shune an' your smiddy reek, ye auld acowder ----
My Man Sandy
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It is a measure of the president's continued pulling power that the Europeans, who have seemingly grudged every extra pair of boots the NATO secretary general has persuaded them to dispatch up until now, are to stump up around 7,000 additional troops for the war in Afghanistan alongside the 30,000 more committed by a president who has now more than doubled the U.S. contingent there.
How is Obama being viewed in Europe?
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He's trotted out today not only a new ad, but also a new stump speech, really focusing not only on his record of accomplishment but on a broad vision for the future.
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This from a little boy with home-made stumps bowling tennis balls.
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Out with Barry Goater watching tiny flies struggling in the clutches of the science-fiction sundew plants on Dyke Heath, we also clocked two new birds to add to the ninety species already listed in the log: a pair of hobbies, the male perched on a stump, and a spotted flycatcher.
Wildwood
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Replays showed that the ball had pitched outside leg stump, but it was too late for recriminations.
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His awareness of his off stump for a right-hander is particularly good.
Times, Sunday Times
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Fires have burnt most of the uprights to charred stumps but the thick wooden corner posts are still intact.
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Patel, who was middling the ball quite well during his 203 minute vigil at the crease, edged an outside-the-off-stump delivery from Akbar to see Kamran Akmal take a superb diving catch behind the stumps.
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And as Obama clops off after having clinched the delegate count last night, she squats on the field of battle, hemorrhaging cash from four stumps with no fresh infusion in sight, insisting that the fight to this point is a draw.
Chip Collis: Dame Hillary Clinton: the Black Knight
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This, however, is so fiddly and impossible to operate that even my eight-year-old son was stumped.
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A hydraulic thumb or clamp allows you to grasp rocks, tree stumps, and other oddly shaped objects, while a grapple makes it easy to handle brush and other bulky material.
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Sometimes the train puffed between lines of grey slab fencing in which were armies of white skeleton trees that had been 'rung' for extermination, or with bleached stumps sticking up in a chaos of felled trunks, while in some there had sprung up sickly iron-bark saplings.
Lady Bridget in the Never-Never Land
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A ball just short of a length from Silverwood went over the top of Spearman's stumps but the right-hander responded with a boundary and soon afterwards there were four overthrows as Martyn aimed at the stumps and missed.
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He survived by crawling on the stumps of his legs and begging for food.
Times, Sunday Times
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The organizers were stumped as to what to do with the food, and finally said we could just take the stuff home.
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Most of the identifiable woody debris was pine snags, stumps, boles, or branches.
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He advanced on him only for an exquisite googly to dip and dart through the gap to bruise the off stump.
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He slapped old friends on the back and asked them if the stumps were coming away easily; he talked nonsense concerning labour and the inalienable rights of elephants to a long 'nooning'; and, wandering to and fro, thoroughly demoralized the garden till sundown, when he returned to his pickets for food.
Life's Handicap
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A small patch of this muscle ends up serving as a biopotential amplifier for the nerve stump, such that gross EMG signals from the newly reinnervated muscle patch can be used as myoelectric signals.
Mind Hacks: July 2006 Archives
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Run out: When the batter chooses to run (and this is a choice) he can be “thrown out” in baseball parlance if a fielder throws the ball back and hits the stump (or someone tags the stump with the ball) before the runner gets back to the wicket (the equivalent to a force-out in baseball).
Coyote Blog » Blog Archive » A Brief Cricket Guide For American Baseball Fans
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These people do not have the equipment or the manpower to cut down the trees and pull out the stumps; instead they light a match.
Fire and Ice - the Greenhouse Effect, Ozone Depletion, and Nuclear Winter
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That stretch of forest was stumped quickly.
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Virginia Senator George Allen tried to make Dem Jim Webb's treatment of women a central issue in the campaign, attacking Webb on the stump and in ads for his allegedly misogynic fiction writings and his essays about the problems of having women in military academies.
VA-SEN: CNN Exit Polls: Webb Well Ahead Among Women
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She could copy prints, so that at a little distance you would scarcely know that the copy in stumped chalk was not a bad mezzotinto engraving.
The Newcomes
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Well then he struts, stands on tiptoes, bustles, and bestirs his stumps, shoves and makes way, and with much ado clambers up a sycamore.
Five books of the lives, heroic deeds and sayings of Gargantua and his son Pantagruel
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One solution is to threaten the stumps more and to encourage inswing bowling.
Times, Sunday Times
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For instance, the golden langur (Semnopithecus geei), hispid hare (Caprolagus hispidus), and pygmy hog (Sus salvanius) are limited to the north bank of the river, whereas the hoolock gibbon (Hylobates hoolock) and stump-tailed macaque (Macaca arctoides) are limited to the south bank.
Brahmaputra Valley semi-evergreen forests
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The rest of the gaggle were going home to dig more ditches and haul more stumps.
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You have to try this, he said, pouring me a taste of the Scottish Hendrick's Gin from a cute, dark, stumpy little bottle I had actually been admiring, purely from a visual perspective, earlier.
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During a House Energy & Commerce Committee hearing, Barton smugly posed a "stumper" to Energy Secretary Steve Chu:
MNpublius.com
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The chief Minister, Oommen Chandy, stumped the District Collectors at their two-day annual conference here on Monday.
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He had several days of stubble on his chin and his teeth had been whittled down to yellowy stumps.
The Crossing-Place
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I hope these socks keep Miss Phoebe's feet warm, as she is stumping around her house already.
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He used the stump as a table.
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Well, if you're stumped about what to get for that hard to buy somebody on your list, we've got some amazing ideas for you.
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Humphreys, having started the wickets rolling by snaring Martin Leech with a snick to Walker, then got a delivery to lift and Kaushal chopped it onto his stumps for 12.
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At the foot of the sign are rows of tree stumps neatly cut to maintain the vista.
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He has left a small stump in the ground, about 6in high.
Times, Sunday Times
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A freshly felled ash tree was a picture of the woodsman's craft - a neat sawn stump, a carpet of sawdust and an exactly graded log pile.
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He barked his shin on a hidden stump and swore softly but continued on toward the scrap.
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The advantages of the stumpy standup rods and harness is that playing of a heavyweight fish becomes a real contest of endurance and technique, rather than muscularity and brute strength.
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I wonder how much, in 40 or 50 years' time, someone will fork out for Matt Prior's Porsche, the one of which the current England stumper spoke to Sachin Tendulkar at Trent Bridge four summers ago?
The lost boys rescued from wilderness years | Richard Williams
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She is a doll made of grubby green satin, with satin stumps for hands and feet, features inked onto a round of calico for her face, and her pointed head of grubby green satin also.
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Teased outside his off-stump, for once his lack of footwork towards the pitch of the ball betrayed him.
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The tree stump serves as a table
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The ball went past the batsman and hit the stumps.
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Some aspects of the design are a little strange -- the rather weak articulation of the principal elevation behind the low screen of the narthex; the wealth of freestanding or nearly-freestanding towers, the stumpy nave swallowed up by the great crossing; but many of these are simply traceable to the titanic scale of the project, a feature common to every one of the designs submitted.
W. Halsey Wood's Jerusalem the Golden
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Ashley Giles lasted two balls, jabbing at a ball outside off stump sending a catch to Matthew Hayden in the gully, as Pietersen could only stand and stare at the non-striker's end.
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dungaree" stumped the third-place finisher and knocked her out the competition.
Stories: Local News
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As an adolescent, Bennett Lang relishes word math problems but is stumped by the things people say.
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There he goes, stomping around the stage on one whole leg and another that ends at the knee and continues as a wooden stump.
Times, Sunday Times
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Police say they are stumped as to why a man decided to walk into the slow lane of a motorway - and was then knocked down and killed in a collision with a car.
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And not just because our legs are going to look a little stumpier come autumn.
Times, Sunday Times
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Her questions stumped me, but Noelle had an answer ready.
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A stump remained where his arm had been.
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My prosthetist made a pair of plastic and carbon fibre sockets which fit my stumps.
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There he goes, stomping around the stage on one whole leg and another that ends at the knee and continues as a wooden stump.
Times, Sunday Times
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Old stumps and downed branches of buttonwood trees may lie along coastal beaches for decades before they decay.
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It has a short stumpy tail covered with bristles.
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Nik said ... um, that stump is decorated with pretty lights.
Slimbolala
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The area in red is the region of the paleosol with the tree stumps, this area was likely not covered by ice since the last ice age.
Stumped in Alberta « Climate Audit
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Growing from the side of a stump, the stem of the fawn-colored pluteus bends upwards to the light.
Some Summer Days in Iowa
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Linda watched Karen as she sat her new doll carefully on a tree stump and placed tiny china plates, cups and saucers before it.
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stump a field
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Welcome to Stumptown, where the loggers are as old as the lager.
Portland Getaways: Multnomah Falls, Pittock Mansion, & Japanese Gardens
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The captive had broken off the stalagmite, and upon the stump had placed a stone, wherein he had scooped a shallow hollow to catch the precious drop that fell once in every three minutes with the dreary regularity of a clock-tick — a dessertspoonful once in four and twenty hours.
The Adventures of Tom Sawyer
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Anya resumed scouring the floor for her missing shoe, walking with a stumping gait.
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Against the seamers, he essentially lines up to off stump and looks to make the bowlers bowl to him, before working to the leg side.
Times, Sunday Times
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Some took the form of cricket bats or stumps.
Times, Sunday Times
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Great rust-colored stumps stand like tombstones.
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It was a pity, for she was the stumpier of the two.
The Arbiter A Novel
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Growing on decayed tree stumps I frequently found a saprophyte
Ranching, Sport and Travel
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Clark made two stumpings and did not concede many byes, so he may have had a slight grievance.
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He has yet to be stumped by a question.
Times, Sunday Times
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It's more likely to be a recitation of the candidates' stump speeches and campaign promises.
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To be honest, the dishes sounded so strange and unfamiliar that I was stumped as to what to order.
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Not only was the idea well received, Clinton found that it was his biggest applause line on the stump.
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A document appears in a plastic sleeve pinned to the wooden stump that once supported a lych-gate.
GRAVE CONCERNS • by Oscar Windsor-Smith
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Instead of using Helmholtz's terminology, Stumpf, as did most historians, preferred the term phenomenology to designate the study of phenomenal experience, which occupied center stage in the fields of physiology and psychology.
On A Trans-Atlantic Flight
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Reading a date between the lines, this man's stump is evidence of frostbite.
POEMS BY CIARAN CARSON, 1966-1972
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One of them also skipped town after she had stumped up his 44,000 bail money.
The Sun
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If my grandad was a decent man, I wouldn't say anything about it," replied Stumpy, apparently troubled with a doubt in regard to the propriety of the revelation he was about to make.
The Coming Wave The Hidden Treasure of High Rock
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In the movie, a political satire, Beatty plays an opportunistic Democrat who starts being brutally honest on the stump, eventually even talking in rap and wearing the oversized clothes of a hip-hop kid.
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Done -- unjoint it and put it in its case, and not go dragging up everything along the bank like a living stump-puller.
At the Foot of the Rainbow
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Only then did the umpires march out, remove the bails and stumps, and declare that England had won the Ashes.
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Her smile broadened to reveal two rows of brown stumps.
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They found that unauthorised work had been carried out on two Ash trees, which had been reduced to stumps, a Sycamore and another Ash, which had been pollarded to a height of 4.5 metres.
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A CALM regional manager recounted the story of a well known forest scientist who derived 'great personal enjoyment out of sitting on a stump listening to and observing nature'.
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Stumpel, with a team-high 24 points, has scored in five consecutive games.
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Hazel trees were chopped down and new shoots were allowed to grow from the stump.
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Pepys relates how he met a seaman returning from fighting the Dutch with his eye-socket "stopped with oakum," and as late at least as the Battle of Trafalgar it was customary, in amputations, to treat the bleeding stump with boiling pitch as a cauterant.
The Press-Gang Afloat and Ashore
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Thoreau realized that the land had been cleared about 15 years previous to him moving there, and there were still a lot of stumps stuck in the ground.
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But as the terebinth and oak leave stumps when they are cut down, so the holy seed will be the stump in the land.
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He found that 300 coniferous tree stumps had not been treated with urea, which was the normal practice.
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Car owners will moan, but such is the attachment to our vehicles we will probably stump up the extra amount.
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After an epic legal battle the UK's top court decreed the lie was no reason not to stump up.
The Sun
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(to save himself from being choked with dust) he patrolled a little cinderous beat he established for the purpose, without taking his eyes from the diggers, he still stumped to the tune: He's GROWN too FOND of
Our Mutual Friend
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They keeled between the stumps in the still air, planing just above the water while Greg called out to the birds by name.
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The monsters had six sticklike arms and stumpy legs.
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Because Brentano had not been habilitated to supervise dissertations, he recommended that Stumpf study with Hermann Lotze in G.ttingen; Stumpf attended Lotze's lectures on psychology, history of philosophy since Kant, philosophy of nature, and practical philosophy; he also took courses from the physiologist G. Meissner and the physician W. W.ber.
On A Trans-Atlantic Flight
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The ball narrowly shaved his off stump.
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She seemed stumped by the legal term "muniments" - pronouncing it many times and asking twice for it to be used in a sentence.
CBC | Top Stories News
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And what responsibility do we have to sort out the charges and countercharges that are being thrown on the stump and on the airwaves?
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This is the first indication that he is going to be the first president to deliver a partisan stump speech as his inaugural address.
Times, Sunday Times
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She made her way through the woods, ‘past a giant temple of boxwood,’ then to the yard of 124 where ‘she sat down on the first handy place - a stump’.
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Clearing woodland by coppicing involves cutting it to the ground, allowing woodland flora and fauna to flourish, while encouraging new shoots to appear from the plant stumps.
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Kiddy Cricket is a popular spectacular featured during international matches, with the youngsters engaged in games using rubber balls, plastic bats and stumps.
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Ganoderma lucidum, starts as a saprophyte on nearby decaying stumps and then becomes a parasite on living trees by entering through wounds.
4. Management
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Identifying which biomolecule/mineral surface pairs, however, has stumped scientists for years because of countless possible combinations.
November 9th, 2006
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An area of soggy, muddy turf around three metres from the stumps at one end caused the game to be called off.
The Sun
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Capped for the first time as an opening bat in Port Elizabeth, De Villiers took over from Tsolekile behind the stumps for the second Test at Kingsmead.
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To use Stumpf's terms, they are the atrium and the organon of all sciences and of philosophy.
On A Trans-Atlantic Flight
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We would have had difficulty identifying it as a logging site as the stumps were mossed and the beech seedlings and undergrowth were abundant - a total contrast from the sites we were accustomed to seeing after harvesting by the old method.
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Andrew nodded, tore a page out of the sketch book in his pocket and scratched out his number with a stumpy pencil hooked in the books ring binder.
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He has left a small stump in the ground, about 6in high.
Times, Sunday Times
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Here and there swaggered a strapping riverman, his small felt hat cocked aggressively over one eye, its brim curled up behind; a cigar stump protruding at an angle from beneath his sweeping moustache; his hands thrust into the pockets of his trousers, "stagged" off at the knee; the spikes of his river boots cutting little triangular pieces from the wooden sidewalk.
The Blazed Trail
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Easts wicket keeper Dale Box did well with the gloves, stumping two batsmen, one off the bowling of Jobson and another off David Wells.
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Hm, you know, looking back, I wish I had said all that stuff and more in the job interview, instead of getting stumped by that trap of a question.
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The Canada porcupine has more hairs than the American, and a shorter and stumpier tail.
The Human Side of Animals
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President Bush stumping in Columbus, Ohio, also, John Kerry, John Edwards stumping in Saint Louis, Missouri.
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The storybook about a stumpy little guy who stands on a tree stump deploring the destruction of a forest is being adapted into a 3-D ...
Danny DeVito To Star In Dr. Seuss' 'Lorax' Movie
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I battened down my kitchen and ants venturing inside seemed stumped.
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For example, the press agents were stumped when asked to explain the rules and legal implications of the Wi-Fi Internet waves.
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Babbitt sat on the stump, facing the dark pond, slapping mosquitoes.
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And the evidence abounds: thick truncated trunks still pushing out new sprigs, charred stumps, and entire trees withering on the roadside.
