It was a damp day, and the dark trunks of the oak trees brought to mind long, thin fingers reaching up from the earth.

The wood-cutters shuddered and stared into the night but could see nothing except the dark trunks of the trees.

No place to hide, just the slim dark trunks of trees, with every once in a while a big, older tree.

An example is the image of bald cypresses with dark trunks splaying at the bottom.

We were moving between close set copses, dark trunks still half masked in drying leaves.

They soon came to the great dark trunk of the Faraway Tree.

The great dark trunks rose about them like a wall.

The dragon lay sleeping several dozen yards to his left, curled in a ball against a row of dark trunks.

He stood flattened against the dark trunk of a tree, listening for The Shadow.

Cady's eyes were shut, her head leaning against the dark furrowed trunk of the tree.