The deep needle beds muffled her footsteps and the forest swallowed every other sound except the whispering of the needles in the treetops.

The bison led them on; the forest swallowed them like the jaws of a living creature.

The forest had long swallowed it; trees grew right through everything, and spiderwebs of old creeper enveloped the big stone blocks.

If it wanted to, the forest could reject me - or swallow me up whole.

"It's true," they'd say, eyes wide, "the forest can swallow you up alive."

The forest swallowed them, and the going was slow, and at last Dilna was too pregnant to travel.

The grasslands and forest would have swallowed most signs of human habitation so that looking there might prove a waste of time.

He reversed the film, and the forest swallowed the creature's head.

Then the wild girl turued and the forest swallowed her.

The river still glowed green, but the forest and the black mountain to either side swallowed every other trace of light.