The ceiling beams, rough-hewn as they were, looked like great roots.

Then he lifted his head and peered cautiously above one of the great roots.

Clinging to the great root which had been her seat, I watched for what seemed an interminable time.

He crouched on the jungle floor, peering around a great root of a board tree.

With one significant exception: there was the Coventree, rising above the region where they had seen its great central root.

Ours is the best silver in all this part of the world, and a great root of our wealth.

He was speaking slowly, examining the openings between the great roots.

Their great roots spread from the wall to the water.

Joan sat on a natural seat formed by gnarled great roots of the Tree.

But close under the cliff there stood, still living and strong, two tall trees with great roots that spread from the wall to the water's edge.