His target was a chunk of log set on top of a tree stump.

The logs set in the hearth previously had died into a wall of red-banked coals that provided a gentle and welcome heat to the room.

The dacha leased by the American embassy was a modest two-story country house built of logs, set on a ridge overlooking this valley in the woods southwest of Moscow.

It's a pile of stones and logs on both sides of the road, and a log set on a post so it can block the road.

Mykel looked from the dark main house, its shutters fastened tight despite the warmth of the evening, toward Bhoral, who sat on a sawed-off log set on end across from his captain.

Over it went a - narrow drawbridge and then one was confronted with a high palisade of logs set in the ground.

He eased four golds from his purse onto the flat log set beside the ironmonger's door.

The tiled hearth on the south wall held several logs set on a pair of heavy iron andirons, but it had been weeks since Secca had needed a fire.

Balthus grasped the points of the upright logs set in the sun- dried mud and scrambled up on them, ignoring the havoc done his skin.

The term has also been used to describe wooden logs set into the beaches of the English Channel and the Atlantic Ocean to disrupt amphibious landings of troops.