A few scraggly trees tried to shade the house but gave no protection to the bare, trampled yard.
She stopped at the line of scraggly trees, then wrenched open the door.
A bird came and sat in one of the scraggly trees and sang.
Not too far away, under a scraggly tree, were four holes in the ground.
A wall of rock, with scraggly trees growing from cracks and clefts, loomed up before them.
Steep slopes covered with scraggly trees and bushes reached to the water's edge.
Ten minutes trudging uphill through scraggly trees brought them to a cave near the top of the rocky hill.
The house was visible now through the scraggly trees.
The forest, bracken, scraggly trees, scrub bush flashed by in a blur.
Very pretty it looked too, and such a difference from home, where there's one little scraggly tree per farm if you're lucky.