There was a momentary hush, and then, as if a school bell had sounded, the tree erupted in chatter.

One moment all would be still, the next the trees would erupt with feeding flocks in dazzling plumage - barbets, hornbills and the Bornean blue flycatcher.

The heat that had been focused into the blast was so intense that nearby trees erupted in flame.

Suddenly the trees erupted with motion and sound.

The scene begins to grow increasingly distant as trees erupt from the landscape, obscuring the view as they continued to appear, closer and closer.

Along the squiggle line of the map, all around the crater, trees erupted, splintered, soared, crashed.

The damp earth beside the Bursar stirred and a tree erupted, growing so fast that the rain steamed off the unfolding leaves.

He was staring down at them in horror when the trees on the eastern side of the road erupted in clothyard shafts!

But the trees and bushes all around them erupted, armed men boiling out of them with blood-curdling battle cries, leaping toward the children and catching them up with yells of triumph.

Sun and moon embrace, daylight is lodged within stars, trees erupt at night.