Anyone could see it was just a stupid old black stump.

The kindest hopper this side of the black stump.

But now, with a winter almost done, the trees were thick black stumps standing on an unlimited vista of blue ice.

Others saw black stumps and complained of breath that was rotten.

As he spoke, Ned noticed that the man's teeth were black stumps.

He had no teeth, just two black stumps, like Tootsie's.

A twisted, broken black stump rose thirty yards from me, in the field's center.

There had been mighty forests, now miles of petrified black stumps.

Places west of this point are said to be 'beyond the black stump'.

Why do they not get to work and dig up these long rows of black and crooked stumps which I see on every hand?