The osier ropes would break, the fir trunks torn asunder would drift under the hard crust, and the unhappy people would have no refuge but the ice blocks themselves.
In places, weather-stripped fir trunks protruded, indicating that the avalanche had occurred some years earlier.
NYLAN tapped the last wedge into place, ensuring that the fourth fir trunk would remain in place over the stone culvert.
She looked at the mighty fir trunks, most of them now lying on the ground.
The platform is made of oak and sits on six douglas fir trunks which, together with an upper platform framework, form a pyramid shape.
He ran his gang of banshees whooping up that fir trunk like a squirrel up a sapling, and branches rained all over the Magnum Seven.
In addition, a portion of the river was moved further north, and 3,000 fir trunks were pounded in to a depth of 20 meters as foundations for the facility's new buildings.
With that blast of language, Ziller stepped back against a fir trunk to gain a slightly more distant perspective on the thirty-foot hot dog.
The Story Girl leaned that brown head of hers against the fir trunk behind her, and looked up at the apple-green sky through the dark boughs above us.
Powered by a small contingent of otters, the fir trunk swept onward smoothly.