A sickly mandarin tree grew in the cracked half of an old water barrel.

We distort a dozen sickly trees into unaccustomed shapes in a little yard no bigger than a dining room, and then surely they look absurd enough.

Cancerous nodules contorted the second skull like knots on a sickly tree.

The dome of the Institute glitters, the sickly trees seem to wither, their leaves wax red and grey, a faint warm wind is walking the streets.

They seemed to be moving through a sparse forest of sickly, leprous trees which had caught some blight.

Light streams into the forest where sickly trees have toppled.

The hair of its head was yellow and its body was long and curving like unto a sickly tree.

Only a few sickly trees are left standing in the parched rust-red earth.

When a team turned up for five days of jackhammering, workers took the opportunity to apply a chain saw to a sickly tree with a 37-inch-diameter trunk.

A cold rain fell lightly, but incessantly, on slugs and hunters alike, and also on the spindly form of the sickly last tree.