...Here and there, dotted over the surface, are little islands, on which grow stunted date-bushes and scraggy trees...
David Livingstone 「Missionary Travels and Researches in South Africa」
...On the other hand, if one istempted to stray away from the river, be it only for a few yards, onecomes immediately into the parched, thorny wilderness of stunted,leafless trees...
J. H. Patterson 「The Man-eaters of Tsavo and Other East African Adventures」
...Thesetongues of forest get more and more heavily hung with lichen, and thetrees thinner and more stunted, towards their ends...
Mary H. Kingsley 「Travels in West Africa」
...At a green oasis, El Wueshkeh, where grew a few stunted palm-trees, their camel-drivers killed a number of a venomous lizard, called “bu-keshash...
W.H.G. Kingston 「Great African Travellers」
... It is quite true that our lifeis stunted by Puritanism, and that the latter is killing what isnatural and healthy in our impulses...
Emma Goldman 「Anarchism and Other Essays」
...Doubtlessthe modern ponies of Ireland, Iceland, and Shetland are descendantsof the original Przewalskii type and not, as isoften claimed, true horses stunted by rigors of climate andscant fare...
Worrallo Whitney 「A Guide for the Study of Animals」
...The ranch housestood in the winding bottom of a creek; theflanking hills were covered with stunted cedar,while dwarf cottonwood and box elder grewby the pools in the half-dried creek bed...
Various 「Hunting in Many Lands」
...It is asingular fact that pullets hatched verylate in autumn, and therefore of stunted growth, will lay nearly asearly as those hatched in spring...
Robert Jennings 「Sheep, Swine, and Poultry」
...Above 12,000 feet the firs become stunted and dwarfed,on account of the low temperatures that prevail, and juniper and birchare the characteristic trees...
Douglas Dewar 「Birds of the Indian Hills」
...With them we sometimes find the lawful owner, the grub-worm of the Halictus, but stunted and emaciated with fasting...
J. Henri Fabre 「Bramble-bees and Others」
...Insomewhat stunted form, and with partial replacement of its species bythose of more xeric habit, it extended up onto hillsides slopingnorth, east or west, and onto the adjacent hilltop edges...
Henry S. Fitch 「The Forest Habitat of the University of Kansas Natural History Reservation」
...At its base they saw growing a grove of stunted trees...
Mayne Reid 「The Giraffe Hunters」
...These animals, as well as some stunted trees, at times appeared suspended in the air, and magnified far beyond natural size...
Mayne Reid 「The Giraffe Hunters」
...The first part of our journey was through open woods of black-jack, whose stunted forms afforded no shade, but only shut off the breeze which might otherwise have fanned us...
Mayne Reid 「The Hunters' Feast」
...Just below him,in the top of a stunted tree growing out of the face of the rock was ahuge mass of sticks that formed the nest, with a great mother-eaglestanding by, feeding the little ones...
William J Long 「Wilderness Ways」
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