storm-felled

Updated: May 12, 2025

A crow flies over the woods, and I warn Madame not to go outside the hut or she will be devoured. But if fresh snow has fallen, the trees and copses and the great rocks take on giant, unearthly shapes, as though they had come from another world in the night. A storm-felled pine with its root torn up looks like a witch petrified in the act of performing strange rites.

Knut Hamsun - Look Back on Happiness

Now and then a little vista caught his view and held him for long minutes while he seemed to be comparing its reality with pictures of it stored within his memory; again he paused when he discovered that some whim of tramping mountaineers or roaming cattle, some landslide born of winter frosts; some blockade of trees storm-felled, had changed the course of an old path.

Charles Turner Dazey - In Old Kentucky