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Pructus Posted 18 years ago
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A hundred feet of tree
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00 A hundred feet of tree, the old pine's top half, lay partly submerged in our shallow cove. 02 br
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00 The pine tree was actually 2 hundred feet tall? 02 br
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00 It's hard to believe for a pine tree to be 200 feet tall...... 02 br
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00 A hundred feet of tree, the old pine's top half, lay partly submerged in our shallow cove. 02 br
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00 That is from Stephen King's Mist..... 02 br
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0 Hi Pructus 02 br 00 The sentence doesn't say exactly how tall the tree was, but presumably the height was well over 100 feet. ) 02 br 00 If I were to say "the old pine's top half", the word 'half' would not be intended as a precise measurement. Instead, I would be referring to the top 01 u 00 part 02 u 00 of the tree, and I would be approximating that the top 01 u 00 part 02 u 00 was at least half (but probably less than three quarters) of the total height of the tree.
- 0 Hi Pructus 02 br 00 The sentence doesn't say exactly how tall the tree was, but presumably the height was well over 100 feet.
- ) 02 br 00 If I were to say "the old pine's top half", the word 'half' would not be intended as a precise measurement.
- Instead, I would be referring to the top 01 u 00 part 02 u 00 of the tree, and I would be approximating that the top 01 u 00 part 02 u 00 was at least half (but probably less than three quarters) of the total height of the tree.
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0 Hi Pructus 02 br
00 The sentence doesn't say exactly how tall the tree was, but presumably the height was well over 100 feet. (The White Pine, for example, can grow to 150 feet or more.) 02 br
00 If I were to say "the old pine's top half", the word 'half' would not be intended as a precise measurement. Instead, I would be referring to the top 01 u 00 part 02 u
00 The sentence doesn't say exactly how tall the tree was, but presumably the height was well over 100 feet. (The White Pine, for example, can grow to 150 feet or more.) 02 br
00 If I were to say "the old pine's top half", the word 'half' would not be intended as a precise measurement. Instead, I would be referring to the top 01 u 00 part 02 u
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0 I don't quite understand how the 01 b 00 top 02 b 00 half was submerged in whatever and not the 01 b 00 lower 02 b 00 one ... Was is horizontal, was the tree felled? 0-
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0 My presumption was that the tree had fallen (for whatever reason), and the top of it landed in the water. I've seen trees laying in a river (or some other body 02 br
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