Word: trunkful
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Impulsively, I joined her in embracing the massive trunk. Even with our arms encircling its wonderful girth, our fingertips barely touched...
...though the trunk's rough, wrinkled bark pressed into our chests, our stomachs, our knees, we stayed there for a long time...
...Usually in the trunk of a car or quite often in a secret compartment built under the bed of the truck and bolted in. They would come in, and they'd take this wide plastic tape, shipping tape, and they'd tape you up. Then they would wrap a towel around your head this way and over your eyes. You were just like a mummy...
Will and his house were more interesting than the discussion of direct gain and thermal performance. The whole first floor of the house was one open living area, from bedroom to kitchen, and a fireplace rises from the center of the room. The fireplace and chimney are a twisting, trunk-like work of masonry, made of brick with veins of rocks cutting through. Picture an old gnarled oak tree, substitute brick and stone for the wood, and you have an idea what the fireplace looks like...
Television cannot convey the awkwardness and impossibility of an elephant standing on its head. After all, an elephant that climbs onto a small table, or an elephant holding a woman in its trunk, is still unmistakably an elephant. But an elephant that rolls forward, shoots its hind legs up, plants the head, and stays vertical looks like a pudgy younger brother showing...