But machine-gun fire never ceased from the higher ground, from tall masts of branchless trees, from shell-craters beyond the reach of our men.
"From Bapaume to Passchendaele, 1917"
Philip Gibbs
All around us the Hundred Trees rose, branchless pillars so immense that four men, hands joined, could not have encircled one with their arms.
"The Planet Savers"
Marion Zimmer Bradley
When I visited the reef at Tahiti, although it was low water, the surf was too violent for me to see the living masses; but, according to what I heard from some intelligent native chiefs, they resemble in their rounded and branchless forms, those on the margin of Keeling atoll.
"Coral-Reefs"
Darwin, Charles