I say temporarily because the problem is likely to recur, though it hadn't happened in the last seven years; his clearing the pipe brought up a lot of tree-root material, and his educated guess is that the pipe has a bad crack in it (we think from the big tree that the city replaced, three summers ago). ❋ Melted_snowball (2008)
It's possible a large EMP blast could knock out the electrical Eywa tree-root network at the new site, making it a lot safer for them. ❋ Unknown (2009)
I believe she thought I was like a smooth and bare precipice, which offered neither jutting stone nor tree-root, nor tuft of grass to aid the climber. ❋ Unknown (2006)
This bore unexpected fruit shortly after her charge into the arboreal unknown, having slowed to a tired jog, had ended in a headlong tumble over an exposed tree-root. ❋ Brookmyre, Christopher, 1968- (2004)
The spur of the officer caught in a tree-root, he went down backwards with a crash, the middle of his back thudding sickeningly against a sharp-edged tree-base, the pot flying away. ❋ Unknown (2003)
Another tree-root saved him, his fingers curling round it. ❋ Gemmell, David (1995)
His foot struck a tree-root hidden by snow and he was pitched forward. ❋ Gemmell, David (1995)
On the downhill run his tired legs betrayed him and missing his footing he stumbled, fell and rolled down the slope, coming up hard against a tree-root which gouged his side. ❋ Gemmell, David (1988)
Frodo was in the water close to the edge, and a great tree-root seemed to be over him and holding him down, but he was not struggling. ❋ Tolkien, J. R. R. (1965)
Frodo woke up first, and found that a tree-root had made a hole in his back, and that his neck was stiff. ❋ Tolkien, J. R. R. (1965)
He clambered on to a great tree-root that wound down into the stream, and stooping drew up some water in his cupped hands. ❋ Tolkien, J. R. R. (1954)
On she went trying to catch him, till finally he slipped round a tree-root and was seen no more. ❋ M. T. W. (N/A)
There was one spot more sacred to him than any other in the world, and that was at the old tree-root on Almondbury Common, where, years before, he found the blessing of Divine pardon. ❋ F. Jewell (N/A)
In another, an innocent-looking tree-root projected from the earth. ❋ Fannie E. Newberry (N/A)
Ghost very soon gave in; the extraction of a single tree-root settled him; he pleaded illness, and retired to his hammock, but was considerably vexed when he heard the Yankee propose a bullock hunting expedition, in which, as a sick man, he could not decently take part. ❋ Various (N/A)
But in the dusk he did not notice a long, twisted tree-root that straggled between him and his desire. ❋ Frances Browne Arthur (N/A)
Walking with my old friends round the garden, I found in every earth-plot and tree-root the arenas of an active and adventurous life in early boyhood .... ❋ Maisie Ward (1932)
You sit in a hollow formed by a curving tree-root, rest your back against the tree-trunk, and are very contented. ❋ Edwin Carlile Litsey (1922)
[christopher] [went] to the [forest] for a grassy tree root ❋ Rottenoysterwitharagingnathan (2009)
[My girl] [gave] me an [American tree root] last night and we both enjoyed it. ❋ The Name Is D (2015)
