Enormous elm-tree boles did stoop and lean.    From LearnThat.org.  [Tennyson.]

Rub off some gold to let the red bole show through.    From Wordnik.com.  [Gorky Park]

I sighed and sat back against the bole of the tree.    From Wordnik.com.  [Prayers To Broken Stones]

She tried to ease back, but the bole was behind her.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Ideal Bride]

Hid thief-like first, now grips the tough tree-bole.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Georgics] Reference

And on a bole of the tree there was a bason of copper.    From Wordnik.com.  [King Arthur's Knights The Tales Re-told for Boys & Girls] Reference

Neither in limb nor bole was there a single cavity where a.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Bird Study Book] Reference

"No tree has so fair a bole and so handsome an instep as the beech.".    From Wordnik.com.  [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 10, No. 58, August, 1862] Reference

The sound was the sound of an axe sinking deep into the bole of a pine.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Satan Bug]

He and Ingegerd came around the bole of a tree as thick as he was tall.    From Wordnik.com.  [Bridge of the Separator]

For bole and bough are burning now, the furnace roars — we go to war!.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Lord of the Rings]

However that might be, leave it he did, in the tussocky grass braced against the bole.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Devil's Novice]

They had reached the pine tree, and she put out her hand to steady herself on the bole.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Rim of the Desert] Reference

There was no fire at the foot of the tree, for she could see the base of the bole plainly.    From Wordnik.com.  [Nan Sherwood at Pine Camp or, the Old Lumberman's Secret] Reference

He slipped the knife in between the ends of the wires and the bole, clawing, prying, twisting.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Rim of the Desert] Reference

I have seen one or two of these having a capacity of fifty barrels dug from a single tulip bole.    From Wordnik.com.  [Lippincott's Magazine, August, 1885] Reference

I threw her a blanket, which she wrapped around her, and we cowered close to the bole of a pine.    From Wordnik.com.  [Montlivet] Reference

This left a low and narrow portal under the clean bole between the first thick bough and the wall.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Rim of the Desert] Reference

Then again beneath the bole of a great tree on the very edge of the wood more prints were discovered.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Lord of the Rings]

Trent whipped out his sword and backed toward the black bole of an oilbarrel tree, facing the monster.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Spell For Chameleon]

He joined her, shoulder to shoulder; they leaned back against a bole and poured wine into silver cups.    From Wordnik.com.  [Two in Time]

"Too vague," he said, and suddenly he hefted his spear and plunged the point deep into the bole of an oak.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Fortress of the Pearl]

Their most graceful pirogues were dug from its bole, and its odorous bark served to roof their rude houses.    From Wordnik.com.  [Lippincott's Magazine, August, 1885] Reference

She put out her hand, steadying herself on the bole of the pine, then: "I've wanted to tell you," she began.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Rim of the Desert] Reference