But in heavy snow, when deadfall is buried and wet, a fire can be hard to spark and difficult to maintain. From Wordnik.com. [Learn Two Snow Shelters That Could Save Your Life] Reference
Another "deadfall" for taking capercailzie in Norway is described by. From Wordnik.com. [Practical Taxidermy A manual of instruction to the amateur in collecting, preserving, and setting up natural history specimens of all kinds. To which is added a chapter upon the pictorial arrangement of museums. With additional instructions in modelling and artistic taxidermy.] Reference
"And I hope you get caught in some kind of deadfall and have to come screaming to the cops.". From Wordnik.com. [Out Like a Light] Reference
The road that had been cut off by a huge deadfall. From Wordnik.com. [The Lightkeeper]
Deer ran about 100 yards and piled into a deadfall. From Wordnik.com. [Live from the SHOT Show: New Gun Reviews] Reference
Nearby was some of the dry deadfall from the woodpile. From Wordnik.com. [The Plains of Passage]
Northerns like structure like rocks and deadfall trees. From Wordnik.com. [Im going to canada on friday and i was wondering if its possible to catch minnows in the lakes?] Reference
Rourke turned the bike hard right to miss a deadfall tree trunk. From Wordnik.com. [The Doomsayer]
The deadfall: an enormous boulder, held in place by large chocks. From Wordnik.com. [The Legacy of Heorot]
Balance the sticks as shown underneath the weight of the deadfall. From Wordnik.com. [Field & Streams Ultimate Winter Survival Tips] Reference
Then he hides the skis in a deadfall, for they would be a giveaway. From Wordnik.com. [The Towers of the Sunset]
A black vale below led past a field of rubble and a forest deadfall. From Wordnik.com. [Time Streams]
Five days after we struck camp we caught a black bear in a deadfall. From Wordnik.com. [Black Beaver The Trapper] Reference
Dale expected an unclimbable hill or deadfall to stop him at any turn. From Wordnik.com. [A Winter Haunting]
A larger grendel climbed one of the bigger boulders left by the deadfall. From Wordnik.com. [The Legacy of Heorot]
Sitka clearing strewn with deadfall and under brittle logs a teem of grubs. From Wordnik.com. [THE BRAIN OF A POET] Reference
They couldn't clear deadfall any faster because Black Elk was losing ground. From Wordnik.com. [Firestorm]
So when he heard the deadfall "go," it sounded as loud as a peal of thunder. From Wordnik.com. [The Silver Gryphon]
"We'll have to collect stones and sticks, and maybe dig a pit for a deadfall.". From Wordnik.com. [A Spell For Chameleon]
"I was setting a deadfall and let it fall on me," Old Hugh explained cheerfully. From Wordnik.com. [Lonesome Dove]
She added twigs, and smallwood, and when it was going well, a stick of deadfall. From Wordnik.com. [The Plains of Passage]
It was confused, then looked at the tree it was about to fell, then at the deadfall. From Wordnik.com. [The Brothers' War]
Rourke walked away from her and sat on a deadfall log in the middle of the clearing. From Wordnik.com. [Total War]
An Adrienne Rich-type took the bait, and scurried through where the deadfall hit her. From Wordnik.com. [Trapping for Poetesses] Reference
Crews were already clearing away the deadfall but trees had come down by the hundreds. From Wordnik.com. [Firestorm]
They slept sitting up, leaning together before a small fire with their backs to a deadfall. From Wordnik.com. [The Pillars of Creation]
They would only enter the fringes of it, to feed their pigs on acorns, to pick up deadfall. From Wordnik.com. [Fiddler Fair]
By the time she scrambled past the deadfall to the house, the rifle fire was a steady crackle. From Wordnik.com. [The Legacy of Heorot]
Driftwood, deadfall, and the green wood used in the construction of the fence were piled nearby. From Wordnik.com. [The Mammoth Hunters]
"I wish we could get them all with a single deadfall here, " he muttered, and looked up hopefully. From Wordnik.com. [Owlflight]
When I got to the last of the logs and the last of the deadfall pile I let Ally know the bad news. From Wordnik.com. [outfoxed Diary Entry] Reference
On his way back to the road he found a stout piece of oak deadfall, dry and hard, to use as a club. From Wordnik.com. [The Pillars of the Earth]
Maneck lay unmoving under the deadfall, the whole lower part of its body crushed to a bloody, pulpy paste. From Wordnik.com. [Asimov's Science Fiction]
There was a deadfall rigged of wood that had been tripped, but there was no sign that anything had been caught in it. From Wordnik.com. [The Silver Gryphon]
Rourke missed a deadfall, half stumbled, and caught himself, slithering across the mud, then getting half to his feet. From Wordnik.com. [The Quest]
He crashed over a deadfall of grass and bramble and downed branches, sprinted down a tunnel of overhanging willow and sumac. From Wordnik.com. [The Gunslinger]
The ground was rough and uneven, crisscrossed by ravines and gullies, blocked entirely in places by deadfall and heavy brush. From Wordnik.com. [Ilse Witch]
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