They are designed to stump Britain's brightest teenagers to see if they are worthy of a place at Oxford University.
When he was trying to release himself, he lost his whole tail except the stump.
If it is the Terror, as many suspect, it would give the story a peculiarly American and ironic angle—for, in a turn that would stump even a historical novelist, the Terror was one of the ships that bombarded Baltimore on that famous night when, in the dawn's early light, despite the rockets and bombs, our flag, if nothing else, was still there.
"Over here by the oak stump.
When he was trying to release himself, he lost his whole tail except the stump.
This enragedhim at last, and he went and bit off the tail of every goat, as maybe seen to this day by the stump.
It could be opened either at the front or at the back, and at every side and corner—a perfect work of art, and yet only an old alder stump in appearance.
Even if he ate me up stump, stalk, and all, and I had to dissolve in his body, it would be a happy death," said the cucumber.
" "The princess wept and lamented aloud; her tears moistened the elder stump, which was really not an elder stump but the Marsh King himself, he who in marshy ground lives and rules.
She had been but a short time in the wood when night came on, and she quite lost the path; so she laid herself down on the soft moss, offered up her evening prayer, and leaned her head against the stump of a tree.
