Now and then one reached an area in which the trees were very high indeed, with clean boles running to a height of thirty to forty feet.
"Reminiscences of a South African Pioneer"
W. C. Scully
One evening I sat down on the green bank opposite this tangle when the low sun behind me shone level into the mass of rock and rough boles and branches, and fixing my eyes on the black centre of the mass I encountered a pair of crimson eyes staring back into mine.
"Afoot in England"
W.H. Hudson
The sunset was just dying out, and its flaming radiance seemed to exaggerate the wide sweep of the waters, the white stretch of sand, and the lithe, swaying boles of the cocoanut groves.
"The Locusts' Years"
Mary Helen Fee