"Interlacement" Quotes from Famous Books
... the year, when the trees were dried up by a tropical heat, the forest caught fire instantaneously, in such a manner that the conflagration extended itself both by the trunks of the trees and by their higher branches, whose interlacement favoured its progress. It even appeared that the current of flame spread more rapidly among the summits of the trees than the current of ... — The Secret of the Island • W.H.G. Kingston (translation from Jules Verne) |