cypress knee

He was about five feet seven, but as tough as a cypress knee.

Now the problem of getting both the boy's legs on one side of the cypress knee was presented to them.

They saw Tad sitting on a cypress knee, gazing down into the black pool, a satisfied grin on his face.

Lilly now grabbed one of the truant feet, jerking it over to the other side of the cypress knee against its mate.

The bullet extracted from the cypress knee, has been tried in the barrel of his gun, and found to fit exactly.