...Here and there, dotted over the surface, are little islands, on which grow stunted date-bushes and scraggy trees...
David Livingstone 「Missionary Travels and Researches in South Africa」
...Thesetongues of forest get more and more heavily hung with lichen, and thetrees thinner and more stunted, towards their ends...
Mary H. Kingsley 「Travels in West Africa」
...In some parts of this extensive waste theground is covered with low stunted shrubs, which serve aslandmarks for the caravans, and furnish the camels with a scantyforage...
Mungo Park 「Travels in the Interior of Africa, Vol. 1 [of 2]」
...Doubtlessthe modern ponies of Ireland, Iceland, and Shetland are descendantsof the original Przewalskii type and not, as isoften claimed, true horses stunted by rigors of climate andscant fare...
Worrallo Whitney 「A Guide for the Study of Animals」
...According to Fitch (1960:182), many litters of copperheads born in captivity are stunted...
Ray D. Burkett 「Natural History of Cottonmouth Moccasin, Agkistrodon piscovorus (Reptilia)」
..." When nestingthis Warbler frequents stunted spruce forests, placingits nest in these trees a few feet above the ground, andlaying 4-5 white, brown-marked eggs the latter part ofJune...
Frank M. Chapman 「What Bird is That?」
...These pigs on the Paramos are small and stunted...
Charles Darwin 「The Variation of Animals and Plants Under Domestication, Vol. I.」
...If salt, in places devoid of it, was notfurnished to them by man, they became stunted, unfruitful, and theherds soon disappeared...
Ambrose Blacklock 「A Treatise on Sheep:」
...The tusks of a castrated boar never grow like those of the naturalanimal, but always have a dwarfed, stunted appearance...
Robert Jennings 「Sheep, Swine, and Poultry」
...It was merely a collection of stunted but thick-growing willows...
R.M. Ballantyne 「The Dog Crusoe and his Master」
...Above 12,000 feet the firs become stunted and dwarfed,on account of the low temperatures that prevail, and juniper and birchare the characteristic trees...
Douglas Dewar 「Birds of the Indian Hills」
...He was too weak for a groom, too small for a coachman, too ugly for apostillion, too stunted for a footman, too light for a ploughman, toouseless-looking for almost anything...
R. S. Surtees 「Mr. Sponge's Sporting Tour」
...Thorneybush Gorse was a large eight-acre cover, formed partly of gorse andpartly of stunted blackthorn, with here and there a sprinkling of Scotchfirs...
R. S. Surtees 「Mr. Sponge's Sporting Tour」
...These animals, as well as some stunted trees, at times appeared suspended in the air, and magnified far beyond natural size...
Mayne Reid 「The Giraffe Hunters」
...The first part of our journey was through open woods of black-jack, whose stunted forms afforded no shade, but only shut off the breeze which might otherwise have fanned us...
Mayne Reid 「The Hunters' Feast」
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