to net a tree

The blue line starts one foot away from the wall.

The eddies and back-water of the Pilcomayo's stronger flow had carried the raft and lodged it high up above the mouth of the lesser stream, leaving an extension interstayed by the roots that reached into deep water; alongside of the raft, in the smaller stream, the steamer moored.

If M W, at any time seemes to make some slender explication of himselfe in some of these particulars, he soone misfigures againe his owne expression with words of manifest inconsistency therewith: so that the setled judgement of the Author in the Question controverted, must be some where else inquired after, then in his discourse: This I can say of mine own knowledge, that when I was with him, pressing him to know, whither by righteoousnesse of Christ (in his opinion) he meant the righteousnesse of his nature, consisting of inward habits or dispositions of grace and holinesse; or the righteousnesse of his life, consisting of those righteous acts, which he performed in obedience to the Law of God, or whither he included them both, he absolutely denied, that he meant either the one or the other, or both together.