How To Use Brushwood In A Sentence
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The brushwood is a mixture of twigs and sticks that the men have collected over the course of days, sleeping rough at night.
Radio Free Europe / Radio Liberty
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She fought through the tangle of brushwood trying to catch up with her fleeing friend.
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Valleys of almost Alpine verdure are succeeded by tracts of chestnut wood and scattered pines, or deep and flowery brushwood -- the 'maquis' of Corsica, which yields shelter to its traditional outlaws and bandits.
Sketches and Studies in Italy and Greece, First Series
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Sometimes besiegers piled up firewood and brushwood at the gates or walls of their intended target in order to start fires that, they hoped, would damage their enemies' defenses.
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a straight avenue through a disfeatured park -- the park of Chambord has twenty-one miles of circumference; a very sandy, scrubby, melancholy plantation, in which the timber must have been cut many times over and is to-day a mere tangle of brushwood.
A Little Tour of France
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Brushwood associations on the peat soils are composed mainly of grey willow Salix cinerea, dwarf birch Betula humilis and Pinus silvestris.
Belovezhskaya Pushcha National Park, Belarus
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Comprises seven main vegetation types: closed forest including rain forest and tall eucalypt forest dominated by satinay and brushwood; blackbutt forest; scribbly gum and wallum banksia communities; communities of wet sites often dominated by Melaleuca spp.; coastal communities; Callitris forest and woodlands; and mangrove and salt marsh.
Fraser Island, Australia
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There were the beams of their flashlights, actually probing through the loose brushwood of his shelter, getting in his eyes.
KARA KUSH
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She fought through the tangle of brushwood trying to catch up with her fleeing friend.
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The trackway, made of bundles of brushwood pegged down with stakes, was just wide enough for a single person or animal to walk along.
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After the usual preliminaries a smiling countrywoman appeared, bearing a platter on which nestled a large sea bass in a bed of tinder-dry brushwood.
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The Indians carried first our canoes and then our stores through the brushwood, which is very thick at this point, while we four whites, our rifles on our shoulders, walked between them and any danger coming from the woods.
The Lost World
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Close to us, hid in brushwood, was our own piquet; about 1000 yards from us was the Russian piquet.
Journal Kept During The Russian War: From The Departure Of The Army From England In April 1854, To The Fall Of Sebastopol
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These South Jersey soils are easily cleared of brushwood or standing timber, and of stumps, with a hand or horse-power puller which is a cheap affair, and the wood is salable in all this part of the State at remunerative prices, often bringing more than the original cost of the land.
Three Acres and Liberty
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The primitive navigation by reed or brushwood rafts, practiced in this almost streamless district, affords no means of retreat for mounted robbers; so the raiding season opens with the fall of the river. [
Influences of Geographic Environment On the Basis of Ratzel's System of Anthropo-Geography
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The boat was found next to a causeway - a double line of posts packed with brushwood and stones - running from the shore to one of the islands.
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Its name is thought to mean the rough ground covered with brushwood and undergrowth.
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Habitat types characteristic to this area include petrophitic steppes with shrubs and brushwoods, granite rock pinewoods in the low mountains, and microphyllous woods associated with lakes and wetlands.
Kazakh upland
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they built a fire of brushwood
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Even the brushwood is a fruit tree, namely, the guava, which from its abundance is as noxious as a weed.
The Beauties of Nature and the Wonders of the World We Live In
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Suddenly, very near, we heard the great burst of the hallali -- horses, dogs, riders, all joining in; and pushing through the brushwood we found ourselves on the edge of a big pond, almost a lake.
Chateau and Country Life in France
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Comprises seven main vegetation types: closed forest including rain forest and tall eucalypt forest dominated by satinay and brushwood; blackbutt forest; scribbly gum and wallum banksia communities; communities of wet sites often dominated by Melaleuca spp.; coastal communities; Callitris forest and woodlands; and mangrove and salt marsh.
Fraser Island, Australia
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Despite whether it was the suspicious friendliness of the strange man or his conclusions on his own childhood Nitrus leapt out of the brushwood at the man, determined to take him down… somehow.
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The old and disused graveyards present a problem more so, as weeds and brushwood have over the decades taken over.
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We found logs, brushwood, broken glass and syringes littering the floor and it's a mess.
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How delightful it was after descending along rugged paths to camp in luxuriant grass, and among brushwood which provided us with plenty of firewood.
With the Tibetans in Tent and Temple: Narrative of Four Years' Residence on the Tibetan Borders, and of a Journey into the Far Interior
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Florida pinhooker Dean de Renzo, representing Betty Moran's Pennsylvania-based Brushwood Farm, signed the sale ticket for Cotton Blossom, who is in foal to.
Thoroughbred News | BloodHorse.com
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After the usual preliminaries a smiling countrywoman appeared, bearing a platter on which nestled a large sea bass in a bed of tinder-dry brushwood gathered from the beach.
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Using this machine can fully utilize the rattan brushwood in forest areas.
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At our wooding-place, a mile above the Ruo, the water was three feet higher than it was when we were here in June; and on the night of the 6th it rose eighteen inches more, and swept down an immense amount of brushwood and logs which swarmed with beetles and the two kinds of shells which are common all over the African continent.
A Popular Account of Dr. Livingstone's Expedition to the Zambesi and Its Tributaries
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Fire danger becomes extreme when there is a lot of vegetation and brushwood in the forest combined with low relative air humidity, high air temperature and wind speed, and a low moisture content of vegetation and brushwood.
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By six o'clock they were invisible, both from the road and anywhere else, protected by layers of brushwood.
BARRACUDA 945
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He was in a cave, with a brushwood awning just covering the entrance.
KARA KUSH
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And now poor Stubb goes to bed upon a mattrass that is all too soft; would it were stuffed with brushwood!
Moby Dick; or the Whale
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They erected such corrals at intervals of approximately six-hour marches, always near drinking water, pasture and brushwood for the fire.
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Though Irineo would not trust anyone else to assist him on his expeditions, he won't let Fulgencio pack or even cook, only help load and herd the llamas, get water and gather brushwood for the fire.
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After they scrambled out of the grotto, the apostles conducted Ivan round the corner of the cliff, where the vertical granite wall turned into a less steep slope covered with thick brushwood.
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In Krinding - a makeshift camp of brushwood and plastic close to Sudan's border with Chad - the stories are all horribly similar.
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While they're generally expensive, they will last for years and are quick and simple to use, making them ideal for city gardens where collecting quantities of brushwood is simply out of the question.
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Now, metaphorically speaking, a brush may be taken as a miniature wood; the common use of the term brushwood is a proof of the general acceptance of the metaphor.
Russian Fairy Tales A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore
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(thus running out into the sea in steep promontories) occurs -- what they would call a 'chine' in the Isle of Wight; but instead of the soft south wind stealing up the woody ravine, as it does there, the eastern breeze comes piping shrill and clear along these northern chasms, keeping the trees that venture to grow on the sides down to the mere height of scrubby brushwood.
Sylvia's Lovers — Volume 1
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High entanglements (known as abatis) may be made by felling trees toward the enemy, and similar entanglements made of brushwood are useful in emergency.
Military Instructors Manual
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They pile up brushwood to dim her in lolloping flames.
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The colouring is so exquisite, the sky and clouds are so beautiful, the pine woods look at times the richest purple in the distance; and the foliage of the white birches, and brushwood, and grass near the shore, was of most vivid pale greens when we came up.
Leaves from Juliana Horatia Ewing's "Canada Home"
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In haste he pushed the box and what was in it under some brushwood which lay in the linhay; but Jack had been already seen.
Life's Little Ironies
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There were children paddling in the streams, and girls carrying brushwood bundles on their heads, and old men sitting in the shade, sucking at their silver hookahs.
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The same winds dry out the stacked brushwood, which settles imperceptiblyas a pheasant or a leveret, when surprised, settles itself stealthily into the ground.
Wildwood
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The demonic figures wearing ugly masks and straw and brushwood clothes are intended to scare away evil spirits.
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Brushwood Hill is the high, gorsy knoll of gravel against which Chester farmhouse is built.
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Don't broadcast my voice on Seda va Sima [IRIB Music channel] ever again: my voice is like brushwood and thorns, and it will forever remain brushwood and thorns!
Iran Election Live-Blogging (Wednesday June 17)
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Its simplest form had probably been a kind of fagot of brushwood, -- _ramazza_, or a besom, not much unlike the rapid locomotive of witches, who were called in old times _ramassières_, from their supposed practice of riding on a _ramée_, _ramasse_, or besom.
Notes and Queries, Number 79, May 3, 1851 A Medium of Inter-communication for Literary Men, Artists, Antiquaries, Genealogists, etc
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On the higher parts, brushwood takes the place of larger trees, with here and there a red cedar or an alerce pine.
Journal of researches into the geology and natural history of the various countries visited by H.M.S. Beagle
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He proposed that they should spend the winter cutting brushwood on a hillside some miles away for sale as fuel, and that they should then save the proceeds for investment.
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The demonic figures wearing ugly masks and straw and brushwood clothes are intended to scare away evil spirits.
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The bread is made on a fire with brushwood that you find; curiously, there is always wood to be had in the desert, although all you can see is sand.
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The harrow is a large bundle of brushwood, on which some one squats to weight it down.
High Albania
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It's said that in the old days the warriors of the Satsuma domain [in Kyushu] would strike a bundle of brushwood ten thousand times every day, but I could only manage about five hundred at best.
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The animal at last, through fatigue, stopped, and he found, by the glare of lightning, that he was in the neighbourhood of a hovel that hardly lifted itself up from the masses of dead leaves and brushwood which surrounded it.
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The demonic figures wearing ugly masks and straw and brushwood clothes are intended to scare away evil spirits.
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Gather those broad leaves, and all the rest, growing under the brushwood; unbrace his armour.
Imaginary Conversations and Poems A Selection
