furze

How To Use furze In A Sentence

• They are lined with a soft silky cotton fibre; and composed, externally, of a woolly kind of furze, bound together with which appears also to be spider's web. The Western World Picturesque Sketches of Nature and Natural History in North and South America
• If I had so sweet a place, I would plant brambles, briers, blackthorn, furze, crataegus, every kind of spinous growth, inside my gates, and never let anybody lop them. Mary Anerley
• People pull up in their cars, run behind the furze and dump everything out of sight.
• The walls, not only of the rickyard, but of the surrounding fields were warm to the touch, for the dry furze growing along them had caught fire from the blowing sparks, so that at one time the fields had been outlined with fire. Secret Bread
• Another male swan had its left foot hacked off, and last weekend, two cygnets were found orphaned near Furze Hill.
• The cuckoo is not to be seen on the furze; the leaves are withering and the trees complaining of the cold. The Kiltartan Poetry Book: Prose Translations from the Irish
• With daffodils, those welcome harbingers of Spring, surging through the top soil in local gardens, roses, daisies, furze, etc. in full bloom as the seasons truly merge, the Yuletide spirit was late arriving this year.
• To protect themselves from predation they like rough land such as heathland, and coastal terrain with good cover, such as that provided by furze (gorse) and other dense shrubbery. Ducks, dragons, and dictionaries
• Heathcliff is: an unreclaimed creature, without refinement, without cultivation: an arid wilderness of furze and whinstone. Wuthering Heights
• What a difference — Drowsy — Maze of bushes — Housekeeping — Sticks and furze — The driftway — Account of stock — Anvil and bellows — Twenty years. Lavengro