How To Use Gorse In A Sentence
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It's a shared space and has heathers, ferns, gorse and many wild flowers (not at this time of year) growing on it.
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It's 159 yards from tee to green, but the real problem is that not only is the green surrounded by gorse and heather, but that the whole dip from tee to green is also deep, deep rough.
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It's not a particularly bright colour, nothing like the sunshine intensity of gorse, or a male brimstone's wings, not even as showy as the palest daffodil.
Country diary: Claxton, Norfolk
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The Old Course wasn't built, it simply evolved, a combination of scrubby seaside turf, wispy grasses, prickly gorse and rolling dunes.
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Like adventurers, we followed him up and up through the bracken, heather and gorse, thrashing the undergrowth aside with sticks.
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The non-intensive moor was lovely with some hazy silver birch, vivid green mosses, rushes, bilberries, bleached and tufted grasses and a touch of gorse.
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'Twas an open space we had to cross, dotted with gorsebushes; and the enemy's regiments, plain to see, drawn up in battalia on the slope above, which here was gentler than to the south and west.
The Splendid Spur
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Excavation ceased in the 1950s and the area is now overgrown with woodland, bracken and gorse which provides a habitat for birds, snakes and mammals.
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A hooked drive is instant trouble as thick gorse awaits.
The Sun
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Landowners who did not hunt were still expected to plant and maintain gorse coverts.
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Europeans, and it is certainly grand and interesting and in a certain sense beautiful, but not the calm, sweet, warm beauty of our own fields, and there is none of the brightness of our own flowers; a field of buttercups, a hill of gorse or of heather, a bank of foxgloves and a hedge of wild roses and purple vetches surpass in _beauty_ anything I have ever seen in the tropics.
Alfred Russel Wallace: Letters and Reminiscences, Vol. 1
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But the bird to look out for in the gorse and heather is the Dartford warbler.
Times, Sunday Times
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So she is understandably dismissive of the dismal gorse and whin on view outside the living room window of her Council house.
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Brown and gold among the green, purple flowers, the gorse in sunny dumps.
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Passing the youth hostel, we climbed through gorse and bracken to Port Eynon Point.
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I had to cut a track through hedgerows, manuka and gorse - you name it.
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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
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Dartmoor is all about green plains dotted with yellow gorse and ferns.
The Sun
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Gorse was ablaze with yellow blossom.
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Increasing numbers of walkers are attracted by the network of well-marked footpaths on the Portofino promontory to the west - a wild, rocky place bristling with myrtle, gorse, hawthorn and ilex.
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Here on the free-draining soil gorse proliferates and, year by year is gradually spreading across good grazing land, its impenetrable prickly branch structure ideal cover for rabbit burrows.
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Her horse shied violently at a gorse bush.
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Then he knelt by a bush of gorse, told his beads, and earnestly entreated direction and aid for himself, and protection for his sister; and when the sun grew so low as to make it time for a wanderer to seek harbour, he stained and daggled his gown in the mire and water of a peat-moss, so as to destroy its Oxford gloss, took a book in his hand, and walked towards the monastery, reciting Latin verses in the sing-song tone then universally followed.
The Caged Lion
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The choice of elm, gorse and mimosa reflects these extremes and reinforces the vegetation already present.
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Is there a difference between gorse and broom?
The Sun
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There's more moorland and open heath here than woodland, more gorse and heather than noble oak.
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All of the 62 types of flowers, plants and shrubs used in the work, such as ling heather, bearberry, foxglove and gorse, come from County Mayo, which was hit particularly hard by the Famine.
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The designers intend recreating not only the holes but the unique flora and fauna, such as gorse, heather and different types of grass, that make them so special.
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No matter, because a new fingerpost points down Potter Lane, a sunken track, wall and gorse each side with foxgloves ready to overwinter in the algae green rocks.
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The farmland had gone wild here, taken over by poison oak, beargrass, and dodder, besides the inevitable blackberry bushes and gorse.
Night World No. 1
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A tiny rill meandered beneath a stone slab and as I crossed this a lurking moorhen was startled into headlong escape downstream, soon hidden beneath a golden tangle of overhanging gorse.
Country diary: North Derbyshire
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We found it quite quickly, a patch of grass with yellow gorse bushes dotted here and there around, blue vetch and clover, bright red Herb Robert.
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Others seem to have taken their name from what bursts forth from the soil - Seevy is the local name for rushes while Winns means gorse.
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Dartmoor is all about green plains dotted with yellow gorse and ferns.
The Sun
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I shall make Madoc present at a Gorsedd in Powys, & must not omit to thank you for the knowledge I have gaind upon this & other branches of Welsh antiquities from your Llywarc Hen.
Letter 244
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The gorse and heather were ripped up and replaced by foreign grasses.
Times, Sunday Times
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Is there a difference between gorse and broom?
The Sun
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In a communal grave so newly dug in bloodstained gorse and bracken.
Never Forgotten Newsletter
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There was a thick border of heather and gorse between the rocky paths and the sea, and the band stopped here.
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The Senator remarked that the gorse was a very little place, -- for as they were on the side of an opposite hill they could see it all.
The American Senator
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Traders in Gorse Hill fear customers are shopping elsewhere because of a deluge of fast food outlets and takeaways.
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Later however, the men of the parish got together and cleared gorse and heather from the present festival field at Gurteen and sowed grass seed.
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Gorse and broom are used for cattle bedding and eucalyptus for firewood.
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In front of the beech hedge, a patch of un-cultivated land overflowed with flowering thyme, rosemary and gorse.
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A mosaic of heather, grass patches and burned-off gorse in the Ladder Hills creates a fashionable camouflage effect.
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Blackthorn blossom foams along the sides of shorn hedgerows but grows unchecked with willow catkins and flowering gorse bushes in neglected thickets which shelter the returned chiffchaff and blackcap.
Country diary: St Dominic, Tamar Valley
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You have torn your limbs with spines of gorse-flower, bramble and cytisus.
Arrow Music BY [Bryher].
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The shoemaker often took walks in the extensive town meadows, to gather groundsell and plantain for his canaries and gorse-linnets, and little
International Miscellany of Literature, Art and Science, Vol. 1, No. 3, Oct. 1, 1850
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As we approach Aberdeen the sun comes out - blue sky, white waves, yellow gorse, green firs and fields.
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Elsewhere, dozens of residents had to be evacuated in Gwent, Wales, where hundreds of mature trees, bracken, gorse and shrubs were destroyed.
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Finally we came to a plateau covered with a kind of gorse, and with laurel bushes scattered here and there; pushing through this, we wound, by a gradual ascent, to the summit of Whiteside, and the edge of the precipice.
The Great South; A Record of Journeys in Louisiana, Texas, the Indian Territory, Missouri, Arkansas, Mississippi, Alabama, Georgia, Florida, South Carolina, North Carolina, Kentucky, Tennessee, Virginia, West Virginia, and Maryland
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Vegetation such as gorse, heather and white grass is considered to be high fire risk while grassland is low risk.
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The majority of the land was covered in gorse and tea tree, and 50 percent of it was non-productive.
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The site was subsequently lost beneath a blanket of gorse and heather.
Times, Sunday Times
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Head east across hills of gorse and heather and you'll be rewarded with sublime clifftop views over Llandudno.
Times, Sunday Times
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Brambles, gorse and broom rapidly overtake untended ground and soon create an impenetrable terrain - ideal habitat for furtive species such as the wild boar and Iberian wolf which survive here.
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A third of it is open heathland, carpeted with purple heathers and spotted yellow with gorse.
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Gorse and furze are synonymous, but neither means the same as their Linnean binominal ulex europaeus.
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There's more moorland and open heath here than woodland, more gorse and heather than noble oak.
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Among their green robes may be seen thousands of beautiful wild-flowers, -- the sweet-scented laurustinus, all sorts of running vetches and wild sweet-pea, the delicate vases of dewy morning-glories, clusters of eglantine or sweetbrier roses, fragrant acacia-blossoms covered with bees and buzzing flies, the gold of glowing gorses, and scores of purple and yellow flowers, of which I know not the names.
The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 05, No. 31, May, 1860
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Dartmoor is all about green plains dotted with yellow gorse and ferns.
The Sun
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Head east across hills of gorse and heather and you'll be rewarded with sublime clifftop views over Llandudno.
Times, Sunday Times
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The trail is lined with gorse and dog rose.
Times, Sunday Times
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This is perfect walking country: hillsides carpeted with yellow gorse, crunchy patches of bracken scattered here and there, springy soil underfoot.
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There's more moorland and open heath here than woodland, more gorse and heather than noble oak.
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Glaisdale Low Moor was to our south, painted in subtle spring shades with the occasional gorse in full flower burning bush mode.
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The site was subsequently lost beneath a blanket of gorse and heather.
Times, Sunday Times
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But the bird to look out for in the gorse and heather is the Dartford warbler.
Times, Sunday Times
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The rewards: the most stunning blue sea, clashing vividly against the yellow gorse.
Times, Sunday Times
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Of the occupants, no sign, hence the chopper, scouring the gorse with a thermal imager.
Times, Sunday Times
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They plan to release the residents of Gorse Hill into the community or into other council owned accommodation.
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Wild gorse, myrtle, and stunted cedars rooted in cindery scree on the slopes.
Wildfire
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Among their green robes may be seen thousands of beautiful wild-flowers, -- the sweet-scented laurustinus, all sorts of running vetches and wild sweet-pea, the delicate vases of dewy morning-glories, clusters of eglantine or sweetbrier roses, fragrant acacia-blossoms covered with bees and buzzing flies, the gold of glowing gorses, and scores of purple and yellow flowers, of which I know not the names.
The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 05, No. 31, May, 1860
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In the exposed plantation known as Sentry Hill Wood, beech leaves are brown and the patch of Lloyd George's ground left as downland when a tax was imposed on reclamation is covered in rank bracken and bedraggled rosebay willowherb interspersed with gorse, rowan, willow and oak.
Country diary: St Mellion, Tamar Valley
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Dartmoor is all about green plains dotted with yellow gorse and ferns.
The Sun
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It's a shared space and has heathers, ferns, gorse and many wild flowers (not at this time of year) growing on it.
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Up to eight warblers may arrive in dense gorse thickets, particularly on clear, cold nights.
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Head east across hills of gorse and heather and you'll be rewarded with sublime clifftop views over Llandudno.
Times, Sunday Times
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For the remainder of the 1930s its members continued to hold services either at Stonehenge or Normanton Gorse, but in July rather than at midsummer.
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What’s good for the gorse is a goad for the garden.
Finnegans Wake
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East of the house was a long lawn, secluded from the open Park by a beautiful, wildly growing hedge of gorse, berberis, bramble, hawthorn, and wild roses.
Lady John Russell
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In front of the beech hedge, a patch of un-cultivated land overflowed with flowering thyme, rosemary and gorse.
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After lunch, I took a short walk along the path, and stopped behind a gorse bush, both for shelter from a cool wind, and to screen me from the birds.
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A bard of the Cornish Gorsedd, Gundry published Songs and dances of Cornwall in 1966, and used Cornish subjects, and folk-song material, in his operas The tinners of Cornwall and the comic opera The logan rock.
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The rewards: the most stunning blue sea, clashing vividly against the yellow gorse.
Times, Sunday Times
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* Piezodorus lituratus (abundant * Onychumenus decolor on gorse)
Records of Woodhall Spa and Neighbourhood Historical, Anecdotal, Physiographical, and Archaeological, with Other Matter
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The ground sloped upwards after a while, and he tore up the incline, breathing deep and hard; down into a shallow valley, leaping gorse bushes, crashing through whortle and meadowsweet, stumbling over peat-cuttings and the workings of forgotten tin-mines.
Uncanny Tales
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There was a little colour in the yellow gorse and the silver birch.
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Her horse shied violently at a gorse bush.
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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
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So every Sunday morning she stood by the gorse bush at the front gate, desolate, while the family piled into the old shandrydan and the brother delegated to mind her tried to pretend it was a great treat escaping Mass.
The Thorn Birds
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Dartmoor is all about green plains dotted with yellow gorse and ferns.
The Sun
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The site was subsequently lost beneath a blanket of gorse and heather.
Times, Sunday Times
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The axis was revolving to show gorse gullies, rocky gulches and biscuit-coloured eroded clay crusts.
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At least in the long term (the cold of last winter was a set-back), the charming little Dartford warbler, predominantly grey and dusky pink, a lover of heather and gorse, which is at the northern edge of its range in Britain, should become commoner as the climate becomes warmer.
Telegraph.co.uk: news, business, sport, the Daily Telegraph newspaper, Sunday Telegraph
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He loved the open air country life that he lived near the Suffolk coast, where the fresh salt winds sweep up from the sea across gorse-clad denes and pleasant pasture-lands.
George Borrow in East Anglia
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The trail is lined with gorse and dog rose.
Times, Sunday Times
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The gorse and heather were ripped up and replaced by foreign grasses.
Times, Sunday Times
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Brown and gold among the green, purple flowers, the gorse in sunny dumps.
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But the bird to look out for in the gorse and heather is the Dartford warbler.
Times, Sunday Times
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The gorse and heather were ripped up and replaced by foreign grasses.
Times, Sunday Times
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The smell of fresh turf, blooming heather and the nearby gorse or whins are never forgotten once experienced.
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The Ridger: Fortunately, they can’t do much about the fact that gorse is furze (and whin, too, if you go to Scotland) and that Creutzfeld-Jakob disease can be called Jakob-Creutzfeld disease equally well (or even with K for C).
In a moment, for a moment « Motivated Grammar
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They have farmed their dairy herd at Gorsehill Abbey Farm for many years.
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Vegetation such as gorse, heather and white grass is considered to be high fire risk while grassland is low risk.
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Bunches of leared cattle – who stay content in familiar areas – graze the lank grass and prickly gorse of East Moor.
Country diary: North Hill, Cornwall
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Blackthorn blossom foams along the sides of shorn hedgerows but grows unchecked with willow catkins and flowering gorse bushes in neglected thickets which shelter the returned chiffchaff and blackcap.
Country diary: St Dominic, Tamar Valley
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Dartmoor is all about green plains dotted with yellow gorse and ferns.
The Sun
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Common grazing is no longer controlled by regular burning, and gorse bushes encroach on turf starred with tormentil.
Country diary: Bodmin Moor
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Delicate lily-pads had been carefully placed on the glassy mirror of a thousand reflections, and clumps of reeds, bullrushes and gorse made forty-one shades of green.
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But the bird to look out for in the gorse and heather is the Dartford warbler.
Times, Sunday Times
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Yellow flowers of tormentil star the turf, gorse bushes cast shadows, and stunted bracken adds a sickly smell to the sweetness of summer grass.
Country diary: North Hill, Cornwall
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O'er the muir, amang the heather," Eleanor's walk had gone; and her basket was gay with gorse and broom just opening; but from grassy banks on her way she had brought the bright blue speedwell; and clematis and bryony from the hedges, and from under them wild hyacinth and white campion and crane's-bill and primroses; and a meadow she had passed over gave her one or two pretty kinds of orchis, with daisies and cowslips, and grasses of various kinds.
The Old Helmet
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Small, subtly contoured greens lined with gorse and heather tumble beneath vast sandy hills.
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No matter, because a new fingerpost points down Potter Lane, a sunken track, wall and gorse each side with foxgloves ready to overwinter in the algae green rocks.
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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.
March « 2009 « Sentence first
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A miniature village at the bottom of a Gorse Hill garden is fast evolving into a sprawling metropolis.
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We made our way down along a little road, the big worn flints standing up out of the gravel, by brakes of bramble, turf-walls where the ferns grew thick, by bits of wild upland covered with gorse and rusty bracken, and down at last to the tiny hamlet -- four or five low white houses, in little gardens where the escallonia grew thick and glossy, the purple veronica bloomed richly, and the green fleshy mesembryanthemum tumbled and dripped over the fences.
Escape, and Other Essays
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He was born and brought up in Gorse Hill, and first showed his business acumen at the age of 13 when he began farming pigs in his back garden.
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The Senator remarked that the gorse was a very little place, — for as they were on the side of an opposite hill they could see it all.
The American Senator
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Thousands of saplings were planted and native gorse was established to create wildlife habitats.
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Head east across hills of gorse and heather and you'll be rewarded with sublime clifftop views over Llandudno.
Times, Sunday Times
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Around two hectares of undergrowth, gorse bushes and an oak tree were destroyed.
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The next morning was spent fishing quickly down the stunning River Corran through heather and gorse, the Paps in the background and the sea to the east.
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Flowers range from peonies, delphiniums, various brooms and gorses, mallows, asters and periwinkle through to buglosses, mandrake, daises, narcissi, irises and orchids.
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The non-intensive moor was lovely with some hazy silver birch, vivid green mosses, rushes, bilberries, bleached and tufted grasses and a touch of gorse.
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The larches put out their little tassels, celandines opened their yellow eyes, the smell of the gorse was her youth wafted back to her and she shook her head and said she did not want it.
The Misses Mallett The Bridge Dividing
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Halt!" said Gethin, bringing his fist down so heavily on the table that the tea-things jingled, "not a word against the old man -- the best father that ever walked, and I was the worst boy on Garthowen slopes, driving the chickens into the water, shooing the geese over the hedges, riding the horses full pelt down the stony roads, setting fire to the gorse bushes, mitching from school, and making the boys laugh in chapel; no wonder the old man turned me away.
Garthowen A Story of a Welsh Homestead
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Introduced weeds such as gorse (Ulex europaeus), Chilean guava (Ugni molinae), and marram grass (Ammophila arenaria) are all problematic as well.
Chatham Island temperate forests
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I had to cut a track through hedgerows, manuka and gorse - you name it.
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Some of them bear fine large trees, which have as yet escaped the axe, and upon the sides of most there are scattered patches and fringes of natural copsewood, above and around which the banks of the stream arise, somewhat desolate in the colder months, but in summer glowing with dark purple heath, or with the golden lustre of the broom and gorse.
Saint Ronan's Well
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As tartans became fashionable, their colours were determined by the dyes from clan plants - broom and gorse, symbols of the Sinclairs, Sutherlands and Maclennans, provided yellows.
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Throughout the Island (the south in particular) gorse forms most of the fences, growing on the top and from the sides of the various banks and hedges, and when in blow is really beautiful.
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Driving blind, he came over the hill to find his ball on a gorse-infested slope.
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The gorse and heather were ripped up and replaced by foreign grasses.
Times, Sunday Times
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These neglected spots are overgrown with gorse, brambles, nettles, blackthorn, and mullein, as well as with the bitter spurges, and the stringy inedible bracken.
Journeys Through Bookland, Vol. 8
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I love the gorse and the bracken, I love the stagnant pond, I love the very geese that tug hard at the silverweed, they make it all seem so deliciously English.
The Woman Who Did
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Decades of travel in Ireland have made it a second homeland, where my senses recognize the bright red of winter haws and the sharp green of monkey-puzzle, the light tang of gorse and the languid wetness of winter dawn.
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Gorse, heather and cranberry cover the open areas and ancient forests of oak, hazel and holly grow higher up.
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A hooked drive is instant trouble as thick gorse awaits.
The Sun
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The site was subsequently lost beneath a blanket of gorse and heather.
Times, Sunday Times
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The owner of a residential home believes the only way to stop drunks boozing outside a church in Gorse Hill would be to remove the benches they sit on.
