How To Use Underbrush In A Sentence
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Lucretius is constantly urging his readers to follow their “sagacious” wits to the truth, like dogs hunting down quarry through the underbrush.
The Nose Knows : A.E. Stallings : Harriet the Blog : The Poetry Foundation
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Others skirted the edge of the underbrush, and took up ambush positions around the forces of the government.
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On the forest floor, two rabbit-sized, hoofed animals hop through the low underbrush.
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In a bee-line, through the underbrush, which is peculiarly dense, very thorny, and very aggressive in that locality, a full half hour was necessary.
Les Miserables
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Soon once more we were in underbrush and presently came square against a staked-and-ridered worm fence around a "deadening" dense with tall corn.
The Flower of the Chapdelaines
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It was thick with trees and underbrush and stretched far into the distance.
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When a warm body walks through thick underbrush and passes a tick, the tick attaches itself by clinging to clothing or fur.
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Officers searched the area and eventually found Barralaga dead of an apparent self-inflicted gunshot wound in some thick underbrush beneath the state Highway 242 overcrossing at Olivera
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Nicola peered into the underbrush and made out a family of weasels peering right back at her, their coal-black eyes gleaming.
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He never found me, I only saw him crashing through the trees and underbrush like a herd of wild buffalo.
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A flashlight beam probed the underbrush only yards away from their hiding place.
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A black snake - a harmless racer - dropped noisily from a low sable palm branch and disappeared into the underbrush.
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Abruptly, a whole pack of Minotaurs erupted from the underbrush, and easily overwhelmed Jessant's team.
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The cultivated land had been cleared by cutting away the underbrush and small trees, while the big ones had merely been "deadened," by girdling them near the ground.
The Story of a Common Soldier of Army Life in the Civil War, 1861-1865
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For Bush, who is known to spend early-morning hours hacking at unwanted mesquite, cocklebur weeds, hanging limbs and underbrush only to go back for more after lunch, it borders on obsession.
Hullabaloo
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With a curt nod, Rowan and his tribe vanished into the trees, hooves muffled by the underbrush.
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Back early part of December, you've had House and Senate staff starting to meet Democratic staff, starting to thrash out what they call the underbrush -- sort of the easier parts of these Bills where most of the things were the same.
All Kaiser Health News
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Yet like most Nova Scotian contractors, New Arch was getting into more mixed-wood stands, as well as stands with more underbrush and unmerchantable stems.
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It would also help if the woods weren't so densely populated with trees and underbrush.
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In the underbrush, where the deerberry showed hectic blotches, a squirrel worked busily, completing its winter store, while in the slanting sun rays a tawny butterfly, like a wind-blown, loosened tiger lily, danced its last mad dance with death.
The Voice of the People
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The rebels fought like demons, and under cover of the dense underbrush poured deadly volleys upon us.
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However, there is no underbrush, none can thrive in the malnourished soil.
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Towards the east end, the direction they were headed, lay more plants and underbrush.
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The two mares raced through underbrush, scaring up grouse, rabbit, and a flock of pheasant.
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With the synonymic underbrush thus cleared, we can now address the origin of yee-haw!
The Right Word in the Right Place at the Right Time
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I walked around, passing him within maybe six inches because of the unpassable cacti and underbrush on both sides of the trail.
When in the Desert, Don’t Forget Water…or to Look Down « Looking for Roots
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Great settlements of wood and mud spanned the entirety of the canopy, secured by countless stilts and lashings that reached far down to the shadowed underbrush, effectively creating the effect of a floating city.
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Ian called her and heard the sound of movement in the underbrush from the woods bordering the road.
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Marching (100x15)
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There was no hunting to speak of, except for Valyn's accipiter hawks, who were nasty-tempered enough to fling themselves into the thickest of underbrush after prey.
The Elvenbane
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Now, try as he would, he could not rid himself of the habit, and, as he pushed his way among the dark underbrush of creeks, he was always thinking that she, too, would love that "woodsy" smell; that she, too, would find delight in the frozen waterfalls and the awesome stillness of the snow-laden pines.
The Man from the Bitter Roots
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Archive 2008-02-01
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Strolling along promenades, scrambling over train tracks, slogging through underbrush, squeezing through holes in chain-link fences, Lopate hugs the water's edge as much as possible.
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Is religion just an extension of the valid suspicion that any rustling in the underbrush could be a beast coming to eat you?
Jeff Dorchen: Study Proves Other People Are Even Worse Than We Thought
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Most rattlesnakes are peaceable, retiring animals that flee for the underbrush when they encounter humans.
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It's chigger season here, so i wore hip wader to avoid getting them while walking thru the underbrush.
Trail Cams: A Sure Cure For Those Post-Vacation Blues
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The legend was too beautiful to mar with comments, and, as the twilight fell, we threaded our way through the underbrush, past the disused logger's camp, and into the trail that leads citywards.
Legends of Vancouver
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A path led through the underbrush to the shanty of a woman named Mrs Fetchalub, his closest neighbor.
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She saw his back rushing into the trees, heard him in the underbrush, and saw... a shed at the edge of the clearing.
DOLL'S EYES
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a cleared passage through the underbrush
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For years, the mammals living in the era of dinosaurs have been thought of as tiny shrewlike creatures scurrying through the underbrush.
Controversies in Evolution: 'Jurassic beaver' unearthed in China - The Panda's Thumb
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It knocked down so many trees that the underbrush is now so thick you can hardly get in the woods.
What Happened to Squirrel Hunting?
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On one side, dense underbrush built up after years of fire prevention allows a blaze to leap to the crowns of trees, spraying burning fuels across a fire line.
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I called "Tally ho" again, and watched with pleasure as Darter came bounding out of the underbrush behind me.
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Errant sparks fly through the air landing on lower branches and underbrush for rapid ignition.
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I hop over the railing and land on some grass as it grows with other underbrush in the backyard.
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Seven of the Sioux were executed in the ensuing fusillade, and one badly wounded man managed to get away by hiding in the underbrush.
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The vast forest surrounding the cliffs where he'd found Shanae was dense and thick with underbrush.
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Fire, which clears out flammable underbrush and thins stands of young trees, is a natural part of the ecology in most Western forests.
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In order to preserve these forest-trees, the underbrush, which is liable to make a conflagration in a dry season, should be removed generally, and the view of the great features be left unimpeded.
Our Italy
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She paused at the edge of the woods, mustered her courage, and plowed into the underbrush.
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John and Alissa walked in silence through the dense trees and underbrush of the forest.
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Maggie stepped forward out of the underbrush and felt wood under her feet.
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Machine gun fire began raking the fields, and muzzle flashes illuminated the underbrush of the nearby trees.
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In his daily excursions to the bird's-eye rollway he never took the same route twice, but skulked, peering fearfully about in the underbrush, avoiding even the game trails.
The Promise A Tale of the Great Northwest
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There was a rustling noise from the ground and Kayla popped out of the underbrush.
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Riho entered the forest, pushing the branches and underbrush out of her way angrily.
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On both occasions the monk took a firm but unaggressive stance and spoke calmly to the animal, which crashed off into the underbrush.
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Sometimes she dozed off and followed Father Damien through the underbrush.
THE LAST REPORT ON THE MIRACLES AT LITTLE NO HORSE: A NOVEL
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They stepped slowly through an almost wall of trees and underbrush and into a large clearing.
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In the distance, I heard the sound of footsteps crashing through underbrush.
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The rebels fought like demons, and under cover of the dense underbrush poured deadly volleys upon us.
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The faster ones, I'm sure, reach the cover of thin weeds and underbrush and make a new life for themselves.
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They set fire to bramble, seedlings, and fallen twigs, lest this underbrush “overgrow the Country, making it unpassable,” in the words of a contemporary traveler, William Wood.
The King's Best Highway
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He might have outwatched me, though I kept amazingly still, but the hounds were crashing through the underbrush below, and he must needs be off.
The Hills of Hingham
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Here and there he could sense animals rustling through the underbrush.
A TIME OF WAR
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They set fire to bramble, seedlings, and fallen twigs, lest this underbrush “overgrow the Country, making it unpassable,” in the words of a contemporary traveler, William Wood.
The King's Best Highway
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Merida was barely the size of a large house cat, but she was still small enough to lose in the forest underbrush.
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Uphill, downhills, through rivers and through underbrush, this unknown Kiwi never faltered or stopped.
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Noon found Tom far out on the National Road, creaking along over the yellow dust in a light wagon, between bordering forests that smelt spicily of wet underbrush and May-apples; and, here and there, when they would emerge from the woods to cleared fields, liberally outlined by long snake-fences of black walnut, the steady, jog-trotting old horse lifted his head and looked interested in the world, but Tom never did either.
The Two Vanrevels
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Finally, the Federals ran out of ammunition and turned to fighting hand-to-hand with bayonets, scrambling through the forest and the underbrush.
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It was basically underbrush - small bushes, thickets, plants with long branches and thorns.
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Careful studies of silt prove beyond doubt that its primal cause is the removal of the forest cover, such as underbrush, weeds, and grasses, along the streams, which allows the rainfall to run off rapidly.
McClure's Magazine, Vol. XXXI, No. 3, July 1908.
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But, not so apparent, the ground under the mesquites and huisaches was dry, and the underbrush was parched.
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The underbrush is chiefly alder, rubus, ledum, three species of vaccinium, and Echinopanax horrida, the whole about from six to eight feet high, and in some places closely intertangled and hard to penetrate.
Travels in Alaska
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Chism's second installation, Heaven, Hell and the Garden, offered a glimpse of a fleshy gnarl of cloth through a trap door as you mounted a low platform to admire a tall painting of sturdy underbrush.
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As Satan taunts Jesus in the Garden of Gethsemane, a snake slithers out from beneath the underbrush.
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The approaching figures crashed through the underbrush of the nearby copse.
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She was surprised that the man didn't even stumble on the thick underbrush in the dark.
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We were weeks past demureness, of secreting ourselves deep into earshotless underbrush to go to the bathroom.
It Wasn't Me.
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Strange birds made ominous sounds, and small scurrying creatures fled into the protection of the hoary underbrush.
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They nest on islands or inland in dense forests with thick moss but little underbrush.
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a path hewn through the underbrush
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She recently picked her way through park underbrush carrying a net she later used to snare a 4-hour-old antelope, which she weighed, fitted with a radio collar and released.
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He heard the tidings that Gunn, ruler of Tellemark, with his son Grim, was haunting as a robber the forest of Etha-scog, which was thick with underbrush and full of gloomy glens.
The Danish History, Books I-IX
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Second, linking logging of mature trees to clearing of underbrush is a policy non sequitur.
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Obviously you gents don't realize that we have both summer and winter runs that you can fish for in lots of little creeks that flow directly to the ocean ... lots of log jams, underbrush and yes you can really crush em on a slinky and glo bug ... but what this fodder is about is really transplanted steelhead that have lost any inkling to their genetic strain and are a fine game fish at that.
Great Lakers Not Steelhead?
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I knew the woods well enough that I took the lead, and Jeff bulled along after me through the underbrush, the two of us moving from toy to fallen toy with no other consideration in the world.
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Lost in the underbrush is the reality that the architecture of FISA was shaped not only to protect the privacy of Americans but also to give the White House considerable latitude in pursuing time-urgent opportunities.
The Constitution: Checking a Would-Be King
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At times, the road was little more than a narrow trail, and loaded wains had great difficulty passing through these bottlenecks, having to smash their way through dense underbrush.
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Silent Poem backroad leafmold stonewall chipmunk underbrush grapevine woodchuck shadblow woodsmoke cowbarn honeysuckle woodpile sawhorse bucksaw outhouse wellsweep backdoor flagstone bulkhead buttermilk candlestick ragrug firedog brownbread hilltop outcrop cowbell buttercup whetstone thunderstorm pitchfork steeplebush gristmill millstone cornmeal waterwheel watercress buckwheat firefly jewelweed gravestone groundpine windbreak bedrock weathercock snowfall starlight cockcrow
Marching (100x15)
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I called "Tally ho" again, and watched with pleasure as Darter came bounding out of the underbrush behind me.
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Now the underbrush was thickening, and suddenly I entered a small clearing surrounded by thick pine trees.
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There was a sound of crashing through underbrush, the ringing of steel-shod hoofs on stone, and an occasional and mossy descent of a dislodged boulder that bounded from the hill and fetched up with a final splash in the torrent that rushed over a wild chaos of rocks beneath him.
Jack London's Story - Moon Face: Planchette pg 3 of 3
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The others, just a score in all, crowded around him in the underbrush, shaking rain from their leather armor.
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First painted in October of 2002, the strange organic planet of then-nameless Felucia depicted sun-catching pod-like plants of enormous height, with an AT-TE walker lumbering in the underbrush.
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She was surprised that the man didn't even stumble on the thick underbrush in the dark.
