Furzes [noun]
Definition of Furzes:
thorny bush
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Sentence/Example of Furzes:
But hold your tongue for a while, and cast your eye along the valley, and watch the mist gathering on the furze and sloe trees.
The clusters of furze-bushes bordered the steep sides of hollow roads in anticipation of the clusters of the hawthorn.
As a garden shrub the Furze may be grown either as a single lawn shrub or in the hedge or shrubbery.
His cover is in some young birch-trees, which form a leafy thicket among the furze.
In the furze on Tolworth Common—a resort of chats—the land-lizards are busy every sunny day.
Where there was lately nothing but furze and rabbits there is now a busy human population.
It is notorious that the Swindon of to-day is the creation of the companion of Brunel at the lunch in the furze-bushes.
This is performed by thrusting flaming furze, fastened to long poles, against their chins, till their faces are burned to a coal.
They came from a part of the heath a quarter of a mile to the rear, where furze almost exclusively prevailed as a product.
The site of the fire was now merely a circle of ashes flecked with red embers and sparks, the furze having burnt completely away.