bracken

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Bonny little Blue-bells    Mid young brackens green, 'Neath the hedgerows peeping    Modestly between; Telling us that Summer    Is not far away, When your beauties blend with    Blossoms of the May.

From Yorkshire Lyrics Poems written in the Dialect as Spoken in the West Riding of Yorkshire. To which are added a Selection of Fugitive Verses not in the Dialect by Hartley, John

You have an emerald ring on your finger—but how grey it looks beside the green of those brackens, that pasture, that wood!

From Recreations of Christopher North, Volume 2 by Wilson, John

Everything was admired, the heather seats, the rustic sofa, the rude bookcase containing the authors the boys read almost every day, and even the carpet of brackens.

From Kenneth McAlpine A Tale of Mountain, Moorland and Sea by Stables, Gordon

His dress was entirely brown, the color of the brackens, and his head covered with frizzled red hair.

From The Lady of the Lake by Scott, Walter, Sir

Here the bases of the mountains, and even their sides high up, are without heather—a rich sward, with here and there a deep bed of brackens, and a little sheep-sheltering grove.

From Recreations of Christopher North, Volume I (of 2) by Wilson, John Lyde