furze

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It is over five hundred feet high, and in autumn is a pyramid of crimson and gold; for wherever there are not trees or cultivation, there are furze and heath.

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It lay quite close to the furze hedge, which ran in a straight line a long distance beyond where "Jamesy's bower" formed one of the angles of the garden.

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A big furze bush cast a ragged square yard of alluring shade on the common.

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He at once set fire to the dry furze and heather, directly under the hilly place where the poor men were engaged.

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The Deserted Village":— "Beside yon straggling fence that skirts the way With blossomed furze unprofitably gay, There, in his noisy mansion, skill'd to rule, The village master taught his little school.

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