underwood
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"Carrie underwood being an antimasker is just sad," wrote another.
From Fox News ● Aug. 18, 2021
“The natural underwood has been grubbed up,” Olmsted wrote at the time, “the trees, to a height of 10 to 15 feet, trimmed to bare poles.”
From New York Times ● Jul. 13, 2016
Instead of a low coast and open treeless shore, we saw steep hills, covered with lofty trees, and thick underwood.
From Narrative of the surveying voyages of His Majesty's ships Adventure and Beagle, between the years 1826 and 1836 Volume I. - Proceedings of the First Expedition, 1826-1830 by Robert Fitzroy
Its banks were covered with tangled underwood, and dense forest-trees—presenting a scene of unbroken wildness.
From Gleanings by the Way by John A. Clark
They are thickly covered with high timber and much underwood, and from their summits there is a fine prospect over the whole of the surrounding hilly country.
From Travels in the Interior of North America, Part I, (Being Chapters I-XV of the London Edition, 1843) Early Western Travels, 1748-1846, Volume XXII by Alexander Philipp Maximilian
Here and there, lying upon the ground, overgrown by weeds and underwoods, were great broken, hideous idols, many of which were at least twelve feet in length.
From Held by Chinese Brigands by Herbert Strang
It well repays one for the walk of a mile or so through tangled underwoods by the side of the burn.
From Northumberland Yesterday and To-day by Jean F. (Jean Finlay) Terry
But seemed so happy! when crushing thro'— Her sturdy retainer with swarthy stare— The underwoods burst; and her maiden crew Drew near them naming her name, and came With leaves and dim Autumn blossoms aflame.—
From Accolon of Gaul with Other Poems by Madison Julius Cawein
Large tracts of land remained imperfectly surveyed at the beginning of the 20th century, owing to the unhealthiness of the tropical climate, and the dense underwoods which impede exploration.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 5, Slice 6 "Celtes, Konrad" to "Ceramics" by Various
Could we thus stand upon the hilltops and keep watch through the long coal building ages, we should see generation after generation of forest trees and underwoods living, withering, dying, falling to earth.
From Eighth Reader by James Baldwin
