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
Then I heard their footsteps die away as they plunged through the thick underwood, and I was alone.
From A Lad of Grit A Story of Adventure on Land and Sea in Restoration Times by Percy F. (Percy Francis) Westerman
It was like the fire that smoulders among the underwood before it catches flame; it spreads the more rapidly afterwards.
From Curiosities of Puritan Nomenclature by Charles W. Bardsley
As we slowly wended our way up this mighty stream we found the shores adorned with flowers, and covered with cane-brake and thick underwood.
From Gleanings by the Way by John A. Clark
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
For preventing injury to flowering and other plants, shrubs, vegetation, trees, woods and underwoods on or near the said river.
From Boating by W. B. Woodgate
The smoke from the familiar gable chimney of Olifant's house came fitfully drifting a pale blue haze through the underwoods and showing as a dull brown against the brightness of the sky.
From Wild Animals I Have Known by Ernest Thompson Seton
The going was good, over firm footing, through light underwoods, among wide-set, big trees.
From Andivius Hedulio Adventures of a Roman Nobleman in the Days of the Empire by Edward Lucas White
Farewell, the goodly Manor of Blackacre, with all its woods, underwoods, and appurtenances whatever.—WYCHERLEY:
From Alice, or the Mysteries — Complete by Edward Bulwer Lytton, Baron Lytton
