furze

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Uncle Mott's face was almost as white as the milkweed furze that I've tried to catch on the meader....

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Next afternoon the bonfire was rebuilt by foresters who had worked all morning felling fir trees, cutting gorse and furze bushes.

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They scuttled along over the hillocks and through the furze of the seaside course at Portmarnock, Ireland, last week, dropping purses, strings of pearls and beads, rings, rosaries.

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It appears," he would say, "that furze is the best type of pasture to grow on artificial meadows.

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Beside yon straggling fence that skirts the way, With blossomed furze unprofitably gay, There, in his noisy mansion, skilled to rule The village master taught his little school.

From "Angela's Ashes: A Memoir" by Frank McCourt