furze-bush

In the spring of 1850 a boy caught a moribund black-capped petrel that he saw “flapping for some time from one furze-bush to another” at South Acre, near Swaffham in Norfolk; “exhausted as it was, it had strength enough remaining to bite violently the hand of its captor, who thereupon killed it.”

A Year on the Wing TIM DEE 2009

Lady Scudamore smiled, for she was thinking of her son, who would have jumped over any furze-bush there — and the fir-trees too, according to her conviction; Dolly also showed her very beautiful teeth; but Faith looked at him gratefully.

Springhaven Richard Doddridge 2004

Lorna could only be here and there, watching behind a furze-bush, looking at me, and wondering how much my clothes had cost.

Lorna Doone Richard Doddridge 2004

The ludicrous singularity of his features, and the half-mown crop of hair that bristled from one side of his countenance, invited some wags to make merry at his expense; one of them clapped a furze-bush under the tail of Gilbert, who, feeling himself thus stimulated a posteriori, kicked and plunged, and capered in such a manner, that Timothy could hardly keep the saddle.

The Life and Adventures of Sir Launcelot Greaves 2004

And so between the aegithus and the ass, owing to the fact that the ass, in passing a furze-bush, rubs its sore and itching parts against the prickles; by so doing, and all the more if it brays, it topples the eggs and the brood out of the nest, the young ones tumble out in fright, and the mother-bird, to avenge this wrong, flies at the beast and pecks at his sore places.

The History of Animals 2002

Perhaps he said more than that, but d'ye know, I doubt it — I can see him yet, bolt upright on his camp-stool, the lean, muscular arms folded across his long body, the grizzled whiskers like a furze-bush, chewing each word slowly before he let it out, the light eyes straying ever and anon to his beloved bull fiddle.

Flashman and the Dragon Fraser, George MacDonald, 1925- 1985

Perhaps he said more than that, but d'ye know, I doubt it - I can see him yet, bolt upright on his camp-stool, the lean, muscular arms folded across his long body, the grizzled whiskers like a furze-bush, chewing each word slowly before he let it out, the light eyes straying ever and anon to his beloved bull fiddle.

Flashman And The Dragon Fraser, George MacDonald, 1925- 1985

Perhaps he said more than that, but d'ye know, I doubt it - I can see him yet, bolt upright on his camp-stool, the lean, muscular arms folded across his long body, the grizzled whiskers like a furze-bush, chewing each word slowly before he let it out, the light eyes straying ever and anon to his beloved bull fiddle.

Flashman and the Dragon Fraser, George MacDonald, 1925- 1985

W.T. bowed his head over his hands and ruffled his hair until it stood up all over his head like a snow-covered furze-bush.

The White Cottage Mystery Allingham, Margery, 1904-1966. n 50021032-1 1975

As the evening shadows lengthened, he stole grimly from his shelter, crossed the field, climbed the slope, and regained his furze-bush.

"Wee Tim'rous Beasties" Studies of Animal life and Character Douglas English