| 单词 | bracken |
| 例句 | Hazel stamped, and a few moments later Dandelion was beside him in the bracken. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z The track ended, and there was a steepish drop, down between two banks, covered in bracken and fern that came waist high. I'm the King of the Castle 1970-09-03T00:00:00Z He scrambled and dashed through the bracken and made it to the path as the carriage came down the track. Stardust 1998-10-01T00:00:00Z The bushes thinned and the sounding bracken grew rarely in the the swampy earth, so that they could move three times as fast. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z The bluebells had not faded yet, they made a solid carpet in the woods above the valley, and the young bracken was shooting up, curling and green. Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z A clear rabbit track led from the bracken, under the fence and into the field. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z Kingshaw heard Hooper move forward abruptly, and then the sudden noise of the deer, as it crashed away through the bracken. I'm the King of the Castle 1970-09-03T00:00:00Z Sometimes there are other pieces of toilet paper there already, melting among the bracken and dead leaves, but mostly there are not. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z The two guards were not in view: they were up on the hill, perhaps, or hidden in the bracken. The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z They were drinking at midday from a shallow ford crossing an overgrown track to a worked-out silver mine when a cottontail started up in the bracken across the water. The Incredible Journey 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z Cornflower’s parents sat inside the cart, her mum helping Mrs. Churchmouse with the little ones, while her dad chatted away with John Churchmouse as they shared a pipe of old bracken twist. Redwall 1986-10-23T00:00:00Z Although it was against the rules, they often stuffed bracken, osmunda, and other ferns inside their uniforms and brought them home to their mothers to make side dishes. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z It rose steeply and was covered by prickly bushes, vines, and bracken. Tiger Boy 2015-10-01T00:00:00Z We trod upon broken twigs, and last year's leaves, and here and there the fresh green stubble of the young bracken, and the shoots of the bluebells soon to blossom. Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z Then he heard the man, or whatever it was, running about in the bracken. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z It all seemed very weedy and rank somehow, and thorns and bracken were invading the beds down near the bottom hedge. The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z It was five minutes before he rose again, blowing hard and covered with bits of bracken. The Horse and His Boy 1954-09-06T00:00:00Z The trees were thicker now than they had yet been and in the more open spaces there was bracken. The Horse and His Boy 1954-09-06T00:00:00Z Deeper and deeper into the ancient woods I went, past thick bracken and stately oaks, until I tripped and fell again. Crispin: The Cross of Lead 2002-06-01T00:00:00Z On the other side of the tree he found a waste of bracken, six foot high. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z There was bracken, and curled foliage on the ground, and the light coming out between the branches was a queer coppery green, like the light under the sea. I'm the King of the Castle 1970-09-03T00:00:00Z He saw the tall poplars and willows behind the house, in the fields where he stalked badgers, the rumpled hills covered in heather and bracken that spread for miles and miles, dotted with grazing sheep. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z Haphazard cedar fences lined the careless roads, which slid beneath the shadows of the trees and past the bracken meadows. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z The hobbits lay in a corner by themselves upon a pile of old bracken. The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z I picked myself up, ignoring him as I brushed the mud and bracken off the back of my jacket. Twilight 2005-10-05T00:00:00Z He lost the track on the better ground beyond the bracken and then picked it up again. The Road 2006-09-28T00:00:00Z He slung their knapsacks over his shoulder and they tore through the crumbling bracken. The Road 2006-09-28T00:00:00Z The sides of the glen were shaggy with last year’s bracken, among which the tight-curled fronds of spring were just thrusting through the sweet-scented earth. The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z The milkweed pods have exploded; they’re drooling foam into the bracken. Landscape with Invisible Hand 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z Then, a soft, slithering noise in the bracken. I'm the King of the Castle 1970-09-03T00:00:00Z To get there you went out the back entrance, and down the narrow twisting path, pushing past the overgrown bracken that, in the early autumn, would still be blocking your way. Never Let Me Go 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z Taran thrust at one of the livid warriors; a sword point ripped his arm and sent the small knife hurtling into the bracken. The Book of Three 1964-03-12T00:00:00Z On the right side of the bay there was a great bed on low legs, not more than a couple of feet high, covered deep in dried grass and bracken. The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z Closer, before his nose, every blade of grass, every bracken frond was bent, dripping and glistening. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z Heather and trees and bracken scrambled down and overhung the banks, or sprawled out over the surface. The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z When he reached the shelter of the great trees, Robin sank down into a bed of bracken to rest. The Door in the Wall 1949-01-03T00:00:00Z I squat, listening behind me for bears, aster leaves rough on the tops of my legs, then bury the toilet paper under sticks and bark and dried bracken. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z I could smell the bracken in the woods, the wet moss, and the dead azalea petals. Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z They watched him leap the bank of the further copse and disappear through the green bracken. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z The bracken cracked and rustled, as he twisted and turned. The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z Only the dark trees and the young bracken. Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z It is a terrain markedly different from the machair and more typical of the landscape of western Scotland, a place of acidic peatlands and rock outcroppings supporting colonies of heather, bracken, sedges and mosses. The wild beauty of Scotland’s Western Isles 2019-10-17T04:00:00Z He just looks at it asleep in the sun, admires its diamond marking, then watches as it slithers slowly into the bracken. TV review: Horizon: What Happened Before the Big Bang? and Wild Britain with Ray Mears 2010-10-12T07:00:00Z On a windy summer’s day, the bracken under the young birch trees shivers with green light. Homage to the Scottish Highlands: walking in the Cairngorms 2017-09-09T04:00:00Z Around us are rolling hillsides of bracken, patches of trees, and knolls of bare rock. Mountain biking in Scotland: it’s going to be a bumpy ride … 2017-07-04T04:00:00Z The green, purple and orange schemes may be intended to evoke the grass, trees, heather and bracken of Scotland, but they transport us to a much more oddly blazing locale. Review: New York City Ballet Performs Bournonville Classics at Spring Gala 2015-05-08T04:00:00Z Earlier drafts of my latest novel, You, contained an over-abundance of tors and kestrels, and only when the bracken and gorse were severely hacked back, and then subdued and trimmed again, was I satisfied. Author, author: Joanna Briscoe 2011-07-08T21:55:25Z Buried in separate tombs, the lovers are connected by an unbreakable bracken that grows between them. ‘The Love Potion,’ Staged by the Boston Lyric Opera 2014-11-24T05:00:00Z Their murmuring voices sound like “wet bracken being crushed underfoot.” Book review: ‘The Book of Strange New Things,’ by Michel Faber We passed steep slopes of bracken and heather, long white beaches, forested tunnels of scrub oak and rocky knolls. Slow Travel: Walking in Wales 2013-05-24T17:03:36Z On the first morning that I woke up in Creagard, a cottage I rented in Cullipool, sunlight was already warming the island’s stone walls and bracken. Footsteps: Poetry Made Me Do It: My Trip to the Hebrides 2011-10-07T18:55:00Z Above are tumbling slopes of bog cotton, bracken and foxgloves. A tour of Orwell’s Jura, where he wrote 1984 2019-06-08T04:00:00Z Alternatively, you can use wool bracken and also coconut coir, but it has a few question marks against it because it's a waste material from coconut plantations, grown mostly in India and Sri Lanka. How to garden through climate change 2022-09-11T04:00:00Z Now, the nearby path through the bracken is dusted with thousands of brown specks: birch seeds. Rewilding: How Trees for Life are renewing the Highlands 2019-12-14T05:00:00Z Gorse, heather, bracken and trees were removed to reveal the white boulders. Giant white stag made of boulders re-emerges on Aberdeenshire hill 2023-11-01T04:00:00Z He's been a zoologist "since I could walk" and his first words were trees, bracken and gorse. The man rescuing Britain's 'magical' glow worms 2023-10-27T04:00:00Z Standing in the Simonside hills area of the Rothbury estate in Northumberland, there is bracken underfoot and open countryside as far as the eye can see. Rothbury estate: Northumberland locals dread new ownership 2023-10-18T04:00:00Z As part of the trust's wildlife management, the keepers also help to reduce the amount of combustible vegetation, by rolling back bracken and allowing livestock to graze the grass. UK cities told they must prepare for wildfires 2022-07-25T04:00:00Z He purchased a riding mower to tackle the remaining bracken. A Curious Golfer, a Lawn Mower and a Thousand Hours in Lockdown 2021-05-16T04:00:00Z Though uses have been found for the wool, from making rugs to being mixed with bracken to form a hardy compost, the Herdwick's real value to a farmer is its meat. Herdwicks: The 'smiley' sheep that shaped the Lake District 2021-05-15T04:00:00Z His course in Rhayader hadn't been used for decades - until Mr Powell started to clear the bracken that had taken over. Rhayader man uncovers long-lost golf course in lockdown 2021-05-06T04:00:00Z The course meanders along novel topography, full of odd elephant-shaped mounds, humps and abrupt gulches, lined with pine, fir, heather and bracken. Ranking: World's 100 Greatest Golf Courses - Golf Digest 2020-01-14T05:00:00Z Trees, bracken, and even roads sparkle in milky light. The Fight for the Reindeer 2019-11-18T05:00:00Z From there, Powell returned every few days, walking through fields and ferns in the hope of finding new features among the bracken, which, he said, was at chest height in places. A Curious Golfer, a Lawn Mower and a Thousand Hours in Lockdown 2021-05-16T04:00:00Z The singer sits by the window in a fourth-floor hotel room; a pale white knuckle of a man in a blue patterned shirt, his hair a sweep of bracken red. A duel with Van Morrison: 'Is this a psychiatric examination? It sounds like one' 2019-10-31T04:00:00Z Basil Brown filled in the mound with bracken. Revisiting Sutton Hoo, Britain’s Mythical Ship Burial 2019-08-12T04:00:00Z In “The Spring Ephemerals,” a trillium belongs to a complex ecosystem of “rue anemone, masses // of colt’s foot, wild ginger, blood root and may- / apples, bracken and fiddlehead fern.” Poetry That Bears Witness to a Changing Natural World 2019-04-01T04:00:00Z Goat's fat and wild venison, plus sides of ancient wheat and bracken. Iceman's last meal was high fat feast 2018-07-12T04:00:00Z The Iceman’s last meal was balanced with grains from einkorn wheat and traces of a genus of toxic ferns called bracken. The ‘Iceman’s’ last meal was a high-fat feast 2018-07-12T04:00:00Z Right now, all but the largest stones are almost invisible in the bracken, and many of them are broken, listing or so faded by time and weather as to be nearly illegible. Men working to restore cemetery in honor of the dead 2018-02-25T05:00:00Z Wrens ticked steadily in the toppled bronze foliage of winter-killed bracken fern, and the eerie red eyes of a spotted towhee glowed from its perch on a branch. A day with Seattle bird counters reveals a wonderland of nature — amid dog parks, neighborhoods and urban playfields 2018-01-01T05:00:00Z Four years after logging, the wasteland portrayed in the photo was thick with manzanita bushes, raspberries, snowbrush, bracken fern, and native blackberries. Why does this famous protector of trees now want to cut some down? 2017-10-05T04:00:00Z It was bought by an elderly Welsh farmer whose Hereford cattle promptly died of bracken poisoning. This island is not for sale: how Eigg fought back 2017-09-26T04:00:00Z One of the most widely distributed types, the bracken fern, Pteridium aquilinum, is toxic to many animals because it contains high concentrations of ptaquiloside, a poison to livestock and a human carcinogen. Why Animals Avoid Munching on Ferns 2017-07-17T04:00:00Z Noxwsá7aq translates to “always bracken fern roots,” on which people of the village are said to have subsisted during a time of famine. Who Decides Who Counts as Native American? 2017-01-18T05:00:00Z They also clear land with controlled forest fires and cut the bracken and gorse. This Real Forest Inspired Winnie the Pooh's Hundred Acre Wood. Now It's Under Threat 2016-10-14T04:00:00Z The colours of the heather the bracken, the pines, the oaks, the lichen on the rocks all ignite to lift your spirits. Caledonia Dreaming 2014-08-26T04:00:00Z Their trampling and grazing keeps bracken at High House Farm, Winster, in check. Hebridean cattle help save butterfly 2014-06-29T04:00:00Z Will Redzepi be able to perform the same sort of narrative miracles with the foraged brackens, herbs and sea plants of Japan that he does with Danish flora? Noma Tokyo registration shows early birds get more than worms 2014-06-24T04:00:00Z On steel prep tables sits the usual restaurant gear of blenders and food processors; neatly organized shelves store hundreds of containers of carefully labeled ingredients such as powdered bracken ferns or pickled maple leaves. Damon Baehrel, Chef of Most Exclusive Restaurant in the U.S., Opens Up 2013-12-12T20:40:19Z "I found myself walking along a ditch and realised it was part of an elaborate trench system, hidden for all these years by bracken and gorse. "I looked around and there were trenches everywhere. Practice WW1 battlefield discovered 2014-03-07T00:58:12Z Henry Wyn-Jones was highly commended in the Nature Detectives category for under-14s with his image of water droplets on bracken fronds taken on the Isle of Mull. Woodland photo winners announced 2013-08-26T00:18:27Z A copse of trembling aspens overlooked gray birch and bracken fern. Op-Ed Contributor: Mean Streets for Staten Island Mountain Mint 2012-08-15T01:23:16Z On another occasion a slow worm was more fortunate and I watched it slide safely into the bracken. Cycling the Tour de Yorkshire 2012-06-29T21:45:04Z She had cooked her meals outside, and had slept on a litter of bracken. Mushroom Town 2012-04-21T02:00:25.923Z The yellow tints of the bracken covering the slopes are varied with green glints from the foliage of choice ferns on the steep banks, other colours being supplied by the mosses on the rocks. Australian Pictures Drawn with Pen and Pencil 2012-04-02T02:00:28.873Z And Mary Audley and Etruria walked across the moorland in the evening sunshine, with a light breeze stirring the bracken, and waves of shadow moving athwart the stretches of purple ling. The Great House 2012-03-30T02:00:14.973Z At last came forest shadows, and the road Winding through bush and bracken, and at last The hoarse stream rumbling o'er its quartz-sown crags. In the Saddle A Collection of Poems on Horseback-Riding 2012-03-26T02:00:41.847Z The odd vanilla leaf, twinflower and bracken also pop up. Scientist at Work Blog: Biodiversity, and Green Slugs, in Action 2012-03-23T16:51:24Z She curled herself up in the bracken, and he set his back against the wall of the hut and began to fill his pipe. Mushroom Town 2012-04-21T02:00:25.923Z Then he thrust the crowbar down a rabbit-hole, the mouth of which he covered over with several fronds of bracken. Across the Cameroons A Story of War and Adventure 2012-03-19T02:00:28.667Z In the foreground lay patches of gorse, and in places an ancient thorn, riven and half prostrate, crowned the russet of last year's bracken with a splash of cream. The Great House 2012-03-30T02:00:14.973Z So down and up, and down again through the woods about Coulsdon, where the rabbits peered at them through the bracken, and raising their white scuts, loped away at leisure to their burrows. Sophia A Romance 2012-03-18T02:00:22.773Z Leafless trees climbed the hill-side above them; and a rough slope, unfenced and strewn with boulders and dying bracken, ran down from their feet to the lake. Starvecrow Farm 2012-03-15T02:00:29.617Z She pondered over it as they rode that evening, with the westering sun in their eyes and the lengthening shadows of the oaks falling athwart the bracken which fringed the track. Historical Romances: Under the Red Robe, Count Hannibal, A Gentleman of France 2012-03-15T02:00:24.837Z Without a moment's thought he dropped flat upon his face, and lay close as a hare, concealed in a clump of bracken. Across the Cameroons A Story of War and Adventure 2012-03-19T02:00:28.667Z The park with its clumps of dead bracken, its naked trees and gnarled blackthorns, stretched away under a thin sprinkling of snow. The Great House 2012-03-30T02:00:14.973Z Then, as Carthew moved on, he once more took up the pursuit, through the clumps of bramble and bracken between the dark trunks of the firs about him. The White Blackbird 2012-03-10T03:00:15.513Z The excitement was over, the flatness remained; the failure, and the grey skies and leaden water and dying bracken. Starvecrow Farm 2012-03-15T02:00:29.617Z He did not demur, and we plunged at the ascent, knee deep in bracken and furze, sweating at every pore with our exertions, and hearing the troop come every moment nearer on the road below. Historical Romances: Under the Red Robe, Count Hannibal, A Gentleman of France 2012-03-15T02:00:24.837Z Protect alpine plants, stage auriculas, and choice carnations and picotees with glass frames; and tea roses and other tender plants with bracken or other protective material. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 13, Slice 7 "Horticulture" to "Hudson Bay" 2012-03-04T03:00:13.390Z Suddenly he seized me and pulled me, panting, behind him, over bowlders, through bracken, down a hill as steep as a house, in our hurry starting avalanches of stones. Our Journey to the Hebrides 2012-03-03T03:00:19.857Z A myriad rabbits were diving madly into the bracken on every side. The White Blackbird 2012-03-10T03:00:15.513Z Men had been busy in the park on the previous day cutting the bracken, and along the side of the road were many stacks of it waiting to be carted away. Mr. Marx's Secret 2012-03-02T03:00:10.327Z On neither side was close wood,--or my difficulties had been immensely increased,--but scattered oak-trees stood here and there among gorse and bracken. Historical Romances: Under the Red Robe, Count Hannibal, A Gentleman of France 2012-03-15T02:00:24.837Z Snow lay on the upper hills, grizzling the brown sheets of bracken, and dappling the green velvet of the sloping ling; the valley below was frost-bound. Ovington's Bank 2012-02-28T03:00:25.267Z Pikes!' and 'Mutiny!' which broke out, we came out of our lairs in the bracken to learn what was happening. My Lady Rotha A Romance 2012-02-27T03:00:10.983Z Climbing to the top of this, he sat down in the damp bracken to wait for the troops. A Little Wizard 2012-02-15T03:00:38.160Z With a quick spring I wrenched the revolver from his hand, and, bending backwards, threw it far away into the bracken. Mr. Marx's Secret 2012-03-02T03:00:10.327Z The yellow bracken and the fallen leaves underfoot seemed to throw up light of themselves, and here and there a patch of ruddy beech lay like a bloodstain on the hillside. Historical Romances: Under the Red Robe, Count Hannibal, A Gentleman of France 2012-03-15T02:00:24.837Z Decorum bids him conceal himself in the bracken--make a move of some sort to veil his agonies. The Maid of Honour, Volume 2 (of 3) A Tale of the Dark Days of France 2012-02-15T03:00:34.990Z Nor the fallow-deer of the true Savernake breed, who, before they fled through the dying bracken, eyed it with poised heads. Chippinge Borough 2012-02-15T03:00:32.210Z The waste slopes were starred with purple clumps of heather, and crossed by light-footed maids, who balanced great bunches of bracken on their heads. Spanish Highways and Byways 2012-02-06T03:00:15.617Z At a sudden bend in the road he came in sight of a place where stacks of bracken had been left on either side opposite to each other. Mr. Marx's Secret 2012-03-02T03:00:10.327Z That night I lay in the bracken on the hillside looking down into Ennerdale. Lawrence Clavering 2012-02-01T03:00:11.667Z For a moment he waited stone-still, staring after it, and then flung himself face-downwards in the bracken, tearing the roots convulsively with his fingers. A Romance of Wastdale 2012-02-01T03:00:11.227Z Star wane, cobweb, brown-plumed bracken; Morning laughs, with the frost in flower; Duck flight, hound cry; wild grapes blacken. Minstrel Weather 2012-01-24T03:00:25.640Z There are plenty of trees of a fair size, and the sides of the valley are covered with bracken and furze, from which peep out great grey rocks. Cornwall 2012-01-20T03:00:16.790Z Christina's dark head was a little bent, her eyes were fastened on a clump of bracken, blazing golden in the level sun-rays, her voice was very low and a little shaky. Christina 2012-01-16T03:00:06.507Z A few yards further on, she sat down in the bracken with her back towards me and began plucking at the grasses. Lawrence Clavering 2012-02-01T03:00:11.667Z Black bars striped the grey tree-trunks, where water had trickled down; the bracken was overthrown, its yellow ranks broken. The White Peacock 2012-01-14T03:00:21.627Z Small pools appear, and avenues among the bracken that still wave banners of chestnut and old gold. Minstrel Weather 2012-01-24T03:00:25.640Z There is something also about the grey lichened rocks bursting out of the waist-deep furze and bracken that serves to emphasize the fulness of growth. Cornwall 2012-01-20T03:00:16.790Z They were approached over open land, or by little stony chines, deep in gorse and bracken, down which tiny streams trickled, to spread themselves out shiningly on the sands and melt into the sea. Tennyson and His Friends 2011-12-28T03:00:32.373Z Only show me this: how comes it that I make my bed upon the bracken, and you lord it at Blackladies? Lawrence Clavering 2012-02-01T03:00:11.667Z He built a shelter of hurdles interlaced with brushwood, and in the sunny afternoon we collected piles of bracken, browning to the ruddy winter-brown now. The White Peacock 2012-01-14T03:00:21.627Z And now the cool bracken was higher than their knees, and the sun beat upon their backs very fiercely; and now they walked upon turf like velvet, in the shadow of the trees. A Bride from the Bush 2011-12-24T03:08:05.053Z The old bracken still lay in patches of ruddy brown, primroses were just beginning shyly, and the short grass of the open places had not put on its summer hues yet. Cornwall 2012-01-20T03:00:16.790Z "I must go to her," he said abruptly; and at the best speed the darkness would admit he twisted his way through the paths among the bracken towards the distant nest of lights. The Happy Warrior 2011-12-18T03:00:18.863Z My roof-tree has been a jutting rock, my bed the sopping bracken, and so it will be still. Lawrence Clavering 2012-02-01T03:00:11.667Z As I trod the discarded oak-leaves and the bracken they uttered their last sharp gasps, pressed into oblivion. The White Peacock 2012-01-14T03:00:21.627Z A heap of dried bracken had been spread on the floor in one corner to form a bed. The Wolves of God And Other Fey Stories 2011-12-17T03:00:15.447Z A rough steep path had here been worn among the bracken, and was widened at every ascent by falls of loose soil and stones. A Witch of the Hills, v. 1-2 2011-12-15T03:00:15.700Z "That is left where we laid it among the bracken," she told him. The Happy Warrior 2011-12-18T03:00:18.863Z The sheer rock above me was gay with pink mallow, and the crimson of the cranesbill flashed here and there, whilst the swish of the bracken in the breeze was pleasant to my ears. The Heart of Denise and Other Tales 2011-12-14T03:00:15.733Z The bracken lay sere under the trees, broken and chavelled by the restless wild winds of the long winter. The White Peacock 2012-01-14T03:00:21.627Z So saying, he wriggled along the ground over the bank that screened us from the soldiers, and lay hidden in the bracken on the same side of the highway as the troopers. The Quest of the 'Golden Hope' A Seventeenth Century Story of Adventure 2011-12-06T03:00:23.443Z But then he took out of his pouch a case, and out of the case a glass, and put it between the bracken and my eyes. Frederica and her Guardians The Perils of Orphanhood 2011-12-05T03:00:50.157Z Then turned and left him; and he watched her form swiftly merging to the darkness—now high among the bracken, now lower and lower yet, as though it were a deepening pool she entered. The Happy Warrior 2011-12-18T03:00:18.863Z Shot sat down on the brackens and commenced too. Kenneth McAlpine A Tale of Mountain, Moorland and Sea 2011-12-05T03:00:48.967Z We crossed the tangle of fern and bracken, bramble and wild raspberry canes that spread in the open space before the house, and we went down the grassy slope to the edge of Nethermere. The White Peacock 2012-01-14T03:00:21.627Z Less than a minute must have passed since we saw Captain Miles's great frame disappear beneath the bracken, when we heard the clatter of the troopers' horses as their hoofs struck the road. The Quest of the 'Golden Hope' A Seventeenth Century Story of Adventure 2011-12-06T03:00:23.443Z We got many a day’s pleasure out of the rushes by the burn, and the brackens in the wood, and we ay had the heather. Frederica and her Guardians The Perils of Orphanhood 2011-12-05T03:00:50.157Z They picked their way along the paths through the tall bracken that gave the place its name—reaching a clearing in the thick growth, by mutual accord they dropped down for a glad rest. The Happy Warrior 2011-12-18T03:00:18.863Z Everything was admired, the heather seats, the rustic sofa, the rude bookcase containing the authors the boys read almost every day, and even the carpet of brackens. Kenneth McAlpine A Tale of Mountain, Moorland and Sea 2011-12-05T03:00:48.967Z At any rate, whether he set eyes on her or not, he was trudging to Greylands through the bracken in ease of mind and high expansion of spirit. The Sailor 2011-12-03T03:00:11.697Z We thereupon dragged the bodies of the troopers into the bracken, and carefully obliterated all signs of the struggle. The Quest of the 'Golden Hope' A Seventeenth Century Story of Adventure 2011-12-06T03:00:23.443Z And then he plucked a wee curled head o’ the bracken that grew at his hand, and bade me look at it. Frederica and her Guardians The Perils of Orphanhood 2011-12-05T03:00:50.157Z Very cool and remote here among the bracken. The Happy Warrior 2011-12-18T03:00:18.863Z His flute had fallen from his hand, and lay unheeded among the brackens. Kenneth McAlpine A Tale of Mountain, Moorland and Sea 2011-12-05T03:00:48.967Z The bracken rose waist high, but wherever it ran he followed it, now through the close-grown woods, now across furzy common and open spaces. The Sailor 2011-12-03T03:00:11.697Z Suddenly, almost before I could utter a sound of alarm, the ground gave way beneath me; the bracken and the gorse seemed to shoot up past me, and the daylight gave place to semi-darkness. The Quest of the 'Golden Hope' A Seventeenth Century Story of Adventure 2011-12-06T03:00:23.443Z Naught could I see but just a bit o’ bracken. Frederica and her Guardians The Perils of Orphanhood 2011-12-05T03:00:50.157Z A gap in the hedge revealed a narrow path between giant elms, and a cool shadowed coppice where the bracken fronds rose stiff and closely curled, and dark ivy twined thickly about the tree trunks. Imprudence 2011-12-01T03:00:19.303Z The shepherd-boy lays down the book at last, or rather he drops it down the chimney of his cave, and it falls on the carpet of brackens beneath. Kenneth McAlpine A Tale of Mountain, Moorland and Sea 2011-12-05T03:00:48.967Z There was nothing here to minister to an intense emotion; nothing but the sun, the birds, the sky, the bracken, the perfumed loveliness of mother earth. The Sailor 2011-12-03T03:00:11.697Z He struck impatiently at the bracken with his stick. A Second Coming 2011-11-29T03:00:16.693Z Knee-deep where the fists Of bracken fronds are clenched in tiny wrath, Stern guards now stand, and where in sculptured cists Old kings are harvested in Death's long swathe. Etain the Beloved and Other Poems 2011-11-27T03:00:13.943Z At a little distance a young man was grasping by the ears and nose a donkey with a back-load of bracken, and a misplaced ardour for the chase. Further Experiences of an Irish R.M. 2011-11-24T03:00:44.527Z There were freshly pulled ferns or brackens laid down as a carpet for the cave, and seats constructed out of the blooming heather. Kenneth McAlpine A Tale of Mountain, Moorland and Sea 2011-12-05T03:00:48.967Z The bracken, young and green and a mass of shining crystals, was uncurling itself on each side of the road. The Sailor 2011-12-03T03:00:11.697Z He struck more vigorously at the bracken, as if actuated by a desire to relieve his feelings. A Second Coming 2011-11-29T03:00:16.693Z Get to horse," said he; "take your pleasure in the woodland, amongst flowers and bracken and the songs of the birds. Aucassin & Nicolette And Other Mediaeval Romances and Legends 2011-11-24T03:00:40.487Z Fifty or sixty yards higher up, my eye lighted on something that might have been a rusty can, or a wisp of bracken, lying on the sunny side of a bank. Further Experiences of an Irish R.M. 2011-11-24T03:00:44.527Z Oh! yes, I know—” Kenneth recovered his flute from among the brackens as he spoke, and rattled off into as merry a reel as ever witches danced to in “Alloway’s auld haunted kirk.” Kenneth McAlpine A Tale of Mountain, Moorland and Sea 2011-12-05T03:00:48.967Z X More than one long and golden hour the Sailor wandered through bracken and heather. The Sailor 2011-12-03T03:00:11.697Z Unfortunately the theory did not work, an inspection of the loft revealing nothing but four walls, a large store of dried bracken, and a donkey-panier filled with cabbages. In Mr. Knox's Country 2011-11-21T03:00:16.010Z The walker, threading his way among the bracken, reached a point where the stalks were shorter. A Duel 2011-11-20T03:00:13.840Z The last I saw of the trout was his bottle fetlocks disappearing nimbly in bracken as he dropped down the far side of a bank. Further Experiences of an Irish R.M. 2011-11-24T03:00:44.527Z The arched neck of the young bracken was showing among the brown ancestors of last year. Diana Tempest, Volume I (of 3) 2011-11-12T03:00:36.223Z He watched for hours the sunlight on the bracken, listened for hours to the tiny dissensions and confabulations of little creatures that crept in and out. Diana Tempest, Volume II (of 3) 2011-11-12T03:00:31.283Z In the dark corner behind the door lay a stout youth, comfortably extended, with his flushed face half hidden in the dry and tawny bracken, and his open mouth framing long and quiet snores. In Mr. Knox's Country 2011-11-21T03:00:16.010Z There was an interval of silence, during which she looked at him over the intervening bracken. A Duel 2011-11-20T03:00:13.840Z I broke through the tall bracken and the larches to an opening from which the high road was visible. Further Experiences of an Irish R.M. 2011-11-24T03:00:44.527Z She was all dusty and torn; attached to her here and there were scraps of greenery: here a frond of bracken, there the needle of a pine. Miss Arnott's Marriage 2011-11-11T03:00:33Z The young pheasants crept and called among the bracken. Diana Tempest, Volume II (of 3) 2011-11-12T03:00:31.283Z Then a bit of white skirt caught my eye among the bracken, and, running across, I found her stretched out upon the ground, unconscious. The Beautiful White Devil 2011-11-11T03:00:24.760Z The walker was hidden from her by a clump of bracken which rose to a height of some six or seven feet. A Duel 2011-11-20T03:00:13.840Z Long dry and choked with bracken and with brier, It made a rugged pathway to a court Where stands the ruin of an ancient tower, Fenced in with walls pierced by an entrance low. The Call of the Mountains and other Poems 2011-10-28T02:00:27.360Z There, amidst the trees, the bushes, the gorse, the wild flowers, the tall grasses and the bracken, she could enjoy solitary communion with her own thoughts. Miss Arnott's Marriage 2011-11-11T03:00:33Z Breast-high among the bracken they went, disturbing the deer; across the heather, under the whisper of the pines, down to the steel-white reeded pools below. Diana Tempest, Volume II (of 3) 2011-11-12T03:00:31.283Z Before her she saw alder woods, nothing but young luxuriant alder woods, and fronds of bracken in a thick mass. The Heritage of the Kurts, Volume II (of 2) 2011-10-21T02:00:19.713Z It was broken by trees, by bushes, by bracken, but, so far as they could see, by nothing else. A Duel 2011-11-20T03:00:13.840Z A walking funeral was toiling across the bracken in the direction of the church on the edge of the common, and Roger drew up and waited bareheaded till it had passed. Notwithstanding 2011-10-19T02:00:22.340Z But here and there are open glades where the ground is covered with tall bracken. Life in an Indian Outpost 2011-10-19T02:00:19.943Z Golden and still the hours; russet gold The birch-leaves o'er the silver of the bark; Pale gold the poplars, like a lady's hair, And thunderous gold along the hollows dark The sunlit brackens flare. Poems of London and Other Verses 2011-10-15T02:00:29.553Z But English copses are often one wild tanglement of trailing flowering shrubs, with banks of bracken or ferns. The Cruise of the Land-Yacht "Wanderer" Thirteen Hundred Miles in my Caravan 2011-10-11T02:01:13.517Z The next moment I heard another sigh, and this seemed to come from a frond of bracken just outside the fairy ring. The Fairies and the Christmas Child 2011-09-29T02:00:12.583Z Dressed in a rough shooting suit, with a deerstalker hat and an improvised kit strapped upon his back, he was half hidden by the tall bracken. The Great War in England in 1897 2011-09-20T02:00:17.083Z Tall trees interlaced their branches overhead and the ground was carpeted with fern and bracken. The Automobile Girls Along the Hudson Fighting Fire in Sleepy Hollow 2011-09-18T02:00:23.270Z My Sir James is not the leal friend of Robert Bruce nor is he the Douglas who fell at Otterburn and was buried 'by the bracken bush that grows on yonder lilye lee.' The Strange Story Book 2011-09-15T02:00:13.747Z We see many a covey of wild ducks too, but no creature—not even the hares and rabbits among the brackens—appear afraid of us. The Cruise of the Land-Yacht "Wanderer" Thirteen Hundred Miles in my Caravan 2011-10-11T02:01:13.517Z Her notes were as clear as the lark’s, and as if she had called them, more Fairies showed amidst the bracken. The Fairies and the Christmas Child 2011-09-29T02:00:12.583Z In the event of cold rains and frosts in winter, the bulbs should be protected with litter, bracken, &c., to be removed at the end of February or March when the leaves begin to appear. Beautiful Bulbous Plants For the Open Air 2011-09-10T02:00:24.197Z There was a slight and somewhat hesitating breeze on the hill-side, for I could see the heath and bracken bending under it, but it was scarcely perceptible beneath. Wilson's Tales of the Borders and of Scotland Volume 21 2011-09-09T02:01:06.280Z It was with relief that we saw the gleam of water between the branches of a little wood of birches, which waded towards it through a tide of bracken. The Divine Adventure Volume IV 2011-09-04T02:00:03.717Z We must not keep away the sunshine from the grass and the brackens beneath us, for all that has life loves the light. The Cruise of the Land-Yacht "Wanderer" Thirteen Hundred Miles in my Caravan 2011-10-11T02:01:13.517Z And he hopped to the foot of the frond of bracken and made a funny little duck with his head. The Fairies and the Christmas Child 2011-09-29T02:00:12.583Z In winter it may be necessary to give protection with litter, bracken, &c., in the event of severe frosts or continuous cold rains. Beautiful Bulbous Plants For the Open Air 2011-09-10T02:00:24.197Z ‘Now is your chance to catch him, my dear;’ but the hare had heard the whisper, and he vanished under the bracken. The Piskey-Purse Legends and Tales of North Cornwall 2011-08-30T02:00:37.027Z A small cabbage-garden lay behind, and beyond it the mossy edge of a wood of rowans and birches broke steeply in bracken and loneroid. The Divine Adventure Volume IV 2011-09-04T02:00:03.717Z The brackens here are very tall, and, with the exception of a few dwarf oak, elm, or elder-bushes, constitute the only undergrowth. The Cruise of the Land-Yacht "Wanderer" Thirteen Hundred Miles in my Caravan 2011-10-11T02:01:13.517Z And she, her mournfully vigilant face pinkened by the cold river of air sent by the advancing evening through the screen of rusted-gold bracken behind her, was sitting by him, just watching. The Return of the Soldier 2011-08-26T02:00:23.937Z Redpad watched the huntsman put them into the patch of bracken. Lives of the Fur Folk 2011-08-20T02:00:13.820Z Long the child called—hours it seemed—until at last there was a movement under the great fronds of bracken, and out came a woebegone little hare and went into the Pail! The Piskey-Purse Legends and Tales of North Cornwall 2011-08-30T02:00:37.027Z Suddenly the woman glanced upward, perhaps because of the shadow that moved against the green bracken below. The Divine Adventure Volume IV 2011-09-04T02:00:03.717Z From among the brackens that grow beneath, so rank and green, rich crimson foxglove bells are peeping, and a thousand other flowers make this wild bank a thing of beauty. The Cruise of the Land-Yacht "Wanderer" Thirteen Hundred Miles in my Caravan 2011-10-11T02:01:13.517Z Then he went to the edge of the wood and stood staring down into the clumps of dark-leaved rhododendrons and the yellow tangle of last year's bracken and the cold winter black of the trees. The Return of the Soldier 2011-08-26T02:00:23.937Z So March turned to April, and April to May, and the lowest bracken fronds opened like green wings before the crimped tops were uncurled. Lives of the Fur Folk 2011-08-20T02:00:13.820Z Now and again a woodmouse scampered on fallen log, a hare sprang away from her form, or a moorfowl scuttled to cover in the bracken. Cedric, the Forester 2011-08-17T02:00:29.077Z Gold-green poplars slowly wave O'er the Winter's mossy grave; Ferns are pointing curly fingers Where the dead year's bracken lingers. The Dales of Arcady 2011-08-16T02:00:42.740Z If a clovery lea be beneath his feet, so much the better; if not, a “rive” at a blackthorn hedge, a bush of laurels, a bracken bank, or even a thistle, will please him. The Cruise of the Land-Yacht "Wanderer" Thirteen Hundred Miles in my Caravan 2011-10-11T02:01:13.517Z The burning brackens and ling sent out myriads of sparks, and these falling around gave us a few seconds' start. The Confessions of a Poacher 2011-08-05T02:00:44.470Z After their surfeit the cubs could scarcely waddle among the bracken, for their tight little bodies brushed the stems on either side. Lives of the Fur Folk 2011-08-20T02:00:13.820Z Suddenly the bracken ceases, and the paths disappear under a thick grove of beeches, whose dead leaves and beechmast seem to have smothered vegetation. Wild Life in a Southern County 2011-08-04T02:00:27.037Z The air is still and sunlit, The moor's a russet bed, The bracken's turning beryl, The whortle leaves are red. The Dales of Arcady 2011-08-16T02:00:42.740Z “O’erhung with wild woods thickening green,” and “braes” clad in brackens, among which wild flowers were growing—the sweet-scented hyacinth, the white or pink crane’s-bill, the little pimpernel, and the azure speedwell. The Cruise of the Land-Yacht "Wanderer" Thirteen Hundred Miles in my Caravan 2011-10-11T02:01:13.517Z There are tall green brackens—brackens unfurling their fronds to the light, and full of the atoms of beautiful summer. The Confessions of a Poacher 2011-08-05T02:00:44.470Z These lovers, therefore, wander about the Heath, sometimes up to their knees in bracken, sometimes sitting under the trees, not talking much, but, as the old phrase has it, “enjoying themselves” very much indeed. McClure's Magazine, Vol. 1, No. 5, October 1893 2011-07-30T02:00:16.467Z On again, with more tall bracken, thorn thickets, and maple bushes, and noting now the strange absence of living things. Wild Life in a Southern County 2011-08-04T02:00:27.037Z He will reappear bumping along backwards, a heap of bracken and of grass or old straw, left from a pheasant feed, under his belly, and encircled by his arms and fore-feet. The Badger A Monograph 2011-07-25T02:00:12.053Z In the silence that followed, the rain dribbled from the sodden bracken and dripping loneroid. The Best Psychic Stories 2011-07-13T02:00:21.943Z All were hurrying across the rough bottom, with its hillocks and furze bushes, and patches of withered bracken; then, gathering in the narrow bit that let them in under a fringe of trees, mounting upwards. Barnaby A Novel 2011-07-12T02:00:39.777Z It is of the same geological structure as Nankauri, but is covered with far less forest, and its extensive grassy downs are dotted with patches of scrub, bracken, and pandani. In the Andamans and Nicobars The Narrative of a Cruise in the Schooner "Terrapin" 2011-06-30T02:00:24.487Z The first has been lost indeed long ago, without its having been observed: for the bracken is now as high as the shoulders, and the eye cannot penetrate many yards on either side. Wild Life in a Southern County 2011-08-04T02:00:27.037Z For weeks together, on any morning, you may see the litter of bracken and grass strewing the way to his home and down the various entrances. The Badger A Monograph 2011-07-25T02:00:12.053Z Dumani, concealed in a patch of bracken, lay and watched her at his ease. By Veldt and Kopje 2011-06-15T02:00:20.067Z Except for the noise made by the wheels of the motor car as it passed over bracken and fern and all the varied undergrowth of a great forest, there was not a sound. The Motor Maids by Palm and Pine 2011-06-05T02:00:14.760Z The height to which the bracken grows is a sure guide to the depth of soil. Wood and Garden Notes and thoughts, practical and critical, of a working amateur 2011-06-02T02:00:22.983Z The stems of the bracken are yellow; the fronds vary from pale green and gold, commingled, to a reddish bronze. Wild Life in a Southern County 2011-08-04T02:00:27.037Z You can hear him bumping along, sweeping through the bracken and crackling the dead wood. The Badger A Monograph 2011-07-25T02:00:12.053Z They sank together into the burning mass of bracken, Tommy beneath and his evil genius above. By Veldt and Kopje 2011-06-15T02:00:20.067Z We went over the moors and through the bracken to the "Keltic". A Cry in the Wilderness 2011-06-01T02:00:28.933Z Towards the end of June the bracken that covers the greater part of the ground of the copse is in full beauty. Wood and Garden Notes and thoughts, practical and critical, of a working amateur 2011-06-02T02:00:22.983Z So we may call it Fern-land Forest, and with truth, for but one step beneath those beeches away from the path plunges us to our shoulders in an ocean of bracken. The Eulogy of Richard Jefferies 2011-05-27T02:00:19.437Z Where would she be when the foxgloves stood tall here among the bracken? My Little Sister 2011-05-27T02:00:14.023Z While these battled above for light and room there came, writhing snake-like up from the tropics, creepers and climbers, vines and twining plants, to engage the ferns and bracken, the pine’s green allies. The Mystery of The Barranca 2011-05-25T02:00:16.720Z Instantly the robbers vanished into the tangle of bracken, leaving the fugitive alone on the narrow path, and once again he broke into a headlong pace, his pursuers thundering along but three arrow-flights behind him. The Winning of the Golden Spurs 2011-05-17T02:00:18.050Z There was a track here among the gorse and dead bracken, so faint indeed that the girls would not have found it for themselves, though Bevis walked along confidently. A Fortunate Term 2011-05-12T02:00:10.623Z Then he threw himself upon a couch of dried bracken and grass, and was soon fast asleep. The Last of the Vikings 2011-05-09T02:00:04.200Z He said there was a great deal of foliage in the woods, such as grass, needles and bracken, and this had been drying out in the spring winds and sunshine. Blackened forests 2011-05-05T16:08:17Z The next moment it was sprawling among the bracken. For the School Colours 2011-04-28T02:00:12.693Z The sight of these hills, and the gradual succession of cultivation and woods by untilled slopes patched with gorse and bracken, impart an interest to the walk. A Month in Yorkshire 2011-04-24T02:00:10.977Z Not a sound broke the silence, for the sea-gulls had vanished with the sunshine, and not even a fieldmouse stirred in the bracken. A Fortunate Term 2011-05-12T02:00:10.623Z Come, let us climb higher, for amid yon gorse and bracken on the hill we shall meet with partridge, moorfowl, or perhaps, better still, a woodcock. The Last of the Vikings 2011-05-09T02:00:04.200Z The next moment he had gone; she saw the rich purple of his coat gradually vanish behind the tall bracken. Petticoat Rule 2011-04-18T02:00:14.507Z And climbing over the palings she scrambled into the wood among the bracken. For the School Colours 2011-04-28T02:00:12.693Z The morning was already hot, and I was fain to sit down in the belt of bracken above the gorse and breathe awhile, glad to have climbed beyond reach of the flies. A Month in Yorkshire 2011-04-24T02:00:10.977Z The path grew steeper, the bracken gave way to heather, and at length she found herself on the smooth grassy surface of St. Morna's Cliff. A Fortunate Term 2011-05-12T02:00:10.623Z I even noticed, in a newspaper, a letter wherein the writer stated that he had cooked some bracken, but it turned out unpalatable, although quite tender. A Fantasy of Far Japan Summer Dream Dialogues 2011-04-09T02:00:13.677Z The graceful beech trees far away, with their undergrowth of bracken and foxgloves gleaming in the sun, recalled to her that Gaston was waiting in their midst for her message to Le Monarque. Petticoat Rule 2011-04-18T02:00:14.507Z There were large rocks and tangled masses of brambles, and faded clumps of ragwort and teasel, and yellow bracken stumps. For the School Colours 2011-04-28T02:00:12.693Z It's God's own land for the nimble trout, And ferns and waving flowers, The bracken and the bilberry, And the ash the coral dowers. Two Fishers, and Other Poems 2011-04-08T02:00:09.700Z It burst upon them, a compact mass of picturesque houses lying huddled between two magnificent headlands crowned with gorse and brown bracken. A Fortunate Term 2011-05-12T02:00:10.623Z Once Van Hupfeldt turned, and seemed to admire the last traces of color in the western sky, whereat David, as if shot, dropped into gorse and bracken. The Late Tenant 2011-03-28T02:00:25.153Z And then a dado of tall bracken fantastic in shape and almost weird in outline, through which there peeped here and there, with insolent luxuriance, clumps of purple and snow-white foxgloves. Petticoat Rule 2011-04-18T02:00:14.507Z This tract is patched in places with low bracken, and dotted in others with young trees. At Large 2011-03-27T02:00:14.907Z The sweetness of thyme was stronger than the faint bitter of bracken. The Messenger 2011-03-26T02:00:14.523Z I was weak in body, for my health had broken down, but I kept on until nightfall, when I sank down exhausted in a mass of bracken and fell asleep. Fast as the Wind A Novel 2011-03-22T02:00:19.407Z Nay, he stood upon its slope; his feet were in the sweet-smelling bracken; the hazel thicket was rustling beneath him in the brave wind, and the shining water poured cold from the stony rock. The Secret Glory 2011-03-22T02:00:17.863Z Then we came down like bushrangers, breaking a path through the bracken, a great deal taller than ourselves, and seeing in the distance the herds of wild white bulls. Story of My Life, volumes 1-3 2011-03-20T02:00:26.607Z The deer—their mottled sides growing indistinct—are browsing wakefully among the bracken. Doctor Cupid 2011-03-13T03:00:23.987Z She was making straight as a die for that old shepherd's hut the bracken cutters use. The Messenger 2011-03-26T02:00:14.523Z The road turned away, at last, from the edge of the valley and plunged into a beautiful wood, and we could see that the bracken was alive with rabbits. The Charm of Ireland 2011-03-10T03:00:53.650Z The house was only a little less thronged than the “Black Lion,” so he made his way unobserved to the great pile of dry bracken in which he hid books borrowed from the school library. The Revellers 2011-02-26T03:00:50.133Z When they entered the gates the park lay before them, bathed in sunlight, the rooks cawed lazily in the trees, while the deer regarded them, from their couches in the bracken, with mild, contemplative eyes. The Childerbridge Mystery 2011-02-16T03:00:38.127Z You remember one of them hears a sound in the distance which he says is "the wind among the brackens"? The Crooked Stick or Pollies's Probation 2011-02-06T03:01:00.547Z This was a vast expanse overgrown with gorse and broom, and with a miniature forest of saplings springing from an undergrowth of fern and bracken. The Solitary Farm 2011-02-04T03:00:21.943Z She, too, was a landowner—of rushes chiefly and alder copses and bracken—and of ancient, though unblazoned, family, and if the great Morgans suffered, so also did she suffer. Far Off Things 2011-02-04T03:00:19.967Z She sprang to her feet and ran toward the clump of gorse and bracken he had pointed out, imitating a dog’s bark as she went. The Revellers 2011-02-26T03:00:50.133Z Close to the fire he had spread some branches and a heap of bracken to make a mattress, and over this he had thrown his blanket and the little tarpaulin that made his tent. Half-Past Bedtime 2011-01-23T03:00:13.247Z The grassy path was as slippery as glass, the rocks radiated heat, the bracken radiated horseflies. Some Experiences of an Irish R.M. 2011-01-16T03:00:24.113Z The wonderful tangle of fern and bracken and many-hued grasses, the brilliant colouring of flowers, and the fecund blossoming of the golden broom, made the common a home of delight. The Solitary Farm 2011-02-04T03:00:21.943Z Wild pigs scurried away in the bracken, and jungle fowl preened their wings in the shadow of groping plants, taking flight at the appearance of human beings. Caravans By Night A Romance of India 2011-01-03T03:01:02.370Z Once he stumbled against a rotten log, and a cat leaped almost from under his feet and shot in long lopes off into the bracken. God's Green Country A Novel of Canadian Rural Life 2010-12-21T22:55:55.287Z At the edge of the bracken they found Tod waiting for them. Half-Past Bedtime 2011-01-23T03:00:13.247Z There had been a great deal of rain during the past month; it had turned the bracken to a purple brown, and had filled the hollows with shining splashes of water. Some Experiences of an Irish R.M. 2011-01-16T03:00:24.113Z Fifteen Years After A boy pushed the bracken and ferny grey and green wattle sprays from before a lichen-grown wooden cross. The Pioneers 2010-12-20T17:12:11.787Z I dissuaded them from their project, and induced them to go to Scotland, to see its lakes and mountains, and the bracken lit up with autumnal gold. English Pharisees and French Crocodiles and Other Anglo-French Typical Characters 2010-12-20T17:12:04.833Z There is little time left to figure out the components of this planet, from virus to vertebrate, from bacteria to bracken fungus. Scientist at Work: Following Maps, and Finding a 'Lost World' 2010-12-17T16:44:34Z I dash my face, shoulders and all, into a bracken bush, and weep, weep, weep myself asleep. Wilson's Tales of the Borders and of Scotland Volume 4 Villages of a few houses, scattered here and there, showed white-washed walls and grey lichen-patched roofs against the golden glory of the bracken. The Princess Galva A Romance Often the Duchess wears a simple chaplet of ivy leaves, sometimes a bracken leaf is all she sports in her head ornaments, and beautiful it looks. Sir James Young Simpson and Chloroform (1811-1870) Masters of Medicine For Elsie declared, and stuck to it, that she saw something move among some bracken down by the burnside. Deep Moat Grange As he walked cautiously amongst the dead fern and bracken, stooping beneath the swinging, leafless branches, sinking knee-deep in the drifted, dead leaves, he wondered what chance he would get of speaking to Stephanie. Dick's Desertion A Boy's Adventures in Canadian Forests A high hill was in front of him covered with gorse and bracken. The Man Who Rose Again They passed together through the wet bracken, his strong arm guiding her over the uneven path, and came to the open in silence. The Valiants of Virginia And looking where a tumult of bracken fronds filled the hollow between two groups of beech, his eye caught something parti-coloured that wavered and went. The Wonderful Visit But the bracken was thick and tall, and we lay close, so that Jeremy failed to see us. Deep Moat Grange The cloud shadows gave a plum-like bloom to the miles of interfolding hills, and inset among the grey-green of the moor the patches of young bracken showed vivid as slabs of emerald. Beggars on Horseback From the farther side of the fence, down among the bracken and the brambles, she had heard a groan, an unmistakably human groan, with a faint cry after it that sounded something like "Help!" The Jolliest Term on Record A Story of School Life The warren, attractive even in winter, was doubly delightful now primrose tufts were venturing to show among the last year's bracken, and the gorse was beginning to gleam golden in sheltered stretches. The School by the Sea In another moment it had fluttered above the bracken and spread its pinions wide. The Wonderful Visit In the birch-trees faded leaves already rustled; the bracken drooped like a wounded human being that can barely keep upright. The Wish A Novel Across the little garden, down the moorland road, over heather and slippery boulders and clinging bracken, startling the larks from their nests, scattering the globes of dew. Beggars on Horseback The earth awoke and the lovely woods and forests, with their wealth of fern and bracken, were touched with rosy glowing light as the sun shot above the horizon. Glories of Spain The boys set out directly after breakfast and walked through the pungent bracken, chasing the deer and the dragonflies as if there were nothing to distinguish them. Sinister Street, vol. 1 Then watching keenly, he came on down the steps into the park, and still holding his gun in both hands, crept rather than walked towards the jungle of bracken. The Wonderful Visit There was a cross of bracken lying on the grave when I came upon it, still fresh and tied together with bits of grass, and a wreath of sea-holly hung round the headstone. The Adventures of Elizabeth in Rügen Close behind it was a swamp filled with willow-trees and bracken, and farther beyond lay a strip of woodland that sloped down from a rugged mountain range. The Cottage of Delight A Novel For warmth at night they depended on horse-rugs and bundles of a species of bracken which throve among the piles of stones. The Day of Wrath A Story of 1914 Michael leaped to his feet, and looked down on her recumbent in the bracken. Sinister Street, vol. 1 A man who has been lying in the bracken stands up before you and you blaze away. The Wonderful Visit If you love out-of-door beauty, wide stretches of sea and sky, mighty beeches, dense bracken, meadows radiant with flowers, chalky levels purple with gentians, solitude, and economy, go and spend a summer at Vilm. The Adventures of Elizabeth in Rügen "He has not been up at the Abbey to-day," said he, carelessly; "but, to be sure, I came through the 'bracken,' and might have missed him." Tony Butler In preparing the peat for use in potting, the bracken rhizomes should be set aside to place as a layer over the crocks, with a little Sphagnum-moss. Orchids The bracken was shaking slightly—then the sound of a dry twig, suddenly snapped! The Missioner With this treasure in her hand, she went back to the temple and stretched herself again on the bed of bracken. The New Gulliver and Other Stories I was not exactly comfortable, for the ground round the grave was mossless and hard; and when the wind caught it the bracken cross tickled my ear and jerked my mind dismally on to earwigs. The Adventures of Elizabeth in Rügen But there were deep dells, in which the brambles and bracken were so thick that no hound careful of his snout would penetrate them. Ayala's Angel The cuttings must be well watered and carefully weeded from time to time, and in the winter must be given slight protection by fronds of bracken or boughs of evergreens laid lightly over them. Roses and Rose Growing Therefore, I have fixed up a rope on the other side—it goes through those bushes, and is attached to the trunk of a tree beneath the bracken. The Missioner And during these days the Princess Melissa gathered dry bracken and carried it to the ruined temple that stood in the heart of the forest. The New Gulliver and Other Stories I know that when I had done my open-air Te Deum up there in the sun-flooded space among the shimmering bracken I went on my way with a lightheartedness never mine after indoor religious exercises. The Adventures of Elizabeth in Rügen Part of the revetment had fallen; there was a yard of broken path covered with fern and bracken, then a drop of some hundred feet to the torrent below. The Unveiling of Lhasa The second, that a few fronds of bracken should be drawn through the branches. Roses and Rose Growing Regarding that oft-debated question of protecting the blossom in spring, they do not advise anything in the nature of bracken to be used, this often doing more harm than good. Small Gardens and How to Make the Most of Them The Princess drank the potion that was given her and lay down on the bed of bracken. The New Gulliver and Other Stories We saw a pheasant in the bracken by the roadside with her brood of little ones. Across the Continent by the Lincoln Highway "Just raise your head," he said, after ten minutes' tramp through the narrow track, which he lost at times through the thick tangle of heath and gorse and low-growing bracken. Under the Mendips A Tale Here there were beech trees with spaces around them, and the ground was softly clad in new green bracken and carpeted with leaves. Hempfield A Novel A great, soggy mass of bracken stopped him. Shadows of Flames A Novel The bracken was near waist-high, and often I had to force my way through a tangle of bramble and gorse. The New Gulliver and Other Stories One afternoon they found a new path and a new hollow where the young bracken made a couch softer than the bare hill-side. Years of Plenty We descended the fields to the woods, which the recent felling has thinned considerably, but which have all the rank luxuriance of summer, and revelled amid the bracken and trailing roses. Windyridge With that he hit out squarely with his wiry, muscular arm—just once—and Nort went down in the bracken and lay quite still. Hempfield A Novel The mild air, sweet with fading leaves and bracken, stole softly into the room. Shadows of Flames A Novel After we had feasted, Dream went off to her bed of bracken and I once more climbed the hill to watch the sea. The New Gulliver and Other Stories Only the wind whispered in the bracken and an old sheep grunted in the sun, for the weather was warm and he should long ago have been sheared. Years of Plenty The flowers and the foliage, the heather and the bracken have been my companions during these sunny days of summer, and it is hard to lose them, though only for a while. Windyridge The hills, clothed in the death-like glory of the bracken, loomed around me, like some phantom, tricked-out procession passing through desolate places. Bye-Ways In that instant he saw the broad glades of waving bracken, the big trees of the park, the sober face of the great house he might inherit, looking out over the smooth green lawns. Man and Maid Here the bracken grew waist-high, and you might see as many foxgloves in ten minutes as you would find in London in ten years. The New Gulliver and Other Stories He looked down upon Seatoller, diminutive below him, and on the curving beauty of Borrowdale, burnished with late bracken, aflame with autumnal trees. Years of Plenty The heavy November twilight caught them as the train roared through the Bobmin valley past hillsides stained with dead bracken—like iron mold, Jenny thought. Carnival To this the height to which they had climbed gave them added advantage, so much so that they could distinguish the figures of the enemy crawling and running amidst the creepers and bracken. With Wolseley to Kumasi A Tale of the First Ashanti War With her eyes on the horizon instead of on the ground in front, she nearly walked into an easel that was stationed among the bracken. The Head Girl at the Gables Soon she went back to her bed and I spread my bracken in the door of the cave and lay down. The New Gulliver and Other Stories After a moment a man stepped onto the road from a clump of bracken. The Buttoned Sky He came on a great boar lying in a tangled thicket of boughs and bracken, a dark place where the sun never shone, nor could the rain pierce through. Tales of Troy and Greece Right carefully I kept the cover of every heather bush, peat hag, muckle grey granite stone, and waving clump of bracken. The Men of the Moss-Hags Being a history of adventure taken from the papers of William Gordon of Earlstoun in Galloway Well, you see, I'm going to paint you just coming home, in the evening glow with the yellow light behind, and the thistles and brown bracken. The Head Girl at the Gables It was a simple sleeping-apartment containing a bed of dried bracken and nothing more. The New Gulliver and Other Stories But now she was gazing past him, and the figure in the bracken caught her sight. Rose MacLeod At the back was a common with gorse bushes and bracken. Loyal to the School And though certainly mending, he was not yet able to move out into the sunshine and lie among the bracken, a thing which would have done him much good on these still warm days. The Men of the Moss-Hags Being a history of adventure taken from the papers of William Gordon of Earlstoun in Galloway Small bushes, bracken, and brambles mixed among the heather made walking difficult, and there were several boggy places which she was obliged to skirt. The Head Girl at the Gables I cut bracken for my bed, and laden with this I made my way back to the cave again. The New Gulliver and Other Stories My wound is deep; I fain would sleep, Take thou the vanguard of the three, And hide me by the bracken bush, That grows on yonder lilye lee. Border Raids and Reivers The wind sent shower baths from the dripping trees on to their heads, the long bracken was soaking. Loyal to the School Slight frosts were registered at night in the district, and the young bracken, which covered the Common in places, had the appearance of having been scorched and eventually withered away. Territory in Bird Life Here am I on my road to Duror on the job ye ken; and here is a young lad starts up out of the bracken, and speers if I am on the way to Aucharn.” The Works of Robert Louis Stevenson - Swanston Edition Vol. 10 (of 25) The day was cloudy, raw, and cold, and a stern north wind whistled among the brackens of the hills. Wilson's Tales of the Borders and of Scotland Volume 11 This deed was done at Otterbourne About the breaking of the day, Earl Douglas was buried at the bracken bush, And the Percy led captive away. Border Raids and Reivers So we may call it 'Fern-land Forest,' and with truth, for but one step beneath those beeches away from the path plunges us to our shoulders in an ocean of bracken. The Hills and the Vale Here the bases of the mountains, and even their sides high up, are without heather—a rich sward, with here and there a deep bed of brackens, and a little sheep-sheltering grove. Recreations of Christopher North, Volume I (of 2) They found it a wilderness indeed—barren, rocky, almost devoid of vegetation, save for the coarse bracken and juniper bushes which grew in patches, and for an occasional clump of birches, stunted pines, or firs. Marguerite De Roberval A Romance of the Days of Jacques Cartier "No tears Dim the sweet look that Nature wears." but rather a smile is on leaf, and flower, and waving bracken. Rossmoyne Pteris aquilina, the common brake or bracken, is very luxuriant here; but we have met with few ferns in the part of Kent which we visited. A Week's Tramp in Dickens-Land There were some very old trees at Mountfield and stretches of bracken here and there beneath them. The Squire's Daughter Being the First Book in the Chronicles of the Clintons Hugo had disappeared; only the broken brushwood and the crushed bracken told of the struggle that had taken place, and of the boy's agony of grief and rage. Under False Pretences A Novel Instinctively she shrank closer to the cliff-side, to be caught by the long trails of bramble which, with bracken and gorse, made the steep descent a bristly wall. Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science, Volume 26, July 1880. And then a long, bare ridge of tumbled boulders, with bright sandbreaks between them, and wavering sandy roads among the bracken and brown heather. The Works of Robert Louis Stevenson - Swanston Edition Vol. XXII (of 25) Juvenilia and Other Papers The propeller had been scored by the bracken, but the landing was responsible for no other damage. Cavalry of the Clouds The crown of the hill here holds the last snows, but for all that the spring smell is steaming among the trees and up and down the bracken slopes in the garden next door. A Diary Without Dates Surely there was something that moved and stopped, and moved again amongst the bracken. Under False Pretences A Novel Found occasionally in shaded situations on piles of rotting straw or in the woods, especially on detritus of the bracken. The North American Slime-Moulds A Descriptive List of All Species of Myxomycetes Hitherto Reported from the Continent of North America, with Notes on Some Extra-Limital Species Since there is no bracken here the floor is good enough for me. Nuala O'Malley None dares to do this, and the party follows her across the stretch of gorse and bracken called the Warren to the wood beyond. When Ghost Meets Ghost His bag was heavy with game, and he whistled merrily as he strode between the oak-trees and bracken fern. Fairy Tales from the German Forests It proved to be flat, and from the edge of it down the hill seeped a little spring marked by the feathery bracken. Gold A man, who had evidently been waiting, came forward from a tuft of bracken. Memoirs of Life and Literature I had not seen you steal away through the bracken. The Moving Finger What can possess him, to choose a day like this to go afoot through an undergrowth of bracken a day's raindrift has left water-charged? When Ghost Meets Ghost He threw himself on the ground, where the sand showed nothing but fine grass and some bracken in small hollows. The Son of His Mother His massive, silver-headed malacca cane did great execution among the bracken, I remember. The Record of Nicholas Freydon An Autobiography The young mother laid her child on the shawl she spread over the bracken, and proceeded to kindle a fire with a tinder-box lent her by Mrs. Chivers. The Broom-Squire Once certainly I crawled slowly through the tall bracken and at last lay still for an interminable while, convinced that so I should see those shadows populous with fairies, with green little people. The Passionate Friends An island of bracken, with briars in its confidence, not negotiable by skirts—especially in those days—must needs split a path of turf-velvet wide enough for acquaintances, into two paths narrow enough for lovers. When Ghost Meets Ghost The common brake or bracken fern, Pteris aquilina, has been considered responsible for the poisoning of many horses and cattle. Special Report on Diseases of Cattle It dated from the admittance into partnership with my father, which was signalised by the walk and talk among the bracken in Richmond Park. The Record of Nicholas Freydon An Autobiography "Isn't it Rosie?" he asked, without moving from where he stood in the patch of trampled bracken. The Side Of The Angels A Novel Lie in the bracken until you see me coming.... The Passionate Friends Fixing up the camera, I got in front of the hedge facing the path, and completely hid all signs of the machine with bracken and branches of trees. How I Filmed the War A Record of the Extraordinary Experiences of the Man Who Filmed the Great Somme Battles, etc. The low carriage jolted over the deep ruts left by the carts which had carried the bracken the previous autumn, as the stout pony threw himself into the collar with a will. East of the Shadows When I waked the sun was clear of the horizon, and I was partly covered over by dead bracken. The Record of Nicholas Freydon An Autobiography When she raised her eyes he was standing in a patch of bracken. The Side Of The Angels A Novel Presently came the sunrise, blinding, warming, dew-dispelling arrows of gold smiting through the tree stems, a flood of light foaming over the bracken and gilding the under sides of the branches. The Passionate Friends He dived in among the bracken, which was taller than himself, and grew thick on the ground like a small forest. Angelot A Story of the First Empire On the higher levels oak and pines are found among the other trees, and bracken grows around the wild plums on the more open slopes. Burma Peeps at Many Lands Under the cyclamen, among the bracken, It may have chanced upon Beethoven's soul! L'Aiglon Behind them was a great stretch of gorse in bloom, and brown bracken, mingled with new green fronds, from which larks sprang up, singing and soaring. Changing Winds A Novel The ground discloses the bracken fern, and gray lichen clings thickly to the trunks and branches of the trees. England, Picturesque and Descriptive A Reminiscence of Foreign Travel Then they unearthed a wild boar, which rushed out furiously from the depths of the bracken and charged at the light, then bolted off across the moor. Angelot A Story of the First Empire My wound is deep, I fain would sleep; Take thou the vanward o' the three, And hide me by the bracken bush That grows upon the lily lee. The Balladists Famous Scots Series From this site a view of surprising beauty is seen—broken ground covered by bracken and gorse, bushes and trees, with the blue outlines of the distant hills. Hampstead and Marylebone The Fascination of London We'd make our bed in the bracken With the lark for a chambermaid; The lark would sing us awake in the mornings Singing above our head. Silhouettes In places the cliffs are precipitous, but, generally, the lower slopes furnish pasture-land and occasional woods, while the upper parts are covered with bracken fern, with a few trees and copses. England, Picturesque and Descriptive A Reminiscence of Foreign Travel Here the bracken, taller and thicker than ever, grew against and partly over the ruined walls of the old farm. Angelot A Story of the First Empire "O bury me by the bracken bush, Beneath the blooming brier; Let never living mortal ken A kindly Scot lies here." The Balladists Famous Scots Series After a short march through the bracken we occupied a well-chosen position in open country, our troops availing themselves of such cover as offered, though some of them took a good deal of concealing. Punch or the London Charivari, Vol. 147, December 2, 1914 We would be free as birds are free The livelong day, the livelong day; And we would lie in the sunny bracken With none to say us nay. Silhouettes He never slept on a straight trail, but cast about, returned on the line of his scent, and leaped aside, before retiring to sleep in his retreat amid the bracken. Creatures of the Night A Book of Wild Life in Western Britain The bracken smelt warm and dry; it was not a bad place to spend a summer night in, for any one who knew wild nature and loved it. Angelot A Story of the First Empire The difference isn't a big one when you can only see a liver-colored patch through a clump of bracken. Thurston of Orchard Valley All the old friends were there, too: wild roses, honeysuckle, convolvulus, growing in the midst of feathery ferns and young-gold bracken. The Lightning Conductor Discovers America It babbled across the road, under the old bridge, among bracken and mint, and wound this way and that through the deep valley until it lost itself in a swamp far to the south. Treasure Valley Suddenly, however, I thought I detected a slight movement in a bracken frond beside the furze. Creatures of the Night A Book of Wild Life in Western Britain The valley was breathlessly still, and the flies buzzed round him as he disturbed them from the bracken. Beside Still Waters The sound certainly was not made by withered bracken or bramble leaves, and had nothing to do with the stealthy fall of a poacher's heavy boot. Thurston of Orchard Valley It seemed to be summer; the bracken was high and green. Robin Hood The air was cool, and laden with the delicious scents of moss and bracken and leaf-strewn earth. Treasure Valley Brock, though hardly, perhaps, alarmed, shifted uneasily in his retreat under the yellow bracken, and finally, almost fascinated, lay quiet, watching and listening. Creatures of the Night A Book of Wild Life in Western Britain He took it last on his way home, which was more convenient, and arrived there in the latter part of September, when the hills were golden with the yellow bracken. The Marriage of Elinor "In the trees" is not in Chaucer—for he knew that "smal� foul�s" shelter in the "hethe" as well as in the "holt"—among broom and bracken, and heath and rushes. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Vol 58, No. 357, July 1845 Pushing aside the bracken came forth two arms; a merry face appeared; then, quick as a flash, upstood a page, gaily clad, with black curly hair and strange eyes. Robin Hood There was also a man, lying belly down in the bracken, watching me; and as I walked into the court I tried to remember where I had seen his face before. The Maids of Paradise Presently, happening to glance behind along the line of the trail, Vulp caught sight of another fox, a rival for the vixen's affections, crouching in some bracken scarcely a dozen yards away. Creatures of the Night A Book of Wild Life in Western Britain Her conduct proved satisfactory, and by the time they reached the other side of the pond, and had climbed the steep bank, clinging to the bracken and dog-wood, friendly relations had been once more established. 'Lizbeth of the Dale Close by, the broken hill-side was set here and there with oak and thorn, was everywhere deep in bracken, on whose large fronds lay the bluish bloom of their maturity. The Invader A Novel Once, when he attempted to wriggle his way through the bracken, at the first sound of movement both men had become utterly silent, showing that they had heard and waited to hear again. Robin Hood Yesterday, on a visit to Point Paradise, I saw a man lying belly down in the bracken; but I didn’t let him know I saw him. The Maids of Paradise It was not repeated, and I had concluded that it signified nothing, when, to my amazement, I caught sight of a second hare squatting in the middle of the path near the bracken. Creatures of the Night A Book of Wild Life in Western Britain It was sitting in yellow bracken as high as its head, under a birch-tree that had a few branches still gold-feathered. Tatterdemalion Brambles were heavy with blue-black berries, and the bracken was battered and brown on the steep hill-side. The Beth Book Being a Study of the Life of Elizabeth Caldwell Maclure, a Woman of Genius Finding that now the stream ran pure and limpid, Robin flung himself flat among the bracken and rushes, and dipped his face in the cool water. Robin Hood The heather on the hills might glow to crimson, and the bracken fade from emerald to bronze, without touching a chord in that sturdy farmer's heart. Highways and Byways in Surrey In the bracken wild roses rioted in the richest profusion; the foxglove blazed like pillars of fire through the shadowy underwood and the woodbine flaunted its tall head proudly among the leaves. In Doublet and Hose A Story for Girls The brook in the bracken, it prattles and purls, And the lips of the rose are as red as a girl’s; Sing “hey” and sing “ho” for the heather! Sprays of Shamrock She listened in vain for any human sound, even for the far-off sweep of the scythe in the bracken, or the call of the laborer to his horses. The New Tenant He drank heartily, and lay there for a while in lazy content, hid by the undergrowth and bracken. Robin Hood The common was patched with sparkling white and blue; the snow lay in blue shadows unmelted under the gorse bushes, and among the gorse and sodden bracken twenty ponies snuffed for grass. Highways and Byways in Surrey Some of their mouths are grown over with bramble and bracken. The Chestermarke Instinct As I stood amid the bracken, as I stood amid the fern, I could hear the merry bicker, the blithe bicker of the burn. Sprays of Shamrock He was satisfied now; and creeping back to Dan'l, he dropped his full length in the bracken and lay and laughed. Merry-Garden and Other Stories There are, indeed, secluded valleys filled with muskmallows and bracken, but these are often visited by wild tempests, and sudden floods may make the whole region dreary and dangerous. Lafayette The bracken and the heather slope into dells and valleys which would shelter three duels in a morning; you could deliver a salvo and hardly scare a nursery maid. Highways and Byways in Surrey Holes—corners—nooks—crannies—bracken and bushes—it is a wilderness, and that's a fact! The Chestermarke Instinct Ferns and bracken cover the hillside, pollipods predominating, orchids cling to tree stems, and higher up, the curious nest-fern and various forms of plant life attract attention. Across the Equator A Holiday Trip in Java A redwing called from the bracken bordering the brook, and the girl called back, trying to mimic its glad note. The Wall Between He was just fixing upon Cumberland when a sharp whistle smote on his ear, and three figures rising forth of some brackens were instantly upon him. Border Ghost Stories But two days after they came and squatted a good way off from the knoll among the bracken under the chestnuts and watched. Tales of Space and Time Yet, remember, all that they were to find on their arrival was bracken—no houses, no fences, no roads, nothing but bracken. The Chronicles of a Gay Gordon One of the youngsters with me, bruising the bracken and snuffing it, said it smelt of almond and cucumber. Waiting for Daylight The bracken and the club-moss of our British moors grow associated with tree-ferns. The Heart of Nature or, The Quest for Natural Beauty Then he paused and looked upon the motionless figure of the man below now lying half hidden amongst some bracken. Border Ghost Stories Eudena, watching him with a fearful admiration from the cover of the bracken, saw him presently go on all fours, and so proceed again. Tales of Space and Time Not one of them knew which portion of the bracken was to be his own. The Chronicles of a Gay Gordon We hear ourselves laughing now, intent, for instance, on confirming the almond and cucumber in bruised bracken, or catch the sound of our serious voices raised in a dispute over literature or politics. Waiting for Daylight They, too, were beating among the gorse and brown bracken. The Wonder Somewhere in a tangle of bracken an old hound spoke sharply. Captain Jim He was so surprised he stood quite still upon the edge, sniffing the novel odour of burning bracken, and wondering whether the dawn was coming up in the wrong place. Tales of Space and Time Riding from Tauranga towards the west, you passed through the bracken country and then arrived at the magnificent bush, which began at a place called Europe, known as “Orope” by the Maoris. The Chronicles of a Gay Gordon We would not betray our secret thoughts to bluebell gatherers 177 and boys snuffing the bracken. Waiting for Daylight A moment’s delay for pleasant greetings between all and sundry, and the hounds are quickly thrown in for business; their tails, and little more, wave above the long ling and the tall bracken. Records of Woodhall Spa and Neighbourhood Historical, Anecdotal, Physiographical, and Archaeological, with Other Matter But a walk and talk with Borrow as he strode through the bracken on an autumn morning had the exhilarating effect upon his companion of a draught of the brightest mountain air. Old Familiar Faces Then he was in the midst of a wild rush of tree-stems, and then there were fronds of bracken about, and then more open turf. Tales of Space and Time This tract of country was completely covered with bracken, and bracken is a difficult growth to get rid of. The Chronicles of a Gay Gordon It was constructed at the foot of a small hill, about a mile away from the estate, where there was a considerable area of secondary jungle and gigantic bracken fern, a favourite resort of tigers. Prisoners Their Own Warders A Record of the Convict Prison at Singapore in the Straits Settlements Established 1825 It breeds on the moor, the nest generally being laid on the ground among the bracken; whence its name of fern-owl. Records of Woodhall Spa and Neighbourhood Historical, Anecdotal, Physiographical, and Archaeological, with Other Matter It runs among furze and bracken by the riverside, and by this path we can reach the quiet, lovely vale in which Minster stands, so named from a former monastic establishment. The Cornwall Coast And at the sight of that the fear of Uya returned, and she crept into a thicket of bracken, out of which a rabbit scuttled, and lay awhile to watch the squatting-place. Tales of Space and Time Presently I 96 noticed, on the right-hand side of the road amidst the bracken, a very humble abode. The Chronicles of a Gay Gordon Of every little town hereabout he had heard stories during the long winter evenings; now he saw the castle, with its double moats, its trees and bushes, its ramparts overgrown with bracken. The Sand-Hills of Jutland Fine herds of deer wander among the bracken and heath, and the trees are haunted with happy squirrels. The Dukeries If we weren't sure of such a fine dinner awaiting us, I would have had a few of you girls gather young bracken for a fresh green vegetable to eat with our steak. Girl Scouts in the Adirondacks That night they made a fire from flint sparks and bracken fronds, and talked and caressed by it. Tales of Space and Time The briefest of moments saw her once more on her feet, struggling, fighting her way through shoulder-high bracken. Antony Gray,—Gardener Then he saw Wry-Face, the gnome, hiding among the bracken and looking as mischievous as anything. The Book of Stories for the Story-teller His "men" or his "sheep" are the bracken, and his "wind" a wind that brings on a thaw. The Dukeries The dinner began with oyster-mushroom stew, then they had roast chicken, baked wild-potatoes, stewed bracken that tasted exactly like young spinach, dandelion salad, and scout cakes for dessert. Girl Scouts in the Adirondacks As she went she heard a voice among the bracken calling softly. Tales of Space and Time "In October, the bracken or fern on hill pastures becomes red with the first frosty nights, and about that time the autumnal herbage is very rich, and productive of the good things in question." The Proverbs of Scotland It was thatched from the ground upward with heather and bracken, leaving only a low aperture as door. A Son of Hagar A Romance of Our Time Whose stealthy steps are those that steal so cautiously over the tell-tale twigs and withered bracken? Two Little Travellers A Story for Girls "Well, some of us will hunt up the mushrooms; some must gather bracken, some, the lichen; and Gilly can hunt up the coffee beans, alias roots and acorns," said Alec. Girl Scouts in the Adirondacks Ugh-lomi left her arm, and the two began running side by side, leaping the bracken and stepping clear and wide. Tales of Space and Time The bracken was withering to a golden brown, and the heather was a deep purple. Girls of the Forest While they were sitting there in silence, Arthur suddenly slipped away over the brim of a little hollow full of bracken on the edge of the wood. The Tragic Bride We were descending, thigh-deep in bracken, when the wind bore down to us from a dot against the skyline of a ridge the tiniest of thin whistles. A Tall Ship On Other Naval Occasions The third course consisted of the chicken and dumplings, stewed bracken, and a side dish of vegetable that looked for all the world like small potatoes. Girl Scouts in the Adirondacks The air was cool, the bracken sweet, and the bird trilled out its passionate music. Sea-Dogs All! A Tale of Forest and Sea Further inland, foggy gorse gave place to broom and blighted bracken, all wet, sagging with rain. Barbarians Nature was at her dreariest, and anyone who had seen the place in the summer glory of heather, bracken, and blue sea could hardly have believed it to be the same. A Patriotic Schoolgirl Three great avenues of them run round a triangle half a mile across, and outside the shade of their black branches the purple heather and waving bracken form a carpet fit for elves and fairies. Lippincott's Magazine, Vol. 26, August, 1880 of Popular Literature and Science The way grew more rural and secluded, and the chalk hills, with their sides broken up by frost and weathering, stood out white, and dotted with patches of heath and bracken. The Queen's Scarlet The Adventures and Misadventures of Sir Richard Frayne Johnnie was back in the cool forest by Severn side; the oaks and the beeches swayed above him, and the bracken rustled as a rabbit scuttled through. Sea-Dogs All! A Tale of Forest and Sea It is a fine autumnal day, and I want to get to the woods to pick some bracken and heather, for your Aunt Marjorie has asked me to fill all the vases for dinner to-night. A Young Mutineer Great flocks of sea-gulls wheeled screaming round the cliffs, their wings flashing in the sunshine; red admiral and tortoise-shell butterflies still fluttered over late specimens of flowers, and the bracken was brown and golden underfoot. A Patriotic Schoolgirl Everywhere in the bare glades little orphaned families of bracken held their arched necks a few inches from the ground. The Lowest Rung Together with The Hand on the Latch, St. Luke's Summer and The Understudy These neglected spots are overgrown with gorse, brambles, nettles, blackthorn, and mullein, as well as with the bitter spurges, and the stringy inedible bracken. Journeys Through Bookland, Vol. 8 Well, father, the bracken will be fit to cut in a month. Sea-Dogs All! A Tale of Forest and Sea The orderly, who had found a comfortable couch among some bracken, roused himself and stood to attention in front of McMahon. Our Casualty, and Other Stories 1918 He hesitated, and then turned aside into the bracken; he would wait till I had finished and had gone to sleep, or had moved off. Squirrels and Other Fur-Bearers Here the bracken had been unmolested, and was going unharassed through all its most gorgeous pageant. The Lowest Rung Together with The Hand on the Latch, St. Luke's Summer and The Understudy A riotous undergrowth of bushes and bracken filled the spaces between the taller trees. Days Off And Other Digressions Basil was wiping a dagger in the bracken. Sea-Dogs All! A Tale of Forest and Sea Boil a quantity of young bracken tips for 1/2 hour. Vegetable Dyes Being a Book of Recipes and Other Information Useful to the Dyer Night-hawks churred as they beat on noiseless wings above the beds of bramble and bracken. The History of Sir Richard Calmady A Romance And I lay in the sun by day and I slept in a stack of bracken by night, and my strained life relaxed. The Lowest Rung Together with The Hand on the Latch, St. Luke's Summer and The Understudy They were like long smooth steep billows of earth, covered with bracken, and gorse, and heather just coming into bloom. Days Off And Other Digressions Ere long, however, the foresters and miners will begin the yearly cutting and drying of the bracken, which they take away and stack for the winter as bedding for themselves and their cattle. Sea-Dogs All! A Tale of Forest and Sea Among these are Ladies Bedstraw, whortleberry, yellow iris, bracken, bramble, meadow sweet, alder, heather and many others. Vegetable Dyes Being a Book of Recipes and Other Information Useful to the Dyer From the direction of the Long Water in the valley, Richard Calmady rode up, between the thorn trees and the beds of bracken, across the turf slopes of the park. The History of Sir Richard Calmady A Romance |
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