| 单词 | mimosa bush |
| 例句 | The plateau is partly grass land without bush and forest, partly steppe covered with mimosa bush, which sometimes is almost impenetrable. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 11, Slice 7 "Geoponici" to "Germany" 2011-09-26T02:00:25.313Z I looked promptly in the direction he was pointing and about two hundred yards away saw a stembuck standing in the shade of a mimosa bush feeding briskly on the buffalo grass. Jock of the Bushveld 2011-08-04T02:00:24.987Z To reach it about seventy yards of open ground, destitute of all cover save for a single mimosa bush growing half-way, must needs be traversed. The Fire Trumpet A Romance of the Cape Frontier 2011-07-05T02:00:23.353Z There was scrub to be pushed through, mimosa bushes, and other greenery. Gunpowder Treason and Plot And Other Stories for Boys 2011-06-08T02:00:16.797Z There was water, about a couple of feet, in the drift proper, but boldly—and like fools—we waded across and clambered up the other side, and extended among the mimosa bushes. Two Years on Trek Being Some Account of the Royal Sussex Regiment in South Africa 2011-01-26T03:00:28.560Z Though in considerable force the assailants dropped into the long grass and behind mimosa bushes or ant-heaps, to gather, if might be, courage for another attempt. Harley Greenoak's Charge The whitewashed walls of a house standing back from the river bank some two hundred yards are just visible above the low mimosa bushes. A Veldt Official A Novel of Circumstance In front, a high craggy ridge, sheering up in a steep slope, dotted with aloes and a sparse growth of mimosa bush. Renshaw Fanning's Quest A Tale of the High Veldt Down bobbed Jones behind a mimosa bush, his heart beating loudly. Gunpowder Treason and Plot And Other Stories for Boys 2011-06-08T02:00:16.797Z Bye-and-bye an order came for us to pass on through mimosa bushes which were scattered about on the north bank of the Zand stream, towards the hilly ground on the east. Two Years on Trek Being Some Account of the Royal Sussex Regiment in South Africa 2011-01-26T03:00:28.560Z Jack went flying some yards ahead into a thick mimosa bush, which broke his fall, and, extricating himself and picking up his rifle, darted off. With Rifle and Bayonet A Story of the Boer War Threescore armed savages were straining every muscle to gain the top of that acclivity the first, advancing stealthily through the mimosa bushes and long grass. The White Hand and the Black A Story of the Natal Rising Standing there among the dry mimosa bushes which fringe the river bank, her eyes wander meditatively forth over the brown and treeless plains beyond. Aletta A Tale of the Boer Invasion Slowly the construction of the zareba was completed—a low, stone wall in front, and earthen parapets and abattis of mimosa bushes on the other three sides. Soldiers of the Queen Away ahead stood the ruins of an ancient temple overgrown with dusty mimosa bushes. The Silver Maple But at last they plunged into a dense growth of mimosa bush and fern, and this they decided would form a suitable hiding-place. With Rifle and Bayonet A Story of the Boer War Tahoser quietly left the room without a word, and concealed herself in the garden behind the mimosa bushes. The Works of Theophile Gautier, Volume 5 The Romance of a Mummy and Egypt Here Theo Desmond had spent whole hours at a stretch, basking in the temperate December sunshine, under feathery mimosa bushes, that glorify the foothills,—silent as ever, yet seemingly content. Captain Desmond, V.C. The march lay across a stony, rugged plain, through the scrub of mimosa bush and among dongas deep and shallow. South Africa and the Transvaal War, Vol. 2 (of 6) From the Commencement of the War to the Battle of Colenso, 15th Dec. 1899 The sound died away for a moment, only the dry rustle of the mimosa bushes disturbed the silence. The Silver Maple All that night he kept on steadily, and at daybreak hid up in a patch of mimosa bush. With Rifle and Bayonet A Story of the Boer War Near the hills the ground was covered with low mimosa bushes and long yellow grass, and in some places the mimosa trees rose to a length of ten or twelve feet. The Dash for Khartoum A Tale of Nile Expedition Coming to a large mimosa bush in the course of the morning they halted and sat down to rest a little, and hold what the sailor called a “palaver.” Blue Lights Hot Work in the Soudan At last the horse dashed madly into a mimosa bush, and stuck fast. Six Months at the Cape There was a fiendish yell from the mimosa bushes. The Silver Maple Immediately surrounding him was a thick clump of mimosa bush which completely hid him, while the Boers, seated upon their animals, were well above the top of it. With Rifle and Bayonet A Story of the Boer War Down in a hollow under a thick spreading mimosa bush was the noisiest fire of all, for there were assembled some of the natives belonging to the waggons of Hans and Jan Smit. The Settler and the Savage At last they saw before them a clump of mimosa bushes. Hendricks the Hunter The Border Farm, a Tale of Zululand Here and there a few clumps of mimosa bushes rose like islets, and lent additional interest to the scene. Six Months at the Cape We followed, when, what was our horror to see, under a grove of mimosa bushes, Arthur in the grasp of a huge serpent, which had wound its coils round his body. On the Banks of the Amazon There wasn’t so much as a hat to be seen, but every tuft of grass, every mimosa bush and stone sheltered a keen-eyed and stout-hearted marksman. With Rifle and Bayonet A Story of the Boer War The whole was surrounded with a staked wall, in front of which was a zariba of prickly mimosa bush, to stop a sudden onrush of an enemy. Scientific American Supplement, No. 1157, March 5, 1898 Some parts were covered with fine timber trees, others with scattered mimosa bushes, and here and there a hillock rose above the plain. Hendricks the Hunter The Border Farm, a Tale of Zululand Hobson turned aside and stooped to cut a branch from a mimosa bush. Six Months at the Cape There were smaller boulders on the little plateau, and a mimosa bush, and an English officer lying on his back, with his arms extended, and his sword attached to his right wrist. For Fortune and Glory A Story of the Soudan War The little group of Peachy's favorite friends who settled themselves under the yellow mimosa bush to suck taffy and watch the flaming sunset were all afterwards intimately bound up with Irene's school career. The Jolliest School of All There was an instant discharge of firearms, and a scuffling was heard behind some cactus and mimosa bushes. The Wizard of the Sea A Trip Under the Ocean On the twenty-sixth day McGuffey crawled into the shadow of a stunted mimosa bush and started to pray! Captain Scraggs or, The Green-Pea Pirates It was raining still, and they lay about among the rocks and thorny mimosa bushes in rather miserable condition. Ladysmith The Diary of a Siege There was a roar and a rattle; blocks of stone, arms, heads, legs went flying into the air, and a whole posse of Arabs were seen scuttling away into the mimosa bushes. For Fortune and Glory A Story of the Soudan War The woods present an aspect of strangeness, for everywhere the eye meets the foreign-looking tree from which the bitter aloes is extracted, popping up its head among the mimosa bushes and stunted acacias. The Personal Life of David Livingstone The banks were in some places open and grassy and shaded by lofty yarra trees, in others mimosa bushes nodded over the eddying stream. Three Expeditions into the Interior of Eastern Australia, Volume 2 He reached the shelter of the mimosa bush unperceived and there waited. Allan Quatermain Within, the flag waved no longer, but the rifle stood in the mimosa bush, and round it, with their wounds in front, lay the Fenian private and the silent ranks of the Irishry. The Green Flag To the south was the spring, with a few trees, and the thick mimosa bush beyond. For Fortune and Glory A Story of the Soudan War On the right was the cultivable though mostly uncultivated strip, long neglected and silted up with fine sand drifted into dunes, from which scattered, scraggy dom palms and prickly mimosa bushes grew. The River War An Account of the Reconquest of the Sudan The banks of the river very uninteresting—flat, desert, and mimosa bush. The Albert N'Yanza, Great Basin of the Nile Between us and it was an open space of sloping grass with only one mimosa bush and a couple of tussocks of a sort of thistle for cover. Allan Quatermain As he rode away a colour-sergeant seemed to trip, and fell forward into a mimosa bush. The Green Flag |
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