| 单词 | scrubby |
| 例句 | The unused field had a scrubby rise hiding its far side. Black Swan Green 2006-04-10T00:00:00Z These cattle were descendants of generations of desert cattle, born in dry sand and scrubby mesquite, where they hunted water the way desert antelope did. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z They began to cast around, looking under the tree, at the edge of the water, among the scrubby grass. The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage 2017-10-19T00:00:00Z “How could you? Adam Trask, a dog wolf with a pair of cubs, a scrubby rooster with sweet paternity for a fertilized egg! A dirty clod!” East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z Before long they had reached the edge of the settlement and made their way beside a sluggish stream through bare-twigged scrubby bushes. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z They had punched thousands of holes into the scrubby earth, and some believed it was only a matter of time before the place got tapped out. Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z “Lost? Us? Shoot, we’re on this scrubby patch of dirt on this hillside. Maybe we don’t know where exactly this hillside is, but I’m sure we’ll be fine, just fine.” Ruby Holler 2002-02-01T00:00:00Z The houses all be small, but every front yard’s different—some scrubby and grassless like a baldheaded old man. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z They found their way to the depot, which was a couple of concrete warehouses in a scrubby area of waste ground where thin weeds grew between gray rocks and pools of icy mud. The Golden Compass 1995-07-01T00:00:00Z But later, when I glance out the window, my eyes fall on the scrubby trees across the street. Counting by 7s 2013-08-29T00:00:00Z Cole hiked the shoreline a few days early and found a little scrubby pine tree barely three feet tall growing against the trunk of a larger tree. Touching Spirit Bear 2001-01-09T00:00:00Z Dallas and Sairy had stopped for the day in a scrubby clearing. Ruby Holler 2002-02-01T00:00:00Z He scaled a low wooden fence and dropped into scrubby brush. Pax 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z We continue walking, past the end of the train, out where even I'm fairly sure there are no cameras hidden in the scrubby bushes along the track. The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z The scrubby vineyards and the crumbling stones become things of no account, for if I wish I can give rein to my imagination, and pick foxgloves and pale campions from a wet, streaking hedge. Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z After another few minutes, the road led them to a place where, off to the left, a shallow stream looped near, with willows and sheltering, scrubby bushes. Tuck Everlasting 1975-01-01T00:00:00Z “I don’t think so,” said a wizard with a scrubby brown beard. Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire 2000-07-08T00:00:00Z It’s probably rubbish, part of a load dumped into the scrubby little wood up the bank. The Girl on the Train 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z No homes can be seen from the road; tall scrubby bushes obscure the view. The Adoration of Jenna Fox 2008-04-29T00:00:00Z They remained always out of bow shot, but Taran caught sight of the lean, gray shapes flickering in and out of the scrubby trees. The Book of Three 1964-03-12T00:00:00Z It’s ten or fifteen buildings this time but even from a distance it looks scrubby and run-down. The Knife of Never Letting Go 2008-05-05T00:00:00Z We pick our way to a place where people sit in groups among scrubby bushes. Without Refuge 2018-04-01T00:00:00Z We drew close to a ramshackle house and garage on a scrubby plot of land. The Season of Styx Malone 2018-10-16T00:00:00Z I was like a little scrubby schoolboy with a passion for a sixth-form prefect, and he kinder, and far more inaccessible. Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z She hiked inland through the scrubby grass, her legs grateful for a stretch after the long night on board. Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z I start frantically shuffling down the dusty Middle Eastern road flanked by scrubby bushes. What the Night Sings 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z Not much grew around Midland other than the Joshua tree, cacti, and the scrubby little creosote bushes that Dad said were some of the oldest plants on the planet. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z Finding a scrubby tree that could barely serve as a Christmas tree took two days. Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z From over scrubby cheekbones eyes looked into Winston’s, sometimes with strange intensity, and flashed away again. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z Almost wholly unexcavated since its discovery, the Calakmul we came to lay swathed in dry, scrubby vegetation that crawled like a swarm of thorns up its two huge pyramids. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z Not for the first time, Leo was struck by how similar Greece was to his home state of Texas - the low hills, the scrubby trees, the drone of cicadas and the oppressive summer heat. Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z We lived on the outskirts of Jackson proper, in a scrubby settlement called Pearl. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z You could see clearly that it had a head and a neck and a nose and even an Adam’s apple, and some scrubby trees were growing atop it like a crown of wild hair. Hollow City 2014-01-14T00:00:00Z The pastures, fields, and scrubby groves they crossed were vigorous with bees, and crickets leapt before them as if each step released a spring and flung them up like pebbles. Tuck Everlasting 1975-01-01T00:00:00Z A scrubby beard covered his face to the cheekbones, giving him an air of ruffianism that went oddly with his large weak frame and nervous movements. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z It looked like glitter scraped from the underside of clouds by the scrubby top branches of the pines. The Marrow Thieves 2017-05-10T00:00:00Z It was a single story, with a thin strip of yard full of sparse, scrubby grass in front. Darius the Great Is Not Okay 2018-08-28T00:00:00Z So now we were walking in the grove behind the college, down by the scrubby little pine forest at the base of the mountains, with one of them on either side of me. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z She leads us up ancient goat trails and sheep paths, through scrubby grass and meadows of mountain flowers, toward the cluster of small ruins Alan spotted earlier. Without Refuge 2018-04-01T00:00:00Z Before anyone replies, he’s off the highway, climbing the scrubby shale like a skinny goat. Without Refuge 2018-04-01T00:00:00Z The sun pressed against the back of my neck as I ran out to meet him, the rough stone of the patio giving way to scrubby grass and then back to stone again. Darius the Great Is Not Okay 2018-08-28T00:00:00Z The trail climbs a hill beyond the uppermost pond, then rejoins the twisting, rocky creek bed before ascending again into a jungle of scrubby vegetation. Into the Wild 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z Ahead of her, the trail of scrubby shrubs is heading toward a monster. A Heart in a Body in the World 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z They are arranged in a semicircle around a scrubby grass expanse where the youths play softball, touch football, soccer. The 57 Bus 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z I imagine a grave dug beneath scrubby bushes, hastily covered up. The Girl on the Train 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z A sort of intellectual warmth, the joy of the pedant who has found out some useless fact, shone through the dirt and scrubby hair. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z Amos Diggory muttered again, now reddening behind his scrubby brown beard. Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire 2000-07-08T00:00:00Z The unpaved roads, the scrubby bushes and trees, the huts roofed with sticks bound together—everything was just as Salva remembered it, as if he had left only yesterday. A Long Walk to Water 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z He is shortish and slightly stocky, a scrubby ginger beard covering his prominent chin. The Gaslight Anthem: 'Fans look up to us. That's creepy' 2012-08-09T19:00:00Z Tacking east, rounding the southern bend of Decker Island, we passed the rusted remains of a pair of barges, the sloping decks covered with scrubby brush, before dropping anchor near a sprawling oak tree. Setting Sail on the Winding Waterways of California’s Delta 2021-10-03T04:00:00Z If a rich field, a productive field, is the sign of success, then fallow and untilled soil, soul that is ignored, the scrubby, swampy, completely worthless tract of land, is what waste land was. The deep roots of “white trash” in America: “Not only are we not a post-racial society, we are certainly not a post-class society” 2016-07-09T04:00:00Z Then the bears waddle back into the scrubby trees and disappear. Before the summer rush, a spring road trip through Alaska is just as beautiful 2017-02-23T05:00:00Z It’s not so much the location — two hours north of San Francisco in a rural, scrubby landscape dotted with both sprawling vineyards and strip malls — that maintains their exclusivity. California’s Luxury Dining Circuit: Delicious and Dull 2019-09-17T04:00:00Z Each work features a tree trunk, not necessarily pine, in front of a tennis court, parking lot or scrubby vista of low hills. Two Critics, 13 Favorite Booths at The Armory Show 2022-09-08T04:00:00Z The first was hidden among the trees on the banks of the Ewaso Nyiro River, offering access to a hilly landscape of dry savanna dotted with patches of scrubby forest. Personal Journeys : In East Africa, Safaris That Leave a Lighter Footprint 2014-01-31T18:49:41Z The new story returns to the South, a scrubby, hard-luck patch of Arkansas where the partners Hays and West catch a case involving two children who disappeared on a bike ride. Review: ‘True Detective’ Circles Back, Flatly 2019-01-10T05:00:00Z Slow pans of richly detailed living spaces give way to the dusty golds and scrubby greens of Cruz’s family land, every frame a reminder that, for Cruz, finding his voice has never been more critical. | 'Spoken Word': The Difficulties of Escaping the Past 2010-07-22T22:46:00Z This asymmetrical jumble of cubes and domes, far more beautiful than ugly, sits in solitude at the heart of a scrubby park – all the better for appreciating its myriad aspects. Great modern architecture in Europe: readers’ tips 2019-10-17T04:00:00Z The Keys were essentially coral rock islands with scrubby vegetation and swamps filled with mosquitoes and other nasties. The Florida Keys by Camper Van, With Baby 2016-08-03T04:00:00Z To the north are the scrubby, rather unpleasant Marshlands, home to sickly sheep and a fearsome creature known as the Ickabog. J.K. Rowling’s New Non-Potter Children’s Book 2020-12-05T05:00:00Z To avoid any potential damage to clothes, Colón stresses that sponges with scrubby sides should be avoided. Woman's viral sponge hack said to be money-saving alternative to dryer sheets 2021-09-22T04:00:00Z Pines and eucalyptus gave way to high grassland, scrubby bushes and gnarly trees clinging to a jagged mountain landscape dotted with lakes. Three Sides of Ecuador 2014-09-12T04:00:00Z It’s in the wind that blasts across the scrubby Sardinian landscape, demanding purpose from characters who seem always in danger of being buffeted off course. ‘Daughter of Mine’ Review: Lessons in Imperfect Parenting 2019-01-31T05:00:00Z He found it “truly an exceptional sight,” but one located in “scrubby country,” something to be sketched and remembered, but “not really worth a second trip.” Perspective | Rekindling the wonder of Natural Bridge, once a testament to American grandeur 2021-06-16T04:00:00Z A powerful example is one from 1995 in which two pipes drain into converging ditches at the corner of a flat, scrubby field occupied by four radio towers. Art Review: Rackstraw Downes Landscapes in Three Shows 2010-07-15T21:53:00Z Favoring sight gags over scares, this comedy of errors charges from the Morgan barn, where the rattle and hum of a whole-body mulcher awaits our three prisoners, to a variety of scrubby outdoor locations. Movie Review: ‘100 Bloody Acres’ Offers Campy Horror and a Secret Recipe 2013-06-28T03:09:57Z The landscape is monotonous — a flat and almost ghostly expanse of scrubby desert whose most impressive feature is the tenacity of the flora, fauna and human beings who survive there. In the California Desert: Vast Darkness, Vibrant Music, an Oasis 2017-12-19T05:00:00Z Here and there was a sparkle among the scrubby grass: hunks of pink crystal, scattered at the path’s edge. Dark crystals: the brutal reality behind a booming wellness craze 2019-09-17T04:00:00Z The spot allocated to those evicted is a barren patch of scrubby grassland, scattered with boulders. India's Hampi heritage site families face eviction from historic ruins 2012-05-26T23:06:07Z With the flashlight app on my phone, we struggled to find tent No. 4 in some scrubby woods near the beach. Personal Journeys: Camping in the Caribbean: A Mother-Daughter Adventure 2014-05-09T19:06:46Z I drove south that morning and then west, stopping briefly in the plaza of a scrubby pueblo, where some bare-chested locals dressed as kachinas seemed to be readying for a sacred ceremony. | Pursuits: Guy Trebay on the Joys of Driving 2012-05-20T05:34:44Z This scrubby mess asking “yo, bro, you have any pea shoots?” at the supermarket is, in its own way, a kind of beautiful music. The best films of 2020 ... that you haven't seen 2020-12-29T05:00:00Z As we circled overhead, Mr. Labuschagne pointed to still more elephants streaming through the scrubby forest to join their families and friends at the water. In Chad, the Elephants (So Many Elephants) Are Back 2018-05-14T04:00:00Z Along the route, which twists through lush hillsides and scrubby forest dotted with cactuses, we stopped at Puerto López, a picturesque fishing village. Three Sides of Ecuador 2014-09-12T04:00:00Z Within a few miles, fields filled with cows, and scrubby trees gave way to a lunar landscape of black and gray slate on one side, wetlands on the other. Minorca, Off the Coast of Spain, Is a Tranquil Biosphere Reserve 2012-04-13T17:28:35Z He loaded heavy bags of boughs into his truck, all harvested from a friend’s woodlot, a chunk of clear-cut land that had grown in with thick, scrubby trees. Taking to the Woods With Maine’s ‘Tree Tippers’ 2022-12-12T05:00:00Z He shrewdly deduces that despite her nanny outfit of jeans, ballet flats and scrubby ponytail, she is a child of privilege: The dead are more dangerous than the living in the thriller ‘Crazy Love You’ 2015-03-29T04:00:00Z The land, rugged and craggy; the soil, arid and sparse; the vegetation, scrubby and prickly; all conspire to turn Anguilla into goat heaven. Goats Rule on the Island of Anguilla 2015-10-09T04:00:00Z I followed him to a more deserted part of the beach, and then we were walking away from the ocean, toward some scrubby hills. How I Learned to Dive 2018-10-30T04:00:00Z We crossed over to the other side of the island and peered through scrubby brush at a sheer rockface. In the Falkland Islands, a quest to see as many penguins as possible 2016-09-01T04:00:00Z Joining our group, he explains that these scrubby fields are not the eagles’ typical habitat; they usually favour marshland. Chernobyl: the wildlife haven created when people left 2019-05-28T04:00:00Z Tweets are stapled to walls, pinned to the floor with rocks and tossed on the scrubby grounds outside, beside soda cups and dirty diapers. ‘Desert X’ Treats Arid Space as a Rich Canvas 2017-02-24T05:00:00Z While the east end is dry and scrubby, the west end is lush. On a Trip to St. Croix, Room for Man and Nature 2015-10-08T04:00:00Z Here is a single tall tree standing solitary amid an expanse of scrubby parkland. George Shaw 2011-02-13T00:05:02Z The maternal influence is muted, but Mendes is scrubbily committed to, and convincing in, the part. Eva Mendes: 'I don't care about looking beautiful' 2013-04-04T18:30:01Z Then scrub with nylon net or a plastic scrubby to remove anything that still might be on the window. Perspective | Hints From Heloise: Late at night, no need to put clothes in the dryer 2021-10-03T04:00:00Z At a time when the art world was swept up by early attempts at video and graffiti art, Mr. Ross preferred rendering mountain scenes brimming with wispy clouds, shimmering pools and scrubby trees. Bob Ross Fans Seek Some Happy Little Appreciation for Their Muse 2018-08-21T04:00:00Z A prearranged ride took me down an unremarkable ribbon of cracked asphalt, through scrubby brush and very few signs of life, save for an open liquor store and a closed bar. In the Bahamas, Cat Island offers spectacular diving and solitude for miles 2018-12-06T05:00:00Z The crowd at the screening — men flaunting scrubby facial hair, women coifed in topknots — applauded their approval, impressed equally by her evident visual flair and her candor. A Night Out With Rose McGowan, Now Behind the Camera 2015-08-14T04:00:00Z The words rang like a hymn across the Ngong hills, echoing through the scrubby town, as small children clung to their mothers and joined in the chorus. Bags Made by Hand, in East Africa 2012-09-03T15:00:33Z The only thing is, he does go into New York with a scrubby chin, looking perfectly foul. Wodehouse and Fitzgerald – emblems of a lost age 2013-01-07T13:53:51Z Mr. Hyatt found the bats for his recordings roosting 40 minutes south of his home, near the Indianapolis International Airport, along scrubby wetlands and woodlands designed partly as bat habitats. Vilified for Virus, Bats Are a New Album’s Seductive Stars 2020-06-10T04:00:00Z Then there’s Central Florida, a scrubby swath of live oak hammocks and sandy pine woods that defy all the tourist clichés. Cultured Traveler: Zora Neale Hurston?s Florida 2010-03-31T18:01:00Z The lower elevations look like what most people assume all of Texas looks like: scrubby flatlands light on trees, thick with prickly things. There Are No Real Roads in Guadalupe Park. You Earn the Incredible Views. 2018-07-16T04:00:00Z At one point Mr. Harris’s scrubby guitar evoked a softened Bo Diddley sound that seemed miles away from the unfailingly suave Cole. Music Review: Allan Harris Performs at the Metropolitan Room 2010-04-06T22:27:00Z A secret city has sprouted in the scrubby hills of northern New Mexico, its inhabitants charged with carrying out a crucial mission. 'Manhattan' traces a culture of secrecy, nuclear anxiety 2014-07-25T04:00:00Z In one wide open vista, scrubby, bright green pines sparkle in sunlight, backed by Bridalveil Fall tumbling lightly down a cliff side; the distinct granite crest of Half Dome looms in the background. iPad Art Gains Recognition in New Hockney Exhibit 2013-10-28T15:23:15Z The west end is full of scrubby vegetation and low hills, the east and north marked by craggy mountains. A Hawaiian Island Where Everybody Knows Your Name 2015-12-30T05:00:00Z I noticed them in airports, outside monuments, in the scrubby hills and along rural roadsides. Tourists are trickling back to Egypt 2015-04-02T04:00:00Z I pulled over, to the side of the dirt road, and told him to get out, happy to leave him among the chollas and scrubby piñon trees. I was raped — and now I can finally say it 2015-10-15T04:00:00Z On the stifling May morning that I visited, the scrubby forest was dry and radioactively bright, baked under a sky the color of a pilot flame. In Campeche, Pyramids Are Everywhere. Crowds Are Not 2018-02-02T05:00:00Z Their tactical objectives — involving dominion over rocks and scrubby trees — are nearly as murky as their larger strategic purpose, which they rarely talk about. Review: ‘Neither Heaven Nor Earth’ Engages the Horrors of War 2016-08-04T04:00:00Z The runner emerged out of a pale green valley, disappearing briefly as she ducked around small hills spotted with scrubby camel grass. Beyond the tourist circuit: Runners see the real Morocco during a mountain marathon 2016-09-08T04:00:00Z But it could have been even worse: a scrubby bank of ground a few feet high acted as a shield for the building as the blast sent masonry, corrugated iron and other debris flying. Residents of Kyiv Sift Through the Aftermath of a Missile Attack 2023-09-21T04:00:00Z Verdant woods gave way to scrubby brushland and desert; most of the large mammals disappeared. Raging wildfires may have doomed California’s ancient megamammals, tar pit fossils reveal 2023-08-16T04:00:00Z A few scrubby trees offer fitful shade, videos taken by migrants show, and border guards from neighboring Libya and Tunisian aid workers occasionally drop off water and a bit of bread. Stranded in a Strange Land, and Waiting for Death 2023-07-20T04:00:00Z In video obtained by Reuters, the man, who has a scrubby beard and short fair hair, smiles and stretches out his thumb and little finger. Exclusive: Wagner mutineers included Russian convicts freed to fight in Ukraine 2023-06-28T04:00:00Z This photo shows a sandy desert dotted with scrubby bushes. Fundamentals of Biology 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z The landscape is flat and barren, a brown expanse of sand dotted with scrubby trees. A second exile: Sudanese refugees flee again to destitute Chad 2023-05-18T04:00:00Z After driving for 20 minutes in our rented pickup truck, we stopped at a scrubby patch of ground off the main highway. Your Monday Briefing 2023-04-24T04:00:00Z Exmouth, a town of clinging red dust, silken sands and scrubby sun-bleached grasses, offered excellent odds on a clear blue sky, he said. Flocking to One of the Few Specks of Land in Sight of a Total Eclipse 2023-04-20T04:00:00Z It was a dead-end street, near the outskirts of town; modest ranch houses and manicured lawns, surrounded by scrubby grasslands, junk cars and railroad tracks. After cops nearly killed him, he’s being charged — again 2023-04-02T04:00:00Z Photo A shows Mormon tea, a short, scrubby plant with yellow branches radiating out from a central bundle. Fundamentals of Biology 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z The first, and most direct, curves over 600 miles of scrubby road. The Bridge Was Out. So He Made a 3,000-Mile Detour. 2023-01-20T05:00:00Z When Portugal’s electrical system needs a boost, a signal activates a power plant buried deep in a hillside in the country’s scrubby, pine-covered north. Is a Dam in Rural Portugal a Key to Our Alternative Energy Future? 2023-01-03T05:00:00Z Aerial footage from the aftermath of the Queensland shootings showed what appeared to be smoke still rising from a scrubby area of remote forest, as well as a burned-out police vehicle. 2 Officers and Bystander Are Killed in Australia Shootout 2022-12-12T05:00:00Z To the south, the green banks of the Colorado River stand out against the scrubby badlands. Bones, sweat and years: What it takes to dig up a dinosaur 2022-08-19T04:00:00Z Shot on Fuji film, the pictures feature vivid blues and turquoises as well as the earth tones of the land and scrubby grass. Review | In the galleries: Renaissance techniques with a modern twist 2022-07-29T04:00:00Z CHENGDU, China — The Sichuan peppercorns are ripe here in southwestern China, with a spicy, minty fragrance emanating from the rows of scrubby trees. What inflation? China’s peppercorn purveyors are feeling the heat. 2022-07-15T04:00:00Z An hour’s drive east of Taft, scrubby flatlands give way to the Tehachapi Mountains, which contain some of America’s largest wind farms. California Plans to Quit Oil. Resistance Is Fiercer Than You Think. 2022-07-07T04:00:00Z The boats parked within close range of a scrubby berm dotted with nests and the white-capped heads of pelicans warming their eggs between their webbed feet. Pelicans’ paradise on Smith Island, Md. 2022-07-01T04:00:00Z Much of the acreage burned to date is in the state’s southwest, where expansive fires dot a scrubby, sparsely populated landscape. Alaska’s June wildfires break records, fueled by hot, dry weather 2022-06-23T04:00:00Z Already, there has been a shift in Uvalde, a city of 15,000 people in a scrubby, windblown stretch west of San Antonio. A plea to celebrate life as Uvalde faces many days of mourning 2022-05-31T04:00:00Z The season’s fighting had begun in May, when Lee struck again near Chancellorsville but fumbled in a scrubby tangle known as the Wilderness. Building the American Republic, Volume 2 2018-01-18T00:00:00Z Ms. Clement loved the friendliness of her neighbors and getting to watch the sun rise over the scrubby mesa to her east and set behind the foothills of the Rocky Mountains to the west. Investors Are Buying Mobile Home Parks. Residents Are Paying a Price. 2022-03-27T04:00:00Z The rest has been transformed into scrubby rangelands for grazing cattle. Demand for meat is destroying the Amazon. Smarter choices at the dinner table can go a long way to help. 2022-03-09T05:00:00Z Standing in the cold on the scrubby ground, two women embraced for several minutes and started to cry. At the Ukrainian border, a mother brings a stranger's children to safety 2022-02-26T05:00:00Z Landscape: Pine trees dot the scrubby hills looming over the shoreline. Need a change of scenery? Discover Travelogue Cinema — but pick your film carefully 2022-01-24T05:00:00Z But in a landscape dominated by brush, fires burn hot, wiping out the remaining trees and favoring the scrubby species that can quickly grow back. Wildfires are erasing Western forests. Climate change is making it permanent. 2021-12-01T05:00:00Z Drive 10 minutes in another direction, past the base’s scrubby nine-hole golf course, and you arrive at a gate to what is essentially a base within the base, the detention zone. Guantánamo Bay: Beyond the Prison 2021-11-26T05:00:00Z Hidden in the scrubby sand of the dunes of northern France are the calling cards of an international criminal industry: a discarded life-jacket, a rucksack, a petrol canister. Migrant crisis: The windswept beaches of opportunity and fear 2021-11-26T05:00:00Z In this part of New Mexico, yellow signs directing crew to productions have become as much a part of the landscape as the scrubby green sagebrush. The day Alec Baldwin shot Halyna Hutchins and Joel Souza 2021-10-31T04:00:00Z On Tuesday, police crews were seen scouring the deserted white beaches and scrubby bush for signs of Cleo. Cleo Smith: 'Grave concerns' for Australian girl missing from beach campsite 2021-10-18T04:00:00Z It is a sprawling area with hundreds of air-conditioned tents used as dormitories and dining halls on scrubby dirt lots, landscape that in some ways resembled parts of the homeland they fled. US gives 1st public look inside base housing Afghans 2021-09-10T04:00:00Z Gray wolves once roamed the entire North American continent, from the scrubby deserts of Mexico to the boreal forests of Alaska. Wolf Populations Drop as More States Allow Hunting 2021-09-07T04:00:00Z But gradually the pebbles were shoveled out and the hole filled with scrubby sand, weeds and rocks. Touring Trinity, the Birthplace of Nuclear Dread 2021-08-03T04:00:00Z It’s a strange place to find fish, deep in the high desert, where drought-baked earth butts against scrubby mountains. As drought slams California and Oregon, Klamath farmers grow fish to quell a water war 2021-07-22T04:00:00Z Several minutes of heavy gunfire alerted a group of conservation rangers guarding workers on the scrubby slope above. A botched ransom attempt? Ambassador's death in Congo may not be what it seemed 2021-05-26T04:00:00Z Washington, the scrubby hills and canyons above Highland Park, and to entice buyers to become homebuilders, he installed a funicular system like Angels Flight to ascend and descend a thousand feet. You know Angels Flight. But what about L.A.’s other funicular railways? 2021-05-18T04:00:00Z “In classic oak woodlands, there’s a fair number of studies. But nobody had looked at the chaparral, which is that scrubby stuff in the hills before it hits the ocean,” he said. Study finds Lyme-carrying ticks next to beaches and ‘pretty much wherever we looked’ 2021-04-25T04:00:00Z Two miles away, amid the scrubby brush and sand and accessible by a bus ride, was a property known as the McDonald Ranch. Touring Trinity, the Birthplace of Nuclear Dread 2021-08-03T04:00:00Z They stumble forward without flashlights into the scrubby oak and sage. The things migrants carried — and dropped — as they crossed the border 2021-03-28T04:00:00Z RAWLINS, Wyo. — The coal layered underground helped bring settlers to this scrubby, wind-whipped part of southern Wyoming, where generations found a steady paycheck in the mines and took pride in powering the nation. Carbon County, Wyoming, Knows Which Way the Wind Is Blowing 2021-03-03T05:00:00Z DIG A LITTLE, and Seattle’s scrubby past inevitably pops up. Seattle touts itself as the country’s most literate, most educated city. Whoa. We used to be pretty rough. 2021-02-21T05:00:00Z Wrap up a rainbow — don’t forget to include a nail brush and a good scrubby soap. Gifts of gardening gear for our more-essential-than-ever gardens 2020-11-28T05:00:00Z A patch of scrubby savannah separates them, until the first animals run forward. Female banded mongooses lead battle for chance to find mates 2020-11-09T05:00:00Z He said: "We want to achieve the kind of species-rich, shape-shifting scrubby wood pasture environment that once blanketed much of western Britain." Ben Goldsmith hopes to 'wild' his Somerset farm 2020-11-04T05:00:00Z When we are a little feral, and a little scrubby, we see where we fit in nature and how to respect it and how to thrive together as a team. Opinion | I Am Not a Housewife. I’m a Prepper. 2020-09-24T04:00:00Z Even scrubby desert plants are capable of cooling their environments, especially at night. How America’s hottest city will survive climate change 2020-07-08T04:00:00Z This bloom of life lasted for months and spread through food chains – even creating scrubby areas and heterogeneity in the landscape, scientists found. 'Landscape of fear': what a mass of rotting reindeer carcasses taught scientists 2020-07-08T04:00:00Z In the northern part of the Maya lowlands, where the forest is more scrubby but no less impenetrable than the Tabasco forest, a similar lidar ‘reveal’ is happening with equally profound results6–9. Large-scale early Maya sites in Mexico revealed by lidar mapping technology 2020-06-02T04:00:00Z Golfing with socially distant partners is now permitted at the base’s scrubby nine-hole course, but the estimated 250 elementary through high school students are learning at home. Senators Seek Answers on Coronavirus Protections at Guantánamo Bay 2020-05-28T04:00:00Z It might be the first time they saw the tri-color mustang galloping across the scrubby terrain of Colorado’s Sand Wash Basin, heading full tilt toward a watering hole. Wild horse named Picasso attracts ardent photographers, fans 2020-01-26T05:00:00Z Even scrubby desert plants help cool their environment. How America’s hottest city will survive climate change 2020-07-08T04:00:00Z Sand live oaks are smaller, scrubbier, and are generally found in sandy soil such as beaches, barrier island and coastal ridges, Fontenot told The Associated Press. Nicholls State growing coast-adapted plants for restoration 2020-01-11T05:00:00Z The scrubby pines and sparsely settled hills of the inland Northwest have long been seen as a potential homeland by fringe white supremacists and armed loners who are militantly suspicious of government power. G.O.P. Lawmaker Had Visions of a Christian Alternative Government 2019-12-23T05:00:00Z Amid the scrubby foothills of Sonora’s Sierra Madre mountains, they farmed pomegranates and pistachios, raised large families and preached a fundamentalist Mormon faith. How an isolated group of Mormons got caught up in Mexico's cartel wars 2019-11-08T05:00:00Z In small teams, they carried her legs, her torso and her upraised arm through the scrubby slopes, then over the craggy ridgeline until they came to the very head of the lion. Special Report: In a working-class Hong Kong neighborhood, the protests hit home 2019-10-30T04:00:00Z Even scrubby desert plants help cool their environment. How America’s hottest city will survive climate change 2020-07-08T04:00:00Z It opened up, above the town, onto headlands scrubby with gorse and heather, with views of the water all the way across to Wales, before dwindling into a gravel car park, where it ended. “The Bunty Club” 2019-10-21T04:00:00Z The Chevron refinery that looms over Richmond, California, its muted orange tanks nestled into the scrubby low-slung hills above San Francisco Bay, is older than the city itself. Richmond v Chevron: the California city taking on its most powerful polluter 2019-10-09T04:00:00Z It is an easy, isolated target, sitting on an island of scrubby, undeveloped land in a remote corner of Madrid’s exclusive Moncloa-Aravaca neighbourhood. Inside the bizarre, bungled raid on North Korea's Madrid embassy 2019-09-10T04:00:00Z You take it in: a striking cactus, some scrubby plants, then an expanse of sand stretching to the horizon shimmering under the impossibly bright sky. Review: Téa Obreht's ‘Inland’ transports readers in a sweeping story of the West 2019-08-16T04:00:00Z Every morning, I walked up the hill from my house to a scrubby field slated for development, where a rope swing hung from a black-walnut tree. A Year Without a Name 2019-08-12T04:00:00Z The community sprouted from the scrubby West Texas terrain, with the church sitting beside dusty lots with modest family houses, mobile homes and a graveyard of old eighteen-wheelers. In a Suffering City, an El Paso Priest Needed a Message of Hope 2019-08-11T04:00:00Z Mayo: This field is so scrubby you almost have to take a shot at the top, and I prefer Morikawa the best. 2019 John Deere Classic picks, sleepers and expert picks: Which young star will break out this week? - Golf Digest 2019-07-10T04:00:00Z Here, in a scrubby bit of wasteland, a city of white tents houses up to 3,000 child migrants in conditions that protesters say are far from humane. 'We see you!': Democratic 2020 hopefuls visit migrant detention center 2019-06-27T04:00:00Z There was a field where weeds and wildflowers and scrubby trees grew, and then the parking lot of the store. “Back Then” 2019-06-17T04:00:00Z We rounded a promontory with scrubby birches doubled over by snow, and came to a dark hut, raised up on sled runners, on the ice. Chasing the Aurora Borealis 2019-04-22T04:00:00Z Fields of poppies, lupins and other wildflowers spill across hillsides – usually covered with brown, scrubby plants – as though poured from a bucket of paint. 'It was like Woodstock': inside the town hit by super bloom mania 2019-03-24T04:00:00Z Reuters TV footage of the Islamic State-controlled frontline shows armed militants, most with only their eyes visible, supervising the evacuations from a scrubby patch of agricultural land scattered with vehicles and a few buildings. With shrouded faces, Islamic State fighters stand guard over final... 2019-03-10T05:00:00Z This federally owned land, essentially a scrubby marsh with partially waterlogged woodland, home to bears and cottonmouth snakes, spans around 250,000 acres. Red wolf: the struggle to save one of the rarest animals on Earth 2019-03-07T05:00:00Z Backed by scrubby dunes and lagoons teeming with birds, the only thing spoiling the idyll is the power station that looms to the north. Artificial archipelago: Copenhagen plans floating Silicon Valley 2019-03-06T05:00:00Z The cone-shaped structures, connected by vast tunnel networks and hidden by scrubby forests, date from about 700 to nearly 4,000 years ago. In Case You Missed It 2019-03-01T05:00:00Z Previously, the miner had to shuttle nearly 100 drivers around these scrubby outlands to switch train drivers three times for each journey. American Railways Chug Toward Automation 2019-01-19T05:00:00Z The city is surrounded by dry, scrubby land. From Arizona to Yemen: The Journey of an American Bomb 2018-12-11T05:00:00Z He always liked the quiet out there, on his ranch in the scrubby hills north of San Diego, and it was as quiet as ever. A horse and her trainer survived the Lilac Fire with severe burns. Now they are helping each other heal. 2018-11-29T05:00:00Z Surrounding every graceful, flowing, TifGrand Bermuda fairway and girdling every smooth Champion Bermuda green are wide belts of exposed sand, most of it found in place, beneath scrubby pines and underbrush since removed. Streamsong Black, Congaree are Golf Digest’s Best New Courses for 2018 - Golf Digest 2018-11-29T05:00:00Z Out back through the scrubby desert yard is his writing studio, a stuccoed hay-bale structure that insulates against the blistering Pala summers. How Native Americans in the arts are preserving tradition in a changing world 2018-11-29T05:00:00Z The expanse of the termites’ construction were hidden by scrubby forest known as caatinga. A Metropolis of 200 Million Termite Mounds Was Hidden in Plain Sight 2018-11-20T05:00:00Z Before fires ravaged these places, I celebrated their beauties: waterfalls, wildflowers and the sweet scent of the scrubby chaparral. Opinion | Nature has something to tell us. It’s time we listened. 2018-11-16T05:00:00Z World leaders, should they choose to tour the capital, will see a low-slung, spread of shantytowns, marketplaces and a handful of upscale buildings ringed by scrubby hills along the Coral Sea. Global Leaders Converge on Pacific Island—Just Don’t Ask Them to Stay There 2018-11-12T05:00:00Z Last week the mother of six organised a small celebration with friends in Ifo camp, one of a vast complex of refugee settlements on dry, scrubby plains around the remote Kenyan town of Dadaab. 'She's made us proud': Ilhan Omar's journey from Somali refugee to US congresswoman 2018-11-09T05:00:00Z It’s a small, scrubby species grown in sandy river bars. Research finds Nez Perce tobacco use pre-dates trappers 2018-11-03T04:00:00Z Black skeletons of scrubby trees stretched to the horizon south of Seiling; in other places, the flames had turned open prairie into Sahara-like dunes dotted with spiky black sagebrush stumps. The Day the Great Plains Burned 2018-10-29T04:00:00Z When he arrived nearly a decade ago in Wee Waa, a small town surrounded by scrubby farmland, Mr. Gabbott’s mission seemed straightforward. A Pastor Pushes Forward as a Drought Threatens His Town and His Church 2018-10-07T04:00:00Z The minute you step out of the Austin bubble and head out into the scrubby ranchlands that surround it, they are everywhere. Can Beto do it? The battle for Texas that holds the key to America's future 2018-10-07T04:00:00Z Senegal has few rivers and no mountains so baobabs sprout from the scrubby landscape as majestic way points. Across Senegal, the Beloved Baobab Tree Is the ‘Pride of the Neighborhood’ 2018-09-30T04:00:00Z The Bunny Ranch is set in a scrubby landscape punctuated by gas stations, casinos and gun shops. Last call for Nevada’s brothels? 2018-09-16T04:00:00Z In a matter of hours, a scrubby patch of grassy prairie became a city of 10,000. Letter of Recommendation: Oklahoma City 2018-08-21T04:00:00Z Putnam asks, as she follows her goats through the rabbit brush and scrubby ephedra, also called Mormon tea. A physicist-turned-farmer left L.A. for a mountain getaway. You can visit for goat cheese and cajeta 2018-08-16T04:00:00Z The Guardian spent a day with the candidate as he traversed the scrubby, arid landscape of Mashonaland East, a predominantly rural province that was a bastion of support for Mugabe. Zimbabwe opposition leader: 'We will have a new president … it will be me' 2018-07-27T04:00:00Z It had to irk a fighter pilot to be trailing a scrubby little plane like my Cessna. A pilot fights to become the first female astronaut in alternate history novel The Calculating Stars 2018-06-24T04:00:00Z The prairie warbler prefers grasslands and shrubs, and in migration, “they like scrubby habitat,” he says. Center works to make cities more flight-friendly for birds 2018-05-26T04:00:00Z The rest was a big field verging on scrubby forest, with knee-high grass and scattered shrubs and a few trees growing where everything else stopped long ago. From a homemade field in Utah, Terps’ Bubba Fairman took a road rarely traveled in lacrosse 2018-05-18T04:00:00Z Photos of the scene showed a highway running through scrubby woods, with no apparent firing position offering a 45 degree angle down on the car’s roof. Mexican evidence suggests Marines’ fire killed 3 civilians 2018-04-06T04:00:00Z The tent occupied one corner of a cavernous “clean room” in a remote building on the scrubby outskirts of the space center here, amid palms and canals and flocks of cormorants. Meet TESS, Seeker of Alien Worlds 2018-03-26T04:00:00Z Otay Mesa is a liminal zone: The mountains nearby are serene, and the ground is dry and scrubby. Opinion | Looking at Trump’s ‘Beautiful Wall’ 2018-03-03T05:00:00Z Other students and teachers ran into the scrubby desert countryside. In Nigeria, Another Mass Kidnapping Stirs Painful Memories and Anger 2018-02-25T05:00:00Z Two days' drive from the Mongolian capital of Ulaanbaatar, 100 miles from the country's border with China, the foothills of the Altai Mountains slash a jagged brown line across the scrubby southern Gobi grasslands. Could Dogs Help Save the Mongolian Steppe? 2018-02-15T05:00:00Z Climbing a small, scrubby hill behind the little riverside town of Mrauk U, a dreamy landscape reveals itself, of centuries-old stupas wreathed in mist, dotted with farming communities. How an ancient kingdom fell into poverty 2018-02-07T05:00:00Z Measures to reduce pressures on hedgehogs include providing more field margins, hedgerows and scrubby areas for the animals. Hedgehog numbers 'down by half' 2018-02-06T05:00:00Z The gate hangs open, and more than 20 horses wander loose in a scrubby pasture. On the run from the law, a polygamist patriarch builds a secret world 2017-11-11T05:00:00Z A helicopter and armored vehicle were assisting the search in the scrubby mountain foothills and trails just above campus. Manhunt Underway for Gunman Who Killed University of Utah Student in Carjacking 2017-10-31T04:00:00Z Those are valuable minutes and seconds, and you can't let down your sponsors by looking scrubby. Undercover Tour Pro: Why I Decided To Change My Uniform - Golf Digest 2017-10-24T04:00:00Z Suddenly, on the scrubby desert horizon, men on motorbikes appeared — a sign of likely terrorist activity. Conflicting Accounts in Niger Ambush Are Subject of Pentagon Investigation 2017-10-20T04:00:00Z Several thousand people crossed into Bangladesh from northern Rakhine on Monday, filing along embankments between flooded fields and scrubby forest. Rohingya Muslims flee Burma in new surge 2017-10-09T04:00:00Z They urged caution about logging and replanting trees after wildfires, arguing that a complex, scrubby ecosystem should be allowed to develop without interference. Why does this famous protector of trees now want to cut some down? 2017-10-05T04:00:00Z For the most part, their subjects were smog-shrouded scenes of canals, railway bridges, terraced houses and scrubby back gardens. Art mystery: The famed painters who vanished into obscurity 2017-09-23T04:00:00Z The invasive species ravage the native ones, which may spend many years hunkered down in scrubby woodland refugia until fresh downpours start the cycle again. Australia to ax support for long-term ecology sites 2017-08-11T04:00:00Z Perched at the top of a narrow valley, in the parched, scrubby hills of northern Iraq, close to the Kurdish border, its cluster of shrines are a revered site for followers of the Yazidi faith. ‘I was sold seven times': Yazidi women welcomed back into the faith 2017-07-01T04:00:00Z When it comes to a scrubby baseball diamond in a public park, we agree to suspend the hounding fury of political discourse to share the grass. Perspective | If the Warriors want to take a stand, go to the White House and shake President Trump’s hand 2017-06-14T04:00:00Z The sun has set over the scrubby savannah. US army veterans find peace in protecting rhinos from poaching 2017-05-30T04:00:00Z Inside there was a great crackle of electricity as the teams emerged on to that open square of scrubby looking lime green. Real Madrid reach Champions League final despite defeat by Atlético 2017-05-10T04:00:00Z Wooded hills, an industrial zone, some scrubby land, fields. Spanish Grand Prix: You need a strong neck to race here - Nico Hulkenberg 2017-05-10T04:00:00Z In 1767, long before this scrubby ranchland was Texas, King Charles III of Spain granted her ancestors a large riverfront tract tangled with honey mesquite trees and towering clumps of cactus. Families who've owned their South Texas land for centuries fear orders to make room for border wall 2017-04-07T04:00:00Z Machetes in hand, the indigenous Cocas are climbing the steep scrubby hills that overlook their territory. The American expats breaking up indigenous communities on the Mexican 'Riviera' 2017-04-04T04:00:00Z Elias spun the vehicle and barreled over the scrubby dunes. Safaris for the Soft-Hearted: In Search of Namibia’s Endangered Desert-Adapted Lions 2017-03-14T04:00:00Z The very name — both names: Enid and Haupt — struck me as dusty and old, and in my memory the garden itself seemed small and scrubby. Perspective | Fans of Haupt garden near Mall don’t want to see it bulldozed 2017-03-13T04:00:00Z Somewhere in an unidentifiable patch of scrubby forest, a nameless man labors to make something — an ax, a forge, an entire hut — using only materials that he has collected from the surrounding wilderness. Letter of Recommendation: ‘Primitive Technology’ 2016-12-01T05:00:00Z What had brought her out to this patch of scrubby Wyoming soil? How a woman solved her sister’s 39-year-old murder case 2016-11-23T05:00:00Z Most will be small affairs on scrubby soccer pitches in villages or supporters’ yards. Isatu Touray: ‘Who is going to change Gambia, if not us?’ 2016-11-13T05:00:00Z Who could deny the alchemical allure of the toxic phosphor tailings ponds in Florida, or the beauty of the scrubby patchwork quilts left by mass deforestation? Edward Burtynsky on his ravaged Earth shots: 'We've reached peak everything' 2016-09-15T04:00:00Z The land here is flat with scrubby trees; the towns ramshackle and dusty. Black plastic bags from local markets skitter across the landscape like alien tumbleweeds. Starving to death in Nigeria: Boko Haram is threatening the lives of thousands 2016-08-19T04:00:00Z He gestured toward a small park created last year that has already become a tangle of weeds, scrubby shrubs and windblown plastic bags. ‘Everybody is still in pain.’ But is it finally getting better in riot-scarred Baltimore? 2016-07-30T04:00:00Z Some were sold and others went feral, finding America’s scrubby deserts quite comfortable for decades after their release. Could bringing back camels ‘rewild’ the American West? 2016-06-22T04:00:00Z Where the scrubby fields of central Gaza meet the Israeli border fence, there is a locked gate. Gaza fence jumpers looking for work find prison instead – but keep trying anyway 2016-06-01T04:00:00Z At first, it appears the result was huge boulevards for tanks, windswept squares looked down on by scowling statues, and scrubby open space between concrete slabs – alienating, inhumane, authoritarian. Soviet squares: how public space is disappearing in post-communist cities 2016-04-21T04:00:00Z Only the heat shimmering across the scrubby land breaks the stillness. 'We are the forgotten people': the anguish of Australia's 'invisible' asylum seekers 2016-04-12T04:00:00Z It was a scrubby area off West 165th Street between Riverside Drive and the Henry Hudson Parkway in Washington Heights. Is there a real Dead Dog Park in Manhattan? 2016-02-26T05:00:00Z As we approached, they emerged like ancient pyramids from the scrubby desert, wobbling in the waves of heat. A New Generation of Airships Is Born 2016-02-29T05:00:00Z While driving up the coast on Highway 101, he remembered being struck by the jagged peaks and scrubby scenery of the Santa Monica Mountains. He's blazing a Web trail for hikers 2016-02-21T05:00:00Z In Sofia, the narrator has reached an area of scrubby ground near Soviet-style apartment blocks. Novels of Desire 2016-02-08T05:00:00Z Sanders stared across the scrubby hillside, resting a hand on his shovel. Robot burial : Nature : Nature Publishing Group 2016-01-26T05:00:00Z The goat is thought to be one of a group released on to the Avon Gorge in 2011 to try to save rare wild flowers and control the growth of scrubby vegetation. 999 distress call victim 'was goat' - BBC News 2016-01-25T05:00:00Z A short, scrubby palm, the saw palmetto gets its name from the fan-shaped, saw-tooth edged leaves. Workers accused of illegally harvesting palmetto berries 2015-11-01T04:00:00Z It's a scrubby old thing, not a sturdy tree. 5 Questions: Cookbook author Amelia Saltsman is chill with Jewish and farmers market heritages 2015-09-09T04:00:00Z At first sight, the scrubby land around Lost Hills in California’s Central Valley looks like the worst place in the world to grow anything. Nut empire battles conservationists over water tunnel for California orchards 2015-08-21T04:00:00Z Herman stood up and surveyed the beach: a secluded area, hidden behind an embankment and a stand of low, scrubby trees. Detectives try to ID little girl left dead on Deer Island 2015-08-15T04:00:00Z The tidal river that surrounds this spit of scrubby land has long functioned like a moat that rises and falls through the day. Pocahontas' tribe, the Pamunkey of Virginia, finally recognized by U.S. 2015-08-02T04:00:00Z FLAGSTAFF, Ariz.—With nothing but the scrubby eastern Arizona desert surrounding it for miles, the Lumberjack Sawmill rises from the horizon like a set piece from a “Mad Max” film. Largest Forest Restoration in U.S. History Aims to Shrink Wildifres 2015-07-08T04:00:00Z Approaching the island by boat across from the vast, shallow lagoon – the world’s second largest – the concrete structure is barely visible among the scrubby trees. This dome in the Pacific houses tons of radioactive waste – and it's leaking 2015-07-03T04:00:00Z Pulling off the main road, climbing a winding track past a rusting ski lift, and bumping across a scrubby plateau, he brings the car to a stop. The town where dinosaurs and Jesus mingle - BBC News 2015-06-13T04:00:00Z A new study, published online today in Biology Letters, suggests that a small scrubby shrub called Ephedra foeminea releases its pollen only when the moon is full. Plant releases its pollen in the full moon 2015-04-01T04:00:00Z Peppered with cranes, the city - or building site to be more accurate - lies one-and-a-half hour's drive north of Jeddah between the Red Sea and scrubby desert. Saudi Arabia's new desert megacity 2015-03-19T04:00:00Z Outside, hundreds of tigers pace back and forth in small, scrubby enclosures or lie listlessly in much smaller cages made of concrete and rusted metal. Tiger farms stoke Chinese demand for tiger wine and rugs, putting wild cats in peril 2015-01-01T05:00:00Z His village looks like any other in the district: a clutch of houses fronting dusty yards, backed by small farming plots cleared out of the scrubby forest. Inside the cultural struggle to stamp out Ebola 2014-12-16T05:00:00Z Using night-vision equipment, they began walking over terrain described as “hilly, scrubby” and “rough.” Hagel: U.S. hostage ‘murdered’ in Yemen Down a dusty stretch of road, BNK Petroleum's 11th oil rig in the area is being constructed, poking out above the scrubby trees. Is the US oil boom about to go bust? 2014-11-05T05:00:00Z Sometime early next year, ground will be broken for a 667,000-square-foot research laboratory on a spectacular plateau of yellow grass and scrubby pines facing the Yellow Sea. For $100,000, You Can Clone Your Dog 2014-10-22T04:00:00Z West, but the ecosystems supporting the scrubby plants are an economic generator, pumping millions into the local and national economies, according to a report released on Tuesday. Sagebrush recreation sites across U.S. West generate millions 2014-10-01T04:00:00Z About seven hundred acres of land that had once formed part of Mexico—the Chamizal, named for a scrubby plant that grew there—were now connected to the United States. Moving the Mexican Border 2014-09-21T04:00:00Z In his years living among the scrubby trees beneath the highway, he had shed his Social Security card, military discharge papers and driver’s license. Many Veterans Adapt to a Strange World, One With Walls 2014-09-20T04:00:00Z The second, in our scrubby side yard in suburban Connecticut, never saw flame but eventually hosted many interesting species of weeds and at least one tree. Baptism by Fire Pit 2014-09-10T04:00:00Z A teenager jogged around a scrubby plaza with a bulldog on a leash. They Built It. People Came. Now They Go. 2014-09-08T04:00:00Z Families of victims from Burkina Faso, from where the McDonnell Douglas MD-83 aircraft took off early on Thursday morning, were flown out by helicopter to pay respects at the scrubby bushland site. Families mourn victims of Air Algerie crash in Mali 2014-07-27T04:00:00Z The United Nations estimates that there are more than 75,000 in Khost province alone, living in a scrubby open field that is a two-day walk from their home across the border in Pakistan. Pakistanis displaced by military offensive seek refuge in Afghanistan Try honey on its own, and if you want that scrubby feeling, mix in just a pinch of baking soda. 3 Cheap, Natural Ways to Exfoliate 2014-06-24T04:00:00Z To an outsider, the landscape might be unremarkable — a desiccated riverbed and a scrubby patch of trees in the middle of a vast desert. These wounded U.S. veterans wanted closure. They found it back in Afghanistan. Flames raced along scrubby hillsides as massive black plumes filled the skies. Flare-up keeps San Diego fire situation tenuous 2014-05-15T04:00:00Z Watching the trains hurtle across the flat, scrubby terrain is awe-inspiring. Railways in Mexico: Something to choo-choo over 2014-03-13T16:00:44Z A patch of scrubby, windswept shingle on the Suffolk coast known as Orford Ness would become the unlikely place where just about every question anyone could think of would be tried and tested. Secret island of boffins and biplanes 2014-02-27T01:30:32Z And then there is a scrubby South African tree that may be tens of thousands of years old, repeatedly sending up new sprouts from an ancient subterranean root. Books: Secrets of the Ages 2014-02-24T21:09:27Z They sprawl across the scrubby foothills of this storied coastal town and survey its expensive, eroding beaches, their comforts rivaling those of world-class resorts. An Intervention for Malibu 2013-09-13T21:15:59Z Camp Bastion, a vast expanse of prefabricated buildings and razor wire so ugly that it defaces an ugly stretch of scrubby Helmand desert, is the operating base for almost 30,000 British troops in Afghanistan. U.K. Admits Holding Afghan Prisoners on British Base 2013-05-30T06:05:22Z Beneath it hangs a huge metal cone: an industrial-scale hopper that is sending a steady stream of blue pellets raining down on the scrubby landscape of Pinzón, one of the Galapagos Islands. Invasive species: The 18-km2 rat trap 2013-05-15T17:20:48.780Z In fact, there was "plenty of brownfield land, empty homes and sites on scrubby land that nobody cares about" on which to build new houses, he said. England 'not heavily developed' 2012-12-12T22:41:42Z Photograph: Jonathan Margolis for the Observer The scrubby desert outside Port Augusta, three hours from Adelaide, is not the kind of countryside you see in Australian tourist brochures. Growing food in the desert: is this the solution to the world's food crisis? 2012-11-24T21:00:01Z Behind Big Political Gifts, a Mysterious Donor It is a small apartment in a scrubby section of Jamaica, Queens, where the average household income is $33,800 and many residents receive government assistance. Behind Big Political Donations, a Mysterious Contributor From Queens 2012-07-28T02:03:03Z Once that complex structure erodes, we are left with flat rock pavements covered by scrubby algae, and biodiversity is accordingly reduced to a fraction of what a healthy reef supports. Scientist at Work Blog: In Caribbean Reefs, Social Shrimp Disappear 2012-07-24T16:07:33Z They picked up students, some an hour away, and returned past the scrubby trailers along two-lane roads and the tidy brick homes along High Street, to the school’s truck-dock entrance. The Lady Jaguars: Carroll Academy Basketball: ?We?re Not Really Bad Kids? 2012-04-16T03:17:48Z In that manner they finally passed to the shelter of some scrubby bushes. Frank Merriwell's Backers The Pride of His Friends 2012-04-14T02:00:22.840Z "You look just like your old self, Ted," I said; "the same little curls and scrubby little moustache." There is no Death 2012-03-22T02:00:39.257Z Being small and feeble, however, it does not hunt about the roots of trees and large bushes like the larger and more powerful Homorus, but keeps under the diminutive scrubby plants in open sterile situations. Argentine Ornithology, Volume I (of 2) A descriptive catalogue of the birds of the Argentine Republic. 2012-02-26T03:00:17.560Z The nest is made under a small scrubby bush, and contains from five to seven eggs, in form and colour like those of N. maculosa, except that the reddish-purple tint is paler. Argentine Ornithology, Volume II (of 2) A descriptive catalogue of the birds of the Argentine Republic. 2012-02-26T03:00:16.210Z A few scrubby originals of this variety yet, however, remain; and the eastern side of the island is not destitute of trees. Nooks and Corners of the New England Coast 2012-02-22T03:00:25.113Z And so Joe had hopes and fears—hopes that his dream might come true, and fears lest the enmity of Hiram and Luke would keep him one of the “scrubbiest of the scrubs.” Baseball Joe on the School Nine or, Pitching for the Blue Banner 2012-02-17T03:00:33.267Z He fetched a huge breath of satisfaction as he gained a little strip of level ledge, perhaps a dozen feet in length, with a scrubby spruce bush growing at the other end of it. Hoof and Claw 2012-01-28T03:00:27.507Z Here and there rises a scrubby hillock of furze, black and rough as the head of a monster. Checkmate 2012-01-03T03:00:10.887Z The young are hatched with the legs feathered to the toes; these leg-feathers are not shed, but are gradually worn off as the bird grows old by continual friction against the stiff scrubby vegetation. Argentine Ornithology, Volume II (of 2) A descriptive catalogue of the birds of the Argentine Republic. 2012-02-26T03:00:16.210Z The southern and western slopes are drier, for the lower slopes are covered with a scrubby, but evergreen, forest. A Distributional Study of the Amphibians of the Isthmus of Tehuantepec, Mexico 2011-12-31T03:00:17.400Z Now, down among the carriage-wheels and poles, a scrubby growth of drunken post-boys and the like has sprung into existence, like weeds among the many-colored flowers of fine ladies in Broughams, and so forth. Harper's New Monthly Magazine, Vol. 3, No. 15, August, 1851 2011-12-27T03:00:07.217Z The hills on both sides of the river grew loftier and more rugged as we ran to the south, and the trees became patchier and scrubbier. Down the Columbia 2011-12-10T03:00:16.583Z Most of the higher parts of the glens are covered with Scotch firs and spruces and larches, the lower lands with elm and plane and scrubby oaks. Kenneth McAlpine A Tale of Mountain, Moorland and Sea 2011-12-05T03:00:48.967Z The whole region for many a league around Roc�o is one dead-flat plain—dry scrubby brushwood or stagnant marsh and marisma. Wild Spain (Espa?a agreste) Records of Sport with Rifle, Rod, and Gun, Natural History Exploration 2011-12-05T03:00:38.980Z He had his hat in one hand, and with the other he rubbed his scrubby chin. A Master of Deception 2011-11-30T03:00:12.357Z For one thing, the fields, though perfectly adequate, were about what you would expect from a schoolyard, with hard dirt or scrubby infields and outfields with unruly grass and ruts to be aware of. U.S. Softball Ambassadors to Cuba 2011-11-25T19:35:19Z Trees and brush were scarcer and scrubbier than above, and the general aspect was becoming more and more like the semi-arid parts of the Colorado Desert. Down the Columbia 2011-12-10T03:00:16.583Z On one hand there were rocks and scrubby pines, with larger trees behind, but he wondered what the result would be if a reef or a jutting point lay in front of them. The Boy Ranchers of Puget Sound 2011-11-24T03:00:42.877Z Some species frequent scrubby jungles along the sea. The Adventures of a Grain of Dust 2011-11-22T03:00:12.257Z The mudpuddle becomes an ocean, where the pirate ship is launched; a scrubby apple tree has infinite possibilities. Essays on Modern Novelists 2011-11-22T03:00:10.817Z She suggested that Eloise, whom she invariably addressed as, “you pampered minion of millions, you!” should call on her in that scrubby hall bedroom. Out of the Air 2011-11-21T03:00:14.460Z It went hard with Iv�n, but he finished the mowing, and there was left only one scrubby place in the swamp. Fables for Children, Stories for Children, Natural Science Stories, Popular Education, Decembrists, Moral Tales 2011-11-17T03:00:35.327Z Confused sounds followed the detonation, but it became evident to Frank, now quivering with excitement, that three separate persons were smashing through scrubby undergrowth as fast as they could manage. The Boy Ranchers of Puget Sound 2011-11-24T03:00:42.877Z The surface of the plateau is generally open campo and scrubby arboreal growth called caatingas, but the streams are generally bordered with forest, especially in the deeper valleys. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 12, Slice 3 "Gordon, Lord George" to "Grasses" 2011-11-13T03:00:13.177Z I don't wish these scrubby Carlist newspapers to be saying that we lost our temper with a woman.... The Marquis of Pe?alta (Marta y Mar?a) A Realistic Social Novel 2011-11-12T03:00:35.113Z Mr. Poltifen was a short, thick-set individual, with that in his appearance which was suggestive of pugnacity, an iron-grey, scrubby beard, and a pair of spectacles--probably something superior in the cobbling line. Between the Dark and the Daylight 2011-11-11T03:00:37.893Z But she always pretended to be engaged to that scrubby little chap with false teeth who used to hang about the bar and make sheep's eyes at her over innumerable Scotch-and-sodas. Plays: Lady Frederick, The Explorer, A Man of Honor 2011-11-11T03:00:30.420Z In that little stream was a small island covered with scrubby timber. The Indians' Last Fight Or The Dull Knife Raid 2011-11-06T02:00:13.167Z Between was a cruel waste, tufted here and there by gray-green, scrubby growth, half-buried in sand and rooted in gravel. Saul of Tarsus A Tale of the Early Christians 2011-10-28T02:00:22.437Z But I recollect some scrubby old fable about grasshoppers and ants, by a scrubby old knave, yclept Æsop; the grasshoppers sang all the summer, and starved all the winter.' The Bront? Family, Vol. 1 of 2 with special reference to Patrick Branwell Bront? 2011-10-27T02:00:24.317Z Not to "high coniferous trees in northern forests"—the Mecca of innumerable warblers—but to scrubby, second growth of woodland borders, or lower trees in the heart of the woods, do these dainty birds retreat. Bird Neighbors An Introductory Acquaintance with One Hundred and Fifity Birds Commonly Found in the Gardens, Meadows, and Woods About Our Homes 2011-10-14T02:00:28.840Z Several of the net lanes were in scrubby coconut forest, like the net lane shown here. Scientist at Work Blog: Magical Days on Panamoti Island 2011-10-11T16:03:18Z Who is that common-looking little man with the scrubby beard, and the very yellow gloves—how does he come to be here? Voces Populi 2011-10-04T02:00:20.280Z There was nothing whatever in sight except beach-grapes and scrubby tufts of palmetto, and flocks of grey, long-legged, long-billed birds running to avoid her. Quick Action 2011-09-26T02:00:28.347Z When one is scrubby and starved it is almost impossible to succeed in "wangling." Caught by the Turks 2011-09-09T02:01:01.073Z Bits of scrubby bushes grew here and there in the sand, and a kind of strong rough grass also in patches; but that was all. O'er Many Lands, on Many Seas 2011-09-08T02:00:19.987Z She was perched with a certain daintiness upon Dirk Mackenzie’s water fykie, sipping a cup of coffee, her back crêpe draperies spread round her on the scrubby grass. The Claw 2011-08-31T02:01:30.563Z These horses were poor and scrubby and small, but before 1635 a cargo of Flemish draft horses was imported. Stage-coach and Tavern Days 2011-08-31T02:01:27.587Z A big tear rolled down upon the scrubby beard of the ragpicker. The Galley Slave's Ring or The Family of Lebrenn. A Tale of The French Revolution of 1848 2011-08-29T02:01:02.680Z We backed insignificantly into the rather scrubby, insignificant harbour. Sea and Sardinia 2011-08-28T02:00:30.857Z The low hills, so characteristic of these parts, stretch themselves on either bank, unbroken except where some little streamlet forces its way by a gentle ravine through the scrubby undergrowth. Castles and Chateaux of Old Touraine and the Loire Country 2011-08-27T02:00:22.057Z His bright red hair, scrubby nose, and freckled face were in odd contrast to his surroundings, so typically Dutch. The Argus Pheasant 2011-08-27T02:00:20.160Z It was a stony country and the trees were scrubby. Hunting in Many Lands The Book of the Boone and Crockett Club 2011-08-20T02:00:11.973Z The flanks of the Welsh array were protected by high and rocky slopes where scrubby oaks and thorns found scant foothold amidst the crags and where no horse could tread. Cedric, the Forester 2011-08-17T02:00:29.077Z Beppin' appeared, a middle-aged man also in black broad-cloth, with a very scrubby chin and a bundle, running towards us on fat legs. Sea and Sardinia 2011-08-28T02:00:30.857Z In view of preventing this method of poaching, especially on land where many partridges roost, keepers plant low scrubby thorns at intervals. The Confessions of a Poacher 2011-08-05T02:00:44.470Z Moving along silently under good cover I reached a thick scrubby bush and peered over the top of it to search the grass under the surrounding thorn-trees for the little red-brown form. Jock of the Bushveld 2011-08-04T02:00:24.987Z The scar on the steep slope of the west wall down which that slide had fallen was now masked by a hardy growth of scrubby trees and brush. The Heart of Canyon Pass 2011-08-04T02:00:24.083Z In between was a flat, scrubby expanse of mostly public land, all cactuses and rocks, with little life in sight, other than jackrabbits. Life on the Line 2011-07-31T04:27:16Z Extraordinary how the heathy, moor-like hills come near the sea: extraordinary how scrubby and uninhabited the great spaces of Sardinia are. Sea and Sardinia 2011-08-28T02:00:30.857Z At his base, on a hill overlooking the city, 60 or 70 young men stood guard outside with rifles, hiding among scrubby trees and half-built houses. Magazine Preview: Yemen on the Brink of Hell 2011-07-21T01:01:35Z The next day we reached Casas Vejas, or "Old Houses," where we bivouacked on a scrubby hill, the weather being very bitter, which we felt in all its force, having no covering whatever. Twenty-Five Years in the Rifle Brigade 2011-07-21T02:00:19.027Z We were so nearly out of breath that we could run no farther for the present, and, on looking hastily about, discovered a low, scrubby pine-bush surrounded with shrubbery. Capturing a Locomotive A History of Secrect Service in the Late War. 2011-07-19T02:00:19.070Z And now he approached a petty, yet spiteful river, over which black scrubby alders hung, with willows that seemed suicidal. The Browning Cyclop?dia A Guide to the Study of the Works of Robert Browning 2011-07-16T02:00:19.397Z Now that brother of his—the one that’s at Queen’s—he’s a—a—well, a scrubby sort, but I like this one. Dorrien of Cranston 2011-07-07T02:00:31.540Z A hundred yards away, between this isolated building and the dingy road stretched through the mountain valley, grew a scrubby clump of choke-cherry brush. Hope Hathaway A Story of Western Ranch Life 2011-07-07T02:00:27.303Z But it was a complete desert; nothing but reeds grew on it, except a few stunted and scrubby bushes at the lower end of it. Twenty-Five Years in the Rifle Brigade 2011-07-21T02:00:19.027Z A little short-cotton and sweet-potato patch, flanked by an acre of scrubby Indian corn; and, added to these, five poor sheep, two goats, and a lean cow, complete the inventory of his goods and chattels. The Kentuckian in New-York, Volume I (of 2) or, The Adventures of Three Southerns 2011-07-06T02:00:46.297Z In dry seasons this kloof contained no water, but on the side which had been assigned to Stephanus there was a small spring situated in a rocky depression which was filled with scrubby bush. A Vendetta of the Desert 2011-07-05T02:00:32.510Z Passing many of these undesirable wayfarers, one comes, in a mile—fields and hedgerows and market-gardens on either side—to Shoulder of Mutton Green, a scrubby piece of common-ground shaped like South America—but smaller. The Dover Road Annals of an Ancient Turnpike 2011-07-04T02:00:17.130Z They reached the fence quickly without noise, securing their horses behind a screen of scrubby willows. Hope Hathaway A Story of Western Ranch Life 2011-07-07T02:00:27.303Z Patch and I marched off along the wide avenue which our stream formed through the scrubby firs and Jack pines which grew closely along its margins. A Claim on Klondyke A Romance of the Arctic El Dorado 2011-07-03T02:00:07.507Z I know what I am talking about, because that region was the first judicial district I presided over, and many a hard journey I have had over it, circuit riding, on a scrubby pony. The American Occupation of the Philippines 1898-1912 2011-06-29T02:00:28.167Z In a common chair tilted back against the opposite wall Lontaine sat absently worrying his scrubby moustache with an exquisitely manicured thumb and forefinger. Linda Lee, Incorporated A Novel 2011-06-19T02:00:18.633Z "I'm ready," he said, and indeed one could see by the scrubby look of his cheeks that he had had an extra amount of soap. The Palace in the Garden 2011-06-17T02:00:20.540Z These boulder-patches were bordered by fringes of scrubby forest, outside which grew coarse, matted grass. The White Hecatomb And other Stories 2011-06-15T02:00:22.103Z The fence had never been finished at the rear and up on a scrubby side hill behind the house a man was wielding an axe. Ruth Fielding In the Saddle College Girls in the Land of Gold 2011-06-14T02:00:22.083Z The bare-legged youngsters got through a rail fence and darted down a path into a scrubby pasture, as wild as unbroken colts. The Corner House Girls Among the Gypsies How They Met, What Happened, and How It Ended 2011-06-14T02:00:19.837Z She faced a thicket of scrubby bushes across the road. Ruth Fielding At Sunrise Farm What Became of the Raby Orphans 2011-06-14T02:00:19.177Z The road wound in and out through a scrubby growth of trees, then turned sharply and skirted the base of a steep hill. The Turn of the Tide The Story of How Margaret Solved Her Problem 2011-06-14T02:00:18.357Z I like how scrubby the people in games marketing are. Nintendo introduces souped-up Wii at E3 2011-06-08T08:16:05Z Thick and scrubby woods masked the sides of the gorge through which they rode. Ruth Fielding In the Saddle College Girls in the Land of Gold 2011-06-14T02:00:22.083Z Our train, after passing through some swampy-looking, flat, scrubby country, got into a teeming tropical wilderness of green. From Chart House to Bush Hut Being the Record of a Sailor's 7 Years in the Queensland Bush 2011-06-08T02:00:16.290Z Although his rod and tackle were of the best, his apparel was rough, not to say scrubby. The Secret of Lonesome Cove 2011-06-07T02:00:12.563Z It was a rather hard pull for the little girls; and Dot got her knees “scrubby,” although she saved the Alice-doll’s dress. The Corner House Girls on a Tour Where they went, what they saw, and what they found 2011-05-31T02:00:33.267Z But a mystery of a different kind shrouds the death of the toddler, who was found on the same scrubby and desolate stretch of land, a tragic, nameless footnote in the case. Among Bodies Discarded on a Beach, One That Doesn?t Fit 2011-05-30T01:12:16Z Beyond a small grove of scrubby trees they came in sight of what Flapjack declared was probably the end of the gold-bearing rock. Ruth Fielding In the Saddle College Girls in the Land of Gold 2011-06-14T02:00:22.083Z "A scrubby little holler" the neighborhood folk called it. Hoosier Mosaics 2011-05-20T02:00:35.173Z Dixie Lee was lying very awkwardly among the rocks at the foot of a scrubby juniper, and at the first glance Bowles knew she was hurt. Bat Wing Bowles 2011-05-20T02:00:33.310Z They soon left the sand dunes behind them and marched up over what the natives of the island called “the downs” to a scrubby pasture at the edge of the golf links. The Campfire Girls on Station Island or, The Wireless from the Steam Yacht 2011-05-19T02:00:07.110Z Your cousin is enough to make you blue, but remember that everyone has some scrubby kin. Vacation with the Tucker Twins 2011-05-08T02:00:04.123Z The police presence was heavy; mothers with toddlers, old ladies with lap dogs, and young men waited anxiously on the scrubby lawn for their headliner to appear. President Trump? "I'm Very Serious" 2011-04-28T05:45:07Z This month, for the first time, Midland imposed water restrictions, forcing homeowners to water their lawns less, and schools to let their football fields grow scrubby. The Texas Tribune: A City Built on Oil Discovers How Precious Its Water Can Be 2011-04-21T23:09:20Z The terrain is marshy and contains a metre-high tangle of sea grass punctuated by scrubby pine trees. Bodies search resumes at NY beach 2011-04-05T15:22:30Z But assuredly the worst suspicions are permissible so long as these gentlemen elect to skulk in the coulisses and shrink from responsibility for their scrubby handiwork. The myth of the Jewish menace in world affairs or, The truth about the forged protocols of the elders of Zion 2011-04-01T02:00:43.730Z A filthy, scrubby object met my gaze, and I was not sorry to get a shave that afternoon at the town before proceeding, and we stayed for the night and got baths. 13 Days The Chronicle of an Escape from a German Prison 2011-04-01T02:00:33.827Z The American took a very scrubby note-book from his pocket, and made a short calculation with a pencil. Luttrell Of Arran Complete 2011-04-01T02:00:31.290Z He had coarse, faded hair, but no whiskers nor beard, and only a scrubby, gray moustache. Mississippi Outlaws and the Detectives Don Pedro and the Detectives; Poisoner and the Detectives 2011-03-28T02:00:28.167Z But what good could this scrubby little man do me, if he were? A Daughter of the Vine 2011-03-09T03:00:47.790Z They climbed all day in a bewildering waste of boulders and scrubby trees. The Basket Woman A Book of Indian Tales for Children 2011-03-09T03:00:44.330Z He is a mean, scrubby, little, damp-looking chap, not unlike the bit of dirty cotton in the bottom of an ink-bottle, the incarnation of black draught and a bitter mixture. The Dodd Family Abroad, Vol. I 2011-03-03T03:00:56.130Z It will be very scrubby, thanks to my lady's stinginess. A Charming Fellow, Volume II (of 3) 2011-03-02T03:00:26.237Z Scattered among these are bushes and scrubby trees, called "forest weeds," such as mountain maple and dogwood, Fig. Wood and Forest 2011-03-01T03:00:42.647Z If only South America could jettison its scrubby dictatorships! The Unfinished Global Revolution by Mark Malloch Brown ? review 2011-02-27T00:01:11Z Between us and the River Clyde, in the lee of the low, scrubby cliffs, I could make out a flag-pole and a dark cluster on the beach around it. The Childrens' Story of the War, Volume 3 (of 10) 2011-02-26T03:00:45.583Z I had marked a scrubby thorn-bush, which served as a beacon, and on climbing silently to the top, we commanded a view of a small open area that had been trampled completely bare. The Highlands of Ethiopia 2011-02-25T03:01:07.193Z Casting a glance back over her shoulder, she perceived an old man, with long hair and scrubby white beard, emerging from the bushes. Menotah A Tale of the Riel Rebellion 2011-02-14T03:00:35.553Z The beard he shocked father so by shaving off has sprouted scrubbily during his illness. The Grandchildren of the Ghetto 2011-02-12T03:00:35.663Z "Well, I should like to see her," drawled out Merl, as he smoothed down his scrubby mustachios. The Martins Of Cro' Martin, Vol. II (of II) 2011-02-04T03:00:20.520Z On the south side of the salient, where the country is covered with thick, scrubby woods, the fighting was very severe. The Childrens' Story of the War, Volume 3 (of 10) 2011-02-26T03:00:45.583Z I may have gone half a mile, never more than a dozen feet from the brink, when I espied a boat snugly beached, and tied to a scrubby oak whose roots were partly submerged. A Maid of the Kentucky Hills 2011-02-04T03:00:15.877Z The shortest, most straightforward route requires an hourlong hike across a wide floodplain cut with streams and filled with scrubby, thorn-covered vegetation. Scientist at Work: Camera Traps Catch Lots of Monkeys 2011-01-27T13:10:00Z The scrubby bush was most trying to the horses' legs. Two Years on Trek Being Some Account of the Royal Sussex Regiment in South Africa 2011-01-26T03:00:28.560Z Now they could see for miles over the flat scrubby moorland, on which hardly a tree appeared to break the monotony of the scene. The House of Strange Secrets A Detective Story 2011-01-15T03:00:37.173Z Remarks.—Individuals were observed or taken on dry, scrubby hillsides and in grassy upland areas. Some Reptiles and Amphibians from Korea 2011-01-15T03:00:35.760Z His mustache was a bristling, scrubby brush of the same color. Robert Tournay A Romance of the French Revolution 2011-01-06T03:00:50.873Z "Middlin' tall, scrubby lot of black whiskers, talks sort of thick like." The Rider of Golden Bar 2011-01-04T03:01:06.347Z Though common in places, he is seldom noticed, but if you sit down in a quiet scrubby corner, his inquisitiveness will often impel him to run almost over your feet. An Australian Bird Book A Pocket Book for Field Use 2010-12-31T03:00:10.497Z They were scrubby louts, smoked between the courses although ladies were at table, which, however, could be condoned, as it was Spanish. Romantic Spain A Record of Personal Experiences (Vol. I) 2010-12-27T03:00:17.990Z She was rather scrubbily dressed, and nothing that she wore looked very clean or very new. The Girls of Central High on Track and Field The Champions of the School League 2010-12-27T03:00:15.633Z He set about acquiring the selvedge of the plains which was cut off from the finer, more arable land by a scrubby line of densely growing ti-tree. The Pioneers 2010-12-20T17:12:11.787Z Access to education, hospitals, jobs and telecommunications are key issues for voters in “the bush,” the vast stretches of scrubby grasslands that are home to about a quarter of Australia’s 22 million people. Rural Lawmakers Hold Key in Australian Election Cliffhanger 2010-08-25T15:24:00Z It retires in large companies to low scrubby islands to breed. An Australian Bird Book A Pocket Book for Field Use 2010-12-31T03:00:10.497Z I went ahead and found it under a scrubby bush, and with only slight hesitation, I wedged it out with my foot and thought Happy Birthday, Bob! Confessional: Forgive Me My Sins 2010-08-03T04:00:00Z Australia's Mother Lode of Mining Jobs Brisk Chinese demand lures miners to scrubby Western Australia • "Of course, there is a very real danger you could be killed." Australia's Mother Lode of Mining Jobs 2010-04-29T15:00:00Z The dog's eyes were fixed on the trees and scrubby undergrowth to the left of the hut. The Pioneers 2010-12-20T17:12:11.787Z Yet one of those descendants now did our washing, and owned but a scrubby acre of the great tract which had once stood in her ancestor’s name. The Idyl of Twin Fires It is hoped that the scrubby western end of Kangaroo Island, where foxes are unknown, will prove a suitable sanctuary for them. An Australian Bird Book A Pocket Book for Field Use 2010-12-31T03:00:10.497Z Their sites generally were in rugged, partially cleared country, marked by scrubby timber, dirt roads, wooden buildings, occasional patches of canvas, clouds of dust or acres of mud. The Story of the Great War, Volume VII (of VIII) American Food and Ships; Palestine; Italy invaded; Great German Offensive; Americans in Picardy; Americans on the Marne; Foch's Counteroffensive. His vertebrae stood up like a minor chain of Andes, extending from his mangy neck to the tableland dominating the cataract-like tail of scrubby hair. A Little World It was a covered-in dray, and had been brought to in a little clearing of the scrubby undergrowth. The Pioneers 2010-12-20T17:12:11.787Z The hills around Salamis are barren, too, covered only with a gray weed like the sage-brush of Nevada, and stunted groves of scrubby pine and ground cedar—referred to by Lykabettos as "ze forest." The Ship Dwellers A Story of a Happy Cruise The Piers had built a perfect French ch�teau, and had been successful in changing the scrubby woods into gardens and terraces and groves. Manslaughter Here, where the grass was very luxuriant, resembling a hay meadow, we saw several hundred more of the small native cattle, followed by the common scrubby bulls. Florida: An Ideal Cattle State And there were cottonwood-trees and low twisted elms and scrubby locust and oak saplings, and the faint, fresh scent of moisture livening the air. The Reclaimers The two buzzards overhead were floating somewhat lower, and they could see all over the tangled maze of scrubby growth and buffalo-paths. The Red Mustang The brush had been rather scrubby, and the trees somewhat sickly and brown. The Voice of the Pack The surface of these is covered with the small pines, scrubby palms and undergrowth found only on poor soil. The History of Cuba, vol. 1 The forest, at first only pines and rather scrubby ones, stretches the whole way from Baabe to G�hren and grows more and more beautiful. The Adventures of Elizabeth in Rügen It was sandy and barren looking on one side, though at the further end from them there grew some trees and scrubby looking bushes. The Girl Aviators and the Phantom Airship Panting, Rollo lay still under the branches, crushing out the perfume of the scrubby, scented geranium, which in the watered wildernesses of La Granja takes root everywhere. The Firebrand A ranch about 6 hours by mule south-southeast of Coalcomán; scrubby oak forest. The Amphibians and Reptiles of Michoacán, México This is an area of broken topography, dissected by small steep-sided ravines, often with brush and scrubby trees on the slopes. Observations on the Mississippi Kite in Southwestern Kansas The San Fernando Valley, a wide plain with mountains in the far distance, has been turned by the magic of water from a vast, scrubby desert into a fruitful region, rapidly becoming populous. Across the Continent by the Lincoln Highway Having heard her cousin spoken of as a spendthrift, she had always imagined him as jaundiced, lean, scrubby, and inflicted with a cough, like some hair-brained Madrile�os whom she knew by sight. Maximina These upland forests are of a scrubby character and are called catingas. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 5, Slice 5 "Cat" to "Celt" A ranch 19 kilometers by road east of Morelia; scrubby oak forest. The Amphibians and Reptiles of Michoacán, México The road lay through a noble piece of woods, entirely different from the usual scrubby growth, with thorny and impenetrable underbrush, being the finest forest we had seen, and abounding in sapote and cedar trees. Incidents of Travel in Yucatan, Vol. II. Short, scrubby green trees, somewhat like our New Jersey junipers, grew on the mountain sides and gave this appearance of foliage and greenness. Across the Continent by the Lincoln Highway Beyond, the road was stony, bordered on both sides by scrubby trees and bushes; but as we advanced we passed through an open country, adorned with large forest trees. Incidents of Travel in Yucatan, Vol. I. He remembered the filthy temper he was in and his contempt for the scrubby little man who sat next to him and muttered to himself incessantly. Years of Plenty Why, any scrubby pinto that has a drop of Eden Gray blood in him will run till his heart breaks. The Garden of Eden Near the foot of the steps, overgrown by the scrubby wild palm which covers the whole cliff, is a small altar, with ornaments in stucco, one of which seems intended to represent a pineapple. Incidents of Travel in Yucatan, Vol. II. My company was directed to the southwest corner of the enclosure, and assigned to quarters consisting of tree stumps, tangled oaks and scrubby pine brush. The Bright Side of Prison Life Experience, In Prison and Out, of an Involuntary Soujouner in Rebellion See that scrubby bit of island?—the point's not a hundred yards away. Where the Pavement Ends And go and hire the smallest, scrubbiest, toughest pair of horses you can find.” The Romance of the Reaper Natural species include the Mediterranean scrubby underbrush, maquis, and an assortment of flowering plants and shrubs. Area Handbook for Bulgaria Then along the road till you come to a long open common or waste land covered with rushes, grass and coarse scrubby growth to another toll-gate, of which I think I counted seven. Rambling Recollections of Chelsea by an old inhabitant Without them, Kreega could lose himself in the labyrinth of caves and canyons and scrubby thickets—but the hound could follow his scent and the bird could spot him from above. Duel on Syrtis And yet this pretty arrangement is due to the intuitive taste of the little scrubby ignorant daughter of the people who serves in the shop. Punch - Volume 25 (Jul-Dec 1853) A polar view was depressing—scrubby vegetation, dank grassland, the eternal Niobian rain. To Choke an Ocean Helen was walking slowly up the steep bank and through a thicket of scrubby pine. The Vision of Elijah Berl "Why, it's a mean-looking, scrubby bit of a thing; sure it 's not the size of a good tea-chest," said he, angrily. The Daltons, Volume I (of II) Or,Three Roads In Life It is barren, low, and sandy, with here and there a scrubby jungle and an occasional reach of stunted herbage. The Pearl of India He made the scrubby, nervous little cow-ponies–including Molly–look very shabby indeed. Frances of the Ranges The Old Ranchman's Treasure In the next place, Kinroy suggested to his friends to go for a lark to South Beach, which was one of the poorest and scrubbiest of all the beaches on Staten Island. The "Genius" Through scrubby sage and cedar, stumbling in burrows, shying at stinging cactus, her horse was driving madly on. The Vision of Elijah Berl I prune out the inside branches, leaving only four or five limbs, so they will not grow scrubby, and think it beneficial. The Apple For instance, a scrubby little terrier followed him home from Twin Palms one day and Ethel let him keep it. To Remember Charlie By Along the waterways the cottonwood's silvery branches, tipped with tender young leaves fluttering in the soft wind, stood up proudly above the scrubby bronze and purple growths hardly yet in bud and leaf. The Price of the Prairie A Story of Kansas Then, as was his custom when perturbed in mind, Pierre crossed the dusty waggon trail and seated himself on a boulder, leaning his back against a scrubby spruce. The Blue Goose The ground was quite level, covered here and there with boulders and a scrubby undergrowth, but there was nothing to be seen of the warrior. Through Apache Lands Then there was a man with a scrubby beard. Bred of the Desert A Horse and a Romance Proceeding on through scrubby woods and over rough limestone they reached Portland Point undiscovered and took William Hazen and James White prisoners. Glimpses of the Past History of the River St. John, A.D. 1604-1784 Treeless and wide they stretched out to the horizon, with here and there a low elevation, and here and there the faint black markings of scrubby bushes clinging to the bank of a stream. The Price of the Prairie A Story of Kansas A few years ago, ma'am, there sat in this room a scrubby, inky little boy—I was that boy. Quality Street A Comedy Searching the pine grove and the scrubby country that outlies it, I found all stages of pine growth, from the gnarled patriarch four feet in diameter at the butt to the germinating seedling. Old Plymouth Trails “I know!” suddenly declared the man with the scrubby beard one evening, after the tin dishes had been cleared away. Bred of the Desert A Horse and a Romance Approaching the door, followed by the professor, he peered cautiously out, to confront a desolate stretch of scrubby growth, hemmed in by a background of rugged mountains. Astounding Stories, July, 1931 The trees here were small, stunted, and scrubby; the soil was poor, the grass coarse and interspersed with moss and stones. The Lily and the Cross A Tale of Acadia The speaker was a tall lank man, with black hair to correspond, and lantern jaws; little cunning eyes, and a few scrubby patches of rusty stubble on chin and cheeks. Cedar Creek From the Shanty to the Settlement Cape Cod," he writes, "which next presents itself, is only a headland of hills of sand, overgrown with scrubby pines, hurts and such trash, but an excellent harbor in all weathers. Old Plymouth Trails Presently the man with the scrubby beard broke the quiet. Bred of the Desert A Horse and a Romance But I don't like Oliver so much, his chin's so scrubby. I'll Leave It To You A Light Comedy In Three Acts Or they would climb the mountain that rears its scrubby head behind the village and there hang him on the wind-swayed hazel-tree--after having soundly thrashed him with its switches! The German Classics of the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries Masterpieces of German Literature Vol. 19 After a time we began to see a scrubby long-needled pine thrusting its head here and there above the undergrowth. Gold From scrubby growth on the banks a hundred or a hundred thousand crows had much ado with rebuking the invaders of their solitude. The Missourian Stephen was the last except the Professor and the man with the scrubby beard. Bred of the Desert A Horse and a Romance Was the little scrubby stock of our forefathers replaced by large, sleek, well-bred cattle through accident? History of Human Society “There are no trees in that bleak region, only scrubby bushes,” was the answer. Birds, Illustrated by Color Photography, Vol. 2, No. 4 October, 1897 It was only two o’clock of the afternoon, the trees were scrubby, the soil dusty, the place generally uncomfortable. Gold So old Tufter got nothing more nutritious than a few scraps of scrubby fur. Finn The Wolfhound For the scrubby, shabby, whining I have no taste; for literature and the arts I have. Shirley In her hand she held a scrubby flower that had drawn a desperate nourishment from the barren soil at the roadside. Carmen Ariza Pancks was a short, wiry man, with a scrubby chin and jet-black eyes, and when he walked or talked he puffed and blew and snorted like a little steam-engine. Tales from Dickens Beyond all the other horsemen he rode, and saw far above in the scrubby growth, the enemy seeking footholds where the four-footed animals could not follow. The Flute of the Gods Their cheeks were speckled and freckled and red and brick-dust and leather-coloured, and enclosed with scrubby whiskers, like a garden hedge. Amaryllis at the Fair Frantically she tore off twigs of the scrubby pines around them, and made a fragrant bed of pine needles and moss on which to rest. The Eye of Dread These birds are as numerous in the Lower Rio Grande Valley as are the Sennett's Thrasher, frequenting thickets where they breed in scrubby bushes and cacti. The Bird Book Illustrating in natural colors more than seven hundred North American birds; also several hundred photographs of their nests and eggs. "Hid in this scrubby forest of bushes," said her brother. Diana Passed through a dreary country, a saltpetre desert, relieved by occasional scrubby trees. The Last Voyage to India and Australia, in the 'Sunbeam' There was a scrubby growth of brush on the hillsides, and tall red willows along the streams, making a covert here and there for a horse. The Duke Of Chimney Butte No paltry, scrubby track cadger was this resplendent gentleman, but a picturesque rogue, with impudence as pronounced as his jewels! The Strollers They nest during April, May or June, laying two eggs on the ground amid the leaves in woods or scrubby underbrush. The Bird Book Illustrating in natural colors more than seven hundred North American birds; also several hundred photographs of their nests and eggs. He looked over the sand dunes and scrubby desert growths stretching far and misty under the moon, and, then to the rugged gray range of the mountain spur rising to the south. The Treasure Trail A Romance of the Land of Gold and Sunshine The immediate foreground is bare and worn, but a little further away the miniature heights and hollows, the scrubby bush and little winding paths, add that mystery which so greatly increases delight. Hampstead and Marylebone The Fascination of London As he dodged in between a broken wall of granite and a scrubby clump of cedars, closely followed by Bucks, their pursuers could have picked either man from his saddle. The Mountain Divide However, the windings and roughnesses of the path, as it twisted its way through the scrubby bushes lining the creek bank, were finally negotiated more or less satisfactorily. The Twins of Suffering Creek They build shallow structures of small sticks and weeds lined with fine rootlets and placed at low elevations in bushes or scrubby trees. The Bird Book Illustrating in natural colors more than seven hundred North American birds; also several hundred photographs of their nests and eggs. Everywhere the trees are a riot of scarlet and ocher, the scrubby bushes are shedding their leaves. Competition Her husband, Mr. Charles Augustus, is a china doll with a crop of rather scrubby flaxen hair, which can be combed and brushed as much as Lina chooses. Funny Little Socks Being the Fourth Book Innumerable patches of scrubby undergrowth had been set on fire by the Italians to prevent their serving Austrian snipers and were now wrapped in low-hanging clouds of black smoke. The Story of the Great War, Volume VI (of VIII) History of the European War from Official Sources On the side next the hill, it was sufficiently guarded by the crooked branches of a knurly and scrubby oak tree, that grew on the very edge of the ravine. An Old Sailor's Yarns They are very abundant in the Great Basin between the Rockies and the Sierra Nevadas, breeding during April or May in scrubby trees or bushes at low elevations and generally near streams. The Bird Book Illustrating in natural colors more than seven hundred North American birds; also several hundred photographs of their nests and eggs. For in this country, only the native priests are privileged to be shaggy and scrubby and still be without suspicion. The Book of Khalid I stood amazed; I could not scream; and instantly a voice said: "Ah, what a fine fellow I have lost! that was too bad!" and a scrubby little head appeared above the bushes. Harper's Young People, August 31, 1880 An Illustrated Weekly He reached the bench and hurriedly dismounted, to run to a scrubby cedar growing almost on the edge of the ledge. Louisiana Lou A Western Story What was his consternation, however, on nearing the pine knoll, to see the whole group of scrubby trees aflame, and no sign of Amos! Mr. Wicker's Window They are one of the most common of California birds, frequenting scrubby thickets, both on mountain sides and in valleys and canons, from which their harsh scolding voice always greets intruders. The Bird Book Illustrating in natural colors more than seven hundred North American birds; also several hundred photographs of their nests and eggs. The only pines I have seen in the United States are those in front of Emerson’s house in Concord; but compared with my native trees, they are scrubby and mean. The Book of Khalid It looked like it, for the wood road had been getting dreadfully scrubby for a mile or so. Harper's Young People, May 18, 1880 An Illustrated Weekly “Oh, he is an ugly, scrubby little Scotchman whom Richard means to take as a sort of bailiff, or overseer, or something; I don’t understand what.” Our Bessie In front of them extended a long pool of water, with a scrubby growth around the edges. Astounding Stories of Super-Science February 1930 They nest either in bushes or trees, generally between six and twenty feet from the ground and usually in thick clumps of trees or scrubby apple trees. The Bird Book Illustrating in natural colors more than seven hundred North American birds; also several hundred photographs of their nests and eggs. For the priest here is no peeled, polished affair, but shaggy, scrubby, terrible, forbidding. The Book of Khalid With misgivings we made trial of the scrubby looking ears. An Ohio Woman in the Philippines Giving personal experiences and descriptions including incidents of Honolulu, ports in Japan and China The boys wore round caps of undyed cotton cloth and striped robes, and they rode scrubby ponies. The Saracen: Land of the Infidel The land, on both sides, consists of Prairie, with scarcely any timber, except small groves of scrubby oaks. Travels in North America, From Modern Writers With Remarks and Observations; Exhibiting a Connected View of the Geography and Present State of that Quarter of the Globe Nest of pine needles and grasses in hollow in the moss on a scrubby pine hillside. 645a. The Bird Book Illustrating in natural colors more than seven hundred North American birds; also several hundred photographs of their nests and eggs. The oxen halted some fifty yards from that inanimate ragged little body, lying prone, face downwards, among the scrubby bushes that sprouted in the hot sand. The Dop Doctor They turned us prisoners out into a pasture with some scrubby trees in it, and p-put a guard around us. Ben Comee A Tale of Rogers's Rangers, 1758-59 She repeated that also, whereat Mo grinned fatuously, showing his little yellow teeth beneath his scrubby red moustache. The Rough Road In other places the plateau covers itself for hundreds of square miles with scrubby pine and cedar. The Book of the National Parks With her in her little house lived her adopted son, Prokofyi, a butcher, a huge, clumsy fellow, of about thirty, with ginger hair and scrubby moustache. The House with the Mezzanine and Other Stories Down through the scrubby thickets he strode; burr and thorn scraped his canvas jacket, blackberry-vines caught at elbow and knee. A Young Man in a Hurry and Other Short Stories Nothing but some scattering, scrubby bushes grows in the deserts. A Soldier in the Philippines There were thousands of young wild apple-trees here, scrubby and thorny, where cattle had browsed them. When Life Was Young At the Old Farm in Maine A hundred or two miners remain, scattered thinly over a large area, which is forested here and there with scrubby growths, and, in localities, is remarkably productive of cultivated fruits and vegetables. The Book of the National Parks Turning, the narrow trail wound its way around the mountainside until one looked down upon the tops of foothills, green with scrubby vegetation. Across the Mesa They hurried into the wood, where they crawled under a scrubby pine bush, and anxiously awaited the outcome. Chasing an Iron Horse Or, A Boy's Adventures in the Civil War Slender willow-trees almost leafless, bare rocks with a few scrubby bushes, a tiny village sheltered in a curve of the river—what is there to suggest a picture? The Children's Book of Celebrated Pictures Nest—Of leaves, grasses, mosses, etc., lined with down, on the ground near water, among rocks or scrubby bushes. Birds, Illustrated by Color Photography, Vol. 2, No. 2 August, 1897 At the end of four days' hard marching through scrubby grounds the troops began to climb the almost trackless hinterland, where water was scarce and vegetation scanty. Wilmshurst of the Frontier Force |
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