They are popularly supposed to come from the furze, which is also believed to shelter adders. From Wordnik.com. [Nature Near London] Reference
This scrub Ashmead-Bartlett calls furze in his articles, but I have never seen furze in Gallipoli. From Wordnik.com. [The Incomparable 29th and the "River Clyde"] Reference
"Good man, give me that furze to build me a house.". From Wordnik.com. [How to Tell Stories to Children, And Some Stories to Tell] Reference
The man gave the furze, and the pig built his house. From Wordnik.com. [How to Tell Stories to Children, And Some Stories to Tell] Reference
The second little pig met a man with a bundle of furze, and said. From Wordnik.com. [Types of Children's Literature] Reference
The second little pig met a man with a bundle of furze, and said. From Wordnik.com. [How to Tell Stories to Children, And Some Stories to Tell] Reference
The road runs near the sea, over a large tract of land covered with furze. From Wordnik.com. [Brittany & Its Byways] Reference
On English heaths the hare makes its "form" in the little stubbly furze-bushes. From Wordnik.com. [Harper's Young People, January 27, 1880 An Illustrated Weekly] Reference
We drove over an extent of several miles of furze-covered hills and heathy land. From Wordnik.com. [Brittany & Its Byways] Reference
The Tinker rose and made a fire with leaves and furze and sticks, some dry and some green. From Wordnik.com. [The International Monthly, Volume 3, No. 1, April, 1851] Reference
But the people of the little town are able to graze their cattle and cut furze for fuel on it. From Wordnik.com. [Devon, Its Moorlands, Streams and Coasts] Reference
Some dry furze happened, by a singular accident, to lie heaped in a corner of this natural shed. From Wordnik.com. [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 62, No. 382, October 1847] Reference
Although we are some distance from home, I can show you one of my own bees on this furze blossom. From Wordnik.com. [Wild Nature Won By Kindness] Reference
Some birds choose furze-bushes to build in, which must be prickly and uncomfortable, but are thick. From Wordnik.com. [The Children's Book of London] Reference
I crawled about cautiously through the wet and prickly furze, and at last laid a hand upon the driver's sleeve. From Wordnik.com. [In Direst Peril] Reference
But before Ben had time to plunge the furze upon the unhappy victim's face, a suppressed cry broke from the whole group. From Wordnik.com. [Frank Oldfield Lost and Found] Reference
It had a thick growth of furze and bushes, and save for the rabbits and squirrels, was quite desolate during the winter. From Wordnik.com. [The Hero of Garside School] Reference
They seem all concentrated on these dreary wild landes, sometimes covered with furze bushes, at others strewn along the coast. From Wordnik.com. [Brittany & Its Byways] Reference
Inch by inch they crawled across the bright patch of a hundred yards or so between them and the clump of friendly furze bushes. From Wordnik.com. [Two Little Travellers A Story for Girls] Reference
As the evening shadows lengthened, he stole grimly from his shelter, crossed the field, climbed the slope, and regained his furze-bush. From Wordnik.com. ["Wee Tim'rous Beasties" Studies of Animal life and Character] Reference
A piece of furze, an old rag, and some black-looking stuff were found near the water-butt at the back, but what they could have to do with. From Wordnik.com. [Frank Oldfield Lost and Found] Reference
Exmoor is not generally heather-covered, but its tors and hillsides are clothed with a wiry colourless grass and the hardy, prickly furze. From Wordnik.com. [Lynton and Lynmouth A Pageant of Cliff & Moorland] Reference
The blue-bell and fox-glove were growing on every hand, and the heath throve in luxuriance, but, flowerless, seemed to miss the golden blossoms of the furze. From Wordnik.com. [A Yacht Voyage to Norway, Denmark, and Sweden 2nd edition] Reference
There was a little hillock, against one side of which it had rested, which was free from the prickly furze, and, all things considered, made no bad resting-place. From Wordnik.com. [In Direst Peril] Reference
How long this sensation lasted I have no means of knowing, but when I recovered my senses I was wet through, and found myself lying among furze-bushes in a damp hollow. From Wordnik.com. [In Direst Peril] Reference
It was pointed out to him that a gift of two empty tar-barrels and half-a-dozen furze bushes, though meant in all kindness, might prove embarrassing to any relief committee. From Wordnik.com. [Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 147, November 4, 1914] Reference
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