It knocked down so many trees that the underbrush is now so thick you can hardly get in the woods. From Wordnik.com. [What Happened to Squirrel Hunting?] Reference
In a bee-line, through the underbrush, which is peculiarly dense, very thorny, and very aggressive in that locality, a full half hour was necessary. From Wordnik.com. [Les Misérables] Reference
This forest stretched for miles, overshadowing, as a kind of underbrush, many smaller trees and innumerable shrubs, some of which bore bright, conspicuous flowers. From Wordnik.com. [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 18, No. 105, July 1866] Reference
Some analysts said Yara could still take advantage of the "underbrush" of unlisted firms to expand in North America. From Wordnik.com. [IBTimes.com RSS Feed] Reference
She stays still as a rabbit in underbrush. From Wordnik.com. [ALICE AFTER THE MALL • by John Jasper Owens] Reference
But the last of the underbrush took two days to tame. From Wordnik.com. [Inside The Inferno] Reference
They jumped at the crackling of some underbrush near them. From Wordnik.com. [Tom of the Raiders] Reference
They watched it disappear into the underbrush of the woods. From Wordnik.com. [Sisters] Reference
Ned, tho had a side view into the underbrush, gave a sudden cry. From Wordnik.com. [Tom Swift in the Land of Wonders, or, the Underground Search for the Idol of Gold] Reference
Nan stepped from the road and pushed aside the thick underbrush to find. From Wordnik.com. [Nan Sherwood at Pine Camp or, the Old Lumberman's Secret] Reference
Sometimes it seemed impossible to proceed because of rocks and underbrush. From Wordnik.com. [My Three Days in Gilead] Reference
Dashing into the midst of the underbrush, a strange scene presented itself. From Wordnik.com. [Woman on the American Frontier] Reference
At length he passed the thick spruce underbrush, and found the woods less dense. From Wordnik.com. [Lost in the Fog] Reference
The wind whispered through tree branches and the underbrush with little fanfare. From Wordnik.com. [Autumn] Reference
Droopy cedars, skirted with huckleberry underbrush, lined both sides of the canyon. From Wordnik.com. [POSEY'S POND] Reference
There they came to a wood where the underbrush was thick, and the walking difficult. From Wordnik.com. [Lost in the Fog] Reference
Together they dashed through the bushes, trampling the underbrush beneath their feet. From Wordnik.com. [The Motor Girls on Cedar Lake Or the Hermit of Fern Island] Reference
He applied the break and rose up out of the saddle as the underbrush swallowed him whole. From Wordnik.com. [The Clock Man's Trouble] Reference
He'd expected to find a trail, but for most of the way he hacked through dense underbrush. From Wordnik.com. [Flash Wk 4: Cartography] Reference
Suddenly the silence of the woods was broken by some one advancing through the underbrush. From Wordnik.com. [Tom Swift and His Motor-Cycle, or, Fun and Adventures on the Road] Reference
Following the sudden illumination in the tent there was a cracking in the underbrush near it. From Wordnik.com. [The Outdoor Girls at Rainbow Lake Or, the stirring cruise of the motor boat Gem] Reference
There was but a narrow strip of land above water, and that was grown up with underbrush or cane. From Wordnik.com. [Memoirs of the Union's Three Great Civil War Generals] Reference
He could hear the fugitive ahead of him, and marked his progress by the crackling of the underbrush. From Wordnik.com. [Tom Swift and His Motor-Cycle, or, Fun and Adventures on the Road] Reference
It was a full-grown lion, and he was creeping cautiously out of the underbrush in the wood close by. From Wordnik.com. [Rataplan, a rogue elephant; and other stories] Reference
Closing her eyes — the universe could have ivories, underbrush and tapestries, each individually exquisite. From Wordnik.com. [Alto Patterns] Reference
The king and his courtiers hunted in the wood near the palace, and there it was kept open, free from underbrush. From Wordnik.com. [How to Tell Stories to Children, And Some Stories to Tell] Reference
The underbrush was wanting to a great extent, but moss was here in large quantities, and thick clusters of alder bushes. From Wordnik.com. [Lost in the Fog] Reference
The position for the battery, partially hidden from the view of the enemy by a small clump of underbrush, was indicated. From Wordnik.com. [History of the Gatling Gun Detachment] Reference
Each side was lined with a thick underbrush, and -- there was no mistaking it now -- someone was stealing along beside them!. From Wordnik.com. [Dorothy Dale : a girl of today] Reference
"That's so," agreed his chum; and soon the three of them were busy making the airship look like a tangled mass of underbrush. From Wordnik.com. [Tom Swift and His Great Searchlight; or, on the border for Uncle Sam] Reference
They got this way because of a century of stop-burn forestry practices that prevented the natural clearing of the underbrush. From Wordnik.com. [Letters] Reference
However, it was louder this time, as though several heavy bodies were pushing through the underbrush on the other side of the road. From Wordnik.com. [The Outdoor Girls at Wild Rose Lodge Or, the hermit of Moonlight falls] Reference
A little later, having hidden his motor-cycle in a clump of bushes, he made his way through the underbrush and stood on the shore of. From Wordnik.com. [Tom Swift and His Motor-Cycle, or, Fun and Adventures on the Road] Reference
Although concealed in underbrush a foot deep, the bones were relatively close to a jogging trail and did not seem to have been buried. From Wordnik.com. ['You've Just Got Bones'] Reference
He watched as police and county authorities cut away the underbrush on his property, sifting through the dirt for human-bone fragments. From Wordnik.com. [Serial-Murder Aftershocks] Reference
The pines and underbrush that lined the trail seemed denser and almost rock-like, as the dusk filled in their hollows, and the spaces between their needles. From Wordnik.com. [BEFORE THE NEBRASKA SEA] Reference
His wife handed him a cold beer, and her brave smile and bikini riches made him want to stay in that place, maybe invite her back into the underbrush to make love. From Wordnik.com. [Walking on Water] Reference
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