You crouch with the wild-birds in bracken and ling. From Wordnik.com. [The Four Winds of Eirinn] Reference
My childhood passed on foot and outdoors, in bracken and on pebbly beaches. From Wordnik.com. [William Nicholson discusses Seeker, the first volume in a three part trilogy for teens] Reference
Not one of them knew which portion of the bracken was to be his own. From Wordnik.com. [The Chronicles of a Gay Gordon] Reference
Steve kevin bracken Says. From Wordnik.com. [LED CHRISTMAS LIGHTS | Inhabitat] Reference
Under the bracken is cold and deep. From Wordnik.com. [The Four Winds of Eirinn] Reference
Boil a quantity of young bracken tips for 1/2 hour. From Wordnik.com. [Vegetable Dyes Being a Book of Recipes and Other Information Useful to the Dyer] Reference
They are in there in the grass and bracken where you and. From Wordnik.com. [Gilian The Dreamer His Fancy, His Love and Adventure] Reference
As the green of the bracken amid the gloom of the heather. From Wordnik.com. [Highways & Byways in Sussex] Reference
When I look'd at the bracken so bright and the heather so brown. From Wordnik.com. [Highways & Byways in Sussex] Reference
A thousand feet above sea level among the heather and bracken of. From Wordnik.com. [Legend Land, Vol. 1 Being a collection of some of the Old Tales told in those Western Parts of Britain served by The Great Western Railway.] Reference
There is little woody undergrowth, and the bracken is at its greenest. From Wordnik.com. [Sea-Dogs All! A Tale of Forest and Sea] Reference
Then there came the swish, swish o 'galloping hoofs in dry bracken, for. From Wordnik.com. [The McBrides A Romance of Arran] Reference
Hughes, John, on bracken-fern as litter, 241; on composition of bracken, 283. From Wordnik.com. [Manures and the principles of manuring] Reference
I wiped it with a tuft of bracken, and I laughed with something of a bitterness. From Wordnik.com. [Gilian The Dreamer His Fancy, His Love and Adventure] Reference
The bracken fronds curled high above him, and he knew that he was securely hidden. From Wordnik.com. [Sea-Dogs All! A Tale of Forest and Sea] Reference
Sometimes leaves and the dried bracken-fern are used for the manufacture of composts. From Wordnik.com. [Manures and the principles of manuring] Reference
Wry-Face, the gnome, hiding among the bracken and looking as mischievous as anything. From Wordnik.com. [The Book of Stories for the Story-teller] Reference
"In the grasses and the bracken," said Gilian, singing it to himself as if it were a coronach. From Wordnik.com. [Gilian The Dreamer His Fancy, His Love and Adventure] Reference
Orders were issued that no bracken was to be cut except with the direct sanction of the admiral. From Wordnik.com. [Sea-Dogs All! A Tale of Forest and Sea] Reference
Hughes, the bracken, especially if cut in a young state, is a substance of considerable manurial value. From Wordnik.com. [Manures and the principles of manuring] Reference
Presently I came to a kind of open moor, covered with bracken, bramble, and brilliant patches of heath. From Wordnik.com. [Chatterbox, 1905.] Reference
On the dry bracken, a little way from the roadside, he spread his coat to make a resting-place for her. From Wordnik.com. [The McBrides A Romance of Arran] Reference
The mother covers the infant with bracken, leaving only the tiny fists and feet exposed, and walks away. From Wordnik.com. [It's A Small World, After All] Reference
Through the glasses one saw the yellows and greens of bracken and moss and grass in the middle distances. From Wordnik.com. [Pushed and the Return Push] Reference
Some one was moving very stealthily through the bracken; the young forester detected the quick breathing of. From Wordnik.com. [Sea-Dogs All! A Tale of Forest and Sea] Reference
Of girls who "get lonely" because they are forced to stay behind and make bracken beds and tea for the boys. From Wordnik.com. [Lucy Mangan: I say, chaps, the queerest thing has happened…] Reference
In Scotland, again, glens or copses, often the haunts of wild deer, are green with a thick growth of bracken. From Wordnik.com. [Chatterbox, 1905.] Reference
The hills showed tints of faint green and palest brown, and patches of bracken gave a consoling shade of russet. From Wordnik.com. [Devon, Its Moorlands, Streams and Coasts] Reference
Then he paused and looked upon the motionless figure of the man below now lying half hidden amongst some bracken. From Wordnik.com. [Border Ghost Stories] Reference
It breeds on the moor, the nest generally being laid on the ground among the bracken; whence its name of fern-owl. From Wordnik.com. [Records of Woodhall Spa and Neighbourhood Historical, Anecdotal, Physiographical, and Archaeological, with Other Matter] Reference
The briefest of moments saw her once more on her feet, struggling, fighting her way through shoulder-high bracken. From Wordnik.com. [Antony Gray,—Gardener] Reference
We walk through the mist to a party on the far side of the parish, along lanes bordered by bracken and blackberries. From Wordnik.com. [Country diary] Reference
"In there among the grass and bracken," thought Gilian, turning a moment to look up the slope that leads to Kilmalieu. From Wordnik.com. [Gilian The Dreamer His Fancy, His Love and Adventure] Reference
Masses of granite crown the ridge; lower on the hill-side is a jungle of tall bracken, and the stream is overshadowed by. From Wordnik.com. [Devon, Its Moorlands, Streams and Coasts] Reference
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