Very spiny and dense evergreen shrub with fragrant golden-yellow flowers; common throughout western Europe.
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Examples for "gorse "
Examples for "gorse "
1 The gorse and the broom were a fine accent in the landscape.
2 Firefighters put out a major gorse blaze in west Belfast this morning.
3 Unfortunately, it was gorse , so my hand was impaled by the thorns.
4 The noise spread through the gallery as a fire spreads through gorse .
5 A large gorse fire has broken out near Bray in Co Wicklow.
1 The birds flirted up and down the hawthorn bushes and furze brakes.
2 Heath and furze were the sole vegetation which covers this endless wilderness.
3 Brushing some spikes of furze off my hands, I prepared for it.
4 Did you see any one as you came through the furze bushes?
5 He owned a round, ruddy face with a white furze of beard.
1 The warm sweet smell of the whin bloom was in the air.
2 Francie lay there in his appointed hiding-hole, looking abroad between two whin -bushes .
3 Well, as I said, whin five months had gone by they met.
4 An' whin we got up to the top of the city, 'Mrs.
5 Mariar she used ter live thar whin Mis' Celie wus a baby.
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