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"
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The gorse and the broom were a fine accent in the landscape.
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Firefighters put out a major gorse blaze in west Belfast this morning.
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Unfortunately, it was gorse, so my hand was impaled by the thorns.
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The noise spread through the gallery as a fire spreads through gorse.
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A large gorse fire has broken out near Bray in Co Wicklow.
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The birds flirted up and down the hawthorn bushes and furze brakes.
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Heath and furze were the sole vegetation which covers this endless wilderness.
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Brushing some spikes of furze off my hands, I prepared for it.
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Did you see any one as you came through the furze bushes?
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He owned a round, ruddy face with a white furze of beard.
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The warm sweet smell of the whin bloom was in the air.
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Francie lay there in his appointed hiding-hole, looking abroad between two whin-bushes.
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Well, as I said, whin five months had gone by they met.
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An' whin we got up to the top of the city, 'Mrs.
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Mariar she used ter live thar whin Mis' Celie wus a baby.
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I was jokin' wid ye, whin I called ye this or that.
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Jack himself is no slouch whin it comes to stowing away things.
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The matron'll settle with ye good and plenty whin she gits toime!
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De 'h way he lash nigger whin e' don do jist so!
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The desultory crackling of the whin-pods in the afternoon sun usurped the ear.
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And I can find out whin he will be here again.
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And thin there's days whin the wind has to do, and the light.
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Give us that one about yoursilf whin ye was a schoolboy.
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The humble furze bush or whin was collected and ground down to shreds.
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Sea-cave and moss-hag, wood-shelter and whin-bush, he knows every hidie-hole for forty mile.
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Ef they do, I'll kill them meself whin they comes over th' side.
