Example Sentences

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In dreams he strayed some brackened glade,  Some heathery moor.

From The Little Book of Modern Verse; a selection from the work of contemporaneous American poets by Rittenhouse, Jessie Belle

Above the dowly intake lands     The great wide moor is calling, Of heathered bens and brackened glens,     Where peat-born rills are brawling.

From The Dales of Arcady by Ratcliffe, Dorothy Una

So together they clambered through the brackened steep, until they reached the fringe of the heather which crowned the brow of the hill.

From The Last of the Vikings by Bowling, John