furze
noun
furzy
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a word derived from
furze.
Example Sentences
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I like looking at a good golden furzy common in Surrey.
From The Kopje Garrison A Story of the Boer War by W. Boucher
At Taunton, in Somersetshire, there is a similar tradition current: "Nertown was a market town When Taunton was a furzy down."
Long before sunset they were steaming into Southampton Water, and the yellow light was still shining on the furzy levels, when the brougham that contained Vixen and her fortunes drove along the road to Lyndhurst.
From Vixen, Volume III. by M. E. (Mary Elizabeth) Braddon
We had, no doubt, been thoroughly identified, nevertheless the immediate sensation of getting a furzy hill between us and Flurry was akin to that of escaping from the rays of a burning-glass.
From In Mr. Knox's Country by Martin Ross
"Not less the bee will range her cells, The furzy prickle fire the dells, The foxglove cluster dappled bells."
From The Conflict with Slavery and Others, Complete, Volume VII, The Works of Whittier: the Conflict with Slavery, Politics and Reform, the Inner Life and Criticism by John Greenleaf Whittier
