Example Sentences

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She reached the opposite gate, and felt her way along its rails and the rails of the sheep-fold, till her hand encountered the pricking of the gorsy wall.

From Adam Bede by Eliot, George

The trees grew more and more in groves, with healthy places in between, sandy, gorsy, and dotted with old yews.

From The Black Arrow A Tale of the Two Roses by Stevenson, Robert Louis

The trees grew more and more in groves, with heathy places in between, sandy, gorsy, and dotted with old yews.

From The Works of Robert Louis Stevenson - Swanston Edition Vol. 8 (of 25) by Stevenson, Robert Louis

The trees grew more and more in groves, with heathy places in between, sandy, gorsy, and dotted with old yews. 

From The Black Arrow by Stevenson, Robert Louis

I find it difficult to believe that the life of the fields and gorsy hills and young plantations would be either better or worse if there were no such thing as gossamer.

From Gossamer 1915 by Birmingham, George A.