Thomasin Keast and her father lived in a little four-square cottage set about half a mile from the headland--a half-mile of thorn and bracken, of tumbled boulders and wedges of furze almost as solid.
It was only when the blazing furze had dropped off, that the whole cause of the mischance would suffer himself to be captured and led quietly back to his mistress.
Allied to the Broom, and likewise belonging to the Papilionaceous order of leguminous plants, though not affording any known medicinal principle, the Yellow Gorse (Ulex) or Furze grows commonly throughout England on dry exposed plains.
In England it is really never out of blossom, not even after a severe frost, giving rise to the well-known saying "Love is never out of season except when the Furze is out of bloom.
Then you think that chap had set the furzealight before we came.
The next instant Tom and Pete, half-stunned, were seated amongst the furze gazing stupidly at each other.
They had not gone far along the edge of the pine-wood, when all at once a dog leaped out, to begin hunting amongst the furze and brambles, and dart in again.
Pete's eyes had grown sharp from the life he led in the woods, and amongst the furzeof the great heath-like commons, and he saw now the object which had fallen from his pocket.
Here, you give me my bit o' string, or I shall go and say I see yer set the furze alight o' purpose.
Then he mastered it, and a faint smoke and some blackened furze was all that was left of what, if left to itself, would have been a great common fire.
Hares don't make holes in ground, but run through the same openings in hedges or amongst the furze and heath.
Then he felt sure of it, for, glancing toward the clumps of furze in the more open part, another well-aimed stone came and struck the road between the wheels of the bath-chair.
Then it was gone; but another pair of eyes were gazing into his, for Pete Warboys slowly raised himself from where he had crawled to the other side of the furze clump.
The description of the Warbler appears to agree with a small bird well known here as the Furze Chat, but which is out of all proportion as compared with the Myrtle Bee.
XLVI John Gore rode for Furze Farm with many turbulent thoughts at work in him, and the raw mist that thickened from over the sea making the wet woods no more comforting than the degradation he had found at Thorn.
The evening after Stephen Gore’s confession at Thorn, John Gore took his love away over the uplands where the furze was all a glitter of gold, with the green slopes of the hills and the brown ploughlands making a foreground to the distant sea.
The life at Furze Farm had tinted her skin with a brown, pearly haze.
XLIII The days were pleasant enough at Furze Farm, with Barbara gaining in health and color, and in a womanly winsomeness that made even Mrs. Jennifer wonder.
He rode home toward Furze Farm, meeting a strong west wind that made the sky move fast and the ash boughs clash in the thickets.
The bloom on the apple and pear trees in the orchard would soon be pink and white, and there were daffodils nodding their heads atFurze Farm as well as in the wilderness of Thorn.
XLIV Rain was falling and the wind beating about the chimneys of Furze Farm as the daylight waned toward a gray night like a fog coming up from the sea.
There sha’n’t be any poking of noses round Furze Farm, I can tell you that.
There was much giving and receiving that Christmas-tide atFurze Farm.
One of his men and his wife came into Furze Farm for the day, while the household went a-wagoning to Lewes, starting two hours before dawn because the roads were heavy and the days short.
The meadows about Furze Farm were full of the bleating of lambs those days, and the youngsters skipped and butted one another, galloping to and fro on their ridiculous legs, while the stupid old dames baaed, each to its own child.
There, among some young pine trees andfurze bushes, I stopped, panting, and waited further developments.
An almost noiseless and blinding flash of light, and a man fell headlong and lay still; and as the unseen shaft of heat passed over them, pine trees burst into fire, and every dry furze bush became with one dull thud a mass of flames.
There is bracken and furze yonder where you may lie warm till some pass your way.
In this manner he cautiously retrograded downwards with a hardihood, which set furze bushes, brooms, tongs, and all other available weapons of the cabin at defiance.
Bending forward, he could just discern the marks made by the little feet on the virgin snow, and he followed their track to the furze bushes.
The furze bush was there still; and this afternoon, when Eppie came out with Silas into the sunshine, it was the first object that arrested her eyes and thoughts.
She sank down against a straggling furze bush, an easy pillow enough; and the bed of snow, too, was soft.
Away on the rises of the moor one hill-farm laughed to another in a steady flame of furze blossom--laughed with a tinkling of singing larks.
This silence was daunting, but they crept on and soon were standing in the illuminated ring of furze whins which surrounded the Chapel.
A million memories and instincts met in these smells of furze and heather and moss, of green rushes and the sweet earth of the south-west.
Nearer, on the hillside to their right, under the haze that drenched its green to darkness, the furze threw out its unquenchable gold.
Thus the leaves of the Furze are reduced to thorns; but those of the Seedling are herbaceous and trifoliate like those of the Herb Genet and other allied species, subsequent ones gradually passing into spines.
Then the two boys wandered off among the furze bushes, talking about their homes; and in a little while they had so opened their hearts to each other, that they felt as if they had always been friends.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "furze" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
