Even if there are only a few stiff bushes such as Gorse or low Thorns to support and guide it, it gladly covers them just as does the Traveller's Joy (Clematis Vitalba) of our chalkland hedges.
The natural grouping of Gorse and Broom suggests a way of using the many beautiful Heaths.
So she replaced the gorse and left old Betty Griffith happy in her device for getting rid of the Tylwyth Teg.
His coat was made of birch leaves, and he wore upon his head a helmet which consisted of a gorse flower, while his feet were encased in pumps made of beetle's wings.
On Easter Sunday crowds of men and boys carrying wands of gorse went to Pen Twthil, and there proclaimed the laws and regulations of the following day.
Mrs. Stanley then made a small opening in the gorse barricade, which sadly pricked her fingers; she saw Betty in her bed and asked her, "Are you not well?
It's grand up there with the gorse all round, the gulls basking on the rocks, the partridges calling in the corn, and now and then a young hawk overhead.
The gorse was sharp, and the spikes entered her hands and feet, and pricked her as she turned herself about between the bushes to bring herself deeper among them.
By the dim, uncertain light she stole off the path, and sank upon the ground among some masses of gorse that stood on the common.
The moorland scene faded, and the great dark gorse banks merged into one blackening world.
The silence between them was maintained until the outline of the old mill had fallen away well behind them, and the intricacies of the footpaths amongst the black gorse patches permitted of their walking abreast.
Why didn't Miller Gorse let me know about it, instead of licking up a fuss after it's all over?
Gorse gave you a letter to the Governor, didn't he?
On the other hand, these politicians cannot afford to ignore men of local importance like Leonard Dickinson and Adolf Scherer and Miller Gorse who represent financial substance and' responsibility.
After leaving Mr. Gorse they wended their way to the Durrett Building and handed their cards over the rail of the offices of Watling, Fowndes and Ripon.
But before the party worker left he was telling Mr. Gorse that public sentiment demanded Mr. Watling.
But Gorse and Barbour and the rest wanted him, and we had to put him over.
At the conferences in the Boyne Club, which he often attended, his manner toward Mr. Dickinson and Mr. Scherer and even toward Miller Gorse was frequently one of thinly veiled amusement at their seriousness.
The common was patched with sparkling white and blue; the snow lay in blue shadows unmelted under the gorse bushes, and among the gorse and sodden bracken twenty ponies snuffed for grass.
She gathered up her pleated skirts and motioning me to follow picked her dainty way through the gorse to a flat rock among the ferns.
On every side stretched the moorland, covered with flowering gorse and heath and granite boulders.
The gorse scraped against my leggings, crackled beneath my feet, showering the brown earth with blossoms, and the brake bowed and billowed along my path.
The sun sank lower and lower, shining level across yellow gorse and the moorland pools.
I should never see a hill-side cultivated without going out at night and sowing it with the seeds of gorse and thistle.
Not that I should bear any ill-will to the farmer, but it is said that the diminution of waste land, with its abundance of gorse and thistles, has led to a great diminution in the number of linnets and goldfinches.
One winter's day when he was lying in a patch of gorse with three others, he heard the hounds come running so directly towards him that in spite of himself he raised his head to listen.
After looking round to see that all was quiet, she led him away over the heather, and then down a very steep hill-side among stunted gorse and loose stones, hot and burning from the sun.
They are nothing more than common English spotted orchids, springing free and spontaneous among the gorse and heather.
It was beautiful to watch them swooping in great arcs over the gorse and bracken, and then darting straight, with unerring accuracy, to the mouth of their tunnels.
Previously nothing but heather and gorse spread over the hilltop; that is the native vegetation of this light sandstone upland.
When the golden gorse and purple heather are in bloom it presents a glorious prospect to the vision.
When the golden gorse and purple heather are in bloom upon the downs it forms a most attractive scene.
Gorse and yellow bents spread north up the High Moor, and to the south, close to the road, lie the old coal workings.
As he spoke, from a gorse bush away up the High Moor there came a puff of smoke, and with the report a score of grouse rose with cries and a commotion of wings.
The scrubby gorse at the foot of the High Moor was three hundred yards away; it was not searched.
In his reverent attitude he was like Linnæus, who fell on his knees on first beholding the English gorse in full flower, and thanked Heaven that such a moment of divine joy was his.
One would hardly think that the man who on first seeing the English gorse in full bloom fell on his knees, burst into tears of joy, and thanked God that he had lived to see this day, would have had a fiery temper.
Thrusting my pipe into my pocket, I crawled upon my hands and knees through the gorse and ferns until I was within a hundred yards of my neighbour's door.
The wind blew in melancholy gusts, sobbing and sighing over the moor, and setting all the gorse bushes agroaning.
There are stories one cannot hear sitting, and so we paced the meadow below, rich in primroses, with a sloping bank of gorse behind us, and the pines before us, and the water breaking over the stones at our feet.
It stood in a clearing with the tall Scotch firs round three sides, and on the fourth a brake of gorse and bramble bushes, through which there was an opening to the road.
The chief hazards are dykes, gorse bushes, rushes, railways and turf bunkers, the trenches of which appear to be amply filled with sand.
Gorse bushes are the principal hazards, but it is a course where good play is always soundly rewarded.
We wish to conduct the reader to a large and handsome house situated on the outskirts of Clarkville, the town where Charley Gorse belonged.
By this time Charley Gorse had got upon his feet, and began looking about him in surprise.
Then, while Frank was firing up, Charley Gorse went to his barn, and soon came back with the Steam Man, and the old giant glared down from his height upon the steam steed of the plains.
For some time he trotted along in a leisurely manner, but no signs could he see of either Pomp, his pursuers, or Charley Gorse and the man.
Charley Gorse and his Steam Man will travel over the plains with us when we reach the West, and you can have full scope for your fighting tendencies among the reds and the rascally whites.
Charley Gorse held the reins of his high-stepping man, and on the seat beside him, perched up like a frog, sat the darkey.
As Charley Gorse had told his cousin, the darkey was one of the most expert riders of the day.
Charley Gorse leaped back to his seat, and the others made for the wagons with all speed.
Darned if I know what’s the matter,” said Frank; and then he saw that Gorse was stuck, too.
Charley Gorse rubbed the poor fellow’s hands, and opened his shirt to give him full chance to breathe.
Charley Gorse beheld the danger at this moment, and a cry of horror pealed from his lips.
Gorse seized the whistle-cord of his Steam Man and answered.
Charley Gorse had fallen from his seat in trying to regain his balance, and had landed astride the shafts of his wagon, from which place he toppled to the plain.
Charley Gorse had just brought the man to a standstill as the order was shouted forth.
There were whitewashed cottages with moss-covered roofs, picturesque barns and haystacks, patches of gorse against a blazing blue sky, marshy meadows in a red sunset, or mountain tops tipped with mist.
Rectory boys and their friend are all over the square at once, and in ten minutes so tingle from innumerable pricks from the gorse that they are benumbed and feel them no more.
In a few minutes we were at the first piece of netted gorse--a real tearer, close, compact and a mass of thorns; but what dogs or boys care for gorse thorns when rabbits are on foot?
In this way squares of gorse of about two hundred yards can be entirely enclosed, and every rabbit inside them surrounded like sheep inside a fold.
The water was up to the horses' bellies, but, nevertheless, Mrs. Spooner was at the gorse side when the Daisies were drawn.
In the neighbouring parish of St. Michael de Dezier there was a favourite little gorse which among hunting-men had acquired this unreasonable name.
Bursting through a thick belt of scrub and tangled gorse bushes, we came upon a scene so unlike what we had expected that we pulled up our horses in astonishment.
So saying, I picked the body up in my arms, and bearing it to a wayside clump of yellow gorse bushes, I laid it solemnly down and drew the branches over it to conceal it.
To-day the sky is so blue and the wind blows from the west and the sun is just hot enough to draw the perfume from the gorse and the heather.
The gorse is a flaming yellow; do you see how it looks like a field of gold there in the distance?
They drank beer and ate sandwiches behind that gorse bush there.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "gorse" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
