We were often compelled to hold to some shrub or tree and let ourselves down over projecting rocks several feet, where we could not possibly have stood up without such aid.
A little shrub called the crucifixion thorn has no leaves at all, nothing but long, sharp spines.
The manzanita, which grows in the semi-arid climate of southern California, is a low shrub with branches that are rarely large enough for fuel.
No tree or shrub is seen; and only in the bottoms or in marshes is a rank herbage found.
The silk-grass shrub produces a leaf, the inner substance of which consists of a number of small strong white fibres running longitudinally.
These Oak Openings, as they are called, are groves of oak and other forest-trees which are not connected, but are scattered over the surface at a considerable distance from one another, without any lowshrub or underbrush between them.
Would you ask the shrub broken by the storm why the breath of spring does not reanimate its mutilated form?
Water serves to extract the virtues of the cultivated shrub better than spirit of wine is able to do.
The Lavender shrub takes its name from the Latin lavare, "to wash," because the ancients employed it as a perfume.
Next to the Sloe in order of development comes the Bullace (Prunus insititia), a shrub with fewer thorns, and bearing its flowers after the leaves have begun to unfold.
The Juniper shrub (Arkenthos of the ancients), which is widely distributed about the world, grows not uncommonly in England as a stiff evergreen conifer on heathy ground, and bears bluish purple berries.
The shrub grows chiefly on chalk, and near brooks.
The generic name, Scoparius, is derived from the Latin word scopa, a besom, this signifying "a shrub to sweep with.
British farmers dislike the [43] Barberry shrub because, when it grows in cornfields, the wheat near it is blighted, even to the distance of two or three hundred yards.
Probably the shrub gets its name from the Celtic jeneprus, "rude or rough.
Throughout Sussex and Kent theshrub is called "Gazles" as corrupted from the French Groseilles (Gooseberries).
A fence post, a low shrub will serve as her watchtower until danger is over.
From pine and beech and shrub they come, lingering to catch a stray insect or to feast on the seeds so plentiful at this season of the year, steadily collecting until dozens and fifties and hundreds of a kind are grouped together.
I stared about me in the vain hope of recognising some knoll or shrub that had been near the sphere.
We saw the dead bayonetshrub no longer with any touch of green in it, but brown and dry and thick, and the shadow of its upper branches high out of sight made a densely interlaced pattern upon the tumbled rocks.
Save for the faint stir of the shrub about me in the little breeze that was rising, there was no sound nor shadow of a sound.
But the spiky shrub on the slope stood brown and sere now, and thirty feet high, and cast long shadows that stretched out of sight, and the little seeds that clustered in its upper branches were brown and ripe.
Not very far from the College they entered a small, two-storied stone house, which but for an iron railing and a shrub or two gave right on the street.
It was a bitterly cold night, of milky-white moonlight; each bush and shrubcarved its jet-black shadow on paths and grass.
This shrub is an evergreen, and is generally given stove culture, though it proves quite hardy in the open, where its large deep-green leaves acquire a beauty surpassing those grown indoors.
This hardy deciduous shrub does well in common soil if a fair amount of moisture be given.
This hardy, ornamental shrub will grow in any soil.
This hardy evergreen shrub grows freely in any soil.
This pleasing hardy evergreen shrub thrives best on a deep, sandy loam, but will grow in any good soil, provided the position is dry.
This hardy deciduous shrub is very ornamental, and its foliage is scented like the myrtle.
A stove evergreen shrub much valued for its foliage and as a table plant.
This hardy deciduous shrub bears in September deliciously scented pure white flowers on the side-shoots of the previous year's growth.
This is a deciduous hardyshrub or tree which bears elegant racemes of white Chestnut-like flowers in July.
This beautiful free-flowering shrub will grow in any garden soil, and produces bunches of fragrant, delicate white flowers in June.
This well-known and much-admired evergreen shrub produces masses of white flowers through the winter months, at which season it is especially ornamental.
An ornamental shrub which will grow in ordinary soil, but thrives best in a sandy one.
An American evergreenshrub which grows best in peat, but will thrive in any light soil.
This elegant greenhouse shrub is an evergreen which delights in a rich, sandy loam.
A hardy evergreen shrub which, given a sunny situation, will grow in any soil, though a rich, sandy one is preferable.
The flames rose up to an extraordinary height, rushing over the ground at the speed of racehorses, and devouring every tree and shrub in their course.
The prickly-pear grows on a shrub about five feet high, and is common in many parts of the West Indies, thriving best on sandy grounds near the sea.
The shrub which produces the guava has long small boughs, with a white smooth bark, and leaves like our hazel.
There was hardly an individual shrub which a wanderer, straying by himself through a forest, would not have been startled to find growing wild, as if an unearthly face had glared at him out of the thicket.
Pluck one of those precious gems from thy sister shrub and bid thy bridegroom wear it in his bosom.
Giovanni stepped forth, and, forcing himself through the entanglement of a shrub that wreathed its tendrils over the hidden entrance, stood beneath his own window in the open area of Dr.
He made a step towards the shrub with extended hand; but Beatrice darted forward, uttering a shriek that went through his heart like a dagger.
They walked on together, sad and silent, and came thus to the marble fountain and to its pool of water on the ground, in the midst of which grew the shrub that bore gem-like blossoms.
Why did you kill that shrub when I asked you not to put the stone upon it?
The mason tranquilly deposited the rock full upon the shrub and proceeded to slap mortar around it and tap it home with his mallet.
A waterless desert, where the horses sunk fetlock-deep in shifting sand, or were cruelly pricked by the thorny leafless shrub which was the only living plant to be seen.
Every moment he expected to see the cypresses rise on the horizon; and he was sweeping it with his glance when his eye fell on a white object fluttering on the wind from shrub to shrub.
The nest is nearly always placed in the fork of a branch of either a tree or shrub and never far from the ground.
The natives do not take this view of this shrub (Chionanthus virginicus).
Holding up her apron full of flowers with her left hand, Proserpina seized the large shrub with the other, and pulled and pulled, but was hardly able to loosen the soil about its roots.
And as it happened, she had not gone far before she found one of the magnificent flowers which grew on the shrub that Proserpina had pulled up.
There grew a thick-leaved oliveshrub inside the yard, full-grown and vigorous, in girth much like a pillar.
It is really the most beautiful shrub that ever sprang out of the earth.
Name of some shrub anciently dedicated to Bacchus.
There was not a tree, not a shrub to be seen near our camp.
It rolled down until it came to the shrub and vegetation, where its progress became slower.
I have taken it from birch in the garden, and it is known to eat leaves of almost any tree or shrub that may be offered to it in confinement.
For him the lofty laurel stands in tears, And hung with humid pearls the lowly shrub appears.
Such as the shrub to the tall olive shows, Or the pale swallow to the blushing rose; Such is his voice, if I can judge aright, Compared to thine, in sweetness and in height.
If the protective coloration of the nuts, then, were effective, it would defeat a purpose which every tree and shrub and plant has at heart, namely, the scattering of its seed.
This shrub is Daphne cneorum, a sturdier evergreen cousin of Daphne mezereum, that brave-hearted shrub that often by the south wall of my garden hangs its little pink flower clusters upon bare twigs as early as the tenth of March.
In speaking of white or pale flowers there is one low shrub with evergreen leaves and bluish-white flowers that I saw blooming in masses for the first time not far from Boston in early May.
No shrub or blade of grass can grow among these boulders, and the rain, which continued to fall, made them so slippery that it was dangerous to climb over them.
The wood of this shrub is extremely solid and hard.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "shrub" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
