The underbrush caught at his clothes, and the dead leaves of past seasons crackled underfoot, but after a little space he came to somewhat clearer ground, though the saplings still stood thick about him and hid him securely.
They dragged him into the thick underbrush and tied him to a tree.
By this time, the stranger was in the mire up to his chin, the underbrush which the boys had cut for him having gradually been pulled under.
You might run back to where the underbrush starts and bring back a lot of it," suggested he.
Neither was Darius willing to waste much time, and when Jerry was lost to view in the darkness he struck through the underbrush toward the highway, leading the party, while I brought up the rear.
The underbrush was very dense, which prevented them from riding into the timber, and also from seeing the exact whereabouts of Captain Williams and his men.
With their usual shyness the Indians watched the white man's method from the underbrush skirting the margin of the creeks, and when the trapper had left, they stole his trap and carried it off to their village.
It is covered with dense forests, which in most places are so filled with fallen timber and tangledunderbrush as to be practically impassable.
He was then hid by the Indians in a clump of underbrush until the trouble was over, and was assured that the ladies should not be harmed.
Under Curt's dynamic orders, half a dozen backfires were started, the men working like mad to clear away the underbrush and destroy all inflammable material near the creek bank where they had decided to make their stand.
This dry grass and underbrush would burn like tinder.
Curt felt his way around clumps of underbrush and outcroppings of rock.
They crashed through a low fringe of underbrush and reached the twisting roadway.
A steady procession of small animals, driven from their homes, was racing through the underbrush and an occasional frightened rabbit would almost bump into them in its blind haste to find safety.
And in the spring he showed himself rarely in the underbrush on country roads, eager, restless, chirping, hurrying northward where the streams were clear and the big woods budding.
The moss is ankle deep, the underbrush thick; fallen logs lie across each other in hopeless confusion, through and under and over which one must make his laborious way, stung and pestered by hordes of black flies and mosquitoes.
The chase passed out of hearing, and I had almost forgotten it, for something was moving in the underbrush near my bait, when back it came with a rush.
As I stole nearer, hoping to get behind an old log where I could lie and watch the spectacle, some creature scurried out of the underbrush at one side.
The sun was long obscured, and a drizzling rain set in, without any direction whatever in it by the time it reached the underbrush where I was.
Chigwooltz the frog, and Tookhees the wood mouse, and to any other chance wild creature that might watch him from the underbrush at his unkingly act of feeding on dead fish.
Scarcely had he jumped upon my tree when there was a screech and a rush in the underbrush just below him, and out of the bushes came a young lynx to join in the chase.
One day, while lying still in the underbrush watching a wood mouse, Killooleet, a fine male bird and a perfect singer, came and sang on a branch just over my head, not noticing me.
Then I placed the best bait of all in the shallows, and hid in the dense underbrush near, with my gun.
So the shadow came to the partridge's nest, passed over it, minding not the scent of broken eggs nor of the dead bird, but only the scent of the weasel, and vanished into the underbrush on the trail.
The biggest beasts inhabit the great forest, while the smaller ones live mostly in the mountain underbrush at the east.
Once the red dwarfs got into the tangle of underbrush they could never be found, and their captives would die a miserable death.
True, they could force aside the frail underbrush and the small trees, but the others impeded their progress.
The trumpeting increased, and the crashing of the underbrush sounded louder and nearer.
In another moment he and his brother were crashing through the lush underbrush to the beach.
A fat little cuss was leading them, and the way he plowed through thatunderbrush was a caution.
The vegetation and the underbrush were so rank that one found himself buried before he had gone three steps in them.
Whereupon a sudden crashing into the underbrush persuaded him it was no apparition.
The sun rose and shot his beams horizontally through the tree-trunks, lighting up the underbrush with a strange golden splendour.
Undoubtedly the most effective of these is the natural forest with its soil, composed of porous humus, covered by a blanket of decaying leaves, branches, and fallen trees, and often with a dense mat of underbrush growing among the trees.
The growth of underbrush having no marketable value is of no benefit to a forest, in fact it may choke out or retard the growth of young trees of valuable species.
Besides the opposition of an active enemy, were the natural barriers of deep ravines, stony ridges and cliffs, and in many places an almost impassable barrier of dense underbrush and fallen limbs and trees.
As we walked on in a driving rainstorm and through mud and underbrush and wormed our way amid wire entanglements, we came upon a field kitchen and were invited to supper.
High banks make the place more private; trees and underbrush serve the same purpose.
They are "lifelong scavengers," and can put land covered with useless underbrushinto shape for pasture more cheaply and more quickly than dynamite.
A little French village, with its broad galleries, and steep roofs, and venerable church, in a few miles appeared among the underbrush on the left.
Most of them are densely wooded to the water's edge; and the wild vines and underbrush suspended lightly over the waters are mirrored in their bosom or swept by the current into attitudes most graceful and picturesque.
The semicircular area in the bow of the spur between the mounds is a deep dingle, choked up with stunted trees and tangled underbrush of hazels, sumach, and wild-berry, while the range of highlands crowned with forest goes back in the rear.
The slope of the rolling hills, the lie of the frozen river-beds, the branches of underbrush protruding through billowed drifts are hands that point the trapper's compass.
A matted tangle of underbrush higher than the horses' head bars the way!
Cones and domes and cornices of snow heap the underbrush and spreading larch boughs.
The still hunter that had crawled through the underbrush lured by the dead rabbits over Koot's shoulder wanted rabbit, not bacon.
Then it came again, that feel of something coursing behind the underbrush in the gloom of the gathering darkness.
Dry side hills and ravines covered with thick underbrush are the places to look for Chats.
They also have a habit of often spreading and folding the tail as they flit through the underbrush that they frequent.
Within a few inches of the ground in low underbrush or vines; made of leaves, bark, etc.
These Warblers travel northward in company with many other kinds, always keeping in the underbrush near the ground, except when they come out into orchards and parks.
In thick underbrush we hear these birds scratching about among the leaves; occasionally one of them will hop up on a twig and give his clear peabody song, or, hearing or seeing you, give a sharp chirp and dash out of sight again.
Farmers also cut off a great many patches of underbrush that might just as well have been left, thus, for lack of suitable places for their homes, driving away some of their most valuable assistants.
The nests are built in very thickly tangled underbrush and are difficult to locate.
These Warblers are found in tangled underbrush near water.
They are always busily engaged among the underbrush of side hills and along the banks of brooks, hunting for the scanty fare that awaits them.
They were found near the banks of a river in Jack pines, building on the ground and remaining in the underbrush near it.
Then Dave stopped sneaking quick glances at the man, for they had passed through the rim of underbrush and were approaching a series of man-made clearings in the tropical trees that covered the island.
I--” The English youth cut himself off short, and both of them stared down at the tattered figure of a man who came stumbling out of the thick underbrush waving both hands in a beseeching gesture.
Here and there at intervals were great trees, but without any underbrush to snap under their feet as they quietly trod over the soft, black soil.
Fortune favored him, for the underbrush had gained no hold upon the smooth masonry, and he was able to make rapid progress, so that only a short time elapsed before he regained the entrance to the links.
Henderson was not fool enough to search the underbrush for an identifying glimpse of his challenger.
But now when he saw again the tangledunderbrush and outcropping rock of the first foothills, something in him cried out, for the first time since boyhood, "I'm going home!
Surprised to encounter travelers at so remote a spot at that hour, he edged cautiously into the underbrush and lay flat on a huge rock which overlooked the path from a low eminence at its right.
He was not disappointed, and, after extricating himself from a dense wilderness of underbrush and foliage, he emerged into an open space, where a small Indian village was planted.
Captain Joe continued to snarl at the thicket, and Clay advanced a few paces and peered under the underbrush which was clinging for fragile support to the floor of the canyon.
It was dark as a pocket in the forest, and the underbrush made progress difficult, but the boy and the dog kept resolutely on for nearly half an hour before coming to a halt.
This bird is shy and retiring and skulks off through the underbrush of thickets and swamps that it frequents upon the approach of anyone; consequently it is often little known in localities where it is quite abundant.
They are generally very wary birds and either escape by running through the underbrush or by flying as soon as a human being appears in sight.
The birds are shy and skulk off through the underbrush upon the approach of anyone so that the nests are quite difficult to find.
They nest in underbrush or low bushes only a few inches above the ground, making the nests of bark strips, moss rootlets, etc.
Nest a mass of leaves, lined with rootlets, placed on the ground at the base of a small elm sprout in underbrush on a hillside.
It nests in the heaviest underbrush of the mountain sides, building on or close to the ground.
They rarely fly during the day time unless disturbed from their roosting place which is on the ground under underbrush or in hollow logs.
Their nests are made under tangled growths of underbrush or briers.
This species is generally abundant in all localities in its range, which afford suitable nesting places of tangled underbrush or vines.
These peculiar brownish gray colored birds frequent the tangled underbrush of ravines and mountain sides where they lead the life of a recluse.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "underbrush" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
