Sentences with phrase «of bracken»

The top of the mountain is clearly visible, topped by a temple, with its lower slopes a riot of bracken, turning glorious shades of brown as autumn approaches.

They dig down to a depth of around 20 centimetres, eating the roots of bracken, briars and rhododendrons and breaking up the surface.

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Although the land was privately owned, over much of it — the commons and the wastes of the manor — rural people maintained rights to farm, graze their animals, catch fish and collect firewood, bracken, gravel or turf.

On the way back down, the hill is long, pock - marked with little islands of gorse, heather and bracken, a giant slalom for cows and SUVs, and a spectacular view over nameless moorland.

To escape the monotonous miles of heather, bracken and wild sheep, Ian read avidly, dreaming of one day arriving in a big city like London.

Meade's friend and neighbor Hilma snipped Roger out of the peanut field with a pair of tiny scissors and transposed him onto two color photographs, so that he seemed to hover, artistically stark in Agrisearch black and white, between two lush springtimes — on the left, the bracken fern and longleaf pine woods on the hillside where his family house had once stood, and on the right, the «Old Blush» in full bloom in his backyard rose garden.

Rolls around in dried bracken Then suffers sore eyes a bit of a discharged not smelly.

Against the advice of Thomson, trees had been planted and they had slowly choked the course of its indigenous heath and bracken, its width and, ultimately, its identity.

I have never seen so many trees and ponds and lakes, fringed with bracken and patches of snow.

In Origin of The Species subtitled «An exploration into the nature of the world via the extraordinary S, who lives in the wilderness», we hear S. musing on his immediate world and the wider universe: on evolution, quantum physics, and the uncertain future of the human race, while Rivers's camera explores his wooden hut, his drawings for inventions and the bracken filled woods that surround him.

«i see my typestracts as icons depicting sacred questions — dual space - probes of inner & outer... they should probably be viewed like cloud - tracks & tide - ripples — bracken - patterns & gull flights — or simply as horizons & spirit levels.»