How To Use Bracken In A Sentence
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The bracken was turning to the dusky gold of a fine autumn.
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Not one of them knew which portion of the bracken was to be his own.
The Chronicles of a Gay Gordon
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It is easy to think of a very young seedling (the commonest experimental object in plant science) as being an individual, but which is the individual bracken plant in a huge clonal patch of bracken?
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You often pick up ticks when walking through bracken, and they're best removed quickly if they attach themselves to you.
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Plantations of brackens and garlic are the main source of vegetable income for islanders.
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Above hung the thymy hill where dry grasses and bracken murmured or screamed in the wind.
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The few non-woody species include little bluestem, wintergreen, Virginia tephrosia, wild indigo, tall oatgrass, cowwheat, low frost weed, turkey beard, and bracken fern.
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This route led away from the lake through bracken and heather, over a ridge between two hills.
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Other than that, we ate wild mountain burdocks, butterburs, bracken, flowering ferns and the sesame seeds that were probably carried to the camp on the tails of the horses and now grew there wild.
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After the logging and fires, resilient plants like fire cherry, bracken fern, and the heaths had reclaimed much of this broken landscape.
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The other especially weedy fern is bracken, which also unusually for pteridophytes has vessels.
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The rain fell steadily; wet bracken brushed her bare legs.
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I've got a springer spaniel called Bracken, after Australian bowler Nathan Bracken, and a peke, Hoggard after England's Matthew Hoggard.
Jonathan Agnew: 'I love winding up Geoffrey Boycott'
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Like adventurers, we followed him up and up through the bracken, heather and gorse, thrashing the undergrowth aside with sticks.
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We lay buried to the head in bracken that filled one side of the byre, and keeked through the plenteous holes in the dry-stone wall at the passing army.
John Splendid The Tale of a Poor Gentleman, and the Little Wars of Lorn
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Excavation ceased in the 1950s and the area is now overgrown with woodland, bracken and gorse which provides a habitat for birds, snakes and mammals.
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Indeed, as I soothed my bruised nerves with brandy fomentations that night, I reflected that there were worse places than India; there was Aberdeenshire, with Ignatieff loose in the bracken, hoping to hang my head on his gunroom wall.
Fiancée
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All around the two girls grew large specimens of fungi: mushrooms nearly as tall as them grew from the ground, and toadstools and bracken protruded from the rocky walls in clumps.
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Other weed species found include bracken, which is now associated with acidic grassland rather than arable fields.
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Less than a mile from our home stood the iffiest house I then knew, which I will here call Mountbracken, and there lived Sir W.E. Lady E. was my mother's first cousin and perhaps my mothers dearest friend, and it was no doubt for my mother's sake that she took upon herself the heroic work of civilising my brother and me.
Surprised by Joy
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Mary and Jill got enough heather and bracken to make two teds, one at each side of the shack.
The Adventurous Four
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Start with "Lackluster Me," from the 2007 Anathallo is the Chicago-based art-house septette of collective vocal glory captained by Matthew Joynt (guitar, piano), with Bret Wallin (trombone), Danny Bracken (guitar), Seth Walker (bass), Jeremiah Johnson (drums), Erica Froman (autoharp), and Jamie Macleod (piano, trumpet).
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Worldwide, the fiddleheads most commonly consumed are those of bracken (Pteridium).
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The track was soft and mossy, and it led though ferns and brackens, thickets of brambles and groves of tall Himalayan cedar trees.
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Passing the youth hostel, we climbed through gorse and bracken to Port Eynon Point.
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The farm is reached by a steep, twisting track overhung with bracken.
Times, Sunday Times
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The rain fell steadily; wet bracken brushed her bare legs.
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Another team were being lashed by bracken fronds and splashed with water as they tried to cross the beck while blinded by blackened goggles.
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The road then bends to the right, past a farm cottage with a boisterous beck tumbling from the brackened heights behind.
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After a chat we were on our way, most of the day's climbing done on a quiet kilometre of back road up the side of a valley otherwise chock-a-block with bracken.
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Brackens is the best rusher in the defensive line.
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There would be no one to manage the walls, some areas would revert to scrub and bracken and eventually trees.
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Her hair was neither bronze nor gold nor copper, yet seemed to be an alloy of all the precious mines of the turning year -- the vigorous dusky gold of November elms, the rust of dead bracken made living by heavy rains, the color of beechmast drenched with sunlight after frost, and all the layers of glory on the boughs before it fell, when it needed neither sun nor dew to make it glow.
Martin Pippin in the Apple Orchard
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Besides -- and once more I think I blushed, even under the bracken -- on the other side of the lough was my little Lady Kit.
Kilgorman A Story of Ireland in 1798
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It was simple to follow, grooved by bikes, but easy walking and only briefly affected by bracken near Bracken Hill.
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Dr Bracken said the key to providing a good service was time - and that was often in short supply.
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Common in the understory are chokecherry, beaked hazelnut, a wild rose, red baneberry, thimbleberry, and bracken.
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At one point he took a wrong turn and found himself caught in a moonless trough, trapped in brambles and deep bracken.
GRACE
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There is something a little sinister about it, amid that green and fecund landscape, with its skirting of pine and silver birch and the furze and bracken above.
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Housing developments, which often feature non-native landscape plantings, can bring pests such as the sawfly that infested the Bracken Brae population in 1992.
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Where a cover of bracken is found, it provides nesting cover for other bird species, particularly whinchats and wheatears.
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After six years it has moved from Tower Street to a new home at Brackenhill, in St George's Place, close to York Racecourse.
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At this, and very suddenly, the Knight loosed mace from saddle-bow, and therewith smote Sir Pertinax on rusty bascinet, and tumbled him backward among the bracken.
The Geste of Duke Jocelyn
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Shrouded in bracken and blackberry brambles is a bush dangling dozens of berries like Christmas tree ornaments.
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The bracken has turned the crag into deep rust swathes and the banks of trees brushed neatly back by the winds climb the hillside in rainbow shades of autumn.
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Once they have been rootled up to the surface by a wild boar, or the farmer has stopped drenching his field with fertiliser, or Longhorn cattle have trampled down the bracken, they burst into glorious life.
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Hoisting myself into the forest, I saw everything in crayon colours: a bright-blue British Legion hut, orange bracken, bright-red leaves of gean in the woods, the black shadows of yew.
Wildwood
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The bracken was turning to the dusky gold of a fine autumn.
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But I made it safely through the bracken and out the other side, and cut a wide arc back towards the car to continue my journey through the fields and flowers and trees.
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Spring comes early in the sheltered, southern bay of Monkshaven, and already the bracken was sending up pushful little shoots of young green, curled like a baby's fist, while the primroses, bunched together in clusters, thrust peering faces impertinently above the green carpet of the woods.
The Hermit of Far End
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In a communal grave so newly dug in bloodstained gorse and bracken.
Never Forgotten Newsletter
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It was snowing so fast that she feared that the way to the peat stack would be blocked up, and therefore her next work was, with the help of the two boys, to pull down as much fuel as would last for a week, and carry it indoors; and she examined the potatoes laid up in bracken leaves, but fancying that if she brought them in, the warmth of the cottage would spoil them, she only took enough for a single meal.
A Book of Golden Deeds
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Typical ground cover includes lichens, mosses, bracken fern and members of the heath family (bearberry and teaberry).
Jacques Cousteau National Estuarine Research Reserve, New Jersey
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Next, the decaying bracken and soft layers of pine needles gave off a resiny, leathery scent from the leaf litter.
Times, Sunday Times
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The ground flora consists of grasses such as Digitaria diagonalis, Loudetia simplex, and Themeda triandra, dicotyledonous herbs, ferns (particularly brackenfern Pellaea spp.) and creepers such as Smilax kraussiana.
Eastern Zimbabwe montane forest-grassland mosaic
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Sliding through the darkness of Bracken Clell, she gave con - sideration to how she might gain possession of it.
Ilse Witch
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But its author, Thomas Bracken, may have had very different sentiments when he wrote it, some time before it was set to music in 1876.
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The dominant species on lowland flows are Fagraea berteroana, Glochidion ramiflorum, Arytera brackenridgei, and Morinda citrifolia with Metrosideros collina and Weinmannia samoensis becoming more dominant at higher elevations.
Samoan tropical moist forests
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Ferns from the wild such as bracken can be used or house plant species such as the bird's nest fern are also suitable.www. lifeunearthed.co.uk
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You can pick out a range of subtle colours in the vegetation: the russet fronds of bracken, the fresh green stems of bilberry and the purple twigs of birch.
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Elsewhere, dozens of residents had to be evacuated in Gwent, Wales, where hundreds of mature trees, bracken, gorse and shrubs were destroyed.
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The heather on the hill came in deep russet tones of glory defeated, and the withered bracken with tints of gold, all gaining a double brilliancy from the liquid medium that returned their image.
Kirsteen: The Story of a Scotch Family Seventy Years Ago
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The bilberry bushes are just pushing through last year's flattened bracken and this year's rising heather.
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He moved the event forward from its usual August date to May because later in the year the course is covered in bracken and it is difficult to overtake on the narrow paths.
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At one stage they were shielded from frosts by bracken from the surrounding North York Moors - but then it was realised the vegetation left acid deposits.
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Rosemary says they thrive here because the bracken is always being beaten down by the many badgers that emerge after dark from two different setts in the wood.
Wildwood
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AnathalloAnathallo is the Chicago-based art-house septette of collective vocal glory captained by Matthew Joynt (guitar, piano), with Bret Wallin (trombone), Danny Bracken (guitar), Seth Walker (bass), Jeremiah Johnson (drums), Erica Froman (autoharp), and Jamie Macleod (piano, trumpet).
Phil Ramone and Danielle Evin: Dog Ears Music: Volume 178
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The coarse grass and the bracken were growing up green and sappy in the mild spring sunshine, and we kept to the tracks.
TIME OF THE WOLF
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Creeping perennials, like clover or bracken, seem to move around in the environment.
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This is perfect walking country: hillsides carpeted with yellow gorse, crunchy patches of bracken scattered here and there, springy soil underfoot.
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With Ian massaging his arm, John collecting handfuls of stones to throw at the snake and Tim stripping the leaflets from a frond of bracken, they made their way through the undergrowth to the small pond.
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He leaps at the trees and hoofs through the bracken, eyes wide in despair; his moonlit pelt spattered by mud and debris as hand-echoed huntcalls shiver the air.
The Rik Files
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I stroke the soft noses of Bramble and Bracken, the cobby, good-natured riding school ponies, as they graze in their paddock, on whose back I would vault bareback and steal a bridle-less ride, twenty seven years ago.
*Earworms and guilty pleasures and country roads
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You crouch with the wild-birds in bracken and ling,
The Four Winds of Eirinn
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I have had mony a thought, that when I fand mysell auld and forfairn, and no able to enjoy God's blessed air ony langer, I wad drag mysell here wi 'a pickle ait-meal; and see, there's a bit bonny dropping well that popples that self-same gate simmer and winter; --- and I wad e'en streek mysell out here, and abide my removal, like an auld dog that trails its useless ugsome carcass into some bush or bracken no to gie living things a scunner wi' the sight o't when it's dead ---
The Antiquary
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This was a day of blinding heat amid the scent of mountain hay and the hillsides covered in bracken.
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The Kilbracken family home was damp and dilapidated and the estate neglected, its sole stock consisting of one aged cow.
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She showed where Dot must watch across the ragged grass for when the fox came slinking through the bracken towards the hen-house.
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Today's England side, led by Gloucester prop Phil Vickery, includes eight uncapped players, with the likes of Lawrence Dallaglio, Will Greenwood, Kyran Bracken and Iain Balshaw out of contention.
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Her hair was neither bronze nor gold nor copper, yet seemed to be an alloy of all the precious mines of the turning year – the vigorous dusky gold of November elms, the rust of dead bracken made living by heavy rains, the color of beechmast drenched with sunlight after frost, and all the layers of glory on the boughs before it fell, when it needed neither sun nor dew to make it glow.
Martin Pippin in the Apple Orchard
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On the peaty hummocks of Yew Tree Heath in the north-east of the forest, where a few hessian-coloured fallow deer merge into the rust-tipped bracken, the only sounds are the wailing of a redshank and the hum of bees.
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Once through a gate I took to the open hill and the steep, rough climb up over heather and bracken covered moraines towards the end of the Braigh Blaich ridge that runs down from the head of the corrie.
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Aquarius Research Natural Area is particularly rich in ferns, including Western polypody, spreading woodfern, oak fern, male fern, bracken fern, and sword fern.
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The ground was fairly free of undergrowth, the anemones sprinkled, there was a bush or two, elder, or guelder-rose, and a purplish tangle of bramble: the old russet of bracken almost vanished under green anemone ruffs.
Lady Chatterley's Lover
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The ground was overgrown with wide-spread bracken and tall, matured trees blocked the view to the surrounding buildings.
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Common in the understory are chokecherry, beaked hazelnut, a wild rose, red baneberry, thimbleberry, and bracken.
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In the exposed plantation known as Sentry Hill Wood, beech leaves are brown and the patch of Lloyd George's ground left as downland when a tax was imposed on reclamation is covered in rank bracken and bedraggled rosebay willowherb interspersed with gorse, rowan, willow and oak.
Country diary: St Mellion, Tamar Valley
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Chaucer -- for he knew that "smalè foulès" shelter in the "hethe" as well as in the "holt" -- among broom and bracken, and heath and rushes.
Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Vol 58, No. 357, July 1845
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There were crisp husks of beechmast and cast acorn cups underfoot in the russet slime of dead bracken where the rains of the equinox had so soaked the earth that the cold oozed up through the soles of the shoes, lancinating cold of the approaching winter that grips hold of your belly and squeezed it tight.
Archive 2004-12-01
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Pine trees, swayed by the north wind, whisper; the bracken sighs.
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Not only do the shaggy creatures trample down invasive bracken but they treat heather and bilberry with respect - unlike sheep, which munch the delicate shoots to extinction.
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Her hair was neither bronze nor gold nor copper, yet seemed to be an alloy of all the precious mines of the turning year – the vigorous dusky gold of November elms, the rust of dead bracken made living by heavy rains, the colour of beechmast drenched with sunlight after frost, and all the layers of glory on the boughs before it fell, when it needed neither sun nor dew to make it glow.
Martin Pippin in the Apple Orchard
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Once it was a wild sow which scuttled out of the bracken, with two young sounders at her heels, and once a lordly red staggard walked daintily out from among the tree trunks, and looked around him with the fearless gaze of one who lived under the King's own high protection.
The White Company
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In the meantime, borrow one of their nags for the challenging on-site cross-country course; or head for Dartmoor, which is particularly wonderful just now, its brackeny hills the colour of copper.
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Back on the winding road to Lancaster, the way is lined with purple heather and bracken, rowan trees and bushes full of blueberries.
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He slept on bracken, the only concession to comfort a down quilt and a patch of woollen red plaid, often seen wrapped around him as he went about his business.
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Night-hawks churred as they beat on noiseless wings above the beds of bramble and bracken.
The History of Sir Richard Calmady A Romance
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The track was soft and mossy, and it led though ferns and brackens, thickets of brambles and groves of tall Himalayan cedar trees.
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My childhood passed on foot and outdoors, in bracken and on pebbly beaches.
William Nicholson discusses Seeker, the first volume in a three part trilogy for teens
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Scrambling up and down muddy cliffs choked with bracken, Thorsen tossed me tips for reading the bluffs: a vertical stripe of alders all the same size conceals an avalanche scar; evergreen trees growing at strange angles are a bad sign; a flattened bench, or shelf, partway down a slope is a terrible place to put a house, because it was created by slide action.
The Liquid Earth
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Vegetation is wild oat, cheatgrass, flatspine stickweed, California buckthorn, whiteleaf manzanita, honeysuckle, brackenfern, hedgehog dogstail, chaparral coffeeberry, toyon, Pacific poison oak, interior and canyon live oak, Pacific madrone, and scattered ponderosa pine, foothill pine, incense cedar and California black oak.
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The dry bracken crackled beneath his feet and gave off a pungent aroma.
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Bracken is cultivated commercially in America, Canada and Brazil as a remedy for bronchitis and parasitic worms.
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Magnesium oxide paste has been suggested as an alternative to calcium gluconate gel. 15 Bracken et al. compared the use of 0.13 percent benzalkonium chloride solution, 2.5 percent calcium gluconate gel and 30 percent magnesium sulfate/6 percent magnesium oxide paste to a control (water) for treating dermal burns induced by 70 percent hydrofluoric acid. 26 In this study, calcium gluconate gel was the only agent effective in limiting the extent of the burn.
Hydrofluoric Acid
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There would be no one to manage the walls, some areas would revert to scrub and bracken and eventually trees.
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Bracken Twist is a stunning new Tufted range of 12 colours, manufactured in 50% wool, 50% polypropylene.
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Pine trees, swayed by the north wind, whisper; the bracken sighs.
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Tallis could see how invisible feet kicked up the leaf litter, broke and trampled bracken.
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Munnelly will have an excellent band with him on the night which includes his brother Kieran, who is a fine bodhrán and flute player, Daire Bracken on fiddle and Gavin Ralston on guitar.
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The exposed skull lying in the ‘dead red bracken’ has been shaped by nature.
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He hadn't noticed the near-gale either, roistering down the bracken- and boulder-clad mountainside as if ie were a ski-run.
A DAYSTAR OF FEAR
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The pool had dried up and was full of bracken and reeds.
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The bracken, waist-high at first, was like small hoops at the top of the wood, where the tiny golden tormentil made a carpet and the yellow pimpernel was closing her eager eyes.
Gone to Earth
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The few non-woody species include little bluestem, wintergreen, Virginia tephrosia, wild indigo, tall oatgrass, cowwheat, low frost weed, turkey beard, and bracken fern.
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Early nests are often in a shrub or on a bracken fern, and later nests are usually on the ground under a shrub, often a blueberry.
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Alondra vegetable also known as bracken, wild perennial herb, generally pick their eating leaves.
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Beyond rose hills -- hill upon hill lit patchily by the sun, so that their contours were a mingling of brilliant purple heather, red-brown bracken, and indigo shadow.
The Best British Short Stories of 1922
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Penn Common is a rolling meadow of tall bracken, moss and the odd thicket of birch trees.
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They covered the bracken and clay and farms with houses that were built and sold to them by a coincidence of evangelicals.
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The track was soft and mossy, and it led though ferns and brackens, thickets of brambles and groves of tall Himalayan cedar trees.
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It was attached to a rusty chain hidden in the bracken.
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Yellow flowers of tormentil star the turf, gorse bushes cast shadows, and stunted bracken adds a sickly smell to the sweetness of summer grass.
Country diary: North Hill, Cornwall
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It looked reasonable from a distance but the bracken was taller than both my daughters, and there were more than a few moments of blind panic on my part.
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Shadows extend towards sunlit water chopped with yellow and blue reflections as the lowering sun gilds the west-facing tree canopy and burnishes the masses of haws on banks of bracken.
Country diary: Cornwall
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He hadn't noticed the near-gale either, roistering down the bracken- and boulder-clad mountainside as if ie were a ski-run.
A DAYSTAR OF FEAR
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Below the scree - girt heights, pines, larches, birches and juniper grow in luxuriant profusion on a valley floor lush in green bracken, bilberry, cowberry and heather.
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I found fat pintle shoots poking through dead leaves, fiddleheads in bracken beds, and lily bulbs.
Wildfire
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A steep climb through bracken and bilberries brought us to a wide rocky plateau.
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The frost causes the bracken to die back and thereby opens up the canopy to let in more light.
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We made our way down along a little road, the big worn flints standing up out of the gravel, by brakes of bramble, turf-walls where the ferns grew thick, by bits of wild upland covered with gorse and rusty bracken, and down at last to the tiny hamlet -- four or five low white houses, in little gardens where the escallonia grew thick and glossy, the purple veronica bloomed richly, and the green fleshy mesembryanthemum tumbled and dripped over the fences.
Escape, and Other Essays
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'So,' India raised her voice, teeth gleaming over a herb-dusted cuisse, 'was Betty Bracken in tears?'
Come To Grief
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For he had often spent an hour in the place with the doctor, collecting buckthorn and coral-moss, curious lichens, sphagnum, and the round, and long-leaved sundews, or butterwort: for all these plants abounded here, with the bramble and bracken.
The Weathercock Being the Adventures of a Boy with a Bias
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Common in the understory are chokecherry, beaked hazelnut, a wild rose, red baneberry, thimbleberry, and bracken.
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Now there was a peaceful time as the four hunters thinned out and waded through bracken and fern.
COUP D'ETAT
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After a chat we were on our way, most of the day's climbing done on a quiet kilometre of back road up the side of a valley otherwise chock-a-block with bracken.
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He will construct a snake of leaves that flows down a river, a cone of bleached wood that will float away on the tide, a bracken sculpture that is broken by the wind.
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It is concluded that mosses suffer detrimental effects after exposure to Asulox at concentrations similar to those that affect fern gametophytes such as bracken.
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The thyme and sage bruised by the tramping feet censed them with aromatics; the uncurled bracken stood waist-high; heather and sorrel purpled the moors.
Funeral Games
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The Agricultural Conservation team use it extensively in their everyday work, for example, consultations on bracken spraying to identify areas of exclusion such as scree and water courses.
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Alec looked down from the helicopter at the carpet of woodland and the barer uplands of heather and bracken and realized
DEATH AND TRANSFIGURATION
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Brackenbury was kindly, and had always shown them the courtesy due to their rank - and himself as their ally.
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The track we were on, unpaved and without gravel or metalling, was nonetheless flat and wide enough for a cart, and largely free of stones — which was enough to make it noteworthy — and of bracken, which made it visible against the brown hillside.
The Moor
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He hadn't noticed the near-gale either, roistering down the bracken- and boulder-clad mountainside as if ie were a ski-run.
A DAYSTAR OF FEAR
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You can pick out a range of subtle colours in the vegetation: the russet fronds of bracken, the fresh green stems of bilberry and the purple twigs of birch.
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Ticks begin their life cycle as tiny black creatures not much bigger than a pinhead that can attach themselves to warm-blooded creatures that brush against the heather or bracken in which they live.
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The pool had dried up and was full of bracken and reeds.
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Hill wild series are: japonica , bracken and Cinen Ya, and so on.
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A well-known writer, who lives where ferns abound, says that the bracken is the fern of ferns in the British Islands.
Chatterbox, 1905.
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In some areas, the land has become degraded to the point where crops cannot be planted, and it becomes secondary grassland or is simply invaded by weeds, such as bracken (Pteridium).
Madagascar lowland forests
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Bracken and several other ferns are suspected of causing cancer.
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If the results are proved, it is hoped Government funding will be available to effectively control the growth and spread of bracken on open moorland and eradicate the virus through sheep vaccination and effective tick control.
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The terrain around them was transformed in a blink from grey rock and steep commercial woodland to a spectacular broad, brown plateau of upland bracken and bogland, stretching away for miles towards Wicklow and the mountains proper.
The Priest
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These neglected spots are overgrown with gorse, brambles, nettles, blackthorn, and mullein, as well as with the bitter spurges, and the stringy inedible bracken.
Journeys Through Bookland, Vol. 8
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I love the gorse and the bracken, I love the stagnant pond, I love the very geese that tug hard at the silverweed, they make it all seem so deliciously English.
The Woman Who Did
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The undergrowth was gorgeous: bramble, elder, honeysuckle, briony, rowan, and alder vied with one another in the vividness of their crimson and orange, while the bracken was a sea of pale gold.
The Luckiest Girl in the School
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Tinctorius, bracken, Taiwan, renowned at home and abroad mushroom is the main local products Wutaishan.
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In high summer, grappling fronds of bracken grow to chest-height, encroaching on rich grassland like an invading army.
Back to the land: from London to sheep farming on Eigg
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There was always a halfpenny underneath the geranium pot in the window-sill for the child whose eye caught sight of the first swallow, redstart or sandpiper; or whose ear first recognised the clarion call of the cuckoo, or the evening "bleat" of the nightjar on the bracken-mantled fells at the end of May.
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