Use bushes in a sentence
Sentences starting with bushes
- Bushes looked like gigantic trees and level ground like cliffs and slopes. [2]
Sentences ending with bushes
- And the device would take on color, red-bronze like the sumach in the autumn and streaks of vermilion, and two glowing coals that were eyes, and above them eagles' feathers, and the cracks became bramble bushes. [9]
- On two occasions, when the falls were sheer, they had to disembark and walk along little portages through the green raspberry bushes. [9]
- The old paraschites watched the priests disappear behind the tamarisk bushes. [10]
- Here they could watch unseen the tumult in the square below, for it was surrounded by dense laurel bushes. [10]
- What I feared was that the trout would start up the inlet and wreck us in the bushes. [4]
- They didn't hear Uncle Silas say he would kill Jubiter; they didn't hear no blow struck; they didn't see no dead man, and they didn't see Uncle Silas hide anything in the bushes. [5]
- Let's hide the tools in the bushes. [5]
- It was in sooth a foolish thing to do; yet perhaps that was why she found it all the harder to give it up, and go she would not, but hid herself among the bushes. [10]
- After that a silence, save for the notes of answering birds quickened by the song, the minister's horse nibbling at the bushes. [9]
- The river is shallow, rapid, stony, muddy, full of rocks, with an occasional little island covered with low bushes. [4]
Sentences containing bushes two or more times
- The gray rocks crop out among bayberry and huckleberry bushes, and the wild rose, very large and brilliant in color, fairly illuminates the landscape, massing its great bushes. [4]
- We went to a clump of bushes, and Tom made everybody swear to keep the secret, and then showed them a hole in the hill, right in the thickest part of the bushes. [5]
More example sentences with the word bushes in them
- A sand-hill overgrown with tamarisk bushes rose beside the road, and thither the leader guided the party of convicts. [10]
- For instance, we were out for a walk, and passed by some bushes that were freighted with wild goose-berries. [5]
- One evening, as we drew to the camp-fire, a deer broke from the woods and ran straight through the little circle we were making, and disappeared in the bushes by the riverside. [11]
- In the dense wavering smoke some of the French threw down their arms and ran out of the bushes to meet the Cossacks, while others ran down the hill toward the pond. [2]
- All about the water lay marsh-ground overgrown with leafless bushes, rushes, tall grasses, and reeds. [10]
- The same question was written in her yearning eyes, staring at the spot where the gray of his hunting shirt showed through the bushes at the bend. [9]
- Next my eye was caught by a little run fringed with bushes that curved around the cane near the bend. [9]
- Almost instantly there was another shot, and a blue wisp of smoke rose from the red-bud bushes, where Tom was. [9]
- Behind the store was an old-fashioned garden, set about by a neat stone wall, hidden here and there by the masses of lilac and currant bushes, and at the south of it was a great rose-covered boulder of granite. [9]
- The bushes were very fine, --seven feet high, and of good wood. [4]
- These, it is useless to say, were probably not the "barnacle geese" which the nautical travelers used to find, and picture growing upon bushes and dropping from the eggs, when they were ripe, full-fledged into the water. [4]
- The wild vine twined boldly up many a trunk, fruit was already forming on the bilberry bushes, though it still glimmered with a faint pink hue amid the green of May. [10]
- He was sent to make war on the bushes that constantly encroached upon the pastureland; but John had no hostility to any growing thing, and a very little bushwhacking satisfied him. [4]
- You are not to creep through the bushes, but to go home by the gate. [10]
- Making our way through the low growth and bushes of the valley, we came into a fine open forest, watered by a noisy brook, and after an hour's easy going reached the serious ascent. [4]
- Wandering with her thoughts she did not notice the spruce bushes set up for signal, until she had stepped on a thin piece of ice. [11]
- The Indians pursued their warfare by hiding in the bushes and then scalping them. [5]
- I looked towards the town, and saw the French army hustling into the St. Louis Gate; saw the Highlanders charging the bushes at the Cote Ste. [11]
- Climbing out of the ravine was, in most places, simply impossible; and I began to look with interest for a slide, where bushes rooted in the scant earth would enable me to scale the precipice. [4]
- They plunged into the narrow path between the tall sumach bushes, and were at once hidden in the gloom. [5]
- At ten o'clock the infantry that had been among the bushes in front of the battery and along the Kamenka streamlet retreated. [2]
- Venters waited until the faint slam of a door assured him she had reached the house, and then, taking up his rifle, he noiselessly slipped through the bushes, down the knoll, and on under the dark trees to the edge of the grove. [13]
- I could hear the clatter of arms among the bushes, but the Athenian was allowed to depart unmolested, the soldiers, without doubt, believing him to be a Persian. [10]
- But, hidden by the bushes, he was running almost parallel with her. [11]
- And breaking through the bushes we came upon Miss Thorn and the Celebrity. [9]
- Lalocks flowered late that year, and he got a great bunch off from the bushes in the Hancock front-yard. [6]
- A shudder of terror went through him: "No, better not look," he thought, but having reached the bushes he glanced round once more. [2]
- George's resting-place was surrounded by bushes and flowers. [10]
- But there were such strange crackings in the shrubs, and the trees and bushes cast such uncanny shadows that she hailed daybreak as a deliverance. [10]
- We have nasty sort of fighting here, amongst creeks and bushes, and lose men without show. [3]
- Ferrol quickly drew Sophie aside behind the bushes, where they should not be seen; for he was no longer reckless. [11]
- It was all so dim, so like clouded silver, the trees and the grass and the bushes and the night. [11]
- Presently, when Sandy slid from the horse, motioned me to stop, and went creeping stealthily, with her head bent nearly to her knees, toward a row of bushes that bordered a declivity, the thumpings grew stronger and quicker. [5]
- It is charmingly situated on a projecting point of gray rocks veined with color, enlivened by touches of scarlet bushes and brilliant flowers planted in little spots of soil, contrasting with the evergreen shrubs. [4]
- Along the upper side was a thin line of bushes, and, pushing these aside, the observer was always startled at the unexpected scene--as it were the raising of a curtain upon another world. [4]
- Then suddenly, before she could organize her senses, a score of men seemed to rise up from the ground around her, to burst out from the bushes, to drop from the trees, and to storm upon her. [11]
- When they were several miles below "Cave Hollow," Tom said: "Now you see this bluff here looks all alike all the way down from the cave hollow--no houses, no wood-yards, bushes all alike. [5]
- I can still see the trees and bushes growing smaller and smaller as I followed them up its huge slant with my eye, till they became a feathery fringe on the distant summit. [5]
- He was galloping round by the bushes while the field was coming up on both sides, all trying to head the wolf, but it vanished into the wood before they could do so. [2]
- Moths flitted noiselessly round and over the clumps of bushes, and the whole quiet and restful enclosure was full of sweetness from the Lotos flowers in the marble basin, from the blossoms of the luxuriant shrubs and the succulent tropical herbs at their feet. [10]
- We had a rough time getting to the top, the sides was so steep and the bushes so thick. [5]
- His disordered imagination represented to him a crowd of persons stealing towards them beneath the cover of the bushes, lurking in every ditch, and peeping from the boughs of every rustling tree. [12]
- At last Tom reached the bend in the bank, beside some red-bud bushes, and there he stayed. [9]
- Not until the rays of the setting sun were forcing their way through the pinks and rose bushes with which Pyramus kept her window adorned throughout the year, because she loved flowers, and the vesper bells were chiming, did her friend return. [10]
- I made a rapid estimate of the cost of the seed, the interest of the ground, the price of labor, the value of the bushes, the anxiety of weeks of watchfulness. [4]
- The enemy had plunged into the wide plains of La Beauce--a roadless waste covered with bushes, with here and there bodies of forest trees--a region where an army would be hidden from view in a very little while. [5]
- There it is pleasant enough, for a spring bedews the stony soil and there, as wherever any moisture touches the desert, aromatic plants thrive, and umbrageous bushes grow. [10]
- He seized his pistol and, instead of firing it, flung it at the Frenchman and ran with all his might toward the bushes. [2]
- This was the period of the year when the Rockland people were most cautious of wandering in the leafier coverts which skirted the base of The Mountain, and the farmers liked to wear thick, long boots, whenever they went into the bushes. [6]
- Cows pastured there, penetrating through the leafy passages from one opening to another, and browsing among the bushes. [4]
- Iberville and Gering passed through the bushes also, but could neither see nor hear the quarry. [11]
- The hazel bushes parted behind the hounds and Daniel's chestnut horse appeared, dark with sweat. [2]
- After it was over I saw him come out of the bushes and attack a dead man single-handed. [5]
- Yes, there were other sounds--the twitter of birds in the bushes by the roadside, the hum of insects, and the faint rhythmical murmur of lapsing waves on the shore. [4]
- Countless buds were opening under the moss and ferns, strawberries were ripening close to the ground, and the delicate leafy boughs of the bilberry bushes were full of juicy green oared fruit. [10]
- There were huckleberry-pastures on the lower flanks of The Mountain, with plenty of the sweet-scented bayberry mingled with the other bushes. [6]
- At the Island of Monaca they took from the bushes with their hands near two hogsheads full of birds in three or four hours. [4]
- The coast of Morea faces the north; so dense shadows still rested on the stony olive-groves and the dark foliage of the pink laurel and oleander bushes, whose dense clumps followed the course of the stream and filled the ravines. [10]
- For a half mile they hastened on, and now and then Buckmaster drew aside the bushes, and looked up the valley, to keep Greevy and his bois brulees in his eye. [11]
- Every morning you might have seen the birds in fluttering, chirping groups upon the may-tree or the lilac- bushes, waiting for the tiny snow-storm of bread to fall from her hand. [11]
- They had scarcely marched half an hour longer when they beheld the bluish-green foliage of tamarisk bushes and the towering palm-trees; at last, the most welcome of all sounds in the wilderness fell on their listening ears--the ripple of flowing water. [10]
- The French were making a stand there behind a wattle fence in a garden thickly overgrown with bushes and were firing at the Cossacks who crowded at the gateway. [2]
- We bound the logs together with grapevines, and as we worked my imagination painted for me many a red face peering from the bushes on the farther shore. [9]
- Part of the little raft's belongings consisted of an old sail, and this they spread over a nook in the bushes for a tent to shelter their provisions; but they themselves would sleep in the open air in good weather, as became outlaws. [5]
- I was off like a shot, through the bushes, by the shortest cut. [5]
- The steep pathway led past masses of red granite, intersected by veins of greenish diorite, until he reached a level plateau high above the oasis, where, beside a clear spring, green bushes and delicate mountain flowers adorned the barren wilderness. [10]
- The old man lay silent in the bushes out of sight, and desired only to be let alone. [4]
- He mustered his last remaining strength, took hold of his left hand with his right, and reached the bushes. [2]
- He had felt it for the first time when the shell spun like a top before him, and he looked at the fallow field, the bushes, and the sky, and knew that he was face to face with death. [2]
- Presently they plunged into the bushes and disappeared. [11]
- Tom proudly marched into a thick clump of sumach bushes and said: "Here you are! [5]
- Whilst I was in this agony of doubt and indecision, the drive suddenly came out on a shaded lawn dotted with flowering bushes. [9]
- His safety lay in getting outside, where he could easily hide among the bushes, should someone else appear and an alarm be raised. [11]
- We crossed over in a boat and began the ascent by a narrow, steep path which plunged us at once into the leafy deeps of the bushes. [5]
- Torn with pity, I saw them reeling through the water, now grasping trees and bushes to try to keep their feet, the strongest breaking the way ahead and supporting the weak between them. [9]
- She watched her husband till he almost viciously thrust aside the bushes staying his progress, and broke into the space by the pear-tree where Carnac sat with palette and brush, gazing at the distant roofs on which the sun was leaving its last kiss. [11]
- Bagration called to him from the hill not to go beyond the stream, but Rostov pretended not to hear him and did not stop but rode on and on, continually mistaking bushes for trees and gullies for men and continually discovering his mistakes. [2]
- When I begged her to slip away with me among the currant bushes she whispered:--"I can't, Hugh. [9]
- Without even vouchsafing Hanno another glance, Ledscha glided forward in the shadow of the bushes to the great sycamore, whose thick, broad top on the side toward the tents was striped with light from the flood of radiance streaming from them. [10]
- Yet, ere she had reached any definite understanding of its true significance, the cocks began to crow, the song of the nightingale ceased, and the twittering of the other birds in the trees and bushes in the garden greeted the dawning day. [10]
- The Berkshire Regiment had done its work in gallant style up the steep slopes of Dihilbat, had cleared the summit of Osman Digna's men, and followed them with a raking fire as they retreated wildly into the mimosa bushes on the plain. [11]
- It was slow going for the slender legs, over the fallen logs, and through the rasping bushes. [4]
- I see um go by heah--watched um thoo de bushes. [5]
- The bushes are full of roses now, so go and cut as many as will be needed for a handsome garland, but gather only red or yellow flowers, no white ones, for they bring no good fortune. [10]
- There was nothing fresh to be seen from the line, for from where they had been before it had been evident that it was impossible for cavalry to act among the bushes and broken ground, as well as that the French were outflanking our left. [2]
- In Keilhau we found every variety of insect in central Germany, on the bushes and in the moss, the turf, the bark of trees, or on the flowers and blades of grass, and they were alive and allowed us to watch them. [10]
- She was leaning forward, her gaze fixed intently on the stone posts which stood like monuments between the bushes at the entrance. [9]
- But to hope for happiness and peace-nay, even a life without bitter sorrow for you from the rest of the kin--is to expect to gather sweet pears from juniper bushes. [10]
- A pirogue sometimes flits from the bushes and crosses the Red River on its way out to the Mississippi, but the sad- faced paddlers never turn their heads to look at our boat. [5]
- Its stalks were enormous in size, and cast out long, prickly arms in all directions; but the bushes were pretty much all dead. [4]
- They stopped by direction at a gate, and behind it was a green cluster of lilac bushes, which lined the walk to the big plum-colored house which Lionel Carvel had built. [9]
- When he espied Denisov he hastily threw something into the bushes, removed his sodden hat by its floppy brim, and approached his commander. [2]
- There was a delightful freshness in the air, the dew-laden bushes, and the smell of the forest. [4]
- The storming party crossed the swale and began to creep up the steeps, "and from behind rocks and bushes they shot at the soldiers on the skyline as if they were stalking deer," says Mr. Russell. [5]
- From bushes, trees, coverts, and fields of grain there came that constant hail of fire, and there fell upon our ranks a doggedness, a quiet anger, which grew into a grisly patience. [11]
- She saw him coming!--The plume of his helmet first came in sight above the bushes, and then his whole figure emerged from among the shrubbery. [10]
- The rain had ceased, but the mist still shut off all view, if any had been attainable, and bushes and paths were deluged. [4]
- Then she crept cautiously away among the bushes and along the narrow path, the eyes of the convict following her. [11]
- There was the buttery off that, with its meagre china and crockery, its window looking out on the field of rye, the little orchard of winter apples, and the hedge of cranberry bushes. [11]
- I searched the bushes, the soldiers were gone, and I could hear the sound of their voices and weapons on their way back to Sais. [10]
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