19 Metaphors for bushes

It grows with great freedom when planted in light, sandy soil, big globose bushes being the result of a few years' growth.

Formerly an ivy-bush was a common tavern sign, and gave rise to the familiar proverb, "Good wine needs no bush," this plant having been selected probably from having been sacred to Bacchus.

The low bushes, I found, were that curious tree the Chaparro, {259a} but not the Chaparro {259b} so often mentioned by Humboldt as abounding on the Llanos.

What difference does it make if a bush is a hawthorn or not?and anyhow, I know it's a hawthorn without studying botany.

The bushes are no shelter, as it cuts through 'em.

The low bushes, I found, were that curious tree the Chaparro, {259a} but not the Chaparro {259b} so often mentioned by Humboldt as abounding on the Llanos.

While he was arranging them in line, in a locality where the bushes were about eight feet in height, the Indians made so much noise as to reveal their exact position.

Every tree trunk was a breastwork ready prepared for battle; every bush, every moss-covered boulder, was a defence against assault, from behind which, themselves unseen, they watched with fierce derision the movements of their clumsy white enemy.

The story of the fowl corroborated, the sugar-bush became an object of investigation.

" Mrs. Bush was not a cheerful person to visit, as she was quite old and rather hard of hearing, and she lived alone in the gloomy old house with the Lombardy poplars in front, where everything looked dark and shut up.

But the bush is the porters' safeguard, and at the first scattering volley of the raiding party, they drop their loads and plunge into the undergrowth.

Clambering plants, burdened with blossoms, fragrant as honeysuckle, grew all along the bank, and the bush that had attracted them was no longer a landmark.

Eyebrows projecting like a bush Are facial assets to be prized, Denoting driving-power and push In men however undersized (Bear's grease or paraffin or both Will largely stimulate their growth).

"Them air bushes did n't look jest es nat'ral es they'd orter.

These tall bushes of purple and white lilacs were veritable music boxes, for almost every one held a Catbird's nest.

If you can't be a bush be a bit of the grass, And some highway some happier make; If you can't be a muskie then just be a bass But the liveliest bass in the lake!

The bushes were a good enough hiding-place for the time, and he crawled back to them with the air and manner of a man whose mind was made up to something.

I know not why, but the wood looks dark and gloomy; there is no sunlight on the path, and the shadows are so deep, that I could fancy every low bush was a crouching Indian.

Seven feet to the north of the climbing rose bush was a wide hedge of tall lilac bushes.

19 Metaphors for  bushes