30 Words to use with bush

The Romans, who were unable on the level ground to practise the bush-fighting and skirmishing of the previous day, were compelled to attack the phalanx in front.

In a bush-fight with them he neglected to wear the suit of chain armour, the gift of George IV., which had saved his life more than once.

Bush-fires had been raging in the vicinity during the week, and yesterday had come so close that I had been called out to carry buckets of water all the afternoon in the blazing sun.

So acute is their power of discrimination, that they have been known to trace the footsteps of bush-rangers over mountains and rocks; and, although the individual they have been in pursuit of has walked into the sides of the river as if to cross it, to elude the vigilance of his pursuers, and has swam some distance down and crossed when convenient, yet nothing can deceive them.

A bush tree about 7 ft. in height is undoubtedly the best form of growth, and needs but a minimum amount of attention.

He had on his Filson bush jacket, Levis, and his all purpose Clarks shoes.

They are all athletic men, taught to march almost upon the run, and to go through evolutions with the rapidity of bush-fighters.

They have lately, as I hear, invented a machine for chopping up huckleberry-bushes fine, and so converting them into fuel!bushes which, for fruit alone, are worth all the pear-trees in the country many times over.

I was no heroine, only a common little bush-girl, so had to make the best of the situation without any fooling.

During the exposition of my plans for his happiness a certain animation had crept into this round-and-round-the mulberry-bush jamboree of oursso much so, indeed, that for the last few minutes we might have been a rather oversized greyhound and a somewhat slimmer electric hare doing their stuff on a circular track for the entertainment of the many-headed.

Herr Schlechtling related how he was attacked at Sanaga by natives with bush-knives, just as he was aiming at an English patrol.

" We faced about and walked homewards in unbroken silencetoo perturbed to fall into our usual custom of chewing bush-leaves as we went.

The town is now full of these bush-lopers.

Joseph Défago was a French "Canuck," who had strayed from his native Province of Quebec years before, and had got caught in Rat Portage when the Canadian Pacific Railway was a-building; a man who, in addition to his unparalleled knowledge of wood-craft and bush-lore, could also sing the old voyageur songs and tell a capital hunting yarn into the bargain.

Now the Coolie well understood what doing the business thoroughly for an Obeah-man involved; namely, the putting Brinvilliers or other bush-poison into his food; or at least administering to him sundry dozes of ground glass, in hopes of producing that 'dysentery of the country' which proceeds in the West Indies, I am sorry to say, now and then, from other causes than that of climate.

The rebels might spy them, might surround them, but they need not starvethe buds were food, the bushes refreshment, the pellucid pools drink and life.

"I heard the cry of the painter, the howl of the wolf, and the hoarse bellow of the moose that night, and Crop crept close alongside of me, in our bush-shanty, and answered these forest sounds by a low growl, as if sayin' to himself, that while he'd rayther keep oat of a fight, yet, if necessary, in defence of his master, he was ready to go in.

All bitterness is not quinine, but certainly bitter things were Thor's remedies, and as he made his way up the gorge his nose hung close to the ground, and he sniffed in the low copses and thick bush-tangles he passed.

"'It is he,' said my brother, and within the hour we beheld the little bush-tent of Ibrahim Mahmud (made with cloths thrown over a bent bush) and his camel, near to which, his oont-wallah Suleiman Abdulla had kindled a fire and prepared food.

In all our colonies the women are beautiful and in the large towns a society is soon created, of which the fastidious traveller has very little ground to complain; but in the small distant bush-towns, as they are called, the rougher elements must predominate.

Patty Rell was a white man and the bush-wackers give us trouble sometimes.

It seems doubtful whether Neapolitan banditti or Australian bush-whackers are much worse than these Cockney ruffians, these vulgar, vicious and villanous "Knights of the (Kingsland) Road."

We spent the following day in drifting quietly around the lake, floating lazily in the little bays, under the shadow of the tall trees, and lounging upon small islands, gathering the low-bush whortleberries which grew in abundance upon them.

" Then the shepherd said, "Mcher, when will you leave this place?" Mcher answered: "When plum-trees bear wheat and wild-rose bushes barley, it is appointed I shall leave this place.

She has a little house, a warm nest, close to the water among the bushes yonder, and she calls like that to let her little children know she's coming home with some dainty things for lunch.

30 Words to use with  bush