A brushwood fire is then kindled beneath them, and when they are sufficiently smoked and dried, they are put into barrels for carriage.

All day they struggled through brushwood and clambered over rocks, pushing their way further and further into the desolate heart of the island.

No doubt their occupants were away at the hunt and would return in the evening, so Craddock and his men lay in ambush in the brushwood around them.

" "And they scuttled my ship?" "They scuttled her, and then Sharkey and his men, who had been watching us from the brushwood, came off to the ship.

Now the peacock lives on the ground, among scrub and brushwood, haunted by jackals and wild cats.

Any one who had seen them would have been astounded and amused at the spectacle of two fashionably-dressed ladies dashing recklessly through the thick brushwood.

Having set his men to work to accumulate a great mass of brushwood, Penda had huge piles heaped up beneath the walls.

As soon as the wind was in the right quarter he set alight the brushwood.

Upon one of the foremost a projecting cliff overgrown with brushwood.

Nor does he want a nose as big as the gnomon of a dial-plate; and two flanks of impenetrable, deep, black brushwood, extending under either ear, and almost concealing the countenance, to complete the singular contour of his features.

Sir David's domain had been a good deal neglected of late years, and the brushwood and brambles grew thick under the noble old trees.

Cottonseed Clark's Brushwood poetry and philosophy.

BRUSHWOOD, LE MARDRED R. The wealth, walk and warfare of the Christian.

© 8Apr39; A128442. LeMardred R. Brushwood (E); 14Feb67; R403820.

Cottonseed Clark's Brushwood poetry and philosophy.

Thus in the Eifel Mountains, Rhenish Prussia, on the first Sunday in Lent young people used to collect straw and brushwood from house to house.

Here he slipped quietly out of his straw casing, which was then burned, the children thinking that it was the man who was being burned.[303] In the Val di Ledro (Tyrol) on the last day of the Carnival a figure is made up of straw and brushwood and then burned.

Then having kindled torches at it they proceed with them to the jungle and ignite the felled timber and brushwood.

Brushwood was then heaped about the trees, and on the evening of Easter Saturday the boys, after rushing about with blazing beanpoles in their hands, set fire to the whole.

In the Harz Mountains the fire is commonly made by piling brushwood about a tree and setting it on fire.

In the afternoon boys go about with handcarts from house to house collecting fuel, such as sticks, brushwood, old besoms, and so forth.

Then brushwood is piled about it, and at nightfall the whole is set on fire.

They were commonly made by piling brushwood, broom, and ferns about a tall tree, which was decorated with a crown of moss and sometimes with flowers.

Here a great pile of faggots, brushwood, and grass was accumulated about a huge branch, which bore at the top a crown of fresh flowers.

(2) The Devil's Punch Bowl, one of the most notable swallets on the Mendips, is 1/4 m. nearer Bristol (climb a wall on the R. and the swallet, a funnel-shaped hollow, partly overgrown with brushwood, will be seen in a field about 100 yards from the roadside).