Which preposition to use with bushes
Next the water there is a girdle of carices with wide overarching leaves, then in regular order a shaggy ruff of huckleberry bushes, a zone of willows with here and there a bush of the Mountain Ash, then a zone of aspens with a few pines around the outside.
None hindered my movements, so, liking little the smell of wet, uncleanly garments which clung around the fire, I made my bed in a heather bush in the lee of a boulder, and from utter weariness fell presently asleep.
Next instant, I had burst into a little clear space, just in time to see something, livid white in color, disappear among the bushes on the opposite side.
With a shout, I ran toward it; but, though I struck and probed among the bushes with my stick, I neither saw nor heard anything further; and so returned to Pepper.
They had a vague and confused recollection of seeing the boys gathered around something in the bushes at the brook that groaned a little and made queer sputtering noises.
Then, as I turned homeward, I heard a short, unintelligible noise, among the bushes to my right.
The boys of the school used to build play-houses or arbors among the trees and bushes for their sweethearts.
She was standing in among some bushes by the roadside.
" "It is a bit open jest in front of here; but I took note that further to the westward was a little more of green," Sergeant Corney said, half to himself, and I knew he was picturing in his mind the two of us making the attempt where was not a blade of grass to give shelter, for the "green" of which he spoke was nothing more than the fragment of a bush near the stockade.
In an instant a fierce volley is returned, and Barney, who is fairly in the bush behind a huge tree, hears a low groan.
Seeing Pepper thus mutilated, a furious feeling of anger seized me, and, whirling my staff, I sprang across, and into the bushes from which Pepper had emerged.
The windthere was generally a wind on the heathstirred the fir-trees and the bushes into a soft movement and a faint murmur of sound.
The Morris garden was really not a garden but a large piece of ground with the grass worn bare in many places, a few trees scattered about, and some raspberry and currant bushes along the fence.
Staring into the bushes without a yip, she appeared to be bearing these slurs and innuendos of mine with an easy calm.
" She scrutinized the sparse growth, the leafless bushes about the spot, looking for signs of a struggle, and the question in her heart was, "My God, was he alive or dead?"
Run in bush like monkey, without him clo'es.
Now as they drew near the moon peeped out, and showed a man huddled 'neath a bush beside the way, whose face gleamed pale amid the shadows.
And after that one cry Gray Wolf slunk back to the fringe of bush over the river, and lay with her face turned to the stream.
"Thank you so much!" When Jeanne-Marie returned to the little clearing where she had left Graham, she brought him several milkweed pods, as well as a few cookies she had picked from the bushes around the base of MacDonald's rock.
And the message was sharp; and bade me to leap into the bushes unto my left; and to hide there; so that I might chance to take the thing to an advantage.
Our Negroes had lagged behind with the provisions; and, hungry and thirsty, we tethered our horses to the trees at the bottom of a gully, and went down through the bush toward a low cliff.
So much so, that when their own relatives seem about to die they put them out in the bush with a small fire and a gourd of water, protected by a small erection of bush against the mid-day sun, and leave the hyaenas to do the rest.
The roadway was packed with them, the rocks and the bushes above the river seemed alive with them.
I have our great philosopher Tur-KeyYes, it should be written with a hyphenwho will give us a little talk among the currant bushes under the tea-roses[To a passing HEN.]
We were within a day's march of the Indian town, and had lain down in a thicket of spruce bushes after having looked in vain for some signs of a prisoner, as we had done during each of the four days while we were directly behind the band and at no time more than two miles distant.