As I said before, the day is prepared for, about a month previouslythe townsmen employ themselves in hagging furze for the "bon-fire," which is situated in an adjoining field.

Mechanically she brushed herself, and mechanically, very mechanically she picked bits of furze from her dress.

The red light streamed from a mass of clouds in the west, which resembled some old feudal castle in flames; and the fiery furzes of the sunset only made the blackness of the mass more palpable.

Much camelthorn, wild thyme, and (English) furze on either side of track.

Next day, as he was riding through his parish, some mischievous youth succeeded in fastening a bunch of furze to his horse's taila trick which, had the animal been skittish, might have exposed the worthy pastor's horsemanship to too severe a trial, but which happily had no effect whatever on the sober-minded and respectable quadruped which he bestrode.

On the heath among the bushes is a low furze with which it is in part covered.