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

You may gather up the brushwood and build yourself a fire, if you like.

Do you suppose there is any country where they do not scald milkpans, and swaddle the infants, and burn the brushwood, and broil the fish?

They were disembarked on a wild and primeval shore, where they had to clear away the brushwood before they could pitch their tents or build their shanties.

The sparks of the linen are immediately caught in tow or oakum and waved about in a circle until they burst into a bright glow, when straw is applied to it, and the flaming straw used to kindle the brushwood which has been stacked in piles in the hollow way.

He reported the country as superior for thirty miles to any they had yet seen, but beyond that limit lay brushwood and monotonous plains.

A man brought a torch and lit the brushwood on the altar.

I have not seen George so like himself for many years; he lives out of doors, pulls down fences, picks up brushwood, and keeps happy and well.

They also pulled more brushwood from under the snow, and by its use saved the store they had heaped up for impossible days.

I remember the burning brushwood, Glimmering all day long Yellow and weak in the sunlight, Now leaped up red and strong, And fired the old dead chestnut, That all our years had stood, Gaunt and gray and ghostly, Apart from the sombre wood; And, flushed with sudden summer, The leafless boughs on high Blossomed in dreadful beauty Against the darkened sky.

[302] Thus in 1561 Kingston-upon-Thames church sold brushwood growing upon its land for £14 7s.

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

I am like a hunter beating the brushwood before getting into the hiding place.

We'll be wanting some brushwood for the fire; there's a heap in the hollow.

Satisfied on this, he was just about to give the order to mount when he heard the sound of breaking brushwood and saw an infantry officer emerge from the trees close at hand.