140 Verbs to Use for the Word bush

They seem to share the spoil as intelligently as they catch it, the wolf that lies beside the runway and pulls down the game giving up a portion gladly to the companion that beats the bush, and rarely indeed is there any trace of quarreling between them.

It forms a dense bush, sometimes 10 feet high, with dark glossy leaves, and dense racemes of orange-yellow flowers, produced in April and May, and often again in the autumn.

Laughter and the sound of voices led them to the summer-house, and as they parted the syringa bushes they looked through them and surprised the charming group.

Formerly an ivy-bush was a common tavern sign, and gave rise to the familiar proverb, "Good wine needs no bush," this plant having been selected probably from having been sacred to Bacchus.

Rollo clambered up to the top of it, and James reached the long bushes up to him, and he arranged them regularly, with the tops out.

Here were no sweet watery roots for refreshment, and no berries; nor could Martin find a bush to give him a little shade and protection from the burning noonday sun.

Old fellows are well acquainted with every maze and thicket in the jungles, and they no sooner hear the elephants enter the 'bush' or 'cover' than they make off for some distant shelter.

He crossed the bridge above the creek which flowed through his own farm, and saw a man engaged in cutting away the willow bush which had assumed too much importance along the borders of the little stream.

Let us start here, and first take a small circle, examining every bush carefully.

When he had nearly passed the bush he thought he heard a movement and a thick stalk of the cactus shook.

It would have gone hard with him then if he had not seen some low, dark-looking bushes at a distance on the dry, yellow plain, and gone to them.

Slowly the officer waded through the dismal marsh to the higher land, where grew the low bushes, and by the use of his tinder box kindled a light and, wrapping his boat cloak about him, sat down on a broken mast, which some storm had driven to the highest part of the island.

They ran away, and when they had gone about two hundred yards they looked back and saw a woman dressed in white, walking round and round the bush.

I am not drunk, I would ye should well know it; and yet I have drunk more than will do me good, for I might have had a pump set up with as good March beer as this was, and ne'er set up an ale-bush for the matter.

"The poor rose bush!" said the child.

In a moment, Duling realized that the girl was gone, and that he was holding in his arms a nanga-bush, full of thorns.

At the edge of the road where Mr. Taynton sat, there were standing several thick bushes.

"Watch those bushes out there.

All day long they pursued his footsteps, till he also panicked and searched the bush for a hidden wireless.

" Ambrosio approached a bush, and stooped to pick one of the flowers.

" They concealed with great art the little boat that had served them so well, sinking it in the heart of the densest growth and then drawing back the bushes and weeds so skillfully that the keenest Indian eye would not have noticed that anyone had ever been there.

The wise old saw that good wine needs no bush does not hold true in the case of the labourer; it would require a very large bush indeed to attract him to the best of beer offered for sale under legitimate conditions.

The second climbs on the shoulders of the first, the third on the shoulders of the second; and then the whole trio falls forward across the chasm, the top one grasping some bush or creeper on the other side; so that a living bridge is formed, on which the heroine (herself, it would seem, something of an acrobat) can cross the dizzy gulf and bid defiance to the baffled villain.

Long ago the army's mosquito nets have adorned the prickly bushes of the waterless deserts.

How it came thither I knew not; but I hurried home, looking behind me at every two or three steps, and mistaking every bush and tree, fancying every stump to be a man.

140 Verbs to Use for the Word  bush