furzes

Clipped to the single-syllable touts, these sneaky souls can still be spotted coming back from the furzes on the heath at some of our huge raceways to tout—the verb—a horse to an unsuspecting bettor, thereby to manipulate the odds or get a piece of the winnings.

The Right Word in the Right Place at the Right Time William Safire 2004

Clipped to the single-syllable touts, these sneaky souls can still be spotted coming back from the furzes on the heath at some of our huge raceways to tout—the verb—a horse to an unsuspecting bettor, thereby to manipulate the odds or get a piece of the winnings.

The Right Word in the Right Place at the Right Time William Safire 2004

The racetrack association came early, as Sporting magazine in 1812 defined a touter as “a person who hides up between the furzes on the heath to see the trials of horses.”

The Right Word in the Right Place at the Right Time William Safire 2004

The racetrack association came early, as Sporting magazine in 1812 defined a touter as “a person who hides up between the furzes on the heath to see the trials of horses.”

The Right Word in the Right Place at the Right Time William Safire 2004

Gerard notes that "it grows most commonly very low, like unto our ground furzes."

Herbal Simples Approved for Modern Uses of Cure William Thomas Fernie

His foot had marked the turf there; his eye had mirrored the furzes a hundred times; she knew just where his shadow had fallen as be stood painting, and the spot upon which he was wont to sit by the cliff-edge when came the time for rest.

Lying Prophets Eden Phillpotts 1911

The furzes on Gorse Point were a scented glory now -- a nimbus of gold for the skull of the lofty cliff.

Lying Prophets Eden Phillpotts 1911

But as Joan came out upon the sward through the furzes her heart sank in sight of loneliness.

Lying Prophets Eden Phillpotts 1911

Joan made brisk way through Mousehole and in less than an hour stood out among the furzes in the little lonely theater above the cliffs.

Lying Prophets Eden Phillpotts 1911

Stone seats still run round two sides of it; ivy and stone-worts and grasses have picked the mortar from the walls and clothed them, even as emerald moss and gray lichens and black and gold glorify each piece of granite; a may-bush, tangled about a great shiny ivy-tod, surmounts the western walls above the dried well; furzes and heather and tall grasses soften the jagged outlines of the ruin, and above

Lying Prophets Eden Phillpotts 1911