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• There is some growth of rough grass, gorse, and bramble, and though the beach below is private and considered to be inaccessible, it is not really very difficult to climb down and steal a bathe. —  Through the Wall - Miss Silver - 1950 - Wentworth, Patricia
• Their flanks were gray-green or purplish with gorse, and in the higher regions, clumps of buckbrush and nettleme grew. —  forestmage
• Sean found a grassy knoll free of the prickly gorse, and Mer-Nod sat, resting his back against a tree. —  LADY OF CONQUEST - TERESA MEDEIROS
• Several acres of moorland had been cleared of heather and gorse, and then levelled and grassed to form playing fields. —  No Winding Sheet-Gladys Mitchell-Bradley 65
• The warm air, fragrant with seacoast odors--gorse, clover and thyme, mingling with the salt smell of the rocks at low tide--excited him still more, mounting to his brain; and every moment he felt a little more determined, at every step, at every glance he cast at the alert figure; he made up his mind to delay no longer, to tell her that he loved her and hoped to marry her. —  The Works of Guy de Maupassant, Volume VIII.

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