heath

• The change in the native vegetation of the planted part of the heath was most remarkable, more than is generally seen in passing from one quite different soil to another: not only the proportional numbers of the heath-plants were wholly changed, but twelve species of plants (not counting grasses and carices) flourished in the plantations, which could not be found on the heath. —  On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection or the Preservation of Favoured Races in the Struggle for Life. (2nd edition)
• If the ubiquitous Scot were present, so far from his native heath--and I daresay we have one or two with us--he might claim that humour was also the prerogative of Robert Burns. —  Immortal Memories
• On one side were a pair of hands clasped together; on the other a sprig of heath, the only shrub that could be seen on the shore Splendid!" —  The Giant of the North Pokings Round the Pole
• After proceeding for some miles they began to climb a range of mountains covered with heath, along beaten paths. —  Roger Willoughby A Story of the Times of Benbow
• Then he reached a plain, a wild heath, and he distanced them, but at the other side of the heath was a wood--he must either skirt it or go through it. —  Fred Markham in Russia The Boy Travellers in the Land of the Czar

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