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• They could follow the wily ocelot, making their way noiselessly through the dense palmetto-scrub, and could fearlessly tackle panthers or bears We passed, on our course, alternate narrow strips of grass and jungle, with cabbage-palms and numerous live-oaks scattered about in picturesque groups. —  In the Wilds of Florida A Tale of Warfare and Hunting
• The top of this wall of rock was covered with a dense scrub, and presented a smooth, even surface of green, which even in the driest seasons never lost its verdant appearance. —  Tom Gerrard
• Some of the diggers had cleared away portions of the scrub, and erected sun-shelters of bark, under which they slept when their day's toils were over, and enjoyed the cool night breeze--free from the miasmatic steam of the valley five hundred feet below. —  Tom Gerrard
• Then there were other parts where the line passed for miles and miles through "scrub," and at irregular intervals they came upon patches and stretches of Australian forest Harry noted that the forests through which they passed had very little undergrowth, so that it was easy to ride in any direction among the trees. —  The Land of the Kangaroo Adventures of Two Youths in a Journey through the Great Island Continent
• From the gum forest we passed into a stretch of scrub, and then entered a valley, through which ran a small stream. —  The Land of the Kangaroo Adventures of Two Youths in a Journey through the Great Island Continent

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