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  • "Furze," she said, "you're a fool: where's the sovereign?

    Catharine Furze Mark Rutherford 1872

  • "Furze," she once said to him, when it was proposed to elect him a guardian of the poor, "take my advice and refuse.

    Catharine Furze Mark Rutherford 1872

  • Radikin guessed it right: Today's painting called “Blossomed Furze” was by Beatrix Potter.

    Archive 2008-01-01 James Gurney 2008

  • Furze - Trident Autocrat - Idiosyncratic Norwegian Black Metal, with psych and experimental flavorings.

    What's On My Micro 2005

  • Furze-crammed, and bracken-rooft, the which himself

    Idylls of the King 2004

  • But in general the Mountains are covered with Furze, and are not well cultivated.

    John Adams diary 30, 13 November 1779 - 6 January 1780 1961

  • But in general the Mountains were covered with Furze, and not much cultivated.

    John Adams autobiography, part 3, "Peace," 1779-1780 1961

  • In whatever direction we look across the common there is a perfect blaze of gold -- the blossoms of the prickly Gorse or Furze.

    Wildflowers of the Farm Arthur Owens Cooke

  • This is a leguminous plant, called also "Ground Furze," which is a favourite food of the donkey, and therefore gets its botanical title from the Greek word _onos_, an ass.

    Herbal Simples Approved for Modern Uses of Cure William Thomas Fernie

  • Allied to the Broom, and likewise belonging to the Papilionaceous order of leguminous plants, though not affording any known medicinal principle, the Yellow Gorse (_Ulex_) or Furze grows commonly throughout England on dry exposed plains.

    Herbal Simples Approved for Modern Uses of Cure William Thomas Fernie

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