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  • Leaf by leaf autumn advances, no particular change you can put your finger on but the green fades a little each day and you wake up one frosty morning and the burning-bush out back is scarlet...

    Retrospective jhetley 2007

  • Among the commoner plants of the order may be mentioned the spindle-tree, or burning-bush, as it is sometimes called (_Euonymus_) (Fig.  109, _A_), and the climbing bitter-sweet (_Celastrus_) (Fig.  109, _D_), belonging to the family _Celastraceæ_; the holly and black alder, species of

    Elements of Structural and Systematic Botany For High Schools and Elementary College Courses Douglas Houghton Campbell

  • Where the path once lay open to the kindly, abundant reservoirs, that so invitingly offered their waxen and sugary mouths, there stands now a burning-bush all alive with poisonous, bristling stings.

    The Life of the Bee Maurice Maeterlinck 1905

  • Once, indeed, when I saw him eating burning-bush berries in a Boston garden, I was half ready to believe that I had before my eyes a living example of the development of one species out of another, -- a finch already well on his way to become a thrush.

    Birds in the Bush Bradford Torrey 1877

  • Second, as we enter a walk of faith with God, He allows each of us to experience trials, testings, miracles, and challenges in life that are designed to provide "faith experiences" that demonstrate tangible evidences of His work in our life: Moses 'burning-bush experience,

    Latest Articles 2009

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