currant-bushes

The infantry men, replying from below, six against two hundred, intrepid and with no shelter save the currant-bushes, took a quarter of an hour to die.

Les Miserables 2008

When he alluded to his own age and to her youth, she said some pleasant little word as to the difference between oak-trees and currant-bushes; and by that time she was seated comfortably on her sofa, and the Duke was on a chair before her — just as might have been any man who was not a Duke.

Phineas Finn 2004

Two long rows of currant-bushes supplied us abundantly for nearly four weeks.

The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 18, No. 105, July 1866 Various

We mourned over the little place at Monticello, where for eight years a nice garden, with rows of trim currant-bushes, had gladdened the eyes of travellers, and the neat inn, kept by a cheery old Methodist minister, had given them hospitable welcome, -- not a vestige of the place now remaining.

Life at Puget Sound: With Sketches of Travel in Washington Territory, British Columbia, Oregon and California Caroline C. Leighton

"I wonder" -- her gaze wandered out towards the currant-bushes and came to rest absently on Thomas Jefferson's big, white bulk -- "I wonder if it hurts very much."

Rebecca Mary Annie Hamilton Donnell

The next afternoon, Sally was weeding onions in the garden; -- heroines did, in those days; -- the currant-bushes had but just leafed out; so George

The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 01, No. 01, November, 1857 A Magazine of Literature, Art, and Politics Various

The other answered, that the butter was excellent at any rate, and perhaps she had a classical cow; and they went down the lane laughingly disputing about the matter, not knowing that I was behind the currant-bushes.

The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 05, No. 28, February, 1860 Various

It was a small story-and-a-half frame building, on the western edge of the town, with a locust-tree in front, two lilacs inside the paling, and a wilderness of cabbage-stalks and currant-bushes in the rear.

The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 08, No. 45, July, 1861 Various

Grey thrust the currant-bushes aside eagerly; she could catch a glimpse of the girl's face in the colorless light.

The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 11, No. 67, May, 1863 Various

As I spoke we emerged upon the stone-paved walk leading to our kitchen door; it had been picked free of weeds, and the currant-bushes on either side trimly harnessed up to a set of stakes.

McClure's Magazine, Vol 31, No 2, June 1908 Various