scrub-oaks

From ahead came a splashing of water, and she caught a glimpse of Dolly, dashing up the small bank and into a clump of scrub-oaks, against the trunks of which she was trying to scrape off her rider.

Jack London's Short Story - Planchette 2010

"California Joe" also went along to guide us through the scrub-oaks covering the ridge, but even the most thorough exploration failed to discover any route more practicable than that already in use; indeed, the high ground was, if anything, worse than the bottom land, our horses in the springy places and quicksands often miring to their knees.

She Makes Her Mouth Small & Round & Other Stories 2010

She scanned beyond them from force of habit, letting the meter play across the field at the dreary mix of scrub-oaks and long-leaf pines-

Omnibus Lackey, Mercedes 1993

We left the buffalo camp about eight o'clock and had a toilsome march of two hours over ridges of hills covered with a ragged forest of scrub-oaks and broken by deep gullies.

The Elson Readers, Book 5 Christine M. Keck

Now, he says, these scrub-oaks are the radical negroes who wish to kill him for voting with the whites.

The Bishop of Cottontown A Story of the Southern Cotton Mills John Trotwood Moore

How many of them all have guessed that close at hand, hidden away amid the shadows of the scrub-oaks, lies her laboratory, where any day they may steal in upon her at her work and catch a world a-making?

Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 26, September, 1880 Various

At times we went across the bay, in various directions, but oftenest we strove through the sand to the ocean beach, stopping here and there to botanize, and gather the sweet yellow and purple lupin, and to rest on the limbs of the scrub-oaks.

The Shirley Letters from California Mines in 1851-52 Louise Amelia Knapp Smith Clappe

"California Joe" also went along to guide us through the scrub-oaks covering the ridge, but even the most thorough exploration failed to discover any route more practicable than that already in use; indeed, the high ground was, if anything, worse than the bottom land, our horses in the springy places and quicksands often miring to their knees.

Memoirs of the Union's Three Great Civil War Generals David Widger

It was a near cut to the log school house which stood in an old field, partly grown up in scrub-oaks and bushes.

The Bishop of Cottontown A Story of the Southern Cotton Mills John Trotwood Moore

Then he stood in the forest surrounded by scrub-oaks and towering over them and other mean trees when suddenly they all fell upon him and cut him down.

The Bishop of Cottontown A Story of the Southern Cotton Mills John Trotwood Moore