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  • Higher up on the same old woodland track, we hear the sudden crack of a twig, and there are fallow deer, white tails bobbing as they bound away through a low underscrub of fine brambles.

    Wildwood Roger Deakin 2009

  • Higher up on the same old woodland track, we hear the sudden crack of a twig, and there are fallow deer, white tails bobbing as they bound away through a low underscrub of fine brambles.

    Wildwood Roger Deakin 2009

  • The foliage was so thick in places as to be almost impenetrable, and amid the clinging underscrub the guttapercha plant and numerous others with names unknown to us struggled for existence.

    Adventures in Many Lands Various

  • Crooked stunted gums and stringybarks, with a thick underscrub of wild cherry, hop, and hybrid wattle, clothed the spurs which ran up from the back of the detached kitchen.

    My Brilliant Career Miles Franklin 1916

  • Something in the clump he watched wriggled forward and showed indistinctly through an opening in the underscrub.

    Wyoming, a Story of the Outdoor West William MacLeod Raine 1912

  • The final conclusion arrived at was that, having once got out of the proper track, they had not been following a path at all, but simply making their way at haphazard between the innumerable patches of underscrub.

    With Airship and Submarine A Tale of Adventure Harry Collingwood 1886

  • At length, however, when their watches marked the hour of seven a.m. they became aware of a dim, ghostly light filtering down upon them from above and stealthily revealing the presence of tree-trunk, twisted creepers, and tangled underscrub at gradually widening distances from them.

    With Airship and Submarine A Tale of Adventure Harry Collingwood 1886

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