My wound is deep; I fain would sleep, Take thou the vanguard of the three, And hide me by the bracken bush, That grows on yonder lilye lee.
O bury me by the bracken bush, Beneath the blooming brier, Let never living mortal ken, A kindly Scot lies here.
This deed was done at Otterbourne About the breaking of the day, Earl Douglas was buried at the bracken bush, And the Percy led captive away.
She had hair the colour of winter bracken in sunshine, and the merriest smile.
She was younger than myself, a figure so airy and graceful, you would swear that if she liked she could dance upon blue-bells without bruising a petal; she had hair the colour of winter bracken in sunshine, and the merriest smile.
On its shore is Santa Warna's Well, now an insignificant little hole almost choked with dead bracken and weeds, and half-covered with a flat stone, but once considered the most important spot in the island.
Bracken and bramble have encroached on all sides, within and without, blocking up the doorway and leaving no traces of a floor.
It is covered with bracken and tufts of the sea-thrift, which latter is in full flower during the breeding-season, making a bright pink background for the white and black plumage of the birds.
Watermill Bay is another beauty-spot, with no watermill, but only a tiny stream trickling down to the sea, through the midst of bracken and bramble.
The path from Cromwell's Castle southwards to New Grimsby lies close to the sea, parting a tangle of bracken and bramble; and there in the autumn may be found the finest blackberries that grow in the islands.
The heath this night must be my bed, The bracken curtain for my head.
The outlines of the young bracken resemble the little oak fern.
Although thebracken is coarse and common, it makes a desirable background for rockeries, or other fern masses.
The word brake or bracken is one of the many plant names from which some of our English surnames are derived, as Brack, Breck, Brackenridge, etc.
The tit flew off, and the oscillations of the bracken slowly died away.
Before him was a tangle of bracken and scrub, and beyond that the gloom of dense pines; but as he could see only directly in front his prospect was strictly circumscribed.
And there was a tit on a bracken frond, which made the thing sway like one of the see-saws he used to play with as a boy.
But the thing was done, and a minute later he was rolling like a dog in the wet bracken to cool his burns and put out various smouldering patches on his raiment.
Heritage, watching the ridge behind Dobson and the upper windows of the House which appeared over it, saw on the very crest something like a tuft of rusty bracken which he had not noticed before.
Winds blew up the field like wave upon wave of sweet savour--spice of bracken and balsam.
Close to them and to Peter was a large clump of bracken on which Mr. Vivian's eyes rested lazily.
Here there were beech trees with spaces around them, and the ground was softly clad in new green bracken and carpeted with leaves.
With that he hit out squarely with his wiry, muscular arm--just once--and Nort went down in the bracken and lay quite still.
But we are weary and cold and sleepy, for we have been on foot since yesterday, and an hour among bracken or white hay would be welcome.
We slept for some hours, the seven of us, among the bracken of the byre, wearied out and unable to go farther that night, even if the very dogs were at our heels.
We lay buried to the head in bracken that filled one side of the byre, and keeked through the plenteous holes in the dry-stone wall at the passing army.
It seemed only yesterday that we had kissed among the bracken stems.
And I had a curiously haunting memory of Beatrice, of her kisses in the bracken and her kiss upon the wall, that somehow pitched the standard too high for Wimblehurst's opportunities.
The ground under bracken is beautifully clear and faintly scented in warm weather; the stems come up black and then green; if you crawl flat, it is a tropical forest in miniature.
Also I scored over him by knowing how to find the eagle in a bracken stem.
Accordingly, I lay down to sleep; a little peaty earth had drifted in between the top of the two rocks, and some bracken grew there, to be a bed to me; the last thing I heard was still the crying of the eagles.
I had no sooner seen these people coming than I made up my mind (for no reason that I can tell) to go through with my adventure; and when the first came alongside of me, I rose up from the bracken and asked him the way to Aucharn.
Ah," he said, and flung the stone of the peach he'd been eating into the dark green jungle of bracken ahead of them.
Here he was, with her, and with a miracle between them, in this valley of crystal brooks and golden bracken and purple slopes.
Over Crooksbury Common he passed, and then across the great Heath of Puttenham, following a sandy path which wound amid the bracken and the heather, for he meant to strike the Pilgrims' Way where it turned eastward from Farnham and from Seale.
See now how the light glimmers upon their steel caps yonder in the bracken under the great beech-tree.
James the subprior, and Brother John and I had spent our day from sext onward on Hankley, cutting brackenfor the cow-houses.
Together in silence, side by side, the little man and the stately woman, the yellow charger and the white jennet, passed up the sandy winding track with the gorse and the bracken head-high on either side.
The villagers of Shottermill heard the wild clatter of hoofs, but ere they could swing the ox-hide curtains of their cottage doors horse and rider were lost amid the highbracken of the Haslemere Valley.
It is, of course, needless to say that these plans were abandoned when Bracken discovered that Jesse had been forewarned.
In the meantime Bracken returned and promptly at 11 A.
But while the watchful Jesse was away, Bracken proceeded to get busy in the good old Howe and Hummel fashion.
From time to time Bracken would disappear from Houston for a week or ten days, stating on his return that he had been to New York, after which there was invariably some new move to get the prisoner away.
A few days later Bracken sent a gambler named Warner to Jesse, who offered the latter thirty-five hundred dollars to get "lost" long enough for the prisoner to slip over to Mexico.
If they were going only a block, Bracken called for a cab, and the two seemed to take a special delight in making Jesse, as Jerome's representative, spend as much money in cab hire as possible.
Jesse had been hurrying toward Brownsville by stage while Dodge, Kaffenburgh, and Bracken were landing at Point Isabelle, where they were kept under close surveillance by Sergeant Tom Ross of the Rangers.
He was plunged into every sort of excess, there was no debauchery which Bracken could supply that was not his and their rapid method of existence was soon the talk of the county and continued to be so for ten long months.
Page declared she had always liked storms before; even when a big gum tree on the lawn at Bracken had been struck before her very eyes she had not been afraid, but this time she was scared to death.
I have lived in the country all my life and whenever we have a big storm at Bracken or unseasonable weather of any sort, we are always held personally responsible for it by a certain type of visitors.
Sweet as the breath of cows came its mingled fragrance of grass and earth and of the fine dust on the roadway, of the bitter-sweet tang of the bracken and faint aftermath of hay; the breath at his nostrils was drunken with sweet odour.
Ishmael lay down on the damp young bracken and listened to the stillness that was only pierced by the rare wail of a syren far out to sea and the steady moan of the horn from the lighthouse.
Something which had risen to its crest that night among the bracken had failed ever since, was falling on deadness, and that something was her own power to feel the love which had made her life for so long.
Beyond them the wild violets gleamed like faint blue flames, and the tightly-curled fronds of young bracken showed silvery grey amongst the litter of last year's stalks that lay in patches of a dead burnt-orange upon the grey-green turf.
Through patches of moorland where the bracken clung about him or the furze pricked his legs, as he was subconsciously aware without really noticing it.
It flashed past over a low wall, and was happily lost in the confusion of furze and bracken over an old mine-shaft.
Then she sat long by the window before she went to bed and laid the head that a few hours ago had known a sweet-smelling bracken pillow against the linen that could not cool her burning cheek.
The bracken had begun to turn, and its hue was intensified by the russet warmth of the evening sunlight, that touched each frond with fire, burnished the granite boulders, and turned the purple of the heather to a warm ruddiness.
A stream, half-hidden by heavy growths of brackenand hemlock and furze, raced down this gorge to the pebbly beach, where it divided up into a dozen tiny streams that bubbled and trickled to the sea's edge.
He came at last to the marshy bottom of the valley, where the wet and tussocky grass was set in a tangle of blackberry bushes and bracken higher than a man.
This,” I say with emphasis, “I myself purged of all visible Bracken only last month!
Heather and Gorse, Bramble and Bracken pressed hard upon the small area of the property which was at all cultivated, between densely growing clumps of pine and holly.
When the Furze and Broom are all guinea-gold on the moor, the young Bracken begins to creep in green patches that are pure joy.
Meanwhile, Bracken threatens everywhere to stifle the Heather on our moors.
Heather, Gorse, Bramble, Bracken and underwood made it simply impenetrable.
I wonder if the joy, now, of eating tender young Bracken would be like that of the savage devouring his declared enemy?
And now in January it is a wonderful copper-brown, with the tawny of dying Bracken and the yellow of young Gorse.
Oh,” said Everybody, with confidence, “you can get rid of Bracken if you cut it twice in the same year.
And in Sercq the rocks were golden in the sunshine, the headlands were great soft cushions of velvet turf, the heather purpled all the hillsides, and the tall bracken billowed under the west wind.
The wind drove it past in slow coils, but its skirts seemed to cling to the heather and bracken as though reluctant to loose its hold on the Island.
The other ten were to lie in thebracken on the slope of the opposite hill, just where it gives on to the bay, and to pour in their fire before the enemy had recovered from his first dose.
The half-dozen creamy-white eggs are, therefore, conspicuous enough in many places, though better concealed in others when they are laid under bracken or amongst heath.
It makes no nest, but the hen bird lays her two curiously oval eggs on the bare ground, sometimes beneath a spray of bracken or a furze bush, less frequently on the flat low branch of a convenient tree.
Down in the shady nooks the stately foxgloves still lingered, while on the sunniest spots the bracken was gathering the sun-gold into its delicate tracery against the coming gloom of winter.
The centre just rippled with crisp waves, while shorewards the rocks show mirrored clearly in the smooth water, each bunch of russet bracken or tuft of yellow bent almost more brilliant in the reflection than the reality.
It was a rock mostly covered by soft green moss; and when she had seated herself, he threw himself down on the bracken by her side, leaning his head against her knee.
It was a thicket of short trees, with intertwisted branches; while underfoot the long heather and brackenconcealed loose, angular stones perilous to the ankle.
As soon as she arrived she helped Roddy into his coat, and both went down the Rectory garden, climbed the fence, walked across the paddock, and at last entered the wood with its brown frosted bracken and thick evergreen undergrowth.
Well, the brackenis trodden down, as you see," he replied.
I rung my bell, and desired Mr. Bracken might be sent to me.
The messenger was a long time absent, and came, at last, to say that Mr. Bracken had left the castle that evening, and taken all his luggage with him.
They had left soon after Mr. Bracken; in fact, the post-horses that took them away had passed Mr. Bracken at the gate of the park.
She took off her cap, and idly fanned her hot face with it; her yellow head could scarcely be distinguished from the orange-and-gold tints of the bracken which surrounded her.
Most earnest prayers bring a sense of comfort, and Polly did not feel quite so lonely when she stood again on her feet, with the bracken and the fern all round her.
She ran on to where the bracken grew thick and long, then suddenly lay flat down on the ground, and pressed her ear close to Mother Earth.
The moor had broad shadows on it, also tracts of intense light; the brackenwas changing from green to brown and yellow color--brilliant color was everywhere.
He went on for twelve hours, and in the darkness under a mass of dripping bracken began to think of Farleys less as a place of peril than as a refuge, even though known for what he was.
A moment of paralyzed terror was followed by a wild rush, the bracken breaking under their flying feet.
