She sank down against a straggling furze bush, an easy pillow enough; and the bed of snow, too, was soft.

Little Jones went one day a shooting with the gamekeeper; when happening to spring a covey of partridges near the border of that manor over which Fortune, to fulfil the wise purposes of Nature, had planted one of the game consumers, the birds flew into it, and were marked (as it is called) by the two sportsmen, in some furze bushes, about two or three hundred paces beyond Mr Allworthy's dominions.

In spring- time how that naughty tree used to flash its silver nakedness of blossom for miles across the furze and scattered birches!