bush up

Example Sentences

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She had been queen of the cabin and the straggly fields and sugar bush up there on the hill.

From "Lyddie" by Katherine Paterson

When questioned as to pastures and grazing, Charlie led him along a cattle track, through the bush up the slope, to the prairie level above.

From The Law-Breakers by Cullum, Ridgwell

There is a bush up at my own place, and the people do be saying that there are two souls doing their penance under it.

From The Celtic Twilight by Yeats, W. B. (William Butler)

I took the whole bush up and set it in a wooden bucket.

From In the Days of the Guild by Lamprey, Louise

He was jolted along elephant paths that led through dense bush, up stony hills and down again to the beds of dried-up rivers.

From The Explorer by Maugham, W. Somerset (William Somerset)