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Presently they left the high-road, and crossed a bit of furzy common—just a small piece of waste ground, with the water lying in picturesque pools and clumps of starry yellow blossoms brightening the sandy soil.

From The Tree of Knowledge A Novel by Reynolds, Mrs. Baillie

On the Thursday evening about five o'clock I started in regimentals with my rifle over my shoulder, for the drilling ground—a piece of furzy common near the railway station.

From A Book of Ghosts by Baring-Gould, S. (Sabine)

So it was now, on the furzy side of Cnocán an Ceoil Sidhe; she knew that the moment had come.

From Mount Music by Ross, Martin

She is the sweetest woman I ever knew; as fresh and fair as your furzy hill-tops.

From Vixen, Volume II. by Braddon, M. E. (Mary Elizabeth)

He wiled me through the furzy croft;   He wiled me down the sandy lane.He told his boy’s love, soft and oft,   Until I told him mine again.

From Andromeda and Other Poems by Kingsley, Charles