underwood
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"Carrie underwood being an antimasker is just sad," wrote another.
From Fox News ● Aug. 18, 2021
“The natural underwood has been grubbed up,” Olmsted wrote at the time, “the trees, to a height of 10 to 15 feet, trimmed to bare poles.”
From New York Times ● Jul. 13, 2016
The abundance of these flowers gives to the underwood a lively tint, which strikes the eye at a distance.
From Travels in the Interior of North America, Part I, (Being Chapters I-XV of the London Edition, 1843) Early Western Travels, 1748-1846, Volume XXII by Alexander Philipp Maximilian
It is covered down to the water with thick sedges and underwood, and where the water is stagnating, generates mosquitoes and fevers.
From The Monarchs of the Main, Volume II (of 3) Or, Adventures of the Buccaneers by Walter Thornbury
Then I heard their footsteps die away as they plunged through the thick underwood, and I was alone.
From A Lad of Grit A Story of Adventure on Land and Sea in Restoration Times by Percy F. (Percy Francis) Westerman
A green flame would pass from meadow to hedgerow, from hedgerow to the tangled thickets of bramble and dog-rose, from the underwoods to the inmost forest glades.
From The Divine Adventure Volume IV by Fiona Macleod
The forests here were damp and tropical so far as herbaceous underwoods were concerned, the trees were loaded with mosses chiefly pendulous Neckeræ and Hypnea, as well as the rocks, Epiphytes were common.
From Journals of Travels in Assam, Burma, Bhootan, Afghanistan and the Neighbouring Countries by William Griffith
But seemed so happy! when crushing thro'— Her sturdy retainer with swarthy stare— The underwoods burst; and her maiden crew Drew near them naming her name, and came With leaves and dim Autumn blossoms aflame.—
From Accolon of Gaul with Other Poems by Madison Julius Cawein
There are above fourteen several sweet-smelling timber-trees, and the most part of their underwoods are bays and such like.
From The Great Events by Famous Historians, Volume 10 by John Rudd
And since you put me in mind of it, I think I must go and perplex their noses, by tangling my tracks all among the grass and underwoods.
From Chantecler Play in Four Acts by Edmond Rostand
