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Now there are tennis courts in Plumstead Common, where a group of women once axed down fences and set the furze on fire to protest enclosure.
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Eula Biss, The New Yorker, 8 June 2022
There is Clapham Common, Streatham Common, Clapton Common, and Barnes Common, where commoners cut furze to burn for heat.
—Eula Biss, The New Yorker, 8 June 2022
Half-wild by then with the freedom of Their summer grazing among the furze and the heather,
The white-faced Cheviots, elusive
As the clouds streaming over the Wicklow peaks,
Ran us and the young dogs ragged
With their anarchic dodging and darting.
—Hartford Courant, courant.com, 11 Mar. 2018
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Eula Biss, The New Yorker, 8 June 2022
There is Clapham Common, Streatham Common, Clapton Common, and Barnes Common, where commoners cut furze to burn for heat.
—Eula Biss, The New Yorker, 8 June 2022
Half-wild by then with the freedom of Their summer grazing among the furze and the heather,
The white-faced Cheviots, elusive
As the clouds streaming over the Wicklow peaks,
Ran us and the young dogs ragged
With their anarchic dodging and darting.
—Hartford Courant, courant.com, 11 Mar. 2018
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“Furze.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/furze. Accessed 22 Dec. 2024.
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