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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
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 4 Nov. 2024.
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