Heath

(noun.) a tract of level wasteland; uncultivated land with sandy soil and scrubby vegetation.

(noun.) a low evergreen shrub of the family Ericaceae; has small bell-shaped pink or purple flowers.

手打:斯坦

• To anybody acquainted with the inhabitants of Egdon Heath the image would have suggested Eustacia Yeobright. 托马斯·哈代. 还乡.
• I passed the night under the shelter of a rock, strewing some heath under me, and slept pretty well. 乔纳森·斯威夫特. 格列佛游记.
• The masses of furze and heath to the right and left were dark as ever; a mere half-moon was powerless to silver such sable features as theirs. 托马斯·哈代. 还乡.
• Yet a few yards to Yeobright's left, on the open heath, how ineffectively gnashed the storm! 托马斯·哈代. 还乡.
• I touched the heath: it was dry, and yet warm with the heat of the summer day. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 简·爱.
• Of course not; no, it is that the heath-folk have come to sing to us a welcome. 托马斯·哈代. 还乡.
• No other boy in the heath has had such a bonfire as yours. 托马斯·哈代. 还乡.
• In the heath's barrenness to the farmer lay its fertility to the historian. 托马斯·哈代. 还乡.
• This conversation had passed in a hollow of the heath near the old Roman road, a place much frequented by Thomasin. 托马斯·哈代. 还乡.
• I know the way home, and the heath has no terror for me. 托马斯·哈代. 还乡.
• The above-mentioned highway traversed the lower levels of the heath, from one horizon to another. 托马斯·哈代. 还乡.
• They were small, hardy animals, of a breed between Galloway and Exmoor, and were known as heath-croppers here. 托马斯·哈代. 还乡.
• The place became full of a watchful intentness now; for when other things sank blooding to sleep the heath appeared slowly to awake and listen. 托马斯·哈代. 还乡.
• The murdered woman,--more a match for the man, certainly, in point of years--was found dead in a barn near Hounslow Heath. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 远大前程.
• The Quiet Woman Inn was visible on the low margin of the heath in one direction, and afar on the other hand rose Mistover Knap. 托马斯·哈代. 还乡.
• I have dwelt many months in the heaths of England, and among the deserts of Scotland. 玛丽·雪莱. 弗兰肯斯坦.
• Many solitary figures he perceives creeping through the streets; many solitary figures out on heaths, and roads, and lying under haystacks. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 荒凉山庄.

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