Bulstrode, meanwhile, had been no further shaken by the oncoming tread of calamity than in the busier stirring of that secret uneasiness which had always been present in her since the last visit of Raffles to The Shrubs.
Abel thought, like the servants at The Shrubs, that the strange man belonged to the unpleasant "kin" who are among the troubles of the rich; she had at first referred the kinship to Mr.
On Christmas Eve he had reappeared at The Shrubs.
At last he came to a difficult resolve, and wrote a letter to Will Ladislaw, begging him to be at the Shrubs that evening for a private interview at nine o'clock.
Bulstrode's retired residence, known as the Shrubs.
To the left was a steep rocky cliff with trees and shrubs growing in the cracks of the rock.
Sometimes he had to stumble along the bed of the stream, and sometimes he had to push through shrubs, dense and thorny; often he was obliged to climb over rocks in order to avoid the hornet-nests that hung on the trees over his head.
When I was building my house in the Paumotus I had slept out for weeks on a harder bed than that, with nothing to shelter me but wild shrubs; and as for vermin, my tough skin should be proof against their malice.
A wide variety of trees, shrubs and flowers from native to sub-tropical blazes a rich exuberance of color.
When Changi's new Jewel terminal opened in April, it made headlines around the globe for its 40-meter waterfall (the world's largest indoor one), a 14,000-square-meter Canopy Park, complete with a suspension bridge, topiary and mazes, and one of Asia's largest indoor gardens with 3,000 trees and 60,000 shrubs.
The study found that certain flowers and shrubs can counteract the drying caused by heating units through a process called transpiration.
will be composed of two neighbouring towers coated with 23 species of tree and more than 2500 cascading shrubs.
The project, the world's third, will consist of two tower blocks in Jiangbei New District whose facades will be covered with 1,100 trees and 2,500 cascading plants and shrubs.
The scant acre now has 1,000 trees, shrubs, perennials and annuals, including a bog for pitcher plants.
"I felt like a man sliding down a steep cliff, clutching at shrubs and tangles of brambles and coming up empty-handed.
" Now they came to the border of the grove, crossed a little stream, and plunged headlong among the trees and shrubs.
A heavy-scented broom and many flowering shrubs had almost taken the place of grass.
While they hid behind some low shrubs, the animal came nearer, and they discovered that it was only a harmless Camel which had excited their fears.
Here stood a quaintly carved cupboard, in which rare flower-roots were kept, for my Lady Grubbe was fond of plants and cultivated trees and shrubs.
Blooming shrubs and flowers in pots were ranged around; and thus a little garden arose in the square.
