It was the colour of dead bracken and leaf litter.

Stergos and Doman ordered the men to whack down more brush and dead bracken with their blades and axes, making twenty or so sodden heaps scattered about the site.

Both Camarographium stephensii and Typhula quisquiliaris grow primarily from dead bracken stems.

The distance was not great, a long day's ride along a well-beaten road through valleys carpeted with dead bracken.

That, and the mewing of a buzzard high over the crags, and the rustle of the dead bracken where my tired horse trod, were all the sounds in the valley.

Trees or buses, hoarding or dead bracken, pavements or scrub: a premonition or an intimation was coming upon him that they were all projections of another mind besides his own.

The dirge of the dying year is a wind blowing across yellowed fields and whistling over the bare hills, where dead bracken snaps under your feet.

Then they were amongst the conifers near the road, a smell of resin and dead bracken, twigs catching their legs.

At last she grew desperate, seized a stick and crouched down, ripped up living and dead bracken to make a clear spot.

The magic caught halfway down and her boots dragged across the dead bracken as the broom soared up into the night.