...The very best fern is thecommon brake (Pteris aquilina), as also the commonpolypody (Polypodium vulgare)... 
Montagu Browne 「Practical Taxidermy」
...After this I munched somebread and hard cheese, sucked the dew fromthe fern fronds, and then fell into a brokensleep...
Anonymous 「The Confessions of a Poacher」
...In our lineof retreat was an abandoned hut built by thecharcoal burners, consisting of poles, withheather and fern for roof and sides...
Anonymous 「The Confessions of a Poacher」
...Never smoke your traps, boil them in walnut hulls, maple bark or sweet fern...
A. R. (Arthur Robert) Harding 「Mink Trapping」
...“No—no—you two!” cried Mak; and he pointed again at the heap, running close up to it and pointing to where some parched up fern leaves had been scattered about...
George Manville Fenn 「Dead Man's Land」
...Out in front the fern tops were dimly lighted to theedge of the clearing...
William J. Long 「Ways of Wood Folk」
...With a low grunt ofrage, he dashed into the fern, but the watchfulstranger simply moved aside, and friskedtowards the vixen as she still crouched atthe edge of the stream...
Alfred W. Rees 「Creatures of the Night」
...Towards dawn, she journeyed to awide stretch of moorland on the oppositehills, and there made a new “form” on arough bank that separated a reedy hollowfrom the undulating wilderness of heatherand fern...
Alfred W. Rees 「Creatures of the Night」
...A minute afterwards, the fern owl's rattleonce more broke on the quiet evening, nowfrom a few fields away to my right...
Alfred W. Rees 「Creatures of the Night」
...These creatures were kept in a fern case withglass top and sides, and it was singular to observethe way in which they could suspend themselves(as shown in the drawing) from the top of thebox...
Elizabeth Brightwen 「Wild Nature Won By Kindness」
...The Goat-suckerhas sometimes been called the Night-jar from its discordantnote, it is also known as the Fern Owl...
Various 「Natural History in Anecdote」
...When the wooden planking is finished, cover it with fern, if there isany, otherwise with straw, to protect the wood from being hurt by thelime...
Vitruvius 「Ten Books on Architecture」
...The exposed vaults immediately behind the Arch of Severus, boundingthe Forum in this direction, are richly draped with the long, delicatefronds of the maidenhair fern...
Hugh Macmillan 「Roman Mosaics」
...But not until many minuteslater, when they plowed into the coverof a fern belt whose blackness not eventhe moonlight had pierced, did Kirbycall a halt...
Various 「Astounding Stories of Super-Science, December 1930」
...In the Article of Food these People have no great Variety; Fern roots,Dogs, Fish, and wild fowl is their Chief diet, for Cocos, Yams, and SweetPotatoes is not Cultivated every where...
James Cook 「Captain Cook's Journal During the First Voyage Round the World」
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