A bit like a lawnmower pulled by a quad bike, it has a coarse rotating brush which whisks the seed heads and ripe seeds into a hopper.

It had an unremarkable shoreline, and was forested with scrubby trees and coarse brush.

From somewhere beyond Gersen's range of vision came a heavy-shouldered man with a thick neck, narrow head, a coarse yellow brush of hair and white eyes.

The barren soil makes for poor growth conditions and most of the ground vegetation in the forests is coarse brush.

Paint can be dragged along the surface by coarse brush to intertwine and encrust, or poured to congeal and clot.

For the last four kilometers, the old Russian's "secret tunnel" had been aboveground: When the cart got too near the walls, Wili could feel wet leaves and coarse netting brush against him.

His two character portraits, fundamentalist and protean, are painted with a coarse brush.

Sart came back with a large jar of water, cloths, coarse brushes and a box of fine white sand.

She dragged the best dress onto Lyra's skinny frame, tugged it straight, fished a bit of red ribbon out of the tangle in a drawer, and brushed Lyra's hair with a coarse brush.

After several hundred yards, they reached a small clearing that jutted out into the coarse brush.