bosk

Example Sentences

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We were on our way to Versailles to see how things were coming along at the bosk.

From The New Yorker • May 30, 2015

Benech scampered joyfully up a muddy incline toward the center of the bosk.

From The New Yorker • May 30, 2015

All his afternoons must have been those of a faun—a faun who with impeccable solicitude put on paper what he saw in the heart of the bosk or down by the banks of secret rivers.

From Promenades of an Impressionist by Huneker, James

Sometimes about the painted kioskThe mimic soldiers strut and stride,Sometimes the blue-eyed brigands hideIn the bleak tangles of the bosk.

From Ballad of Reading Gaol by Wilde, Oscar

Your sleek patrician sisters dwell On lawns where gleams the shrub's trim bosk, In terraced gardens, tended well, Near pebbled walk and quaint kiosk.

From The Home Book of Verse — Volume 3 by Stevenson, Burton Egbert