boskage

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First in poetry and then in painting, the glimmering, closed Theocritean landscape where gods and shepherds pursue nymphs and shepherdesses amid the boskage was reconstructed.

From Time Magazine Archive

The roses were in bloom, two nightingales soliloquized in the boskage, a cuckoo was just going out of tune among the lime trees.

From "Brave New World" by Aldous Huxley

Or this:—   She lock'd her lips: she left me where I stood:   "Glory to God," she sang, and past afar,   Thridding the sombre boskage of the wood,   Toward the morning-star.

From The Early Poems of Alfred Lord Tennyson by Collins, John Churton

Blue seas gemmed with verdant islands, rocky beaches from which sprang groves of lofty trees,—mountain ranges clothed with boskage and suggesting cool streams in their valleys—enticed us onward.

From Lodges in the Wilderness by Scully, W. C. (William Charles)

This way thrust itself like a black tongue into the boskage and vanished in the depths.

From The Metal Monster by Merritt, Abraham