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
And there at last was the cave-mouth hidden under the boskage of the leaves.
From The Men of the Moss-Hags Being a history of adventure taken from the papers of William Gordon of Earlstoun in Galloway by S. R. (Samuel Rutherford) Crockett
This way thrust itself like a black tongue into the boskage and vanished in the depths.
From The Metal Monster by Abraham Merritt
For now that I had left the open, and was circled about with the boskage, I moved through a world shadowy and fantastic.
From Lawrence Clavering by A. E. W. (Alfred Edward Woodley) Mason
