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

Dawn was shimmering in the east, but night still lurked unsmitten beneath the boskage.

From By Veldt and Kopje by Scully, W. C. (William Charles)

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 Mason, A. E. W. (Alfred Edward Woodley)

Will your Majesty be pleased to descend to the lower boskage?

From Hypolympia Or, The Gods in the Island, an Ironic Fantasy by Gosse, Edmund