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

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)

The first angle made by the zigzags was thickly covered with a boskage of pines.

From The Courtship of Morrice Buckler A Romance by Mason, A. E. W. (Alfred Edward Woodley)

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

From The Metal Monster by Merritt, Abraham