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Where, bowered in bosks and overgrown with vine,   Upon a headland breasting violet seas, Her castle towers, like a dream divine,   With stairs and galleries.

From Poems by Cawein, Madison Julius

Great bosks of ferns grew beside, and here and there a bush burning with autumn color.

From The Other Girls by Whitney, A. D. T. (Adeline Dutton Train)

Her eyes were deer-like—not those of a startled fawn, but like a doe's who stands gazing at a perfect park, whose bosks she takes to be real forests.

From Fairfax and His Pride by Vorst, Marie Van

From dawn to midnight, as from midnight to dawn, one who would be alone with nature might count upon the security of these bosks and dells.

From In the Year of Jubilee by Gissing, George