boscage

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The journey took 48 hours with a stopover in a Bates-style motel in the one-horse town of Marblemount – the last services for 70 wild miles of boscage and bears.

From The Guardian • Feb. 16, 2021

When he came to paint it, Stubbs set it in an English wood, its black-and-white hide in almost shocking contrast to the green tunnels of boscage and filtered shade that stretch behind it.

From Time Magazine Archive

Our suns were all too fierce for him; Our rude winds pierced him through and through; But Heaven has valleys cool and dim, And boscage sweet with starry dew.

From The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 10, No. 60, October, 1862 by Various

Once I stumbled upon a cemetery of old gilt tombs, absolutely overgrown and lost, and thrice caught glimpses of little trellised yalis choked in boscage.

From The Purple Cloud by Shiel, M. P. (Matthew Phipps)

The moonlight twinkled and sifted through the boscage, and the wind was fresh and cool.

From The Love Affairs of a Bibliomaniac by Field, Eugene