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
The "marble muses, looking peace" might gleam now and then through its enskirting boskage, but that should be all.
From The Adventures of a Widow A Novel by Edgar Fawcett
If wool delight thee, first, be far removed All prickly boskage, burrs and caltrops; shun Luxuriant pastures; at the outset choose White flocks with downy fleeces.
From The Georgics by Virgil
Along their banks the dense, evergreen boskage lay soft and rich as velvet.
From Reminiscences of a South African Pioneer by W. C. (William Charles) Scully
