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
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
And there at last was the cave-mouth hidden under the boskage of the leaves.
From The Men of the Moss-Hags Being a history of adventure taken from the papers of William Gordon of Earlstoun in Galloway by S. R. (Samuel Rutherford) Crockett
Then verily must I chide thee, Fidelis, for—" "Then verily will I unto yon boskage, messire, to prepare us a fire 'gainst the 'beasts that raven,' and our bracken beds.
From Beltane the Smith by Jeffery Farnol
