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 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)
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 Fawcett, Edgar
Will your Majesty be pleased to descend to the lower boskage?
From Hypolympia Or, The Gods in the Island, an Ironic Fantasy by Gosse, Edmund
