boskage

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

This way thrust itself like a black tongue into the boskage and vanished in the depths.

From The Metal Monster by Abraham Merritt

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

Dawn was shimmering in the east, but night still lurked unsmitten beneath the boskage.

From By Veldt and Kopje by W. C. (William Charles) Scully