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

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

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

And now, from brake and thicket, from dewy mysteries of green boskage burst forth the sweet, glad chorus of bird-song, full throated, passionate of joy.

From The Geste of Duke Jocelyn by Farnol, Jeffery

Along their banks the dense, evergreen boskage lay soft and rich as velvet.

From Reminiscences of a South African Pioneer by Scully, W. C. (William Charles)