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 Fawcett, Edgar

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 Farnol, Jeffery

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