spinney
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Less than half a mile to the west, they came upon a spinney adjoining the southern edge of Caesar’s Belt.
From "Watership Down: A Novel" by Richard Adams
Merry went in front leading a laden pony, and took his way along a path that went through a spinney behind the house, and then cut across several fields.
From "The Fellowship of the Ring" by J.R.R. Tolkien
He led me into a small spinney, ample enough to hide us from view.
From "Crispin: The Cross of Lead" by Avi
It happened that there was in the yard a pile of timber which had been stacked there ten years earlier when a beech spinney was cleared.
From "Animal Farm: A Fairy Story" by George Orwell
Then they made a tour of inspection of the whole farm and surveyed with speechless admiration the ploughland, the hayfield, the orchard, the pool, the spinney.
From "Animal Farm: A Fairy Story" by George Orwell
The flowery meads and bird-fruitful spinneys of the Arras teemed and rippled over the four walls.
From "The Once and Future King" by T. H. White
It is a bare fold of land with one or two little scrubby spinneys alongside the plough.
From First and Last by Hilaire Belloc
But then there's the pheasants a-breedin', and there's four brood of flappers in the withey bed, and a sight of young hares in the spinneys.
From Tom Brown at Oxford by Thomas Hughes
And he knew nothing of preserving and of a land that is all parcelled out into parks and gardens and spinneys.
From The Twentieth Century American Being a Comparative Study of the Peoples of the Two Great Anglo-Saxon Nations by Harry Perry Robinson
To return to the nest, my lost Bees had only to cross slight obstacles, the hedges and spinneys of the tilled fields.
From The Mason-Bees by Alexander Teixeira de Mattos
