Before he became Labor Secretary, Robert B. Reich wrote of the "secession" of the wealthy into their gated communities and the bosky defiles of their exurban retreats. From LearnThat.org. [Jack Beatty, Source: http://www.theatlantic.com/unbound/polipro/pp9701.htm]
He climbed over hillocks and trotted down into bosky gullies. From Wordnik.com. [The Cat Who Came To Breakfast]
He had made straight for the well-known seat with the bosky background. From Wordnik.com. [Maurice Guest] Reference
Julia Bride, your honour, dying to have you languish to scan-dal in her bosky old delltangle. From Wordnik.com. [Finnegans Wake] Reference
They did not see Beverly in her bosky nook and she did not feel called upon to reveal herself to them. From Wordnik.com. [A Dixie School Girl] Reference
The hill-tops were bared of their bosky crowns, and revealed their rocky natures bleached white by rain and sun. From Wordnik.com. [How I Found Livingstone] Reference
Like the rest of us, they're attracted to suburbs such as Hinsdale, a bosky village of 16,700 only 20 minutes from the Loop. From Wordnik.com. [Here Come The Joneses] Reference
We are presently driving through a bosky wood, and the driver touches his hat to remark that we are nearly there now, he thinks. From Wordnik.com. [Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 11, No. 27, June, 1873] Reference
The bed of this dale, or ravine, is from one quarter to three quarters of a mile across, and the centre was one picturesque mass of underwood and bosky clumps. From Wordnik.com. [Harper's New Monthly Magazine, Vol. 3, July, 1851] Reference
The bays, the water-mouths, the rocks, the bosky isles -- he clothed them with delights, and made them float in the haze wherein a boy untravelled would envelop them. From Wordnik.com. [Gilian The Dreamer His Fancy, His Love and Adventure] Reference
Shasta daisies, primroses and stalks of purple and white larkspur, in riotous profusion, gave splotches of bright color that stood out vividly against the bosky green. From Wordnik.com. [Spring Street A Story of Los Angeles] Reference
I've always been crazy to be wooed in a bosky dell. From Wordnik.com. [Patty Blossom] Reference
Then boys and girls move forward together for the bosky glades of the. From Wordnik.com. [Nights in London] Reference
But here in the un-sylvan section of Chicago which bears the bosky name of. From Wordnik.com. [One Basket] Reference
"Well, take along this flashlight: it's getting awfully bosky-wosky in there.". From Wordnik.com. [Tutors' Lane] Reference
Westerly the distant range hid the bosky canada which sheltered the Mission of San. From Wordnik.com. [The Luck of Roaring Camp and Other Tales With Condensed Novels, Spanish and American Legends, and Earlier Papers] Reference
In a moment he was reassured and returned to his graceful dance in the bosky dell. From Wordnik.com. [Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 146, June 17, 1914] Reference
From twelve until seven-thirty he was free to range the bosky highways of Chicago. From Wordnik.com. [Gigolo] Reference
He summoned his old hardihood and advanced over the still, bosky side of the mountain. From Wordnik.com. [Mountain Blood A Novel] Reference
The dining-room is mere midsummer madness, and is designed to represent a bosky grove. From Wordnik.com. [The Letters of Charles Dickens Vol. 3 (of 3), 1836-1870] Reference
Threading, for a second time, the bosky labyrinth, Luke sought the source of the stream. From Wordnik.com. [Rookwood] Reference
I remember a time when you thought no happiness could exist out of 'dingle and bosky dell.'. From Wordnik.com. [The Disowned — Complete] Reference
"That we are both pretty nigh bosky, and should not therefore be too fastidious in our jokes over the bottle.". From Wordnik.com. [The English Spy An Original Work Characteristic, Satirical, And Humorous. Comprising Scenes And Sketches In Every Rank Of Society, Being Portraits Drawn From The Life] Reference
Ingrained laziness is the bane of my existence; and you don't suppose that with the sun shining down into your bosky dell, and. From Wordnik.com. [Life and Letters of Thomas Henry Huxley — Volume 2] Reference
At length, as the town came in sight, they agreed to halt a while, in a bosky nook soft with mosses and sweet with wild thyme. From Wordnik.com. [Kenelm Chillingly — Complete] Reference
The high ridges of rock lay parallel, with bosky valleys and ponds between, and the sea shining in the south -- all in miniature. From Wordnik.com. [The Complete Project Gutenberg Writings of Charles Dudley Warner] Reference
A green and bosky confusion still hid house from house and masked from itself the all but motionless human life of the sleepy woods village. From Wordnik.com. [Bonaventure A Prose Pastoral of Acadian Louisiana] Reference
Scarcely had Montagu said these words, before there suddenly emerged from a bosky lane to the right a man mounted upon a powerful roan horse. From Wordnik.com. [The Last of the Barons — Complete] Reference
There are no green vistas to be seen; no grassy glades beneath the bosky oaks, on which the deer browse, and the gigantic shadows sleep in the sunbeams. From Wordnik.com. [Life in the Clearings versus the Bush] Reference
The mainsail of the sloop was hoisted and swelled to it, and at that moment they heard shouts and a waxing clamour from the bosky profundities of the shore. From Wordnik.com. [Cabbages and Kings] Reference
Pull up a seat at a kerbside café for beer and frites, wander the streets checking out Art Noveau architecture, or just spend a lazy afternoon in a bosky park. From Wordnik.com. [BBC - Ouch] Reference
From the seats of the mighty, from Holyrood and the Moderator's chair our Cincinnatus returned to shepherd his quiet flock among the bosky silences of Eden Valley. From Wordnik.com. [The Dew of Their Youth] Reference
South Kensington, and even the bosky Wood of the Evangelist had sent their latest luxury and style to flout the tombs of the past with the ghastly flippancy of to-day. From Wordnik.com. [Condensed Novels: New Burlesques] Reference
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