A glen may be planted with pines and firs, so as to form it into a kind of pinetum; and an open space among trees may be turned into a rose-garden or rosery. From Wordnik.com. [The Lady's Country Companion: or, How to Enjoy a Country Life Rationally] Reference
Blenkinsop had joined the group in the shadow of the pinetum. From Wordnik.com. [The Perfect Lover]
With a bow to Portia and a nod to the men, he headed off toward the pinetum. From Wordnik.com. [The Perfect Lover]
He steered her toward the pinetum, away from the summerhouse; head high, she glided along, and said not a word. From Wordnik.com. [The Perfect Lover]
Finally, she came back to tell him the truth, came in the guise of a cypress tree which walked out of the pinetum. From Wordnik.com. [Piranha to Scurfy & Other Stories]
The path into the pinetum lay ahead; she racked her brains to think of a reason to send Ambrose back to the house that way. From Wordnik.com. [The Perfect Lover]
They were at an intersection with a path leading toward the temple on one hand, and on the other curving around to the pinetum, when they heard a light footstep. From Wordnik.com. [The Perfect Lover]
She kept walking, her skirts swaying about her as she steadily paced on, heading once more toward the pinetum, her nerves strained, her senses even more so, waiting, aching to hear the soft thud of a footstep behind her. From Wordnik.com. [The Perfect Lover]
They halted, she to sweep the scene before her, the vista of the wide lake, its waters dark and still, a black pit lying in a natural valley with a wooded hill looming beyond, an informal pinetum on rising ground to the right and, just visible in the weak light, the summerhouse on the far left shore, starkly white against a black backdrop of massed rhododendrons. From Wordnik.com. [The Perfect Lover]
The sculpture has taken pride of place amongst the trees on a path leading the Cragside's pinetum. From Wordnik.com. [Telegraph.co.uk - Telegraph online, Daily Telegraph and Sunday Telegraph] Reference
They’d reached the pinetum; a path led on, winding beneath the specimen trees. From Wordnik.com. [The Perfect Lover]
Tramping through the pinetum, Simon caught a glimpse of Portia’s blue gown through the trees ahead. From Wordnik.com. [The Perfect Lover]
“No. We’d left from the terrace after lunch, and circled around via the lake path, and so on to the pinetum.”. From Wordnik.com. [The Perfect Lover]
She’d passed the path to the pinetum but was still some way from the summerhouse when the bushes lining the path rustled. From Wordnik.com. [The Perfect Lover]
Simon should be somewhere just past the summerhouse, and Stokes is near the path to the house, on the way to the pinetum.”. From Wordnik.com. [The Perfect Lover]
She wasn’t walking another step closer to the path through the pinetum — leading into the darkness where no one could see. From Wordnik.com. [The Perfect Lover]
Leaning close, she murmured, “Let’s go down by the lake — if there’s no one about, we can duck into the pinetum and rest for a while. From Wordnik.com. [The Perfect Lover]
Ross, whose philanthropic gifts include a pinetum of trees just north of the Great Lawn in New York’s Central Park, was worried this year that trees on his property would fall owing to the rising water. From Wordnik.com. [Another Hamptons Whodunit] Reference
A pinetum for the sake of the turpentine -- unadulterated wine, and the reflections of an unsophisticated spirit in the presence of the works of nature -- these, my boy, are the best medical appliances and the best religious comforts. From Wordnik.com. [The Pocket R.L.S., being favourite passages from the works of Stevenson] Reference
The room faced west, overlooking the pinetum. From Wordnik.com. [The Perfect Lover]
The darkness of the pinetum rose on their right. From Wordnik.com. [The Perfect Lover]
“We’d been walking in the pinetum.”. From Wordnik.com. [The Perfect Lover]
I’m going to edge back toward the pinetum.”. From Wordnik.com. [The Perfect Lover]
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