They had not gone far into the wood; Schilsky knew of a secluded seat, which was screened by a kind of boscage; and here they had remained. From Wordnik.com. [Maurice Guest] Reference
We could not see the façade of the shaîtya on account of the concealing boscage of trees. From Wordnik.com. [Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 17, No. 097, January, 1876] Reference
The band, hidden in a small, thick boscage of the wide gardens, broke into a mockingly cheerful air. From Wordnik.com. [Ainslee's, Vol. 15, No. 5, June 1905] Reference
There were none of those cataclysms of mire and sloughs of black mud and over-tall grasses, none of that miasmatic jungle with its noxious emissions; it was just such a scene as one may find before an English mansion — a noble expanse of lawn and sward, with boscage sufficient to agreeably diversify it. From Wordnik.com. [How I Found Livingstone] Reference
Ye shraddy boscage of ye woods ben full of birds that syng. From Wordnik.com. [A Little Book of Western Verse] Reference
The smooth-shorn vales, the wheaten slopes, the boscage green and soft. From Wordnik.com. [The Complete Works of Whittier] Reference
The moonlight twinkled and sifted through the boscage, and the wind was fresh and cool. From Wordnik.com. [The Love Affairs of a Bibliomaniac] Reference
I do not know barnell, but the last twenty years have set many houses among the boscage. From Wordnik.com. [Highways and Byways in Surrey] Reference
Beeches, oaks, lithe hickories, straight pines, roof over this dell with a magnificent boscage. From Wordnik.com. [Tiger-Lilies. A Novel.] Reference
A mockingbird was singing from out the boscage of the laurel near at hand, and the night wind was astir. From Wordnik.com. [The Frontiersmen] Reference
Finally the "Ancient Grove" contained a central patch of boscage in whose cover one of the duellists, arriving on the. From Wordnik.com. [Punch, or the London Charivari, May 27, 1914] Reference
He discerned, through openings in the boscage fringing the river bank on the Ohio shore, an object like a scarlet flag flying rapidly along. From Wordnik.com. [A Dream of Empire Or, The House of Blennerhassett] Reference
Polished automobiles gliding noiselessly through massed purple and silver shrubberies, receded into bland glooms of well-thought-out boscage. From Wordnik.com. [The Best Short Stories of 1920 and the Yearbook of the American Short Story] Reference
I stumbled upon a cemetery of old gilt tombs, absolutely overgrown and lost, and thrice caught glimpses of little trellised yalis choked in boscage. From Wordnik.com. [The Purple Cloud] Reference
Wayworn, heartworn, in agony of suspense, till Quimper friendship get warning, they lie there, squatted under the thick wet boscage; suspicious of the face of man. From Wordnik.com. [The French Revolution] Reference
Caterham once was a valley; Aubrey wrote of it: "In this parish are many pleasant little vallies, stored with wild thyme, sweet marjoram, barnell, boscage, and beeches.". From Wordnik.com. [Highways and Byways in Surrey] Reference
And from somewhere in the boscage at the garden's end came a lool-lool-lool-lioo-liô, deep and long-drawn, liquid and complaining, which one knew to be the preliminary piping-up of Philomel. From Wordnik.com. [My Friend Prospero] Reference
In half an hour I was moving up an opening in the land with mountains on either hand, streaky crags at their summit, umbrageous boscage below; and the whole softened, as it were, by veils woven of the rainbow. From Wordnik.com. [The Purple Cloud] Reference
But with a frightful effort he controlled himself, lifted his hat slightly to Lynette, turned and leaped back to the stone he had quitted, strode through the reed-beds, and plunged back into the tangled boscage. From Wordnik.com. [The Dop Doctor] Reference
He presently found himself in a close boscage of tall trees straight as pines, and covered with very large, thick leaves that exhaled a peculiarly faint odor, -- and here, pausing abruptly, he looked anxiously about him. From Wordnik.com. [Ardath] Reference
Theodebert, King of France, came for to visit him, and prayed to S. Maur and the brethren that they would pray for him, and he gave to them of that house the fee royal of that boscage, and all the rents thereto belonging, and the towns. From Wordnik.com. [The Golden Legend, vol. 3] Reference
Wherefore we bent our course thither, where we saw the appearance of land, all that night; and in the dawning of next day we might plainly discern that it was a land flat to our sight, and full of boscage, which made it show the more dark. From Wordnik.com. [The New Atlantis] Reference
Wherefore we bent out course thither, where we saw the appearance of land, all that night: and in the dawning of next day, we might plainly discern that it was a land flat to our sight, and full of boscage, which made it show the more dark. From Wordnik.com. [Ideal Commonwealths] Reference
Wherefore we bent our course thither, where we saw the appearance of land, all that night; and in the dawning of the next day, we might plainly discern that it was a land; flat to our sight, and full of boscage; which made it show the more dark. From Wordnik.com. [New Atlantis] Reference
Presently I came in sight of the place I was seeking, and partly because of the insensate pleasure of having found it, and partly because of the cheerful opening in the boscage made by the pool, which cleared its space to the sky, my heart lifted. From Wordnik.com. [A Pair of Patient Lovers] Reference
Wherefore we bent our course thither, where we saw the appearance of land, all that night; and in the dawning of the next day, we might plainly discern that it was a land; flat to our sight, and full of boscage; 2 which made it show the more dark. From Wordnik.com. [The New Atlantis: Paras 1-29] Reference
Edgar, the darling monarch of the monks, and, indeed, one of the most popular of the Anglo-Saxon kings, was so rigorous in his forest-laws that the thegns murmured as well as the lower husbandmen, who had been accustomed to use the woods for pasturage and boscage. From Wordnik.com. [Harold : the Last of the Saxon Kings — Complete] Reference
Gurth, with the brass collar round his neck, tending Cedric's pigs in the glades of the wood, is not what I call an exemplar of human felicity: but Gurth, with the sky above him, with the free air and tinted boscage and umbrage round him, and in him at least the certainty of supper and social lodging when he came home. From Wordnik.com. [Past and Present Thomas Carlyle's Collected Works, Vol. XIII.] Reference
A depth of the boscage where it had almost an emerald quality, it was so vivid, so intense. From Wordnik.com. [The Story of a Play A Novel] Reference
And burning all the boscage. From Wordnik.com. [On the Nature of Things] Reference
Qui chante sur la ramée el plus haut boscage. From Wordnik.com. [The Flourishing of Romance and the Rise of Allegory (Periods of European Literature, vol. II)] Reference
As I hastened round the boscage of the outskirts. From Wordnik.com. [Late Lyrics and Earlier : with Many Other Verses] Reference
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