boscage
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The journey took 48 hours with a stopover in a Bates-style motel in the one-horse town of Marblemount – the last services for 70 wild miles of boscage and bears.
From The Guardian • Feb. 16, 2021
When he came to paint it, Stubbs set it in an English wood, its black-and-white hide in almost shocking contrast to the green tunnels of boscage and filtered shade that stretch behind it.
From Time Magazine Archive
More brigades Of British, soiled and sweltering, now are nigh, Who plunge within the boscage of Bossu; Where in the hidden shades and sinuous creeps Life-struggles can be heard, seen but in peeps.
From The Dynasts by Hardy, Thomas
Whereas if flame, already fashioned, lay Stored up within the forests, then the fires Could not for any time be kept unseen, But would be laying all the wildwood waste And burning all the boscage.
From On the Nature of Things by Leonard, William Ellery
He pointed to a depth of the boscage where it had almost an emerald quality, it was so vivid, so intense.
From The Story of a Play A Novel by Howells, William Dean
