boskage

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First in poetry and then in painting, the glimmering, closed Theocritean landscape where gods and shepherds pursue nymphs and shepherdesses amid the boskage was reconstructed.

From Time Magazine Archive

The roses were in bloom, two nightingales soliloquized in the boskage, a cuckoo was just going out of tune among the lime trees.

From "Brave New World" by Aldous Huxley

Blue seas gemmed with verdant islands, rocky beaches from which sprang groves of lofty trees,—mountain ranges clothed with boskage and suggesting cool streams in their valleys—enticed us onward.

From Lodges in the Wilderness by Scully, W. C. (William Charles)

The "marble muses, looking peace" might gleam now and then through its enskirting boskage, but that should be all.

From The Adventures of a Widow A Novel by Fawcett, Edgar

For now that I had left the open, and was circled about with the boskage, I moved through a world shadowy and fantastic.

From Lawrence Clavering by Mason, A. E. W. (Alfred Edward Woodley)