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

The sojourn in the cool boskage of the Transvaal was fraught with good luck, and at dusk when the fugitive emerged he was another man.

From South Africa and the Transvaal War, Vol. 3 (of 6) From the Battle of Colenso, 15th Dec. 1899, to Lord Roberts's Advance into the Free State, 12th Feb. 1900 by Creswicke, Louis

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

Or this:—   She lock'd her lips: she left me where I stood:   "Glory to God," she sang, and past afar,   Thridding the sombre boskage of the wood,   Toward the morning-star.

From The Early Poems of Alfred Lord Tennyson by Collins, John Churton