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

If wool delight thee, first, be far removed All prickly boskage, burrs and caltrops; shun Luxuriant pastures; at the outset choose White flocks with downy fleeces.

From The Georgics by Virgil

So was I but now dreaming here within this boskage how I might perchance win this same Beltane to life without thy scurvy aid, Black Roger.

From Beltane the Smith by Farnol, Jeffery

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