spinney
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It happened that there was in the yard a pile of timber which had been stacked there ten years earlier when a beech spinney was cleared.
From "Animal Farm: A Fairy Story" by George Orwell
He led me into a small spinney, ample enough to hide us from view.
From "Crispin: The Cross of Lead" by Avi
Less than half a mile to the west, they came upon a spinney adjoining the southern edge of Caesar’s Belt.
From "Watership Down: A Novel" by Richard Adams
Merry went in front leading a laden pony, and took his way along a path that went through a spinney behind the house, and then cut across several fields.
From "The Fellowship of the Ring" by J.R.R. Tolkien
Then they made a tour of inspection of the whole farm and surveyed with speechless admiration the ploughland, the hayfield, the orchard, the pool, the spinney.
From "Animal Farm: A Fairy Story" by George Orwell
The flowery meads and bird-fruitful spinneys of the Arras teemed and rippled over the four walls.
From "The Once and Future King" by T. H. White
For my own part, it is in the autumn that I like Hopton best, when the old cock pheasants call defiance to each other in the spinneys, and the hedgerows rustle with life.
From Dross by Merriman, Henry Seton
Sir Richard Saurin’s house stood in the midst of a well-timbered park, and there were some spinneys belonging to the place also.
From Dr. Jolliffe's Boys by Feller, Frank
It had many little woods and spinneys, and no watercourses.
From Over There War Scenes on the Western Front by Bennett, Arnold
To return to the nest, my lost Bees had only to cross slight obstacles, the hedges and spinneys of the tilled fields.
From The Mason-Bees by Teixeira de Mattos, Alexander
