They had not gone far into the wood; Schilsky knew of a secluded seat, which was screened by a kind of boscage; and here they had remained. ❋ Unknown (2003)
The noun 'boscage' = jungle or _bush_ (M.E. _busch_, ❋ John Milton (1641)
There were none of those cataclysms of mire and sloughs of black mud and over-tall grasses, none of that miasmatic jungle with its noxious emissions; it was just such a scene as one may find before an English mansion — a noble expanse of lawn and sward, with boscage sufficient to agreeably diversify it. ❋ Henry Morton (2004)
Wherefore we bent our course thither, where we saw the appearance of land, all that night; and in the dawning of next day we might plainly discern that it was a land flat to our sight, and full of boscage, which made it show the more dark. ❋ Unknown (2002)
The band, hidden in a small, thick boscage of the wide gardens, broke into a mockingly cheerful air. ❋ Various (N/A)
We could not see the façade of the shaîtya on account of the concealing boscage of trees. ❋ Various (N/A)
Now, it seems to me that when you old Aryans came from -- from -- well, from wherever you _did_ come from -- you branched out at first into a superb magnificence of religions and sentiments and imaginations and other boscage. ❋ Various (N/A)
Polished automobiles gliding noiselessly through massed purple and silver shrubberies, receded into bland glooms of well-thought-out boscage. ❋ Various (1915)
I do not know barnell, but the last twenty years have set many houses among the boscage. ❋ Eric Parker (1912)
Caterham once was a valley; Aubrey wrote of it: "In this parish are many pleasant little vallies, stored with wild thyme, sweet marjoram, barnell, boscage, and beeches." ❋ Eric Parker (1912)
Wherefore we bent our course thither, where we saw the appearance of land, all that night; and in the dawning of the next day, we might plainly discern that it was a land; flat to our sight, and full of boscage; 2 which made it show the more dark. ❋ Unknown (1909)
I stumbled upon a cemetery of old gilt tombs, absolutely overgrown and lost, and thrice caught glimpses of little trellised yalis choked in boscage. ❋ Unknown (1906)
In half an hour I was moving up an opening in the land with mountains on either hand, streaky crags at their summit, umbrageous boscage below; and the whole softened, as it were, by veils woven of the rainbow. ❋ Unknown (1906)
But, as it happened, a bare fifty seconds elapsed before he came darting out of the boscage and scrambled up the stairway in a sweating hurry, two steps at a time. ❋ Arthur Thomas Quiller-Couch (1903)
Discreet narrow water-alleys, less flauntingly lit, but with here and there a caged nightingale singing in the boscage, intersected the sisters 'pleasure-grounds; but the main canal led around an ample stretch of turf in the midst of which my workmen had reared a stage for a masque of my composing, entitled _The Rape of Helen_. ❋ Arthur Thomas Quiller-Couch (1903)
Theodebert, King of France, came for to visit him, and prayed to S. Maur and the brethren that they would pray for him, and he gave to them of that house the fee royal of that boscage, and all the rents thereto belonging, and the towns. ❋ 1230-1298 (1900)
Finally the "Ancient Grove" contained a central patch of boscage in whose cover one of the duellists, arriving on the ❋ Various (1898)
Like muffled silver these brain-bells were, and she was as one who enters into a deep forest, and hears far away in the boscage the mystic summons of forest deities. ❋ Gilbert Parker (1897)
All the generations of the wood and road, the combe and the river, the quarry and the secluded boscage were in her look. ❋ Gilbert Parker (1897)
Near to the boscage on a little hill overlooking the great river, Gabriel ❋ Gilbert Parker (1897)
