| 单词 | coppice |
| 例句 | They went in single file along hedgerows and the borders of coppices, and night fell dark about them. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z To grub up coppice woodland and replace it with a plantation of spruce larches is to destroy it as effectively as covering it with concrete. Monty Don: 'Why we must save our woodlands' 2011-01-30T00:06:27Z His temper wild, Frost insisted on tracking the man down, which they did, to a small cottage at the edge of a coppice. Edward Thomas, Robert Frost and the road to war 2011-07-29T21:57:01Z “They are molting now, buried in the mud out there,” Douglas said, gesturing toward the marshy coppice that crowds both sides of the two-lane Queen’s Highway, the major north-south road on Andros. Wildlife galore in the Bahamas, where the whole world’s a park 2015-10-14T04:00:00Z The coppice cycle varies according to the species. Monty Don: 'Why we must save our woodlands' 2011-01-30T00:06:27Z "For this reason, hazel was often very common in historical coppice woodlands." Europe was not covered by dense forest before the arrival of modern humans 2023-11-14T05:00:00Z National Trust manager Andrew Poad previously said the stump was "healthy" and they might be able to coppice the tree, where new shoots grow from the trunk's base. Sycamore Gap: Man in his 60s bailed over tree felling 2023-10-02T04:00:00Z Manager Andrew Poad previously said the stump was "healthy" and they may be able to coppice the tree, where new shoots grow from the trunk's base. Sycamore Gap: Brian Blessed says cut down tree 'not dead' 2023-10-01T04:00:00Z National Trust general manager Andrew Poad told BBC Breakfast the stump was "healthy" and they might be able to coppice the tree, where new shoots grow from the base of a trunk. Sycamore Gap: Hopes shoots could regrow from felled tree 2023-09-29T04:00:00Z Daniel said he learned invaluable skills, including how to build dry-stone walls and coppice willow. The last man standing on the Calf of Man 2018-12-09T05:00:00Z Incentives should be put in place to encourage farmers to grow crops like Miscanthus and short rotation coppice wood on marginal land. Waste products not crops key to boosting UK biofuels - BBC News 2017-07-13T04:00:00Z One of the strategies the Forest Service is considering is the use of “coppice cuts,” or essentially clear-cuts, of aging or diseased/dying aspen, to encourage regeneration. Agency launches long-term spruce, aspen treatment plan 2016-08-20T04:00:00Z What happened in the coppice that night might never be known. Children unlawfully killed by father 2013-04-25T14:47:23Z Willow, a short rotation coppice crop, is widely grown as a source for the biofuel and biomass industries. Sugar-rich willow biofuels boost 2013-01-25T09:51:18Z It was the regular opening of the canopies through the coppice regimes in the past that meant a lot of our woodlands had these great displays of spring flowers. Great Storm: The healing power of nature 2012-10-15T03:05:37Z Ash and oak coppices and larch plantations clothe its hillsides and crests. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 13, Slice 3 "Helmont, Jean" to "Hernosand" 2012-04-14T02:00:23.707Z "I told you that you didn't yet really know me," she murmured; before he could reply, from the farthest corner of the coppice came the whip's "Viewhalloo." The Vanity Girl 2012-04-12T02:00:26.883Z He said that they had not been there much above an hour; and he took me into the coppice to where he had been standing himself. The Gipsy (Vols I & II) A Tale 2012-04-06T02:00:27.227Z Its rays, aided by the clearness of the air, brought out the colors of stubble and field, flood and coppice, that lay below. The Great House 2012-03-30T02:00:14.973Z The coppice and cornfields in front of the British troops were filled with French sharpshooters, who kept up a distant, spattering fire. The Conspiracy of Pontiac and the Indian War after the Conquest of Canada 2012-03-26T02:00:34.423Z "By the gate of the coppice as I was bringing the milk," she answered frankly. Starvecrow Farm 2012-03-15T02:00:29.617Z They were in a wide, down-sloping meadowland intensely green, and checkered with the black and red riders in groups; hounds were disappearing at the bottom of the slope in a thick coppice. The Vanity Girl 2012-04-12T02:00:26.883Z William Butler!' so I looked round, but could see no one, and I said, 'Well, what do you want? come out of the coppice, if you want me.' The Gipsy (Vols I & II) A Tale 2012-04-06T02:00:27.227Z Once under-gardeners had used it to come and go, and many a time on moonlit nights maids had stolen through it to meet their lovers in the coppice or on the road. The Great House 2012-03-30T02:00:14.973Z At the thought, though he had barely got his breath, he rose, and keeping within the coppice crawled down the slope towards the river. Historical Romances: Under the Red Robe, Count Hannibal, A Gentleman of France 2012-03-15T02:00:24.837Z A few yards further on the coppice falls away. Naples Past and Present 2012-03-13T02:00:23.473Z We lay that night in a coppice on the left bank of the river. My Lady Rotha A Romance 2012-02-27T03:00:10.983Z He knew, however, that her strength would not hold out, and at the first sound of pursuit he alighted in a coppice, drove on the horses, and crept away with her through the underwood. The Abbess Of Vlaye 2012-02-19T03:00:15.523Z The men had satisfied themselves the fugitives were in the coppice; and were beating back. The Cloister and the Hearth A Tale of the Middle Ages 2012-02-17T03:00:30.347Z She left me and went into the little coppice. Historical Romances: Under the Red Robe, Count Hannibal, A Gentleman of France 2012-03-15T02:00:24.837Z The trees are scarcely more important than a coppice; but under their green shade there grows a wealth of flowers of every colour, glowing in the soft sunshine which filters through the boughs. Naples Past and Present 2012-03-13T02:00:23.473Z He came at once and placed us in a small coppice of fir trees that crowned one of the knobs of the ridge. My Lady Rotha A Romance 2012-02-27T03:00:10.983Z As he spoke it came into view; rounding the curve of a small coppice of beech trees, it rolled rapidly down a declivity, and ascended towards them as rapidly. Chippinge Borough 2012-02-15T03:00:32.210Z When they had thus painfully travelled through the greater part of the coppice, the bloodhound's deep bay came nearer, and nearer, less and less musical, louder, and sterner. The Cloister and the Hearth A Tale of the Middle Ages 2012-02-17T03:00:30.347Z "But perhaps, it were better to tell your husband and let his men search the coppice." Historical Romances: Under the Red Robe, Count Hannibal, A Gentleman of France 2012-03-15T02:00:24.837Z But already over the green coppice bare grey hillsides have come in sight. Naples Past and Present 2012-03-13T02:00:23.473Z I leant upon a coppice gate When Frost was spectre-gray, And Winter's dregs made desolate The weakening eye of day. A Little Book of Old Time Verse Old Fashioned Flowers 2012-02-13T03:00:15.823Z True, that the contents of the place have their originals somewhere in the wild—in forest or coppice, or meadow, or hedgerow, swamp, jungle, Alp, or plain hillside. Garden-Craft Old and New 2012-02-12T03:00:11.083Z "What is in it, I wonder?" and he tried to detach it: but in passing through the coppice it had become inextricably entangled in his strap and buckle. The Cloister and the Hearth A Tale of the Middle Ages 2012-02-17T03:00:30.347Z Underwood, un′dėr-wōōd, n. low wood or trees growing under large ones: coppice. Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary (part 4 of 4: S-Z and supplements) 2012-01-30T03:00:19.113Z She traced two long, distinct lines, but stopped of a sudden at the apex of the second angle, where the coppice runs to a point, with her face puckered up in a great perplexity. The Courtship of Morrice Buckler A Romance 2012-01-26T03:00:17.027Z On the other side of the wall a thick coppice of trees grew, dark and high. The Four Corners of the World 2012-01-26T03:00:15.920Z "You've not forsaken us then," and turning to his son: "Have you many more rows in the coppice close?" The White Peacock 2012-01-14T03:00:21.627Z A gap in the hedge revealed a narrow path between giant elms, and a cool shadowed coppice where the bracken fronds rose stiff and closely curled, and dark ivy twined thickly about the tree trunks. Imprudence 2011-12-01T03:00:19.303Z "All right, let's have some o' the wermin," his friend answered, and presently they turned off the road, making for the coppice. The Life of Thomas Wanless, Peasant 2011-11-27T03:00:11.777Z Then he rejoined Haimet, who was near by, and the two thieves hastened towards the coppice, making much of each other because of the success of their trick. Aucassin & Nicolette And Other Mediaeval Romances and Legends 2011-11-24T03:00:40.487Z A few paces took us to the edge of the coppice, and the house stood in the open before us. The Four Corners of the World 2012-01-26T03:00:15.920Z The Greenfinch builds its nest, when not among evergreens, in some tall thick bush either in a hedge or coppice. British Birds in their Haunts 2011-11-23T03:00:23.677Z The Welsh call it "pen y llwyn," the head or master of the coppice. Natural History in Anecdote Illustrating the nature, habits, manners and customs of animals, birds, fishes, reptiles, etc., etc., etc. 2011-11-12T03:00:32.773Z Thomas thanked his friend, and stowing the rabbits inside their coats as best they could, the two carefully made their way out of the coppice, and again took the road for home. The Life of Thomas Wanless, Peasant 2011-11-27T03:00:11.777Z Travers took the path leading to the wood, and entering in the coppice, saw the red blaze of a fire which these two thieves had litten. Aucassin & Nicolette And Other Mediaeval Romances and Legends 2011-11-24T03:00:40.487Z A taillis, copse, or coppice, is a wood composed of shoots from the roots of trees previously cut for fuel and timber. Man and Nature or, Physical Geography as Modified by Human Action 2011-11-11T03:00:34.027Z Their usual places of resort by day are woods and coppices in hilly districts, whither they repair for shelter and concealment. British Birds in their Haunts 2011-11-23T03:00:23.677Z Anon there was a plunge into the thickest coppice for spring flowers. 'As Gold in the Furnace' A College Story 2011-11-07T02:00:16.163Z That night three poachers—a Warford villager and two shoemakers from Warwick—were caught in the coppice, and lodged in Warwick jail. The Life of Thomas Wanless, Peasant 2011-11-27T03:00:11.777Z The women led, and we marched till sunset, when we reached a small coppice of wood, under the protection of which we encamped. Villages of the Algonquian, Siouan, and Caddoan Tribes West of the Mississippi 2011-11-02T02:00:10.087Z On every side the various tribes of the vegetable kingdom throve luxuriously, perfuming the air; whilst in the distance the foliage and coppice presented a thousand lively and variegated tints most pleasing to the eye. The War of the Axe Adventures in South Africa 2011-10-10T02:00:22.657Z In Wales, it has from its quarrelsome habits acquired the name of Penn y llwyn, or, master of the coppice. British Birds in their Haunts 2011-11-23T03:00:23.677Z These gloomy coppices are succeeded by rude clearings and fields of small extent. Iermola 2011-10-06T02:00:40.637Z Tom Pemberton, as ill-luck would have it, had been passing the coppice while the two labourers were after the rabbits, and had either heard their voices or the whistling, made more audible by the fog. The Life of Thomas Wanless, Peasant 2011-11-27T03:00:11.777Z Miles's father followed the primitive occupation of a wood-cutter, felling timber trees and young trees of fifteen or sixteen years growth, called coppice wood, used for making hoops and charcoal. Wrestling and Wrestlers: Biographical Sketches of Celebrated Athletes of the Northern Ring; to Which is Added Notes on Bull and Badger Baiting 2011-09-30T02:00:19.420Z The elder coppice, banks of blooms, The spice-wood brush, the field Of tumbled clover, and perfumes Hot, weedy pastures yield. The Triumph of Music And Other Lyrics 2011-09-11T02:00:09.677Z Before me lay a solitary tract of wooded park, thickly interspersed with planted knolls and coppices. Lost Sir Massingberd, v. 2/2 A Romance of Real Life 2011-08-25T02:00:33.793Z Clubs in possession again, a walk for a little way along a rose-fringed road, and then a plunge through a coppice along a broken stony path that thousands of golfers have trod before. The Happy Golfer Being Some Experiences, Reflections, and a Few Deductions of a Wandering Golfer 2011-08-21T02:00:29.747Z Go in and out of the coppice, Go in and out at the door; And do not wake the poppies, Who want to have a snore. The Zankiwank and The Bletherwitch An Original Fantastic Fairy Extravaganza 2011-08-19T02:00:16.653Z I had found, in a coppice close to the stream, a small grassy clearing, where Czar was always comfortable. The Backwoodsman or, Life on the Indian Frontier 2011-08-17T02:00:27.330Z His dress was dirty and torn because he had walked quite twenty miles when arrested, and passed through several coppices. World's End A Story in Three Books 2011-08-16T02:00:47.740Z It may disappoint them temporarily, to hear that though we searched the coppice, tree by tree, and left not one heap of leaves unstirred by our feet, that we found nothing, nothing. Lost Sir Massingberd, v. 2/2 A Romance of Real Life 2011-08-25T02:00:33.793Z It had previously contained a good deal of "coppice," and after the wood-cutters had done their work, this had been utilized by the charcoal burners. The Confessions of a Poacher 2011-08-05T02:00:44.470Z All spring and summer the hedges, coppices, brakes, thickets, furze lands, and cornfields abounded with bird life. Wild Life in a Southern County 2011-08-04T02:00:27.037Z My bivouac was in the only coppice far and wide, in which the springs bubbled up at the foot of a very tall cypress. The Backwoodsman or, Life on the Indian Frontier 2011-08-17T02:00:27.330Z The field in question, the common property of the community, was an irregular square, sloping towards the river, its upper boundary being a coppice which also belonged to the parish. For the Right 2011-08-01T02:00:10.250Z I There is a scent of roses and spilt wine Between the moonlight and the laurel coppice; The marble idol glimmers on its shrine, White as a star, among a heaven of poppies. Kentucky Poems 2011-07-11T02:00:07.060Z Cutting the coppice, assisting the charcoal burners, or helping the old woodman—all gave facilities for observing the habits of game, and none of these opportunities were missed. The Confessions of a Poacher 2011-08-05T02:00:44.470Z Fair to the eye were the velvety coppices, with their newly-donned mantles of bright green, whence issued the soft coo of the turtle-dove, and the flap of the cushat’s wing among the branches. Dorrien of Cranston 2011-07-07T02:00:31.540Z The path ran down from the spring, and we followed it for about half an hour, till about nightfall we reached a small leafy coppice, in which we camped. The Backwoodsman or, Life on the Indian Frontier 2011-08-17T02:00:27.330Z On stepping from the coppice, through which their road lay, the peasants could overlook the field at a glance. For the Right 2011-08-01T02:00:10.250Z But up among the young oak coppices, the lush grass, and the perennial springs of Shooter’s Hill, all is peaceful and pleasant. The Dover Road Annals of an Ancient Turnpike 2011-07-04T02:00:17.130Z The other field was called "Quebec," and the coppice at its upper end was "Monckton Wood." All Men are Ghosts 2011-06-28T02:00:12.497Z An early moon gave light enough to show them a dark form moving quickly into the coppice, and something like the antlers of a stag showed above the tall brakes before they vanished. Spinning-Wheel Stories 2011-05-28T02:00:23.707Z Here we led our cattle into a coppice where they were hidden from the Indians by the bushes and rocks. The Backwoodsman or, Life on the Indian Frontier 2011-08-17T02:00:27.330Z On the upper part, near the coppice, lay the body of the slain youth, evidently dragged thither by Hajek's men. For the Right 2011-08-01T02:00:10.250Z He revealed Nature in her works and ways; the flowers and the fields; the wild English creatures; the hedges and the streams; the wood and coppice. The Eulogy of Richard Jefferies 2011-05-27T02:00:19.437Z In the coppice she was to beware of the branches; that very morning he had been almost taken out of his saddle when galloping in the wood. Bijou 2011-05-25T02:00:22.743Z Not till they were two leagues from the spot did they halt; then, selecting a secluded coppice, they threw themselves on the ground and were soon deep in dreamless slumber. The Winning of the Golden Spurs 2011-05-17T02:00:18.050Z A very large dry cedar trunk rose with its upper half out of the coppice. The Backwoodsman or, Life on the Indian Frontier 2011-08-17T02:00:27.330Z And the coppice pooled the shadows, creating a hippodrome of transitory caricatures, fanciful, grotesque and fearful. The Red Debt Echoes from Kentucky 2011-05-08T02:00:04.810Z There are plantations here and there, and coppices, but the general aspect of the country is treeless; it is also a dry country. The Eulogy of Richard Jefferies 2011-05-27T02:00:19.437Z There was no mist in the meadows now, and straggling hedgerow and coppice rose shadowy and dim against the failing light. The Dust of Conflict 2011-04-14T02:01:04.343Z We made litters of the branches of a soft coppice. Caucasian Legends 2011-03-17T02:00:14.137Z Prairies alternated with coppices and patches of forest oak, and here and there an isolated hill rose, which gave the country greater diversity. The Backwoodsman or, Life on the Indian Frontier 2011-08-17T02:00:27.330Z To her excited fancy it seems as if in the remotest dell, the loneliest coppice of the park, she would still overhear her Prue's little voice applauding that disgusting pleasantry. Doctor Cupid 2011-03-13T03:00:23.987Z In contrast with coppice forests, those raised from seeds produce the best class of timber, such as is used for saw logs. Wood and Forest 2011-03-01T03:00:42.647Z It stands on a bare ridge, broken by many gullies, and with a few coppices here and there. The Childrens' Story of the War, Volume 3 (of 10) 2011-02-26T03:00:45.583Z Suddenly from the woods and coppices the Russians sprang forward in overwhelming numbers. The Childrens' Story of the War, Volume 3 (of 10) From the First Battle of Ypres to the End of the Year 1914 2011-02-23T03:00:28.797Z For a hundred miles to the west of the Argonne stretches a region of chalky moorlands, crossed by many ridges, and broken by heaths, coppices, and fir plantations. The Childrens' Story of the War, Volume 2 (of 10) From the Battle of Mons to the Fall of Antwerp. 2011-02-19T03:01:10.063Z They were “grazing” along the edge of a little grove or coppice—which my companions could easily identify as composed of pecan-trees—the nuts of which, no doubt, had attracted them to the place. The Guerilla Chief And other Tales 2011-02-10T03:00:53.627Z This fact gives rise to two general methods of reproduction, called the coppice systems and the seed systems. Wood and Forest 2011-03-01T03:00:42.647Z At a later hour, the lightning revealed the tops of submerged trees, such as those they had left behind; but standing out of the water in clumps or coppices, that appeared like so many islands. Afloat in the Forest A Voyage among the Tree-Tops 2011-02-10T03:00:44.790Z As soon as they follow me, get up, run off, cross the road and then the little coppice—it's a straight line in front of you. The Children of Alsace Les Oberl?s 2011-01-16T03:00:19.697Z The lower slopes are, for the most part, steep and grassy, with enclosed coppices here and there. The Childrens' Story of the War, Volume 2 (of 10) From the Battle of Mons to the Fall of Antwerp. 2011-02-19T03:01:10.063Z "We are watched by an enemy in yon coppice." Where Duty Called or, In Honor Bound 2011-01-01T03:00:22.753Z The coppice is said to be managed on a thirty-year rotation. Wood and Forest 2011-03-01T03:00:42.647Z "Excellent!" said Lupin, who was watching Pierre Leduc's movements from a neighboring coppice. 813 2010-12-28T03:00:13.553Z The timber and bark from this one tree were about equal to the average produce of three acres of oak coppice after fifteen years growth. Wayside and Woodland Trees A pocket guide to the British sylva 2010-12-25T03:00:16.510Z She in her sunny white, he in black vareuse and corduroys brown as a wintry coppice, again stood looking one at the other. The Tower of Oblivion 2010-12-20T17:11:53.787Z A very park appeared this plain, with wide open pastures between its groves and coppices, many of which were of such regular forms that one would have fancied they had been planted to adorn it. The Young Yagers A Narrative of Hunting Adventures in Southern Africa 2010-12-20T17:11:52.020Z “Now let’s divide, and we’ll search the coppice here, along the edge of the pit.” The Parson O' Dumford Her kind have been accustomed to them ever since, in the forlorn coppices outside Eden, one Eve gave birth to her firstborn, and called him—being, like a woman, deceived—"My possession." Deep Moat Grange When the Oaks in a coppice are about sixteen years old they are most suitable for this purpose, the bark then containing a larger percentage of tannin than at any other period. Wayside and Woodland Trees A pocket guide to the British sylva 2010-12-25T03:00:16.510Z In that direction we walked, and in ten minutes were among cornfields and hedges, clumps of elms and coppices of oak. The Tower of Oblivion 2010-12-20T17:11:53.787Z The plateau above them is varied by gentle undulations, interspersed with garden grounds, and dotted with coppice woods. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 58, No. 362, December 1845 Bring two long broom-handles, and follow me down to the birch coppice. The Jolliest Term on Record A Story of School Life But it was getting too dusky in the coppice to find these violets themselves twilight-hued, and they turned homeward across the open fields. Sinister Street, vol. 2 Grown as coppice, the Chestnut also provides fine cover for pheasants and other game. Wayside and Woodland Trees A pocket guide to the British sylva 2010-12-25T03:00:16.510Z On the next day Michael, wandering by the edge of the hazel coppice, came upon Brother Aloysius with deep-stained mouth and hands gathering blackberries. Sinister Street, vol. 1 Surrounded by a sort of fresh-water lagoon, dividing it from meadows and coppice, its ancient thatch and timber houses have barely made way even in the front street for the ubiquitous modern brick and slate. McClure's Magazine, Vol. 1, No. 2, July, 1893 He was in the coppice for no good, you may be sure. The Jolliest Term on Record A Story of School Life As he heard the splashing of the bodies of the abductors, as they took to the water after him, he plunged into the coppice and pushed rapidly on into its intricacies. The Girl Aviators and the Phantom Airship Zebedee," said he as they led their horses out of the coppice, "I recognised two of these rascals. Our Admirable Betty A Romance The other two sides were still open to the hazel coppice that here encroached upon the Abbey. Sinister Street, vol. 1 How delicious it was after that fierce race over the heather, running cool and full and strong under the shadow of the coppice! The Story of a Red Deer Commanding a bridge over a stream, by which the convoy had to pass, was a coppice in which the Lancers were able to conceal themselves and the horses. The Irish at the Front In that place and time, simple shepherd-folk who had often seen Raphael, Lord of Collioure, pass into the haunted coppice, were entirely sure of the explanation. The White Plumes of Navarre A Romance of the Wars of Religion From out the coppice, not a dozen yards distant, the general had suddenly emerged. A Transient Guest and Other Episodes The monks interrupted him with more laughter, and Michael, furiously self-conscious, left the library and went to sit alone in the stillest part of the hazel coppice. Sinister Street, vol. 1 In October there was nutting—best of all the new delights, perhaps—when she wandered through the hazel coppices and shook the smooth boughs until the ripe nuts pattered down on the damp, woodland earth. Carnival In a fir coppice about 200 or 300 yards to the South of the house, the figure of a red horse roughly cut in the turf of the hill side might formerly be seen. Edge Hill The Battle and Battlefield There has been far too much dodging into coppices and popping heads round stone walls. The White Plumes of Navarre A Romance of the Wars of Religion "Help me," she murmured, smiling still; and as he bent again to aid her, before him in the coppice stood Mrs. Lyeth. A Transient Guest and Other Episodes It is a tall bold plant that grows in prodigious quantities in the hedges and coppices in some parts of England. Cottage Economy To Which Is Added The Poor Man's Friend The bright leaf still clung to the beech coppice; the long chestnut leaves lay orange on the ground, and the rides were speckled with scarlet-lipped sprouting acorns. Rewards and Fairies Bullets began to whine and the general dropped to the ground and crawled toward a coppice, bellowing orders as he went. Triplanetary They came to a coppice of elms, grown thick with brambles and cluttered with deadwood. The Buttoned Sky She turned again and led him back through the coppice. A Transient Guest and Other Episodes Hereby, upon the edge of yonder coppice; A stand where you may make the fairest shoot.” Folk-lore of Shakespeare The blowing dingles soak with light, The purple coppice hang with blaze; But where we stand a meeker white Bloom on us thro' the hill's soft haze, For Oriana stars the night! Blooms of the Berry It was the work of a moment to spread the robe on a grassy knoll, and here Cousin Stella’s chauffeur found them just as Rollo tossed the empty bottle into a coppice. Rollo in Society A Guide for Youth They had gone through the coppice without discovering Dawvys; now, with any luck, they never would. The Buttoned Sky We left the horses with the guide, and, noiselessly as ghosts, we stole through a coppice which hid the lake from view. A Transient Guest and Other Episodes At that moment the sound of a cowbell in the contiguous mountain coppice told the slow approach of a dappled dairy, in charge of a swarthy French Canadian youth. The Advocate She grew increasingly sensitive to the ominous quiet of the hour and place: the stark, dark stillness of the shrouded coppices and thickets, the emptiness of the paths. The Bandbox Then voices came from the coppice ahead—a godsend to the poor old lady, whose courage had been sorely tried by the interview—and she quickened her pace to meet them. When Ghost Meets Ghost Revel murmured a good-bye, and went plunging on through the coppice to the other side, Jerran following him nimbly with the strength of second wind. The Buttoned Sky And there, in white, a parasol over her head, a basket dangling from her wrist, Liance appeared, emerging, as her father had, from the coppice beyond. A Transient Guest and Other Episodes It leaped on us, drenched in shadow, like some incalculable beast from its covert: a land shaggy with woods and coppices. The Works of Robert Louis Stevenson - Swanston Edition Vol. 20 (of 25) His eye, ever on the alert, had marked a small figure scuttling along in the undergrowth of the coppice, and he was in hot pursuit. The Wolf Patrol A Tale of Baden-Powell's Boy Scouts He is soon lost in a hazel coppice. When Ghost Meets Ghost Haven't I sent a troop for Dawvys in his hole in the coppice, and another to say in the lanes and shebeens that I'm alive? The Buttoned Sky "Young lovers," thought many a one who came across them strolling along near the coppices in the Tiergarten. The Son of His Mother The moon is rising, Mr. Lindsay—shall we not have a stroll together through the coppice?” Wilson's Tales of the Borders and of Scotland, Volume 2 Historical, Traditional, and Imaginative At this moment a hollow bark rang from the depths of the coppice: 'Wow-wow! The Wolf Patrol A Tale of Baden-Powell's Boy Scouts He was looking fixedly ahead, as though something had caught his attention in the coppice they were approaching. When Ghost Meets Ghost "Briars," said the Somewhere Man, as they passed through a coppice. The Unknown Quantity A Book of Romance and Some Half-Told Tales The Cuckoo is found in the verdant woods, in the coppice, and even on the lonely moors. Birds, Illustrated by Color Photography, Vol. 2, No. 3 September 1897 The Puttenham labyrinth has its openings in a dense coppice; and it had this advantage, that with a few strokes of the pick a passage could be blocked with sand from the roof. The Broom-Squire He sat up, and a creature, looking in the faint light something like a dog, ran away into the coppice. The Wolf Patrol A Tale of Baden-Powell's Boy Scouts So the children set out; and they went out across the garden to a little wicket-gate which Mr. Fairchild had opened towards the coppice, and came into Henry's favourite Sunday walk. The Fairchild Family She spent most of her time running on by herself, curled up in a squirrel-place in the garden, lying in a hammock in the coppice, while the birds came near—near—so near. The Rainbow The road delightfully smooth and dry—one gentleman’s house very pleasant among large coppice woods. Recollections of a Tour Made in Scotland A.D. 1803 On the lower slopes of the range grew coppices of Spanish chestnut, and rods of this wood served admirably for broom-handles. The Broom-Squire The two scouts crept along the edge of the coppice, eye and ear on the alert. The Wolf Patrol A Tale of Baden-Powell's Boy Scouts Mary Bush was one of the old women who lived at the end of the coppice; and, being a good woman, Mr. and Mrs. Fairchild were not afraid of trusting their children with her. The Fairchild Family Luckily, if there was one coppice, there were twenty in that gorge, and when I saw him walking away to the wrong one, I thought I should burst out laughing on the spot. The Man Who Drove the Car As we descended, the scene became more fertile, our way being pleasantly varied—through coppices or open fields, and passing farm-houses, though always with an intermixture of uncultivated ground. Recollections of a Tour Made in Scotland A.D. 1803 "It had been found by the spaniels of one of his keepers in a coppice, and shot on the wing." Highways and Byways in Surrey They worked clean round the coppice, saw dozens of rabbits, but were never within a mile of catching one; at last they came back to their camp. The Wolf Patrol A Tale of Baden-Powell's Boy Scouts That side of Pangbourne was in those days almost a continued wood coppice, with occasional tall trees towards the hills, and there was a narrow road and raised path through the wood to the town. The Fairchild Family In unexpected grooves of flight A blundering bat swoops swiftly by; From out a coppice drifts a bird’s Last plaintive melody. Sprays of Shamrock There is a great deal of arable land; the corn ripe; trees here and there—plantations, clumps, coppices, and a newness in everything. Recollections of a Tour Made in Scotland A.D. 1803 The tract thus characterised was about five or six acres in superficial extent; and surrounded by the same kind of coppice that covered most of the face of the country. Bruin The Grand Bear Hunt They felt nothing of the rain at present, for they were camped beneath a fir which stood as an outpost to the coppice, and its thick canopy was stretched above their heads. The Wolf Patrol A Tale of Baden-Powell's Boy Scouts Crouching behind hedges, lingering in coppices, peeping through thickets, two persistent trackers had pursued the unconscious quarry. The Lady of Loyalty House A Novel I dare not look again; another gaze Might drive me to the wavering coppice there, Where bat-winged madness brushed me, the wild laugh Of naked nature crashed across my blood. Gloucester Moors and Other Poems For some time our road was up a glen, the banks chiefly covered with coppice woods, an unpeopled, but, though without grandeur, not a dreary tract. Recollections of a Tour Made in Scotland A.D. 1803 The ridge is rough and rocky, and the northern slope covered with thick coppice, a torrent flowing at the foot. The Red True Story Book They pressed on across the common with a distant fir coppice for their landmark and goal. The Wolf Patrol A Tale of Baden-Powell's Boy Scouts The coppice was much sheltered, but the wind, as it came up the hole through which I had passed, made a wild, moaning sound, which explained many of the stories I had heard. The Birthright O for a thicket or a coppice, or a clump of tangled brambles, to show that there was some sympathy in nature with the tangled trouble of his heart! The King's Warrant A Story of Old and New France The trees surrounding the paddock had not yet lost their first fresh green: and the white red-roofed stabling, newly built to accommodate the racing stud, made a vivid high light against the coppices. Love of Brothers I had not proceeded far, when, emerging from the coppice on the opposite side of the bivouac, I beheld my wife advancing towards me in the custody of an Indian. Seven and Nine years Among the Camanches and Apaches An Autobiography They had now reached the border of the moor, and the land was studded by woods, coppices, and coverts. The Wolf Patrol A Tale of Baden-Powell's Boy Scouts The road was slimy and hard to climb; but I struggled on, and erelong found myself in a coppice. The Birthright The dark patches dotting the ground beneath us were woods and coppices, while running straight beneath was a tiny train upon the railway between Folkestone and London. The Stretton Street Affair The path curved gently by the edges of the coppice. Love of Brothers Meadows and poplars and the flash of streams, steadings and villages, coppices, flocks and curling roads glinted or glowed in miniature. Jonah and Co. When he returned, Chippy was emerging from the coppice with armfuls of bedding; he had found a framework in the rails of a broken fence which had once bounded the firwood. The Wolf Patrol A Tale of Baden-Powell's Boy Scouts On one side of the coppice was a meadow which belonged to a fisherman named Ikey Trethewy—a strange, silent man who spoke but little, and who possessed a fast-trotting horse. The Birthright The snow was on the ground, Follygob says—the woods and coppices and hills lay slumbering beneath a glistening white mantle. Terribly Intimate Portraits And as she knelt and pleaded as a woman with her God, behold! there stepped forth from the coppice Mistress Marian. A Brother To Dragons and Other Old-time Tales And then, from a coppice, some thirty yards away, a man emerged, whom I took, from his general appearance, to be a gamekeeper. Ravensdene Court Within three hundred yards Chippy saw a white house before him in lee of a fir coppice. The Wolf Patrol A Tale of Baden-Powell's Boy Scouts On the other side the coppice sloped up to the spongy headland, where a curious kind of grass grew, and where rabbits dug their holes, and frolicked on summer nights. The Birthright Presently Miss Charlecote opened the wicket leading to an oak coppice. Hopes and Fears or, scenes from the life of a spinster A rabbit rustled through the coppice, and a jay screeched in the distant glade. A Son of Hagar A Romance of Our Time Placing main emphasis on the chestnut, a start was made on the cultivation of the thousands of sprouts and seedlings on my 43 acre coppice forest. Northern Nut Growers Association Report of the Proceedings at the 41st Annual Meeting Pleasant Valley, New York, August 28, 29 and 30, 1950 Chips and sticks were carefully piled, and a scout was allowed two matches to make a rousing fire of the gorse-stems and dried sticks to be found in the coppices on the heath. The Wolf Patrol A Tale of Baden-Powell's Boy Scouts Over in the coppice the nightingale sang exultantly as if he knew of the wonder that his song had revealed to the lovers who listened to him with their lips together. The Tragic Bride The young chestnut coppice is not so seriously affected, but the losses caused by the blight will make growing coppice on a 10- to 20-year rotation basis less profitable than formerly. Northern Nut Growers Association Report of the Proceedings at the 44th Annual Meeting Rochester, N.Y. August 31 and September 1, 1953 The grim old Forest of Dean was dwarfing to a mere coppice; the rushing Severn was becoming an insignificant brook. Sea-Dogs All! A Tale of Forest and Sea My first task when I began, three years ago, on my coppice growth 35 to 40 year old hardwood forest, was to clear a little land and to begin planting different world species of Castanea. Northern Nut Growers Association Incorporated 39th Annual Report at Norris, Tenn. September 13-15 1948 Forced to seek concealment in a coppice, a white owl settled on the bush under which he was hidden. Anecdotes of Animals The only breaks in its expanse were here and there, springing in the sheltered hollows, coppices or bluffs of slender poplar saplings, with crowding stems, as close and even as hair. Two on the Trail A Story of the Far Northwest The roses and jasmine nodded round the casement, and from almost every tree within reach of hearing, right down to the coppice, came ringing forth the merry morning songs of the birds. Hollowdell Grange Holiday Hours in a Country Home He came upon Lynde, sitting on a grey boulder under the shadow of an overhanging fir coppice, with her dogs beside her. Lucy Maud Montgomery Short Stories, 1907 to 1908 Again the rover of the night Enraged the chieftain, full in sight, Slow moving in the coppice near, Surrounded by the woodland deer. The Rámáyan of Válmíki, translated into English verse Once he made pause hard by the coppice green That hid the watcher. Lilith The Legend of the First Woman Garth's eyes meanwhile swept the wide, brown, undulating sea, seeking in the hollows and the coppices for any sign of motion. Two on the Trail A Story of the Far Northwest Larks were singing, and, though the cuckoo had changed his tune, blackbirds still fluted in the coppices. A harum-scarum schoolgirl In Love's Labour's Lost the Princess and her ladies shoot at deer from a coppice. Shakespeare's Lost Years in London, 1586-1592 In every coppice there is a running to and fro, a creeping, a scampering, and a leaping of wild creatures. Days Off And Other Digressions The coppice oft she sought, Much hoping direful evil might be wrought Upon the love that bloomed in Eden. Lilith The Legend of the First Woman Where you now see one, was a green sward, with here and there a coppice of trees, forming part of the little prairie in which we were encamped. The Desert Home The Adventures of a Lost Family in the Wilderness Forced to seek concealment in a coppice, an owl settled on the bush under which he was hid. A Hundred Anecdotes of Animals It is said to have been well wooded formerly, but no forests remain, and the hedge-rows, coppices and scattered trees are all it can now offer in the way of foliage. Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science, Vol. 12, No. 32, November, 1873 “In the long coppice, or down by the ten acres?” Dead Man's Land Being the Voyage to Zimbambangwe of certain and uncertain blacks and whites Beside a coppice green, Brighter than gold, purer than silver sheen, In a fair garden, once a jewel shone. Lilith The Legend of the First Woman This grove appeared of that kind usually termed a coppice or copse—such as may be often observed in English parks. Ran Away to Sea The stream hidden away in the hazel coppice gurgled and murmured. The History of Sir Richard Calmady A Romance Bare, lofty downs, shadeless fields, no coppices, great swampy pastures—an open, breezy country all swells and falls, with occasionally fine clumps and avenues of English elms, feathered to their roots. Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science, Vol. 12, No. 32, November, 1873 Meanwhile, Mithridanes arose and taking his bow and his sword, for other arms he had not, mounted to horse and made for the coppice, where he saw Nathan from afar go walking all alone. The Decameron of Giovanni Boccaccio In this burn, screened from observation by an umbrageous coppice, was the bathing-pool. Freaks on the Fells Three Months' Rustication The foliage of the outer boughs concealed it from the view, and hence had we mistaken the single tree for a grove or coppice. Ran Away to Sea The bird was answered moreover by another singer from the coppice, bordering the trout-stream which feeds the Long Water, away across the valley. The History of Sir Richard Calmady A Romance Sometimes whole tracts of country are met with in these regions, whose surface exhibits a pleasing variety of woodland and prairie; sloping hills appear with coppices upon their crests and along their sides. The Hunters' Feast Conversations Around the Camp Fire Suffice it to say that he went into that coppice pale and came out red—so red that his handsome sunburned countenance seemed on the point of catching fire. The Thorogood Family As the day was particularly bright and warm, this minor picnic was splendidly carried into effect, in a little coppice close to the house. The Eagle Cliff The garden of the Cottage, at its lower end towards the river, approached close to the confines of a thick coppice. The Buffalo Runners A Tale of the Red River Plains At the fields, plough and pasture, marked out by long lines of hedgerow trees, broken by coppices—these dashed with tenderest green—stretching up and back to the dark purple-blue range of the moorland. The History of Sir Richard Calmady A Romance Turkeys run into the coppice, and pheasants whirr up from the path. The Scalp Hunters He did not stop to speak, but to the surprise of his rescuers, ran straight into a neighbouring coppice, and disappeared. The Fugitives The Tyrant Queen of Madagascar A whole navy was comprised in one of its coppices; and the arching avenues were imposing as the aisles of our Gothic minsters. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, No. CCCXXXVI. October, 1843. Vol. LIV. About the same time that the events just described took place in Red River, there assembled a large band of feathered and painted warriors in a secluded coppice far out on the prairie. The Buffalo Runners A Tale of the Red River Plains The hillside, clothed with heather and bracken, fringed lower down with a coppice of delicate birches, falls steeply away in front and on either hand. The History of Sir Richard Calmady A Romance He ducked into a coppice, Zarathustra at his heels, and watched the heavy vehicle bounce by. The Servant Problem The victors immediately ran into the coppice in search of Voalavo, whom they found on his knees, digging up the earth with both hands as if for very life! The Fugitives The Tyrant Queen of Madagascar At length he headed around the forking angle of the road; and having passed the little coppices of evergreen oaks, came within sight of the house. The White Chief A Legend of Northern Mexico To him the cypress swamp was a precious preserve—as a coppice to the pheasant shooter, or a scrub-wood to the hunter of foxes. The Death Shot A Story Retold On the right, the fir wood is broken by coppices of silver-stemmed birches, and spaces of heather—that shows a purple-brown against the gray of the reindeer moss out of which it springs. The History of Sir Richard Calmady A Romance The following morning the nest was empty, but I found the father-bird in a coppice feeding the little family. Ohio Arbor Day 1913: Arbor and Bird Day Manual Issued for the Benefit of the Schools of our State I have seldom seen anything in woodland scenery more picturesque and attractive than the old coppice of Lanton, on that soft and balmy April morning. The Ground-Ash Right at the crown of the hill, most fortunately for the wayfarer, there was a thick coppice of stunted trees, which afforded refuge from the gale and shelter from the rain. VC — A Chronicle of Castle Barfield and of the Crimea I remember that I yelled out to the little party which accompanied me, "We're under fire!" and flinging myself from my horse, dragged him into the shelter of a coppice. Recollections With Photogravure Portrait of the Author and a number of Original Letters, of which one by George Meredith and another by Robert Louis Stevenson are reproduced in facsimile A nightingale sang in the big, Portugal laurel at the corner of the troco-ground, and was answered by another singer from the coppice, across the valley, bordering the trout stream that feeds the Long Water. The History of Sir Richard Calmady A Romance Some patches of ancient coppice at the base of the barish hills behind, give it even a smiling aspect. Chambers's Edinburgh Journal, No. 451 Volume 18, New Series, August 21, 1852 It declined, however, generally speaking, towards the centre of the coppice, along which a small, very small rivulet, scarcely more than a runlet, wound its way in a thousand graceful meanders. The Ground-Ash And then, helping himself along from hand to hand, he skirted the coppice, until he came to the unsheltered brow of the hill. VC — A Chronicle of Castle Barfield and of the Crimea The shadows grew longer and longer, and we rigged up some comfortable little shelters in the coppice for the night, thinking we should bivouac where we were. The Doings of the Fifteenth Infantry Brigade August 1914 to March 1915 It was a marshy, dense, and tangled coppice projecting like a sabre tooth between the brigades of Lane and Archer. The Long Roll Remember the primroses out on every bank, and the anemones in the wood, and the blue flush of wild hyacinths in the coppice! The Village Pulpit, Volume II. Trinity to Advent A Complete Course of 66 Short Sermons, or Full Sermon Outlines for Each Sunday, and Some Chief Holy Days of the Christian Year They prey at night and live in the thickest parts of woods or coppices, where they rapidly dig deep holes, by means of their sharp and powerful claws. Anecdotes of the Habits and Instinct of Animals But no answer came, only a whisper from the coppice, followed by the squeak of the crazy shutter. The Sins of Séverac Bablon Others of course helped him and his men, and we wandered along over the grass, and skirting the little woods and coppices till we got to the main road again. The Doings of the Fifteenth Infantry Brigade August 1914 to March 1915 Meade's line of battle rushed across the open, brushed the edge of the coppice, discovered that it was empty, and plunging in, found cover. The Long Roll Getting up at sunrise, Kondjé and I take a run through the coppices, her little feet all wet with the dew. French and Oriental Love in a Harem How pale and ethereal they were, these Gallic coppices and woodlands! The Daughters of Danaus "Ah!" cried Sheffield, and started running towards Mr. Belford's limousine on the edge of the coppice. The Sins of Séverac Bablon So saying, the scout left the coppice, and, flinging open his coat, re-entered the cave a very different-looking man from what he was when he left it. Charlie to the Rescue When it was almost upon the coppice it fired, then fixed bayonets. The Long Roll Immediately after that a treble scream was heard to issue from a coppice behind the fort. The Walrus Hunters A Romance of the Realms of Ice In the coppice no wind could be felt, and they left the straight road and turned into a narrow path running under the trees. The works of Guy de Maupassant, Vol. 5 Une Vie and Other Stories Not a sound disturbed the silence of the deserted place, save when the slight breeze sighed through the trees of the adjoining coppice, and swayed some invisible shutter which creaked upon its rusty hinges. The Sins of Séverac Bablon Squires hid their gamekeepers in dark coppices with instructions to pelt one as one drove past after dark. Fifteen Chapters of Autobiography Suddenly, from this coppice, opened two of Pelham's guns. The Long Roll The rustic seat in the centre of the coppice was still unoccupied, and he began to fear that something had transpired to prevent her from coming. The International Monthly Magazine, Volume 1, No. 1, August 1850 of Literature, Science and Art. The spot towards which they were hurrying was separated from the rest of the grounds by a thick coppice. Ernest Bracebridge School Days No other sound followed, until the breeze came again, whispered in the coppice, and shook the shutter. The Sins of Séverac Bablon After tattoo we set out for the major’s marquee, which lay near the centre of the islet, in a coppice of caoutchouc-trees. The Rifle Rangers They left behind in the marshy coppice, and on the wooded slopes and by the embankment, four thousand dead and wounded. The Long Roll On the north side, where is now Eaton Terrace, was a coppice which provided wood for the Abbey. Mayfair, Belgravia, and Bayswater The Fascination of London A little further on another, and then yet another were bagged: it was a well-stocked coppice, and had not been shot yet. Dr. Jolliffe's Boys “Why, the river runs round just below the coppice; and if Master Teddy runs on and can’t stop himself, he’ll fall into it—there!” Teddy The Story of a Little Pickle At length, fever and ague began to thin the ranks of the gold-seekers; we saw the working-parties around us diminish day by day, and graves dug in the shadows of the low coppice. Chambers's Edinburgh Journal, No. 444 Volume 18, New Series, July 3, 1852 A blue infantry regiment issued at a run, crossed the open and attained the cover of the coppice which commanded the road and the eastern stretch of fields. The Long Roll We went out after school to a sort of little coppice where there is a lot of that nice dry brushwood that anybody may take. Grandmother Dear A Book for Boys and Girls They cannot prove that he was in the coppice when he was about three miles in the opposite direction, you know. Dr. Jolliffe's Boys The Welsh call it “pen y llwyn,” the head or master of the coppice. The Natural History of Selborne, Vol. 2 Here and there, it is covered with low coppice or underwood; but the greater part is bare and sandy, or sprinkled over with thin, dry waving grass. Chambers's Edinburgh Journal, No. 444 Volume 18, New Series, July 3, 1852 The upward reaching fingers of coppice and brush had their occupants, fragments of commands under cover, bands of sharpshooters. The Long Roll Now for that little alder coppice at the further end of the marshy swamp. Highways and Byways in Sussex He could not fix his attention; his mind would wander to that coppice. Dr. Jolliffe's Boys Yet another and he was out of the garden, and in an old-fashioned orchard which ran, thick with trees, to the very edge of the coppices at the foot of the Shawl. The Borough Treasurer Beyond was the shrubbery and fruit garden; and to the left the meadow, bounded by a coppice. Isabel Leicester A Romance by Maude Alma Smoke and flame burst again from the coppice. The Long Roll Working their way through the trees they reached a little coppice close to the road. The Eagle of the Empire A Story of Waterloo As he passed through a coppice on his way he came upon a boy and a figure following with a sack, whether man or boy he could not say, as it was in deep shadow. Dr. Jolliffe's Boys All was quiet as he passed through a gap in the orchard hedge and stole into the coppices. The Borough Treasurer From the shadow which the coppice Flings across the rippling stream, Did I hear a sound of music— Was it thought or was it dream? The Bon Gaultier Ballads Perhaps it answered to the present coppice, which is composed of the springs or shoots of the growth which has been cut down: "The lofty high wood and the lower spring." Notes and Queries, Number 184, May 7, 1853 A Medium of Inter-communication for Literary Men, Artists, Antiquaries, Genealogists, etc. They lay down on the ground back of the coppice, wormed their way into it, and waited. The Eagle of the Empire A Story of Waterloo The cousins found their way to Nelly's favourite haunt, the little coppice of low almond trees with the troops of narcissi and violets and primroses colouring all the brown earth. Mary Gray "He's lying there in the coppice above your house—I stumbled over him coming through there just now," replied Garthwaite. The Borough Treasurer Hence you see the mountains in magnificent composition, and craggy coppices with intervening green fields shelving down to the lake margin. Recreations of Christopher North, Volume 2 Heaths and coppice alternate with pastures and arable land; pools and marshes are numerous, especially in the north. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 4, Part 3 "Brescia" to "Bulgaria" Found in coppices and fields; rarely entering houses. Natural History of the Mammalia of India and Ceylon Below the fantastic houses clustered to the lake's edge in their little groves and coppices of green. Mary Gray He was looking through the papers when he heard a sound in the neighbouring coppices or bushes. The Borough Treasurer The week-old fawn had left the doe's side but for a momentary race along the edge of the coppice; a rustle and a shadow—and the burden is borne off to the cliffs of Benevis. Recreations of Christopher North, Volume 2 "Go round by the coppice, my darling; meet your father and tell him what you have seen; I will go to the stranger."—"And take some cordials with you," said both the children. The Loyalists, Vol. 1-3 An Historical Novel In a considerable number of cases all the members of the same group of coppice trunks from an old stump show a similar degree of resistance. Northern Nut Growers Association, Report Of The Proceedings At The Tenth Annual Meeting. Battle Creek, Michigan, December 9 and 10, 1919 The brown coppices and hedges by which the train hurried were bright with the scarlet of many berries. Mary Gray The cloud passed and a lake of silver spread out to the edge of the coppice; where it terminated at a shadow bank. The Devil Doctor But a window to the left shows the thick leaves of a coppice; the landscape suggests silence and loneliness. Irish Plays and Playwrights But when he had walked a few hundred yards he sank down exhausted on a wooden seat in the alder coppice overhanging the house, and remained there. Prisoners Fast Bound In Misery And Iron The coppice and corn-fields in front of the British troops were filled with French sharp-shooters, who kept up a distant spattering fire. The Ontario Readers: Fourth Book Round a small pool of water a coppice of branches was interlaced. Pathfinders of the West Being the Thrilling Story of the Adventures of the Men Who Discovered the Great Northwest: Radisson, La Vérendrye, Lewis and Clark There were some railings near, and they scrambled over these and dodged down an embankment into a coppice before anybody in the train had time to give an alarm. The Luckiest Girl in the School Your dreams are now faint, flickering shadows, that play like fire-flies in the coppices of leafy June. Dream Life A Fable Of The Seasons She walked a few steps along it, and came suddenly upon a clearing in the coppice. Prisoners Fast Bound In Misery And Iron There was a mysterious stir and flutter of spring in all the coppices. The Story of Bawn So, growing impatient, he got out of his skiff, went splashing through the marl water himself, and disappeared in the coppice. Pieces of Eight At this Sholto let his horse go where it would, and, as they were passing at the time through a coppice of hazel, he caught his saucy sweetheart quickly by the wrist. The Black Douglas "No dog, no man, is the rule about here, when it comes to coppice work," continued young de Whichehalse; "there is not a man would dare work there, without a dog to scare the pixies." Lorna Doone A Romance of Exmoor On a blowing afternoon in the middle of April she made her way across the down with her basket to a distant hazel coppice to which she had not been as yet. Prisoners Fast Bound In Misery And Iron Then he began to search the dense coppices, occasionally roamed about distractedly, halting to listen. The Works of Guy de Maupassant, Volume 4 Far and near stretched misty levels of milkwhite water, in which the mangrove trees made countless islands, sometimes of considerable extent, impenetrable coppices often thirty or forty feet high. Pieces of Eight An owl hooted and a swart raven disengaged himself from the coppice about the door of the pavilion, and fluttered away with a croak of disdainful anger. The Black Douglas With his long nose to the ground he stepped delicately to the edge of the coppice, then stood still looking about him, his brown eyes full of wistful anxiety. Dick and Brownie Wentworth saw his servants looking for him, and hid himself in the coppice. Prisoners Fast Bound In Misery And Iron He made off, returned into the island, threw himself across the coppice panting. The Works of Guy de Maupassant, Volume 4 He passed a shaky hand over his forehead as a cry rang back to us through the coppice. Poison Island Landowners derived a good income from their woods and coppices. A Short History of English Agriculture That afternoon there were four other live things in the coppice, but they too were silent, for they were wrapped in deep sleep. Dick and Brownie Thrush and blackbird singing In the coppice near, All the blue sky ringing With their notes so clear! The Nursery, No. 106, October, 1875. Vol. XVIII. A Monthly Magazine for Youngest Readers Scarcely any tree coppices more vigorously or makes more useful pollards on dry grass land. Scientific American Supplement, No. 421, January 26, 1884 We drew up by the stile, where I pointed to the smear of blood, and Mr. Rogers, calling to Hosken to follow him, dashed into the coppice and down the path into the rank undergrowth. Poison Island The evening was really enchanting; and through the branches of the coppice wood the sun seemed to be setting in a bed of molten gold. A Bibliographical, Antiquarian and Picturesque Tour in France and Germany, Volume One The summer sun blazed down scorchingly on the white road, on the wide stretch of moorland in the distance, and on the little coppice which grew not far from the road. Dick and Brownie Embankments suddenly showed themselves high in the air, and as suddenly dipped again; then there were long stretches of coppice, with red bracken, and a sprinkling of gold on the oaks. Prince Fortunatus Within fifty yards of the coppice the order to charge was given. The Amateur Army I was up early next morning, and was going off for my customary swim when, on crossing a stile, I saw a figure draw back into a coppice bounding the field. Humphrey Bold A Story of the Times of Benbow A warm crimson sun-set seemed to envelope the coppice wood in a flame of gold. A Bibliographical, Antiquarian and Picturesque Tour in France and Germany, Volume One But while we see this king of peace surrounded by national grievances, and that "this fair coppice was very thick and well-grown," yet loud in murmurs, to what cause are we to attribute them? Literary Character of Men of Genius Drawn from Their Own Feelings and Confessions But as they drew near to the farther end of the coppice the path became clearer, and now he walked by her side. Prince Fortunatus At the thought, though he had barely got his breath, he rose, and keeping within the coppice crawled down the slope towards the river. Count Hannibal A Romance of the Court of France House and farm, field and coppice, were in pretty good condition; no mortgages, as far as he knew, cumbered the estate. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine — Volume 56, No. 346, August, 1844 Again the poor beast erects his head—if he can only reach yon coppice he is safe. The Lancashire Witches A Romance of Pendle Forest The modern mood prefers a lane to a winding avenue, and an old orchard or stony pasture to a lawn decorated with coppices. A History of English Romanticism in the Eighteenth Century For this pleasure, the Vale of Esthwaite, abounding in coppice wood, furnished a very wide range. Selections from Wordsworth and Tennyson “But perhaps, it were better to tell your husband and let his men search the coppice.” Count Hannibal A Romance of the Court of France They walked along the terrace, and presently found themselves in the little coppice adjoining it. Red Pottage On the brow of the hill before he plunged into the coppice he turned to look down at the distant figure moving with slow paces across the field below. The Altar Steps He surveyed the intervening space beyond the coppice. And Thus He Came A Christmas Fantasy Fifty acres you may call it; the most of it waste or else coppice,—and coppice don't pay for cuttin'. Hocken and Hunken She left me and went into the little coppice. Count Hannibal A Romance of the Court of France Hester was too tired to play with them, too tired even to tell them a story; so she sat under a tree while they circled in the coppice near at hand. Red Pottage Silent and motionless sat Blanchard, on the fringe of a bank at the coppice edge. Children of the Mist At the very end of the coppice he gathered himself together and rose slowly to a crouching position. And Thus He Came A Christmas Fantasy Often, too, they saw him in one of the walks, guiding the tiny feet of the mysterious lady towards the densest coppices. Abbe Mouret's Transgression Not far from here is a temple and grove of Athene, a fair coppice of poplar-trees, and a spring of clear water. Stories from the Odyssey Ere long we observed fantastic cottages and picturesque villas nestling in the coppices, and as may be imagined we were all on tip-toe with curiosity to catch a sight of their inhabitants. A Trip to Venus On one side rose a willow coppice, in the trailing branches of which a musically rippling brook was running; on the other, the ruins of a barn, which a flood had demolished. The Son of Clemenceau A wood-cutter engaged in cutting coppice on the wood's eastern skirts, hearing deep muffled sounds from "Tom" clock-tower, borne to him from Oxford on the light easterly breeze, stopped to count the strokes. Lady Connie It is the birds in the trees, the insects in the grass, the roebucks and the stags in the coppices, and even the little fishes splashing the quiet water with their beating fins. Abbe Mouret's Transgression To these lowly, solitary men, who knew nothing beyond their own fields and coppices and wastelands, its excitement came like a magic philter to change the monotony of their days. The Waters of Edera Anemone At the further side of the coppice, where a hedge separates it from the little meadow called Home Close, are Sweet Violets. Wildflowers of the Farm The hazel hurdle-maker may be seen in the coppice surrounded by his material and the clean fresh stacks of the work completed. Grain and Chaff from an English Manor Far-seeing heart! if that be all The happy things that did not fall," I sighed, "from every coppice call They never from that garden went. Poems by Jean Ingelow, In Two Volumes, Volume I. The shade it cast was so imperceptible that it wafted to them none of the languor that some dim coppice might have done. Abbe Mouret's Transgression The nest was near the top of an oak-sapling in a dense coppice, placed close against the stem in a bunch of leaves at the top. The Nests and Eggs of Indian Birds, Volume 1 The whole coppice is starred with the beautiful white flowers. Wildflowers of the Farm At Alton there were some extensive woods and coppices on the farm, which were favourite breeding-places for pheasants, being dry and sunny. Grain and Chaff from an English Manor But Midmore needed two, next morning very early, for a devil's diversion, among wet coppices, called 'cubbing.' A Diversity of Creatures He went north36 and met his translators at Brantwood to finish the Xenophon,—and to help dig his harbour and cut coppice in his wood. The Life of John Ruskin Even in the darkness the tall banks were familiar, and between skill and good fortune we came to shore on the left bank below a coppice and just within sight of the town lights. The Laird's Luck and Other Fireside Tales Down the slopes of old pasture fell cascades of daffodils, and in the fringes of the coppices lay the blue haze of wild hyacinths. Penny Plain The young wood when gown in coppices is useful for hop-poles, and the small underwood is said to afford the best fuel of any when used green. The Botanist's Companion, Volume II "On the river-bank—between the river and a coppice, wasn't it?" Dead Men's Money The country was one uninterrupted plain, in many parts of which no wood nor even the smallest shrub was to be seen: a frozen, sea, of which the little coppices were the islands. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 09, No. 52, February, 1862 That Prince, with his army, happened to be surprised and put to flight by his enemies, and was forced to conceal himself in a little coppice. The Illustrated London Reading Book The riders were no longer on the open downs, but in a narrow by-road, running across wastes and through thick coppices, the ground sloping sharply to the Avon. The Castle Inn Hence results another charming feature of the English countryside—the footpaths you see everywhere winding over hill and dale, through field and coppice. Vanishing Roads and Other Essays "Just so—between the bank and the coppice." Dead Men's Money The headmost hounds soon burst out of the coppice, followed by three or four riders with reckless haste, regardless of the broken and difficult nature of the ground. The World's Greatest Books — Volume 08 — Fiction Subsequently to the finding of the body, which had occurred on Saturday evening, there had been discovered in a coppice adjoining a heavy bludgeon-like stick broken in two. The Blotting Book About the space of a bow shot from the city gate, there was a coppice standing within a fair meadow. French Mediaeval Romances from the Lays of Marie de France Boreas blows on his high wood whistle, Over the coppice and down the lane Where the goldfinch chirps from the haulm of the thistle And mangolds gleam in the farmer's wain. Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 156, January 22, 1919 I saw, too, that between where I stood and the actual walls there was no cover of shrubbery or coppice or spinny—there was nothing but a closely cropped lawn to cross. Dead Men's Money In fact, three armed warriors were hastening, at the utmost speed of their horses, towards a thick coppice, which they entered, and disappeared. Theobald, the Iron-Hearted Love to Enemies And still he pressed heedlessly on farther and farther, till, after a while, he found himself thrusting through a thick coppice of willow boughs. Christmas in Legend and Story A Book for Boys and Girls One day he was living in a stick- house in the coppice, causing terror to the family of old Mr. Benjamin Bouncer. A Collection of Beatrix Potter Stories Even as you may see in coppice woods; if you leave your staddles too thick, you shall never have clean underwood, but shrubs and bushes. The Essays of Francis Bacon I knew the surroundings well enough to know how to get in amongst the shrubberies and coppices—I could have got in there unobserved in the daytime, and it was now black night. Dead Men's Money The bright leaf Still clung to the beech coppice; the long chestnut leaves lay orange on the ground, and the rides were speckled with scarlet-lipped sprouting acorns. Rewards and Fairies And I said, 'I'll lay my life it's that young woman's child as I met going to the coppice.' Adam Bede And he waved his hand over the park with its sward and coppice and bracken and the deer cropping in the late afternoon gold. The Shuttle Reaching the coppice, she listlessly observed Marty at work, threw away her cigarette, and came near. The Woodlanders Then a kick of devilish energy sent the whole loosened square of thin wood flying into the pathway, and a great gap of dark coppice gaped in the paling. The Wisdom of Father Brown So Paul and Arthur scoured the coppices and woods and old quarries, so long as a blackberry was to be found, every week-end going on their search. Sons and Lovers I had to go to the other side of the coppice to look after some stakes. Adam Bede She went down the avenue and turned into a coppice. The Shuttle When she had run off he fancied he discerned a woman's dress through the holly-bushes which divided the coppice from the road. The Woodlanders By the way, I did not hear the sound of your carriage; you have left it yonder, behind the coppice at the fork of the roads, no doubt. Les Misérables They determined on walking round Beechen Cliff, that noble hill whose beautiful verdure and hanging coppice render it so striking an object from almost every opening in Bath. Northanger Abbey There he dismounted, hid his bicycle in a coppice wherein he had often left it before, and went on towards the house through the woods and plantations. The Talleyrand Maxim Now and again a huge black head would uplift from the coppice growth, and a long, rumbling growl come from between a double row of white teeth. The Crimson Blind I have not opened, nor will I open, his letter.—A sycophant creature!—With his hoarsenesses—got perhaps by a midnight revel, singing to his wild note singer, and only increased in the coppice! Clarissa Harlowe; or the history of a young lady — Volume 2 Before his eyes field and coppice, hedge and homestead, stream and flowing highway, all blurred and ran streakily into one another, like a highly impressionistic water-color. The Black Bag A fog about the coppice drifts, Or slowly thickens up and lifts Into the moist, despondent air. Georgian Poetry 1920-22 Until the whole coppice Awakes in confusion; The birds and the insects, The swift-footed beasts And the low crawling reptiles Are chattering and buzzing And stirring all round. Who Can Be Happy and Free in Russia? There were banks and coppices of flowers at either corner, a huge palm nodded over silver and glass and priceless china. The Crimson Blind He has got a violent cold and hoarseness, by his fruitless attendance all night in the coppice. Clarissa Harlowe; or the history of a young lady — Volume 2 We are surrounded by coppices, groves, espaliers, and plantations. Anna St. Ives From what sad star I know not, but I found Myself new-born below the coppice rail, No bigger than the dewdrops and as round, In a soft sward, no cattle might assail. Georgian Poetry 1920-22 The house lay in a Buckinghamshire valley, shut round and sheltered by hills and coppices, where there was an abundance of game. London Pride Or When the World Was Younger At that time, this part of Paris was not comprised within its walls, nothing was to be seen here, in the vicinity of the tile-kiln, but a few coppices and scattered habitations. Paris as It Was and as It Is He says, 'He had been in different disguises loitering about our garden and park wall, all the day on Sunday last; and all Sunday night was wandering about the coppice, and near the back door. Clarissa Harlowe; or the history of a young lady — Volume 2 A night in the open air would do her no harm; the shelter of the coppice near would be protection enough for them all; and Sergeant Long was obliged to submit. The Fur Country Seventy Degrees North Latitude At the 21/2 kilometre stone is a dense thicket of oak coppice, clothing the steep side of the valley. Castles and Cave Dwellings of Europe "No lanes, no hedge-rows, no weirs, no coppices…" "What's the matter with these maples?" asked Fasten, abandoning himself to the American idiom. With the Procession The silence here was broken incessantly by the stirring of the birds, which swarm in these berry-bearing coppices. The Isle of Unrest He must have had pen, ink, and paper with him; for it was written in the coppice; with this circumstance: On one knee, kneeling with the other. Clarissa Harlowe; or the history of a young lady — Volume 2 It was not long before they came through the coppice and told me of the fearful devastation which Satan had made in the village and manse by the permission of all-righteous God. Mary Schweidler, the amber witch : the most interesting trial for witchcraft ever known, printed from an imperfect manuscript by her father, Abraham Schweidler, the pastor of Coserow in the island of Usedom / edited by W. Meinhold ; translated from the German by Lady Duff Gordon. I stipulated to be at liberty to grub up and to cultivate all the hedge-rows, and about three hundred acres of wood and coppice land. Memoirs of Henry Hunt, Esq. — Volume 2 Three clear notes rang out from the echoing coppice; it was like the voice of the organ in a great church. The Path of Life Song by Valgovind The fields are full of Poppies, and the skies are very blue, By the Temple in the coppice, I wait, Beloved, for you. India's Love Lyrics He opened a gate and through a little coppice they reached a fence. The Misses Mallett The Bridge Dividing Moreover, the leaves of the coppice blocked the view. The Eight Strokes of the Clock On the other side of the valley sloping coppices abound, and therein can I show thee many badger holes. A Boy's Ride Here rises the Heaven Mountain, with its wilderness of coppice and heather; from here you gaze over the rich landscape, with its woods and lakes, as far down as the roaring Cattegat. O. T. a Danish Romance To the left of the house a coppice of bronze beeches shone with dark lustre; clumps of rhododendrons enlivened the green with splashes of color. Life at High Tide Over emerald lawn and coppice, tall trees and brilliant flowers, the October sun shone gloriously. A Terrible Secret He ran up to her and drew her into the coppice! The Eight Strokes of the Clock Wooded hills were the northern, and sloping coppices the southern boundary of the vale. A Boy's Ride In the beautiful fields and wild coppices about Hornsey, as yet unencroached upon by suburban extension; and by the side of the then solitary banks of the New River, I was always to be found. The Infant System For Developing the Intellectual and Moral Powers of all Children, from One to Seven years of Age In sick despair Narcissus stalked that Amazonian battalion, crouching behind hedges, dropping into by-lanes, lurking in coppices,—he held his breath as they passed two and two within a yard of him. The Book-Bills of Narcissus An Account Rendered by Richard Le Gallienne She half-raised herself, looking dreamily out on the sunlit prospect of lawn, and coppice, and woodland. A Terrible Secret O Jack! what a night had I in the bleak coppice adjoining to her father's paddock! Clarissa Harlowe; or the history of a young lady — Volume 5 Continuing for a mile or so, at a walk, he entered a dense coppice and dismounted. Snake and Sword A Novel The banks of Lake Erie, in the vicinity of Huron, are thickly studded with small trees and coppice wood. An Englishman's Travels in America His Observations of Life and Manners in the Free and Slave States And now I will at times explore every little nook of some poor coppice with almost anxious footsteps, so deep a hold has this imagination upon me. The Celtic Twilight I have one with a clump of Corallina rising from its apex, like a coppice on the summit of a hill. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 02, No. 11, September, 1858 I require woods, and they show me stunted coppices. The Works of Charles and Mary Lamb — Volume 2 Elia and The Last Essays of Elia He had certainly rushed off to join Therese in some coppice, whence they must have hurried away to Vieux-Bourg station which the last train to Paris quitted at five-and-twenty minutes past midnight. Fruitfulness The least movement in a coppice excites apprehension, and fills the soul of both the resolute and the timorous with anticipations of danger. An Englishman's Travels in America His Observations of Life and Manners in the Free and Slave States Then the scene changed, and I came through meadows, and past coppices into Boldre. England of My Heart : Spring On the other side a tangled nutwood coppice separated the judge's residence from its nearest neighbours, so the house was completely isolated. The Hampstead Mystery They so longed to put undebatable ground behind them and really be where the distant coppice might be a curtain to the enemy! The Iron Game A Tale of the War Thirty yards into the coppice we found a man lying dead, with a sharp stake holding him to the ground, and a raw, red mass where had been once his head. Salute to Adventurers The coppice and cornfields in front of the British troops were filled with French sharp-shooters, who kept up a distant, spattering fire. Elson Grammar School Literature v4 I waited some time; but at last in stalked the Duke, looking very awful indeed—so stern and severe—that I could not help smiling, and saying—"The burnt coppice, your Grace." Canada and the States It was not long before they came through the coppice, and told me of the fearful devastation which Satan had made in the village and manse by the permission of all-righteous God. Sidonia, the Sorceress : the Supposed Destroyer of the Whole Reigning Ducal House of Pomerania — Volume 2 Arrived there we went by a narrow pathway driven through a coppice. The Queen Pedauque We were now in a coppice again, where the trees were short and sparse. Salute to Adventurers That the lord of the said manor ought not to cut down the said coppices, or one of them altogether, or at any one time, but by parts or pieces, when he pleases. John Keble's Parishes A TAILLIS, copse, or coppice, is a wood composed of shoots from the roots of trees previously cut for fuel and timber. The Earth as Modified by Human Action They were skirting the side of the hill, with a dip of green meadow-land below them, rising on the other side into coppices. The Young Step-Mother It winds in and out for the most part, ribbon-like, through thick coppice of chestnut and birch. The League of the Scarlet Pimpernel Before us on the hill-side across the stream was a wood, with its limits cut as clear on the meadow as a coppice in a nobleman's park. Salute to Adventurers And as soon as they had gone a little way, the wolves, who had been showing themselves on the edge of a neighbouring coppice, came nearer, and the birds wheeled closer and closer. The Secret Rose On the south side of the river the flats were more extended; thick coppices, and tracts of barren land, were also observed on that side. Journals of Two Expeditions into the Interior of New South Wales A little farther on, upon one side of the way, was a small wood or coppice, and now I made towards this, keeping well in the shadow of the hedge. The Broad Highway Here were twenty coppices, and every one a mile round. The Natural History of Wiltshire Curly woods and coppices had run down from above and had pushed on over the very ravine. Yama: the pit The people of our tale were like men walking together in a coppice; they had but glimpses of each others' minds. It Is Never Too Late to Mend They were in the country now, hurrying between tangled growths of bright-green coppice and grass and tall trees that sent sprays of foliage to hang a cool welcome over the road. Flappers and Philosophers Anon, with Gargantuan appetite, to sit and eat until even Donald would fall a-marvelling; and so, through shady coppice and sunny meadow, betimes to work. The Broad Highway The Earl crossed the hall, and found Mary standing alone on the terrace steps, looking out at the curling smoke from the cottage chimneys, and on the coppices and hedge-rows. Dynevor Terrace: or, the clue of life — Volume 2 But to us river sailors the sun never rose out of ocean waves, but from some green coppice, and went down behind some dark mountain line. A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers Suddenly, from a neighboring coppice, there rushed out a division of the enemy's cavalry; already were distinctly heard the shouts and cries with which they dashed toward the advancing carriage. Empress Josephine An historical sketch of the days of Napoleon In his hand was a long ash-pole, new cut from some coppice. Huntingtower "Because the coppice is so dark and lonely, and if—I say, if I should take it into my head to come and meet you sometimes, there would be no chance of my missing you." The Broad Highway The path she pursued became gradually involved in bushes as well as trees, giving to the spot the character rather of a coppice than a wood. The Hand of Ethelberta What need have I to bid you meet me in the coppice yonder? The Suitors of Yvonne: being a portion of the memoirs of the Sieur Gaston de Luynes These maize-cakes formed my chief nourishment, together with a store or nuts from the hazel coppice that grew before my door and some chestnuts which I went further afield to gather in the woods. The Strolling Saint; being the confessions of the high and mighty Agostino D'Anguissola, tyrant of Mondolfo and Lord of Carmina in the state of Piacenza I will not dwell on his leisurely progress in the bright weather, or on his luncheon in a coppice of young firs, or on his thoughts which had returned to the idyllic. Huntingtower The path sloped up gently before me, with a thick hedge upon my right, and, after crossing a brawling stream, lost itself in the small wood or coppice, that crowned the ascent. The Broad Highway I leant upon a coppice gate When Frost was spectre-gray, And Winter's dregs made desolate The weakening eye of day. Poems of the Past and the Present To save time I did not far pursue the road, but, clearing a hedge, I galloped ventre-�-terre across the meadow towards the little coppice by the waterside. The Suitors of Yvonne: being a portion of the memoirs of the Sieur Gaston de Luynes I went forward more quickly in the direction whence it came, rounded a stout hazel coppice, and stood suddenly before a rude hut of pine logs built against the side of the rock. The Strolling Saint; being the confessions of the high and mighty Agostino D'Anguissola, tyrant of Mondolfo and Lord of Carmina in the state of Piacenza Surrounded by a sort of fresh-water lagoon, dividing it from meadows and coppice, its ancient thatch and timber houses have barely made way even in the front street for the ubiquitous modern brick and slate. A Changed Man; and other tales On the same morning the archdeacon wrote the following note:— Dear Thorne,— My man tells me that foxes have been trapped on Darvell's farm, just outside the coppices. The Last Chronicle of Barset The ireful winds that scoured and swept Through coppice, clump, and dell, Within that holy circle slept Calm as in hermit's cell. Poems of the Past and the Present New flowers may come out, the green embroidery of the hedges increase, but the same heaven broods overhead, soft, thick, and blue, the same figures, seen and unseen, are wandering by coppice and meadow. Howards End New flowers may come out, the green embroidery of the hedges increase, but the same heaven broods overhead, soft, thick, and blue, the same figures, seen and unseen, are wandering by coppice and meadow.� Howards End Just then the train passed through a coppice in which the grey undergrowth looked no more alive than firewood. The Longest Journey This coppice is a place to live and die in. Our Village When she was once more in the garden, she hurried away; but instead of crossing the fields again, turned past the side of the cottage into the coppice behind. Beyond And now from coppice and hedgerow, near and far, was stir and flutter, a whistling and a piping that rose ever louder and swelled to a trilling ecstasy of gladness. Black Bartlemy's Treasure He sprang upon them as a lion fastens on the neck of some cow or heifer when the herd is feeding in a coppice. The Iliad Revolver in hand I ran—ran for my life toward the gap in the trees that marked the coppice end. The Quest of the Sacred Slipper The coppices are carpeted with primroses, with pansies and wild strawberry blossom,—the woods are spangled with the delicate flowers of the woodsorrel and wood anemone, the meadows enamelled with cowslips.... Our Village It stood in front of a small coppice, a creepered, plain-fronted, little brick house, with a garden still full of sunflowers, tenanted by the old jockey, Pettance, his widowed daughter, and her three small children. Beyond It could then be seen for two or three hundred yards creeping past a fir coppice, and after this was lost to view. The Way of All Flesh "Yes, yes, or at any rate a coppice." In Search of the Castaways; or the Children of Captain Grant At a point where a dense coppice spread down to the roadway and a lane crossed west to east, the car became invisible. The Quest of the Sacred Slipper The poor man, whose mental derangement was known to all those about him, obsessed by the desire and thought of death, had gone quietly and obstinately to seek it in the nearest coppice. The Unknown Guest Late one afternoon toward the end of her week at Mildenham, Gyp wandered again into the coppice, and sat down on that same log. Beyond Then Ernest slunk off into a coppice or spinney behind the Rectory paddock, and consoled himself with a pipe of tobacco. The Way of All Flesh But I remember, especially along one side of this tangle or coppice, that there had once been a row of half-built houses. A Miscellany of Men Successfully resisting a temptation to glance behind, I entered the cover of the coppice, and, now invisible to any one who might be dogging me, stood and looked back upon the moon-bright road. The Quest of the Sacred Slipper In one crook of the stream lay a little coppice on which many roads converged, and above it was written the words "Sylva Vitae." The Path of the King On the left, the path wound through a ragged little coppice to the grazing grounds of a neighboring farm; on the right, it led across a hillock of waste land to the high-road. Armadale On a shelf of smooth stone overhanging a deep pool in the hollow of an oak coppice a boy of about sixteen lay asprawl, drying his wet brown limbs luxuriously in the sun. Reginald in Russia and other sketches Therewith the goodly Odysseus crept out from under the coppice, having broken with his strong hand a leafy bough from the thick wood, to hold athwart his body, that it might hide his nakedness withal. The Odyssey Done into English prose The coppice now remained to be negotiated, and then, if the station-master's directions were not at fault, "Uplands" should be visible beyond. The Quest of the Sacred Slipper It represented a little river twining about a coppice. The Path of the King We parted by my desire at the path out of the coppice; he going his way to the hotel, and I going mine to my lodgings. Armadale So lay she hard by the lodge in a deep coppice to know what Aucassin will do. Aucassin and Nicolete So I went up a craggy hill, a place of out-look, and I saw the smoke rising from the broad-wayed earth in the halls of Circe, through the thick coppice and the woodland. The Odyssey Done into English prose For, next day, we picked up, in a coppice, a handkerchief covered with blood. The Crystal Stopper Our tent was on the border of a coppice of young trees. Little Rivers; a book of essays in profitable idleness On their right a thickly grown coppice stretched from the road to the stream that babbled in the hollow. Mistress Wilding The Welch call it pen y llwyn, the head or master of the coppice. The Natural History of Selborne |
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