| 单词 | copse |
| 例句 | Hazel, however, returned and sat pensive at the lip of the hole, looking out at the silent, rippling veils of rain that drifted across and across the little valley between the two copses. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z When Kate thought they’d put enough distance between themselves and the gym, and was convinced they hadn’t been followed, the two children hunkered beneath a scraggly copse of stunted cedar trees to rest. The Mysterious Benedict Society 2008-04-01T00:00:00Z Hooper had dared him to come here, or to go into the copse at the back of the house, that had been the start of it all. I'm the King of the Castle 1970-09-03T00:00:00Z They had taken shelter beneath a copse of aspens just off the high road. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z To the right of the narrow, grassed-over track that led into the copse, there was a small clearing, within a circle of beech trees, and hidden by them from view of the house. I'm the King of the Castle 1970-09-03T00:00:00Z Now, he would have to go into the copse, or up to the wood. I'm the King of the Castle 1970-09-03T00:00:00Z He was walking past the fallow field west of the Wood when he saw lights dancing in the copse by the river, accompanied by the most beautiful flute music he had ever heard. Ash 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z Within the copse, Thom was fast asleep on a bed of dried leaves. Ash 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z It might well prove to be all they could do to find their way across the heather to some quiet field or copse bank like those they had been used to. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z Beside a tussock of grass a little way outside the opposite copse, a rabbit was sitting and gazing at them. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z As they approached the top through a copse of chestnut trees, the lowering sun dropped below the cloud cover and caught the scene, dazzling the three soldiers as they rose into it. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z The continuous, gentle rustling of the beech leaves was unlike the sounds to be heard in a copse of nut bushes, oak and silver birch. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z When we stopped to rest in a copse, we did not all sleep, but one at a time stayed awake to watch the Serjeant and make sure he attempted no act against us. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves 2009-10-13T00:00:00Z In the clearing by the entrance to the copse, he squatted down and began to tear up all the paper into small pieces. I'm the King of the Castle 1970-09-03T00:00:00Z He was found three days later when one of his neighbors discovered his horse tethered near a wooded copse down by the river. Ash 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z He stood, looking out of the high window, down onto the garden and the copse. I'm the King of the Castle 1970-09-03T00:00:00Z As they went back through the copse Hazel recounted his talk with Fiver that morning. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z "Yes, sir. Through that copse and up a little way to the right. That's where the path is." Stardust 1998-10-01T00:00:00Z Beyond was a thin hedge; and beyond that, a green field between two copses. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z Every living creature up and down the fields and copses must be muted, pressed down as though under a great, soft paw. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z Anyway, on the Maple River I drew into a little copse, of sycamores I think, that overhung the stream, and paused to lick my mythological wounds. Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z It was different from the meadow copses they had left: a narrow belt of trees, four or five hundred yards long but barely fifty wide; a kind of windbreak common on the downs. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z He was sitting half concealed under the low spread of a yew tree on the edge of the copse, some way from the holes of the warren. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z Occasionally he walks me home through the woods, stopping to kiss me near a copse of fir trees just before Madoc’s estate. The Cruel Prince 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z The tired rabbits fed and basked in the sunny meadow as though they had come no further than from the bank at the edge of the nearby copse. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z Shanti pointed to a copse just beyond the ring of totems. Beauty Queens 2011-05-24T00:00:00Z It was raining hard again, and great, bruise-coloured clouds hung low over the copse. I'm the King of the Castle 1970-09-03T00:00:00Z He was anxious about the copse and the woods. I'm the King of the Castle 1970-09-03T00:00:00Z I carried on up the bridle path, out of the copse. Black Swan Green 2006-04-10T00:00:00Z We walk from lunch every day to this little copse of birch, where we can get away from the camp noise and talk. What the Night Sings 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z How many rabbits were concealed in the copse and watching them now? Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z A light wind was blowing straight into the north bank of the copse, where the scrapes had been dug, and Bluebell, when he came up, swore he could smell rabbits on it. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z They camped within a copse of oaks that night. Huntress 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z Along the crest was the line of a cart track and beyond, a copse. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z He walked to the window and looked out onto the copse, swept by the first heavy rain of summer. I'm the King of the Castle 1970-09-03T00:00:00Z They watched him leap the bank of the further copse and disappear through the green bracken. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z You said I daren't go into the copse, but this is much bigger, I bet you never thought I'd dare come in here by myself.' I'm the King of the Castle 1970-09-03T00:00:00Z I sat in the copse on the hill behind Red Witch Bridge that night, trying, for a little while, to forget what I’d learned in the library. Made You Up 2015-05-19T00:00:00Z I make it to the copse Rue has told me about and again have to admire her cleverness. The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z He stopped a dozen yards away beside a copse and waited for the star, who limped down the side of the caravan steps and came over to him. Stardust 1998-10-01T00:00:00Z They soon realized that the woodland on this left bank was lonely, thick and overgrown—denser than the nut copses and bluebell woods of Sandleford. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z “If you are looking for my master, ma’am, he is walking towards the little copse.” Pride and Prejudice 1813-01-28T00:00:00Z But one minute they were traveling along through a thick copse of trees and the next they came out into a wide clearing bordered by canyon walls of gray granite. The Kill Order (Maze Runner, Book Four; Origin) 2012-08-14T00:00:00Z Far away, between the two copses, he could see the cherry tree where two days before he had sat with Blackberry and Fiver in the sunrise. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z He went through the yew trees and hesitated by the copse. I'm the King of the Castle 1970-09-03T00:00:00Z My only hope is to make it back to Rue's copse and conceal myself in greenery. The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z A narrow path led down between the yew trees into a small copse. I'm the King of the Castle 1970-09-03T00:00:00Z Today we skipped right past the copse of birch trees and into the clearing. The Season of Styx Malone 2018-10-16T00:00:00Z At last he took to wandering near the wooded copse by the river, hoping to hear Grace’s flute. Ash 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z Caught out in the storms and weather, I had an urgent desire to return to my tree, even as The Baron Weasel returned to his den, and the deer to their copse. My Side of the Mountain 1959-01-01T00:00:00Z And he followed his brother into a thick copse of fern and gorse. The Inquisitor's Tale 2016-09-27T00:00:00Z Birds began singing in brake and copse: birds were faithful to their mates; birds were emblems of love. Jane Eyre 1847-10-16T00:00:00Z Once they had pitched the tent in the shelter of a small copse of trees and surrounded it with freshly cast defensive enchantments, Harry ventured out under the Invisibility Cloak to find sustenance. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z As soon as they entered the copse, Lady Catherine began in the following manner:— Pride and Prejudice 1813-01-28T00:00:00Z There was a slight, persistent movement of wind through the yew tree branches, and the elms and oaks of the copse, and a rustling of the high grasses in the field. I'm the King of the Castle 1970-09-03T00:00:00Z Quickly, Jonathan turned away and began to run through the copse of trees that separated, the field from their house. The Fighting Ground 1984-04-01T00:00:00Z As they came out of the copse they heard bombers, so they went back in and smoked while they waited under the trees. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z Sure enough, the track soon opened up at the copse, and Dumbledore and Harry came to a halt behind Ogden, who had stopped and drawn his wand. Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince 2005-07-16T00:00:00Z Kingshaw went out of the house by the back door, and down the path through the yew trees, towards the entrance to the copse. I'm the King of the Castle 1970-09-03T00:00:00Z Thomas sprinted after the scurrying spy, and in a matter of seconds he entered the thick copse of trees and the world became dark. The Maze Runner 2009-10-06T00:00:00Z The boy's room, high up at the back of the house, overlooked the copse. I'm the King of the Castle 1970-09-03T00:00:00Z When he got to the fence, leading into the first field, just beside the copse, he looked back. I'm the King of the Castle 1970-09-03T00:00:00Z Apparently the winding lane to the village passed very close to the copse where the house stood. Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince 2005-07-16T00:00:00Z Kingshaw felt his legs go weak beneath him, as he climbed the last fence, and stood in the place from which he had started out on his walk, by the edge of the copse. I'm the King of the Castle 1970-09-03T00:00:00Z “Sorry,” I said, standing and hurrying back up to the copse to find my baseball bat, trying to figure out what I’d been thinking. Made You Up 2015-05-19T00:00:00Z He backed away again, and skirted the copse, coming out into one corner of the field. I'm the King of the Castle 1970-09-03T00:00:00Z A broad, slow-moving river wound through rich grassland in the middle distance, and at the foot of the long slope, among copses of small trees and rows of vegetables, stood a village of thatched houses. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z In the early evening Hazel sought out Bigwig and together they ventured into the copse behind the warren. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z A few minutes later the rabbits had crossed the cart track and vanished into the copse beyond. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z In the copse, the bridle path joined up with a moon-cratered track. Black Swan Green 2006-04-10T00:00:00Z Between the copse and the brook, the slope was covered with pale lilac lady’s-smocks, each standing separately in the grass, a frail stalk of bloom above a spread of cressy leaves. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z The sun, risen behind the copse, threw long shadows from the trees southwestward across the field. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z Within the copse he came across a scene so beautiful it made his heart ache. Ash 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z There is no time to talk to her because McKamey and a posse of balaclavas swoop, marching the prisoners from the car park to an isolated wooded copse with a pungent smell. Extreme haunted house: inside the real life kingdom of masochists 2015-10-30T04:00:00Z But for me, the earth is literally my stage as I see the open field of my panorama inside the theater walls, a proscenium bounded by wooded copses stage right and left. Twyla Tharp on the Road: Homecoming, a Photo Essay 2015-11-03T05:00:00Z One moment they are standing in the sunshine, the next they are in a gloomy copse, on their knees, hands bound, with masking tape wrapped around their heads. Extreme haunted house: inside the real life kingdom of masochists 2015-10-30T04:00:00Z It is seeing a copse of trees in a cluster of freckles. Falling in love is the world’s best natural high | Hannah Jane Parkinson 2019-07-12T04:00:00Z We camped that night next to coffee-colored creek called Magpie, in a copse of ash and cottonwood. This North Dakota Bike Trail Is Stunning. Just Hope You Survive It. 2016-09-13T04:00:00Z But then sun rays flashed over the vine-covered hills, and in the foreground the copses of stone pines figured like dark clouds in the sky. In France, a Visit With the In-Laws (Finally) Becomes a Vacation 2015-02-26T05:00:00Z The geomagnetic scan detected a large mass of material and then tiering, which is crudely reflected by ridges in the grassy surface until it disappears under a small copse. Archaeologist digs into grandad's tale to uncover lost Yorkshire amphitheatre 2011-08-17T20:02:43Z The terrain is similar, too, with broad pastures and fields between copses of trees, and few hills of any size. Take a lazy bike ride on cozy, quiet Guemes Island 2016-10-12T04:00:00Z It was as if the landscape was all of a sudden an archaeological dig – hills and dales, woods and copses, fields and rivers, villages and roads ceased to be simple features of a view. William Boyd: rereading The Making of the English Landscape by WG Hoskins 2013-05-11T07:31:01Z As I drove toward the exit, an enormous coyote stared at me from a copse of broken stalks and cattails, its eyes immediately searching mine to determine whether it should run or stand its ground. Colliders, Sundials and Wonder: When Science Is Your Destination 2018-05-28T04:00:00Z Caught by a thunderstorm, he runs to a copse of trees for shelter. ‘The Young Desire It,’ by Kenneth Mackenzie And as we pedaled through cool copses of beech trees, slugs that had been using the rails to shortcut across the forest floor met their squidgy end. Lund, Sweden: Viking roots, off the beaten track 2015-08-13T04:00:00Z We moved through a copse, and baboons glowered at us before running away. From snowbound Blighty to Kenya 2011-01-01T00:01:19Z “Ghost Forest” uses towering dead Atlantic white cedars to create a temporary copse of arboreal skeletons. Review | Maya Lin’s forest in a Manhattan park makes a point about climate change. Is anyone listening? 2021-07-14T04:00:00Z The tidy shingled schoolhouse, erected in 1927, sits back from Central Avenue in Capitol Heights, Md., nestled in a copse of trees. The enlightening legacy of the Rosenwald schools 2015-08-30T04:00:00Z On a pleasant Tuesday morning, she and I stopped at an open patch of grass, on a hill, backed by a copse of firs. A nice place to rest 2012-10-07T20:00:00Z His paintings of rural Britain’s standing stones, lonely copses and grassed-over forts are full of eerie surrealist expanses, jarring juxtapositions and semi-abstract forms. Paul Nash, Anne Hardy, Tino Sehgal: the week's art shows in pictures 2013-04-12T12:00:00Z Kraft, the 71-year-old owner of the New England Patriots, slices his second shot into a copse of dense spruce trees. The Sadness (And Salvation) Of New England Patriots Owner Robert Kraft 2012-09-06T14:00:00Z It jettisons the sleek old Pixar shapes of toys, cars and robots — all relatively easy to animate — for images of untamed nature, from Merida’s hair to the copses and crags of imaginary Scotland. Brave: The Princess and Her Unbearable Mom 2012-06-21T15:06:48Z Around every bend are tiny rewards - a copse of trees with the Olympic rings poking out, a tiny reflecting-pool shrine that exhorts people to “remember here those who gave their lives for peace.” As the world’s diplomacy roils a few feet away, a U.N. oasis offers a riverside pocket of peace 2023-09-23T04:00:00Z Around every bend are tiny rewards — a copse of trees with the Olympic rings poking out, a tiny reflecting-pool shrine that exhorts people to “remember here those who gave their lives for peace.” As the world’s diplomacy roils a few feet away, a little UN oasis offers a riverside pocket of peace 2023-09-23T04:00:00Z Photo B shows a river running through a meadow with a few copses of trees, some living and some dead. Fundamentals of Biology 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z Smoke envelops a Russian bunker hit by the Ukrainians; the Buhay, hiding near a copse, is somehow spared from bombardment by enemy forces. 'More comfortable than a Rolls-Royce': Ukrainian tank drivers eagerly await Western rides 2023-04-10T04:00:00Z In a final act of cruelty, they dumped Mr. Kryvenko’s body in a small copse across the street. In Bucha, a Final Rampage Served as a Coda to a Month of Atrocities 2022-12-31T05:00:00Z The plot, which apparently had not been worked for a while, was covered with copses of trees amid waist-high grass and was bisected by a creek in a ravine. What Hurricanes Taught Puerto Rico About Feeding Itself 2022-11-08T05:00:00Z On its top you can see, on clear days, bristling like a peeved hedgehog, a costly copse of transmitters for Southern California TV and FM radio stations and some law enforcement agencies’ communications. Martyr, crackpot, tree-hugger and more — the people behind SoCal's mountain peaks 2022-05-24T04:00:00Z The hulking mass of the Hagia Sophia, the sixth-century church that became the enduring symbol of Christendom, seemed like a basilica to me again, surrounded by a copse of slim, tapered minarets. Returning to Istanbul, a Place of Competing Identities 2022-05-12T04:00:00Z Then he walks, silently and purposefully, to a copse of narrow trees. Why It’s so Satisfying to Watch a World Built From the Ground Up 2022-04-06T04:00:00Z As the snow began to melt, with the help of a friend, Mr. Kryvenko’s son began to search the copse opposite Mr. Rzhavsky’s home. In Bucha, a Final Rampage Served as a Coda to a Month of Atrocities 2022-12-31T05:00:00Z “It was in a copse of trees. … It was not accessible. And there was nothing there to indicate that that rock was anything more than a rock.” Buffalo Soldiers taught horsemanship at segregated West Point. Soon a statue will honor their service. 2021-05-27T04:00:00Z The remains were found by a forestry worker in a beech copse by the road which runs between Cirencester and Stroud. Cirencester remains: Dead man's identity still a mystery 2020-12-18T05:00:00Z Upon clearing the blowdown, we found a copse of huckleberry bushes and several runners converged for fistfuls of the juicy, purple berries. One Seattle man’s cure for coronavirus quarantine cabin fever? A 50-mile run through Montana wilderness 2020-08-25T04:00:00Z Tokyo 2020 had struggled on manfully, like the last Japanese soldier still fighting the second world war from inside a small Pacific island copse in 1974. Tokyo 2021 is golden chance to close Big Sport circus and give the Olympics back | Barney Ronay 2020-03-27T04:00:00Z Flora and fauna stay away from the copses - caterpillars don’t eat the leaves and the only birds who eat the fruit are starlings, Coyle said. Clemson professor wants to get rid of invasive tree species 2020-02-23T05:00:00Z At Tumbling Bay, visitors are drawn through a hazel copse and birch woodland, encouraging them to make their own dens, next to an elaborate sand and water area where they can become mini-engineers. 'We're cosseting our kids' – the war against today's dangerously dull playgrounds 2019-10-31T04:00:00Z A dense copse of trees surrounds a small plaza, screening it from acres of graves. D.C. has places to see and be seen. These are 14 spots where you can escape. 2019-10-24T04:00:00Z To increase efficiency, hedgerows and copses have been eliminated and farmland agglomerated into increasingly larger tracts of monoculture. Flour power: meet the bread heads baking a better loaf 2019-10-10T04:00:00Z He trudged past the bench and into a copse of cypress trees, whose branches looked like upswept umbrellas on a windy day. A Photographer at the Ends of the Earth 2019-09-30T04:00:00Z “You couldn’t live in the middle of this thing unless you were Grizzly Adams,” said Jim McCaffrey, another member, crouching in a gloomy, tangled copse. The wrong kind of trees: Ireland's afforestation meets resistance 2019-07-07T04:00:00Z Privacy is a necessary thing to talk about, but it’s just a copse of trees. Electronic Contracts and the Illusion of Consent 2019-02-19T05:00:00Z The statue of a mysterious, shrouded figure sits in a copse of trees, marking the graves of Henry and Marian Adams. Creeped out by cemeteries? These D.C. sites — with history, art and even yoga — might change your mind. 2018-10-24T04:00:00Z Then the acquaintance stopped the car and pointed to a copse in the distance. Spain’s plan to exhume Franco revives memories of an unsettled past 2018-10-18T04:00:00Z Pushing through low branches, he reaches a shady copse where a profusion of different varieties grow. 'It's for my daughter's memory': the Indian village where every girl's life is celebrated 2018-10-11T04:00:00Z Past a lily pond and a copse of weeping willows, a group of men and women stood dressed in Tang-dynasty robes. Yan Lianke’s Forbidden Satires of China 2018-10-08T04:00:00Z But it also comprised frozen copses and hilltops. ‘I don’t look like most people’s idea of a Gypsy’ 2018-06-08T04:00:00Z As we walk through the copse of bare-limbed trees, pecan shells crunching under our feet, Carstens happily recalls the February day when he saw nearly 600 Cape parrots soaring over the orchard. Africa's Most Endangered Parrot Fighting for Survival 2018-05-11T04:00:00Z The rolling hills, copse of trees and meandering creek gave them a taste of the outdoors while still keeping them close to downtown Washington. John Glenn’s Bethesda, Md., house goes on the market for $1.65 million 2018-04-20T04:00:00Z One of those personalities was a homeless bartender who slept outside under a copse of pine trees. ‘There’s nothing left’: Fire devastates Rockville dive bar beloved for its history 2018-02-14T05:00:00Z But two days later, in a copse some distance from the battlefield, village children found Johnson’s body wedged between two trees. A swarm of motorbikes, then heavy fire: testimony sheds new light on Niger attack 2017-11-15T05:00:00Z They build a house for themselves by a copse in the West Riding of Yorkshire, but they do not own the site and, inevitably, the landowners, a quasi-feudal oligarchy, begin to circle. What makes a Man Booker novel? Six shortlisted authors share their secrets 2017-10-14T04:00:00Z The pipe was cracked in several places and stopped just inside the copse, barely 30ft from the house, dripping ooze into a viscous pool the color of oil. Hookworm, a disease of extreme poverty, is thriving in the US south. Why? 2017-09-05T04:00:00Z Her novel pits an odd family of squatters against the local landowner in an isolated copse that, like the depressed neighbouring towns, cannot be seen by passengers streaking by on the London-to-Edinburgh railway line. A wordsmith in the making 2017-08-03T04:00:00Z Hoatzins, a kind of tropical pheasant, flap noisily between copses; kingfishers flash like jewels above the streams that gurgle down from the Sierra de la Macarena, an imposing outcrop of the Andes. Colombia’s future involves fewer terrorists and more ecotourists 2017-07-06T04:00:00Z The next night, we slept in a copse of gnarled oaks beside a graveyard, a shady grove carpeted with slender, rippling leaves. The man who went on a hike – and never stopped walking 2017-07-03T04:00:00Z There are enough pines and moss-draped oaks to swat down misdirected shots and one copse, called Sherwood Forest, that begs to be carried for a just reward. Always Time For Nine series: Winter Park Golf Course - Golf Digest 2017-01-05T05:00:00Z Below him a four-inch white pipe ran from his house, across the yard just a few feet away from a basketball hoop, and into a copse of pine and sweet gum trees. Hookworm, a disease of extreme poverty, is thriving in the US south. Why? 2017-09-05T04:00:00Z Tucker was near his home and walked to a nearby homeless camp in a copse of trees with a friend the night of June 27, 2012. Judge refuses to dismiss lawsuit filed by man bitten by Lakewood police dog 2016-10-17T04:00:00Z Morris recorded the “geometry of branches and petals and fruits”, bringing hedgerow and copse indoors with motifs and natural dyes that transformed typography, wallpaper and textiles. Books in brief : Nature : Nature Research 2016-07-19T04:00:00Z In another, taken before “the surgery”, my father is perched amid a copse of trees, modelling a henna wig with bangs and a pale ruffled blouse. Susan Faludi: getting to know my father, the woman 2016-06-04T04:00:00Z Kitty-corner to the copse there was nothing yet on this northwest corner in 1904, but there soon would be. Seattle’s Florist Row was wiped out by I-5 construction 2016-06-02T04:00:00Z Most were tucked into copses or deep in the undergrowth, off the beaten path. The secret skateboarders who defied Norway's 11-year ban - BBC News 2016-04-18T04:00:00Z The Tarkine’s ancient copses, which form the biggest rainforest in Australia, are cut through with a patchwork of logged forests. World heritage forests burn as global tragedy unfolds in Tasmania 2016-01-26T05:00:00Z TV footage showed police helicopters scouring swaths of cornfields and commandos snaking through wooded copses as federal and provincial police closed the dragnet on the fugitives. Argentina manhunt intensifies after one of three fugitives recaptured 2016-01-09T05:00:00Z If it hit a small copse of spruce, it flared momentarily. Fires Rapidly Consume More Forests and Peat in the Arctic 2015-11-20T05:00:00Z They had slept out the night before in a copse of birch trees nearby. 'You stop counting after a while': families of the redeployed cope with chronic war 2015-11-09T05:00:00Z Connectivity is considered crucial—habitats connected together using corridors such as river valleys and hedgerows and copses in open grassland. Can Rewilding Bring Nature Back to Modern Britain? 2015-07-15T04:00:00Z The converted stables set in a copse just within the limits of Donetsk were still smoldering Thursday afternoon. Eastern Ukraine Remains Tense After Outbreak of Fighting 2015-06-04T04:00:00Z Though there were copses of FSU fans here and there, the forest belonged to Oregon. A rosy assessment: This playoff bowl game was something special 2015-01-01T05:00:00Z On their last night of spying, weary and hungry, "we found a little copse of trees and we got in there, catnapping," Marshall said. A brotherhood born of heroes in Normandy D-day landings 2014-06-05T04:00:00Z There is an osprey rookery built into a copse of trees at an overlook onto the river. Critic’s Notebook: Newark Revival Wears Orange Along the River 2013-07-21T02:05:22Z To the east, Wayne Gonzales’s painting “Waiting Crowd,” a sort of modern-day grisaille “Déjeuner sur l’Herbe,” rests on the ground in a shady copse. Art Review: Sculptors Exhibit at the Martos Gallery’s Summer Home 2013-07-18T21:43:40Z A copse of even taller pilings stands near the beach building. State Of the Beaches: In Rockaways, Racing the Clock to Repair the Beach 2013-05-18T05:16:05Z "Three Oaks", their name for the copse by the railway embankment where I watch them rig up their fishing net, is a new outpost, established in response to activity nearby. Road protests return: a new generation takes on the bypass builders 2013-01-12T08:01:01Z Satellite navigation technology allows mankind to see almost every river, copse and hill. What adventures are actually left to be done? 2012-09-18T08:54:12Z A copse of trembling aspens overlooked gray birch and bracken fern. Op-Ed Contributor: Mean Streets for Staten Island Mountain Mint 2012-08-15T01:23:16Z The garden "reflects an English landscape style with rolling lawns, specially planted copses and individual specimen trees", Mr Lane told the BBC. Can anyone grow a Queen's garden? 2012-07-03T03:46:46Z I spot the source: a copse of cottonwood trees several hundred feet away. City Room: Spring Time: Under a Leafy Canopy, a Taste of Summer 2012-05-24T15:26:26Z They fell out over blackberrying in his copse last Michaelmas. The Early Life and Adventures of Sylvia Scarlett 2012-04-26T02:00:17.327Z Ride off towards Iden Green," said Leyton to the servant, "and direct Cornet Joyce to bring down his men at the gallop to the edge of the copse. The Smuggler: (Vol's I-III) A Tale 2012-04-26T02:00:10.260Z The town and its suburbs had rolled out in all directions, burying green meadows beneath warehouses and factories, stifling the copses with red-brick villas, planting the flowery slopes with tram-lines and iron standards. Mrs. Thompson A Novel 2012-04-25T02:01:10.557Z Ay, that copse of brushwood will guard our left right well--and the hedges and ditches on the right, will secure us from the charge of men-at-arms. Agincourt The Works of G. P. R. James, Volume XX 2012-04-25T02:01:07.457Z Here we suffer grief and pain, Here we part to meet again: No field, no copse, no moor! Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 105, November 11, 1893 2012-04-12T02:00:28.173Z "Oh, how lovely, how beautiful, how exquisite!" cried Josephine, as they came suddenly round the angle of a copse and directly in front of the cottage. Barrington Volume II (of II) 2012-04-09T02:00:32.490Z At this instant a man leaped across the stream, and hurriedly passed into the copse. Barrington Volume I (of II) 2012-04-09T02:00:31.357Z At the time of our last ascent we camped high on a great ridge on the south side of the mountain, having for shelter a thick copse of dwarf firs. The Columbia River Its History, Its Myths, Its Scenery, Its Commerce 2012-04-07T02:00:31.747Z A brief interlude in the east wind's unfailing rigor; a breathing time when the black shadows leave the land and color begins to dawn over copse and meadow. The Tree of Knowledge A Novel 2012-04-05T02:00:35.603Z Then at the edge of the hazel copse she came upon a small footpath which meandered through lush grass meadows and patches of the greater willow herb to the Castle of Windy Standard. The Suprising Adventures of Sir Toady Lion With Those of General Napoleon Smith 2012-04-03T02:00:29.527Z In a little secluded copse near the top stands Ellen's Bower, fashioned exactly according to the description of the same object in the Lady of the Lake. The Portland Sketch Book 2012-03-28T02:00:28.847Z He looked out, but they had already swept past, and were hidden from his view by the copse that shut out the river. Barrington Volume I (of II) 2012-04-09T02:00:31.357Z There were open, sunny grass-plots for playing, and close little copses and coverts for hiding, and great trees for climbing to see out into the still wider world beyond the garden walls. Nuova or The New Bee 2012-03-26T02:00:41.423Z Except for the willow-plots found along the rivers on the clay lands, nearly all the wood is confined to the sand and gravel soils, where copses of birch and alder are common. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 13, Slice 5 "Hinduism" to "Home, Earls of" 2012-03-25T02:00:05.717Z Only by Buriton and at Up Park, to the south, is there much woodland; but at the latter place the deep shady copses and the ferny dells where the red deer still browse are delightful. The Portsmouth Road and Its Tributaries To-Day and in Days of Old 2012-03-25T02:00:04.800Z Containing copses of trees or shrubs; covered with shrubs. Webster's Unabridged Dictionary 2012-03-24T02:00:23.513Z One might, perhaps, if disposed to be critical, ask for a little opening in that copse yonder. Barrington Volume I (of II) 2012-04-09T02:00:31.357Z After which, taking a very thick copse, he had the ill-fortune to be entangled by his horns in a thicket; where he was held fast till the hounds came in and pulled him down. ?sop's Fables, Embellished with One Hundred and Eleven Emblematical Devices. 2012-03-19T02:00:22.807Z They tethered their horses in a copse, and, being wet through, paced up and down to maintain their circulation until the dawn stole through the trees. A Hero of Li?ge 2012-03-16T02:00:21.347Z And limping to this copse, Dolly examined its outer edge closely, inch by inch. Horace Chase 2012-03-08T03:00:09.693Z Turning sharp to the right, he sprinted straight to the cover of the copse. Samba A Story of the Rubber Slaves of the Congo 2012-03-07T03:00:16.567Z "The Broom, Full-flowered and visible on every steep, Along the copses runs in veins of gold." Old-Time Gardens Newly Set Forth 2012-03-06T03:00:22.850Z Many of these commonplace familiars of the copse and thicket and field are indeed like voices in the wilderness to most of us. Eye Spy Afield with Nature Among Flowers and Animate Things 2012-02-24T03:00:23.760Z Half of the Spaniards were on the ground; the survivors broke and scattered, some speeding towards the copse, forgetful that their first check had come from thence. With Drake on the Spanish Main 2012-02-20T03:00:17.357Z He who believes thoroughly that the events are true will expect, and ought to expect, real olive copse behind real Madonna, and no sentimental absurdities in either. Modern Painters. Vol. III (of V) Containing Part IV. Of Many Things 2012-02-20T03:00:15.843Z They halted in a copse on an eminence about six miles from the fort and above it. Samba A Story of the Rubber Slaves of the Congo 2012-03-07T03:00:16.567Z In England, where they readily grow wild, they are often planted at the edge of a wood, or to form vistas in a copse. Old-Time Gardens Newly Set Forth 2012-03-06T03:00:22.850Z Middle Nithsdale expands into a broad valley, commanded by lofty Queensberry and lower green hills and diversified with upland brae, shadowy copse, sunny mead, and opulent plantation. A Literary Pilgrimage Among the Haunts of Famous British Authors 2012-02-17T03:00:36.500Z There was no time to attend either to him or to his own wound, for the Spaniards, taking heart at the cessation of the fire from the copse, were preparing to make a rush. With Drake on the Spanish Main 2012-02-20T03:00:17.357Z My favourite walk is down the fair green lawn outside the village, on which is a copse of poplars, with foliage of reddening gold. Journeys in Persia and Kurdistan, Volume II (of 2) Including a Summer in the Upper Karun Region and a Visit to the Nestorian Rayahs 2012-02-12T03:00:11.843Z Striking off sharply in that direction he led the way through a thin copse, and in a few moments the two stood at the brink of the river beside the canoe. Samba A Story of the Rubber Slaves of the Congo 2012-03-07T03:00:16.567Z Every spring we long, as Whittier wrote— "To come to Bayberry scented slopes, And fragrant Fern and Groundmat vine, Breathe airs blown o'er holt and copse, Sweet with black Birch and Pine." Old-Time Gardens Newly Set Forth 2012-03-06T03:00:22.850Z The grounds are extensive and beautifully diversified by copses of great trees and grassy glades where deer feed amid myriad witcheries of leaf and bloom. A Literary Pilgrimage Among the Haunts of Famous British Authors 2012-02-17T03:00:36.500Z It is a native of Europe and north Asia, and found apparently wild in copses and woods in Britain. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 7, Slice 9 "Dagupan" to "David" 2012-02-11T03:03:39.807Z Close in the covert of an hazel copse, Where winded into pleasing solitudes Runs out the rambling dale, young Damon sat; Pensive, and pierc'd with love's delightful pangs. Harper's New Monthly Magazine, Vol III, No 13, 1851 2012-02-10T03:00:15.463Z Another picket of the same strength was lying at the edge of the copse about a quarter of a mile to the east, and a third picket lay across the gully to the west. Samba A Story of the Rubber Slaves of the Congo 2012-03-07T03:00:16.567Z I met him wandering in the copse a time agone; and I thought he would make a fine sacrifice to Mayboya.” Antigua and the Antiguans, Volume I (of 2) A full account of the colony and its inhabitants from the time of the Caribs to the present day 2012-02-09T03:00:15.267Z Ilkley nestles cosily at the foot of green slopes which swell away from the stream and are dotted with copses and embowered villas. A Literary Pilgrimage Among the Haunts of Famous British Authors 2012-02-17T03:00:36.500Z Time flew on, and no tidings of the murderer were heard, until about six months had elapsed, when a party of negroes went into a copse to cut wood. Antigua and the Antiguans, Volume II (of 2) A full account of the colony and its inhabitants from the time of the Caribs to the present day 2012-02-09T03:00:13.500Z The country is very agreeable: meadows, corn-fields, habitations, and copses succeeded each other on the side of low hills; and the fine valley, called, by the inhabitants, Upper Sakena, is remarkably fertile. Travels in the Interior of North America, Part I, (Being Chapters I-XV of the London Edition, 1843) Early Western Travels, 1748-1846, Volume XXII 2012-02-08T03:00:17.410Z He referred to a couple of men stationed at the edge of a copse to the west of the stream. Samba A Story of the Rubber Slaves of the Congo 2012-03-07T03:00:16.567Z After passing the rectory of St. Mary’s, our road lay through copses, whose overhanging boughs formed a beautiful and verdant arch. Antigua and the Antiguans, Volume I (of 2) A full account of the colony and its inhabitants from the time of the Caribs to the present day 2012-02-09T03:00:15.267Z Here and there odd groves of birches went streaming by, but for the most part there were only leafless willow copses about the gleaming strips of water which she afterward learned were sloos. A Prairie Courtship 2012-02-01T03:00:12.830Z These poems, about fifty in number, are scattered throughout the work like wild flowers o'er mead and hill, in copse and glen. Donahoe's Magazine, Vol. XV, No. 4, April, 1886 Volume 15 (January 1886 - July 1886) 2012-01-29T03:00:07.953Z This route to Brighton is singularly rural and lovely, and particularly beautiful in the way of copses and wooded hollows, whence streamlets trickle away to join the river Adur. The Brighton Road The Classic Highway to the South 2012-01-24T03:00:26.933Z I guessed now who they were: a family named Heriot, who had recently come to live at the pretty white cottage on the other side the copse. The Story of Charles Strange Vol. 1 (of 3) A Novel 2012-01-22T03:00:26.330Z This plantation stretched to the end of a wild copse, where every native shrub and brushwood grew together with the loftier trees, and formed an almost impervious thicket. Antigua and the Antiguans, Volume I (of 2) A full account of the colony and its inhabitants from the time of the Caribs to the present day 2012-02-09T03:00:15.267Z They spent quite half an hour at this enthralling pastime, till a very persistent cuckoo in a little copse over the hedge recalled them to the principal object of their ramble. A Terrible Tomboy 2012-01-21T03:00:07.003Z The gorse and the blackthorn were both out, spreading the wild copse and common of the valley with a shimmer of white and gold. Cornwall 2012-01-20T03:00:16.790Z Then there was an increasing sunlight, and he stood erect amid a tangled copse of vines and bushes. The Lost Gold of the Montezumas A Story of the Alamo 2012-01-19T03:00:22.827Z We were through the copse in a minute or two and in sight of the white cottage, over the field beyond it. The Story of Charles Strange Vol. 1 (of 3) A Novel 2012-01-22T03:00:26.330Z White men eat better than red people, it can’t be denied;” and as he finished his soliloquy, he arose from the ground, and springing over the brush-wood, was lost to sight in the impending copse. Antigua and the Antiguans, Volume I (of 2) A full account of the colony and its inhabitants from the time of the Caribs to the present day 2012-02-09T03:00:15.267Z After a while he took his hat, not without trembling, strolled across the garden, and then made the short cut through the copse, so as to meet the vicar by the gate. Strange Stories 2012-01-16T03:00:05.067Z The farmer who greeted us was pleasant-spoken, and readily gave us permission to pitch our tent in the copse and partake freely of his straw. Historic Waterways?Six Hundred Miles of Canoeing Down the Rock, Fox, and Wisconsin Rivers 2012-01-13T03:00:14.813Z Now 'gan the dust arise Along the paths they trampled; they rode by copse and field And startled all the country with the flash of many a shield. The Nibelungenlied Revised Edition 2012-01-04T03:00:37.750Z Again to stray where once he strayed, Through copse and quiet dell, Half hoping to espy the maid Pass tripping to the well. A Selection from the Works of Frederick Locker 2012-01-03T03:00:13.067Z This insect is principally encountered in copses and brushwood, very seldom in the open country, and is about the size of a common house fly, but with wings a little longer. Narrative of the Circumnavigation of the Globe by the Austrian Frigate Novara, Volume I (Commodore B. Von Wullerstorf-Urbair,) Undertaken by Order of the Imperial Government in the Years 1857, 1858, & 1859, Under the Immediate Auspices of His I. and R. Highness the Archduke Ferdinand Maximilian, Commander-In-Chief of the Austrian Navy. 2012-01-02T03:00:25.873Z Walking in the opposite direction from the copse. Strange Stories 2012-01-16T03:00:05.067Z Groping our way 154 through the copse, we passed the barriers, and, according to promise, the blinding light of a kerosene lamp standing on the ledge of an open window burst upon us. Historic Waterways?Six Hundred Miles of Canoeing Down the Rock, Fox, and Wisconsin Rivers 2012-01-13T03:00:14.813Z Captain Joe was barking and growling and, judging from the commotion in the copse, was evidently threshing about. The River Motor Boat Boys on the St. Lawrence The Lost Channel 2012-01-02T03:00:21.167Z We approached it in the dusk, riding during the last hour through what appeared to be low copse wood. By Desert Ways to Baghdad 2011-12-18T03:00:22.240Z Deep in the trees, as he approached the copse, the sharp white of a skirt caught his eager eye. The Happy Warrior 2011-12-18T03:00:18.863Z Another member of the genus, Viburnum, Lantana, wayfaring tree, is found in dry copses and hedges in England, except in the north. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 12, Slice 6 "Groups, Theory of" to "Gwyniad" 2011-12-16T03:00:12.320Z Then the frightened animal plunged into the thick copse on the opposite side of the woodland road, and could be heard bounding swiftly away. Boy Scouts: Tenderfoot Squad or, Camping at Raccoon Lodge 2011-12-15T03:00:17.777Z Birds are singing in meadow and copse, the yellow furze is blossoming on heathy moorlands. Wild Adventures round the Pole The Cruise of the "Snowbird" Crew in the "Arrandoon" 2011-12-15T03:00:12.560Z With one brave bound the copse he cleared, And stretching forward free and far, Sought the wild heaths of Uam Var.” Wild Adventures in Wild Places 2011-12-12T03:00:22.477Z "It usually spends the day in some evergreen woods, thick willow copse or alder swamp, although rarely it may be found in open places," says Dr. Fisher. Birds Every Child Should Know 2011-12-08T03:00:24.887Z He is in the copse down by the miller’s pond. Shireen and her Friends Pages from the Life of a Persian Cat 2011-12-08T03:00:24.107Z Fish leap gladly in stream and tarn, the lofty pines wave their dark plumes in the sunny air, and every wood and copse is filled with melody. Kenneth McAlpine A Tale of Mountain, Moorland and Sea 2011-12-05T03:00:48.967Z Now up through a dark oak copse, and they come all at once to one of the old park gates. Wild Adventures round the Pole The Cruise of the "Snowbird" Crew in the "Arrandoon" 2011-12-15T03:00:12.560Z Rādhā: Fresh flowers are springing by every cabin, brake and copse. Vidy?pati: Bang?ya pad?bali; songs of the love of R?dh? and Krishna 2011-12-02T03:00:26.297Z When she had read, she turned and walked down the path that led to the hazel copse. Atlantic Narratives Modern Short Stories 2011-12-01T03:00:20.193Z If we cross the stile which seems to lead into that little copse, we could have no better audience-chamber, and need fear no interruption.' A Second Coming 2011-11-29T03:00:16.693Z Only the sweet plaintive twitter of the robin is heard in garden and copse. Kenneth McAlpine A Tale of Mountain, Moorland and Sea 2011-12-05T03:00:48.967Z Some 40,000 households in Korea have Vivaldi apartments, which outside feature landscaping with ponds and copses, bicycle lanes and studded walking paths to stimulate a person's soles, and inside feature air purifiers and ventilators. Overseas Assignment 2011-11-23T23:00:00Z From this point, they went almost exactly straight from the head of the Danesway to the fir copse by Arthur's Table. Reynard the Fox 2011-11-20T03:00:13.153Z The hazel copse was tasseled thickly with golden green, and as she entered it she saw that the hepaticas were in flower. Atlantic Narratives Modern Short Stories 2011-12-01T03:00:20.193Z The ghosts which rose From every darkling copse showed thin and pale— Thinner and paler far than those I left In agony; even as Pity seems to wear A thinner form than Fear. The Epic of Hades In Three Books 2011-11-16T03:00:28.060Z Those in this neighbourhood know me, and when I sit down to make my brooms right in the middle of a copse, as I do sometimes, they come quite close up to me. The Diamond Fairy Book 2011-11-14T03:00:18.297Z They walked on till they reached a gate which opened into a little woodland copse. Between the Dark and the Daylight 2011-11-11T03:00:37.893Z Some workers in the strip at the edge of the copse headed him from this point. Reynard the Fox 2011-11-20T03:00:13.153Z 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 They might almost have been veritable assassins, springing out from behind the dark bushes and copses near the Vale of Health among which I wandered.... In Accordance with the Evidence 2011-11-06T02:00:12.393Z They scoured the copse in which the boat and canoe had been placed, and on discovering them hastened along the shore in both directions. The Girl Crusoes A Story of the South Seas 2011-11-03T02:00:16.647Z Quavering under the polished stars In stubble, thicket, and frosty copse The cricket blows a few choked bars, And puts away his pipe—and stops. Chimneysmoke 2011-10-27T02:00:25.953Z No jay or magpie gave a rally Down in the copse, no circling rooks Rose over fields; old Joyful's looks Were doubtful in the gorse, the pack Quested both up and down and back. Reynard the Fox 2011-11-20T03:00:13.153Z I had visited once before in the company of a young man from the sports information director’s office who pointed in the vague direction of a copse of trees, and said, “Over there.” No True Sense of History Without a Sense of Place 2011-10-22T18:42:25Z A ribald cuckoo clamoured, And out of the copse the stroke Of the iron axe that hammered The iron heart of the oak. The Poetical Works of Robert Bridges 2011-10-22T02:00:26.887Z A little to my left is a vast natural hollow in the downs, from which springs a sort of little hanging wood or copse, the mottled variegated hues of which have a beautiful effect. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Vol. 60, No. 373, November 1846 2011-10-21T02:00:17.417Z An aspen copse is one of the loveliest things in the spring landscape. Trees Worth Knowing 2011-10-13T02:00:48.357Z Beyond the copse a great grass fallow Stretched towards Stoke and Cheddesdon Mallow, A rolling grass where hounds grew keen. Reynard the Fox 2011-11-20T03:00:13.153Z Martin adds that no one would venture to kill any of the fish in Loch Saint, or to cut as much as a twig from an adjacent copse. Fishes, Flowers, and Fire as Elements and Deities in the Phallic Faiths and Worship of the Ancient Religions of Greece, Babylon, 2011-10-13T02:00:41.150Z Green fields, perhaps, hazel copses, and falling nuts and acorns. The Cruise of the Land-Yacht "Wanderer" Thirteen Hundred Miles in my Caravan 2011-10-11T02:01:13.517Z The blackness of the groves and copses was intense. From School to Battle-field A Story of the War Days 2011-10-10T02:00:19.987Z White birches grow in copses in low ground, a whole regiment of their white stems slanting upward. Trees Worth Knowing 2011-10-13T02:00:48.357Z From every copse and plantation comes the melody of birds. The Island of Gold A Sailor's Yarn 2011-10-03T02:00:28.483Z The bush is grouped in copses on meadows, which produce a coarse tall grass. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 11, Slice 7 "Geoponici" to "Germany" 2011-09-26T02:00:25.313Z But English copses are often one wild tanglement of trailing flowering shrubs, with banks of bracken or ferns. The Cruise of the Land-Yacht "Wanderer" Thirteen Hundred Miles in my Caravan 2011-10-11T02:01:13.517Z Beyond them, in a copse of withered fruit trees, were crates of TNT in wooden boxes. Magazine Preview: The Surreal Ruins of Qaddafi?s Never-Never Land 2011-09-22T00:01:40Z Every copse bristled with rifles; red coats gleamed among the foliage, and winding highways were, alas! strewn with corpses. The Great War in England in 1897 2011-09-20T02:00:17.083Z This was the route taken by the Duke, who first crossed the greensward and then passed out by a private wicket into the road after traversing the belt of copse that fringed the demesne. The Duke Decides 2011-09-14T02:00:47.307Z Jeannette broke off and rose precipitately upon hearing, a few steps off in the copse, a great noise mixed with plaintive bleatings. The Executioner's Knife Or Joan of Arc 2011-09-13T02:00:34.817Z Road suddenly becomes a lovers’ lane, charmingly pretty, and robins are singing in the copses. The Cruise of the Land-Yacht "Wanderer" Thirteen Hundred Miles in my Caravan 2011-10-11T02:01:13.517Z There was not a pond, however, or copse along from this inn that was not searched. Annie o' the Banks o' Dee 2011-09-12T02:00:26.230Z Where dark hazel copses shiver, Have I heard its dronings sever The warm silence, or the bees? The Triumph of Music And Other Lyrics 2011-09-11T02:00:09.677Z This time he won free into the tangle of the copse without any sign of pursuit, and presently came to an open "ride" where progress was easier. The Duke Decides 2011-09-14T02:00:47.307Z It led out into the open country; and as there was some moonlight I rushed towards a patch of trees and bushes—a copse, I suppose. In the Russian Ranks A Soldier's Account of the Fighting in Poland 2011-09-11T02:00:08.747Z The copses here are in earlier spring carpeted with wild hyacinths. The Cruise of the Land-Yacht "Wanderer" Thirteen Hundred Miles in my Caravan 2011-10-11T02:01:13.517Z The primroses came out in the copses, and as soon as the blackbird and thrush saw them they started singing at once. Harry Milvaine The Wanderings of a Wayward Boy 2011-09-08T02:00:23.340Z There are bold singers enough in copse and wild wood without him. Aileen Aroon, A Memoir With other Tales of Faithful Friends and Favourites 2011-09-08T02:00:20.773Z Jennings, the third gardener, was coming back from church through the copse in the park, when he was lassoed, your Grace, same as they do buffalo, I've been told, in foreign parts. The Duke Decides 2011-09-14T02:00:47.307Z At last the Germans took post in a thick wood, and it became clear they had been playing with us all these hours while their sappers placed this copse in a state of defence. In the Russian Ranks A Soldier's Account of the Fighting in Poland 2011-09-11T02:00:08.747Z On a knoll behind it, and in the copse at one side, is quite a forest of waving pines and larches and oaks. The Cruise of the Land-Yacht "Wanderer" Thirteen Hundred Miles in my Caravan 2011-10-11T02:01:13.517Z After the dim purple bloom of a suspended Spring, a green rhythm ran from larch to thorn, from lime to sycamore: spread from meadow to meadow, from copse to copse, from hedgerow to hedgerow. The Divine Adventure Volume IV 2011-09-04T02:00:03.717Z There is also a considerable cultivation of wood, especially of fir and copse, while tobacco plantations are found at Nykerk and Wageningen. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 11, Slice 5 "Gassendi, Pierre" to "Geocentric" 2011-09-02T02:00:20.450Z At that moment a great owl flew right over the glade, and I started and ran, and never pulled up until I was miles upon miles away from that eerie, dreary copse. In Touch with Nature Tales and Sketches from the Life 2011-08-31T02:01:35.803Z The nineteenth century saw this great wood cut and sold in huge quantities, so that to-day it is rather a scanty copse through which one drives on the way from Blois. Castles and Chateaux of Old Touraine and the Loire Country 2011-08-27T02:00:22.057Z Gamekeepers would chat kindly with him, and tap their foreheads as they passed through the copse; callers would be tactful and dangle bright talk before him. The Return of the Soldier 2011-08-26T02:00:23.937Z In copse and fern, twinkled the innumerable ear and tail. Lost Sir Massingberd, v. 1/2 A Romance of Real Life 2011-08-25T02:00:34.720Z It seemed, as I have said, to come from the direction of the copse beneath, and yet I determined to descend into it, rather than thread again the mazes of those melancholy yews. Lost Sir Massingberd, v. 2/2 A Romance of Real Life 2011-08-25T02:00:33.793Z Sometimes, in blackberry season, far down in yonder copse, I can hear the laughing voices of children at work among the brambles. In Touch with Nature Tales and Sketches from the Life 2011-08-31T02:01:35.803Z Once, as they passed a sheltered copse half-way between the lake and Jessup's cottage, both saw the figure of a man retreating from the path, and knew that he was regarding them from under covert. Norston's Rest 2011-08-24T02:00:23.833Z It covered the copse with a broad sheet, softly green and golden, and the first things the rabbits saw when creeping from subterranean darkness were the golden flowers. Lives of the Fur Folk 2011-08-20T02:00:13.820Z Soon after, I followed and overtook him after he had entered a thick copse of yew and hazel half a mile away. Cedric, the Forester 2011-08-17T02:00:29.077Z The sources of the stream welled up in the centre of the copse, and were girdled by beds of flowers which, as regards colour and form, could not have been better arranged by an artist. The Backwoodsman or, Life on the Indian Frontier 2011-08-17T02:00:27.330Z I was taken down to the copse one day in June; my master had his gun. In Touch with Nature Tales and Sketches from the Life 2011-08-31T02:01:35.803Z He was curious: to see who it was, and got into the copse. World's End A Story in Three Books 2011-08-16T02:00:47.740Z In the copse there is a hollow where long ago men used to quarry out stones; but now it is never used, and the heaps of flints are draped with bramble and cinquefoil trails. Lives of the Fur Folk 2011-08-20T02:00:13.820Z In no more time than he needed to descend from the window, swim the moat and reach the horses in the hazel copse, Wilfrid would be safely away from Kimberley. Cedric, the Forester 2011-08-17T02:00:29.077Z A few yards from the copse there was a slight incline of the ground; there he sat down on the sward near enough to hear Margaret in a moment should she call. Greene Ferne Farm 2011-08-14T02:00:22.210Z I plunged into the copse, and my master started to walk round and watch. In Touch with Nature Tales and Sketches from the Life 2011-08-31T02:01:35.803Z As he passed a fir copse he heard some one playing on a tin whistle in a most peculiar way. World's End A Story in Three Books 2011-08-16T02:00:47.740Z The trees in the copse are sycamore and red-stemmed pine, and in spring the ground is carpeted with celandines and anemones. Lives of the Fur Folk 2011-08-20T02:00:13.820Z In half an hour we had come by roundabout ways to the hazel copse where Marcel and the horses awaited us. Cedric, the Forester 2011-08-17T02:00:29.077Z See, there are three copses round us; is either like the Firs?” Greene Ferne Farm 2011-08-14T02:00:22.210Z Down in this quiet copse the nightingale and blackcap still trilled their song, and gorgeous birds and butterflies innumerable flew hither and thither, all so happy in their freedom. In Touch with Nature Tales and Sketches from the Life 2011-08-31T02:01:35.803Z It was concealed from The Towers by the intervening trees which dotted the park, but there was no wood or copse to pass through in reaching it. World's End A Story in Three Books 2011-08-16T02:00:47.740Z The nuts were not ripe, and there was nothing much to be done there, but it was a copse, and copses are always pleasant to search about in. Bevis The Story of a Boy 2011-08-13T02:00:28.377Z And one thing is certain: That when wandered birds find themselves in outlying copses in the evening they are apt to roost there. The Confessions of a Poacher 2011-08-05T02:00:44.470Z She wanted to go on to the copse; with regret he noticed the weariness of her voice; she was tired. Greene Ferne Farm 2011-08-14T02:00:22.210Z It was very dreary in that copse, and when I heard the distant village clock chime out the hour of midnight and the owl hoot mournfully, I felt frightened, for all dogs are superstitious. In Touch with Nature Tales and Sketches from the Life 2011-08-31T02:01:35.803Z He was lying upon the ground hidden in the brake which grew round the hedge of a fir copse on the Downs. World's End A Story in Three Books 2011-08-16T02:00:47.740Z This piece of land, which was not all withy, but partly open and partly copse, was Bevis’s own territory, his own peculiar property, over which he was autocrat and king. Bevis The Story of a Boy 2011-08-13T02:00:28.377Z During night poaching for rabbits and hares the ground game is driven from its feeding ground to the woods or copses. The Confessions of a Poacher 2011-08-05T02:00:44.470Z Passing round the small copse they came to an opening, and in the dimness saw some large grey stones inside. Greene Ferne Farm 2011-08-14T02:00:22.210Z It is gone, and the beech copse away there is blackened for a moment as the shadow leaps it. Wild Life in a Southern County 2011-08-04T02:00:27.037Z Through this copse there ran a narrow green lane or track. World's End A Story in Three Books 2011-08-16T02:00:47.740Z Presently they rambled into a nut copse over the hill. Bevis The Story of a Boy 2011-08-13T02:00:28.377Z Birds' sounds are coming from over and under—from bough and brake, and a harmonious discord is flooded from the neighbouring copse. The Confessions of a Poacher 2011-08-05T02:00:44.470Z They went outside the copse and looked round. Greene Ferne Farm 2011-08-14T02:00:22.210Z It encircles a wide area, often irregular in shape, oval or circular, and does not present the regular internal divisions of the other—which, indeed, would be unnecessary and out of place in a copse. Wild Life in a Southern County 2011-08-04T02:00:27.037Z Fulk, pushing slowly and sadly through the woods and copses, inhaled the fragrance of the pine tree. World's End A Story in Three Books 2011-08-16T02:00:47.740Z “There by the copse,” pointing to the left and partly behind them. Bevis The Story of a Boy 2011-08-13T02:00:28.377Z Horse and rider were plunging down a steep declivity beside the trail into a thick copse. The Heart of Canyon Pass 2011-08-04T02:00:24.083Z He took Kitty’s bridle, and led the chestnut in the direction of the copse. Greene Ferne Farm 2011-08-14T02:00:22.210Z A few houses and cottages stand loosely scattered about the fields, no two of them together; so separated, indeed, by hedges, meadows, and copses as hardly to be called even a hamlet. Wild Life in a Southern County 2011-08-04T02:00:27.037Z The poor fellow wandered about in the daytime on the Downs, hiding in the fir copses, lying on the ancient earthwork entrenchment, and dreaming of his fair Florence, so many hundreds of miles away. World's End A Story in Three Books 2011-08-16T02:00:47.740Z I have heard of owners of copses losing ten or fifteen pounds’ worth of nuts by a single raid. The Gamekeeper At Home Sketches of Natural History and Rural Life 2011-08-04T02:00:21.507Z I told Arcadius of the skiff fastened up behind his sapling copse. A Tatter of Scarlet Adventurous Episodes of the Commune in the Midi 1871 2011-08-04T02:00:19.957Z Presently something like a copse came indistinctly into view ahead. Greene Ferne Farm 2011-08-14T02:00:22.210Z Between three and four the thrushes open song in the copse at the corner of the Home-field, and soon a loud chorus takes up their ditty as one after the other joins in. Wild Life in a Southern County 2011-08-04T02:00:27.037Z All that could be got from him was, that he had not distinctly seen the face of the man in the copse, but he was tallish, and wore a dirty-grey suit. World's End A Story in Three Books 2011-08-16T02:00:47.740Z The wire can be carried in the pocket, and the stick may be cut from an adjacent copse. The Gamekeeper At Home Sketches of Natural History and Rural Life 2011-08-04T02:00:21.507Z Around it was a band of little dancing figures in jet black, so lifelike that it almost seemed as if such figures might come out of the copse and dance away down the hill. In the Days of the Guild 2011-08-03T02:00:12.687Z Stay here while I go out of the copse and look round.” Greene Ferne Farm 2011-08-14T02:00:22.210Z The corner formed by the hedge and the copse—quiet, but in easy view from the house—is especially frequented by them. Wild Life in a Southern County 2011-08-04T02:00:27.037Z When she came nearer she saw that this little copse sheltered a cottage, old and weatherbeaten and evidently deserted. The Camp Fire Girls at Onoway House or, The Magic Garden 2011-07-26T02:00:18.027Z In one little copse not more than two acres in extent, and about twelve miles from Hyde Park Corner, fifteen cats were shot in six weeks, and nearly all in one spot—their favourite haunt. The Gamekeeper At Home Sketches of Natural History and Rural Life 2011-08-04T02:00:21.507Z Bluebells, the wild hyacinths, made heavenly patches of color among the copses. In the Days of the Guild 2011-08-03T02:00:12.687Z Rich flute-like notes of music came from the copse hard by—it was the blackbird. Greene Ferne Farm 2011-08-14T02:00:22.210Z In the fields immediately around—in the great hedges and the copse—are numerous others, and an expedition is made to the forest. Wild Life in a Southern County 2011-08-04T02:00:27.037Z On one side was the empty field bordered by the marsh and the woody copse, and on the other was the path from the river which went in the direction of Onoway House. The Camp Fire Girls at Onoway House or, The Magic Garden 2011-07-26T02:00:18.027Z For if the young birds come to maturity they will remain in that immediate locality for months, working every hedge and copse and ditch with cruel pertinacity. The Gamekeeper At Home Sketches of Natural History and Rural Life 2011-08-04T02:00:21.507Z A few evenings later, Lilian dismounted from her pony in the shadow of a copse. The League of the Leopard 2011-07-23T02:00:12.490Z “I was coming to Greene Ferne,” said he, “and lost my way in the copse.” Greene Ferne Farm 2011-08-14T02:00:22.210Z He visits every fir copse and beech clump on his way, spending some time, too, in and about the hawthorn hedge, which is a favourite spot. Wild Life in a Southern County 2011-08-04T02:00:27.037Z The next day he put his bull to graze in the empty field before the copse. The Camp Fire Girls at Onoway House or, The Magic Garden 2011-07-26T02:00:18.027Z Wild hops are common in many places, and will almost destroy a hedge or a little copse by the power with which they twine their coils about stem and branch. The Gamekeeper At Home Sketches of Natural History and Rural Life 2011-08-04T02:00:21.507Z The little girl looked up--lights were glancing in the castle, and just above a low copse they could see the heads of men on horseback who were riding quickly down the road. The Hour Will Come: Volumes I and II A Tale of an Alpine Cloister 2011-07-23T02:00:09.843Z Outside the copse he came to her side, ruthlessly trampling down the mowing-grass again. Greene Ferne Farm 2011-08-14T02:00:22.210Z Wood-pigeons visit the copse frequently—in the spring there are several nests—and towards evening their hollow notes are repeated at intervals. Wild Life in a Southern County 2011-08-04T02:00:27.037Z On the hither side of the road was a ditch, with a hedge, almost the only one to be met with, and a little copse of small trees. Twenty-Five Years in the Rifle Brigade 2011-07-21T02:00:19.027Z The keeper has just strolled through the copses bordering on the road, and has left them, as he thinks, safe. The Gamekeeper At Home Sketches of Natural History and Rural Life 2011-08-04T02:00:21.507Z The riders were already turning the corner of the copse. The Hour Will Come: Volumes I and II A Tale of an Alpine Cloister 2011-07-23T02:00:09.843Z “Yellucks,” said the boy, meaning “Look here,” and he pointed at a dark object on a distant ridge, which Geoffrey made out to be a copse. Greene Ferne Farm 2011-08-14T02:00:22.210Z Through the ash-poles on one side of the copse distant glimpses may be obtained of gleaming water, where a creek of the shallow lake runs in towards it. Wild Life in a Southern County 2011-08-04T02:00:27.037Z No; it's like trees in the background—a copse or something. Occultism and Common-Sense 2011-07-16T02:00:14.303Z I oft have met her slowly wandering Beside a leafy stream, her locks blown wild, Her cheeks a hectic flush, more fair than Spring, As if on her the sumach copse had smiled. Kentucky Poems 2011-07-11T02:00:07.060Z Occasionally we passed a copse of oak, or cluster of saplings. Scenes and Andventures in the Semi-Alpine Region of the Ozark Mountains of Missouri and Arkansas 2011-07-10T02:00:18.883Z You cannot see to pick up sticks in the copse.” Greene Ferne Farm 2011-08-14T02:00:22.210Z In some trees near the distant ash copse there are more nests whose owners probably sprang from the same stock, but were exiled, or migrated, and do not hold much communion with the capital. Wild Life in a Southern County 2011-08-04T02:00:27.037Z “No,” said Julia, who shivered at every sound in the copse, and glanced from side to side, as if she expected to be seized at any moment. Eli's Children The Chronicles of an Unhappy Family 2011-07-08T02:00:20.557Z Just on the edge of the copse the stream seemed to hang like a bright jewel, as the sunlight glinted from the pure, limpid water. A Vendetta of the Desert 2011-07-05T02:00:32.510Z Then, setting the example to his followers, he rode out from behind the copse, and, at an easy pace, directed his course toward the sauntering cavallada. The Yellow Chief 2011-07-05T02:00:27.013Z She carried a whole armful of spring flowers, gathered in the meadows and copses en route, bluebells and cowslips chiefly, and threw them broadcast on the grave. Greene Ferne Farm 2011-08-14T02:00:22.210Z This wooded appearance is caused by timber trees standing in the hedgerows, in the copses at the corners of the meadows, and by groups and detached trees in the middle of the fields. Wild Life in a Southern County 2011-08-04T02:00:27.037Z She spoke loudly, and all that had been said and left unsaid appealed very strongly to the senses of the great fellow in the copse. Eli's Children The Chronicles of an Unhappy Family 2011-07-08T02:00:20.557Z Upon the mountain side roamed the noble eland; in the thorny copses the stately koodoo herded,—wild cattle with which Providence had stocked the pasture for his use. A Vendetta of the Desert 2011-07-05T02:00:32.510Z A little further on in the field, yonder, where that copse stands, you'll find some poor fellow or other better worth your care, and more like to benefit by it. Harper's New Monthly Magazine, vol 1-98, 1850-1899 None 2011-06-27T02:01:02.870Z Autumn was now advancing towards its close, and copse and forest exhibited those varied and opposing hues, which clothe in beauty and brilliance, the foliage of New England. Olive Leaves Or, Sketches of Character 2011-06-25T02:00:21.120Z Bordering the furze a thick hawthorn hedge—a double mound—extends, so wide as to be itself almost another copse. Wild Life in a Southern County 2011-08-04T02:00:27.037Z A quarter of a mile in advance of the line of bivouacs were a dozen infantrymen, lying hidden in a copse. The Dispatch-Riders The Adventures of Two British Motor-cyclists in the Great War 2011-06-24T02:00:22.377Z Elsie had dropped in the road from sheer fatigue, and Kanu had borne her to a small copse, only a few yards away. A Vendetta of the Desert 2011-07-05T02:00:32.510Z Close upon the answering call a dark form emerged from the shadowy copse near at hand, and a voice asked gruffly: "Who goes there?" The Night Riders A Thrilling Story of Love, Hate and Adventure, Graphically Depicting the Tobacco Uprising in Kentucky 2011-06-23T02:00:24.513Z Mignon skipped along through copse and thicket, now before the party, now beside them, and looked up with longing eyes at her hurt protector. Wilhelm Meister's Apprenticeship and Travels, Vol. I (of 2) 2011-06-22T02:00:23.137Z This tunnel is the favourite way and passage of the rabbits from the copse out into the tempting pasturage of the meadow; through it too, now and then, a fox creeps quietly. Wild Life in a Southern County 2011-08-04T02:00:27.037Z The white sand-hills on the north are broken with little dells and copses; and on the south, not two hundred rods from the town, across a heath, flows the broad, rapid Elbe. Chronicles of the Schonberg-Cotta Family 2011-06-17T02:00:18.293Z There’s a road back of the hill yonder, and a little copse in an open field where a motor-car has stood. The Secret of Lonesome Cove 2011-06-07T02:00:12.563Z In the midst of the copse lay a small clearing, and in its center the three men came suddenly upon a group gathered around a smouldering fire, built of brushwood piled against a log. The Night Riders A Thrilling Story of Love, Hate and Adventure, Graphically Depicting the Tobacco Uprising in Kentucky 2011-06-23T02:00:24.513Z One such happy mixture in one part of the copse suggested further plantings of Holly, Birches being already in abundance. Wood and Garden Notes and thoughts, practical and critical, of a working amateur 2011-06-02T02:00:22.983Z There is a silence in the hedges and copses, and an apparent absence of birds. Wild Life in a Southern County 2011-08-04T02:00:27.037Z Having passed the intervening hillocks and copses, I gained a view of the front of the building. Ormond, Volume III (of 3) or, The Secret Witness 2011-06-02T02:00:21.807Z After a few minutes of swift going he pulled up short, in an open copse of ash, and set the lantern on the ground. The Secret of Lonesome Cove 2011-06-07T02:00:12.563Z Accordingly he ran over the field and plunged into the thorny copse. The Mantle and Other Stories 2011-05-29T02:00:07.233Z Some thinning of birch-trees has to be done in the lowest part of the copse, not far from the house. Wood and Garden Notes and thoughts, practical and critical, of a working amateur 2011-06-02T02:00:22.983Z The elm, with its rough leaf, does not grow in the copse: it is a tree that prefers to stand clear on two sides at least. Wild Life in a Southern County 2011-08-04T02:00:27.037Z "March 7.—Splendid day; warm sun, scarcely any wind; wood-pigeons calling in copse here." The Eulogy of Richard Jefferies 2011-05-27T02:00:19.437Z When I got up, she was well along toward the cliffs, and I never did find her trail in that maze of copses and thickets.” The Secret of Lonesome Cove 2011-06-07T02:00:12.563Z We were coming to the copse on the edge of the heath. My Little Sister 2011-05-27T02:00:14.023Z In the rock-garden at the edge of the copse the creeping evergreen Polygala cham�buxus is quite at home in beds of peat among mossy boulders. Wood and Garden Notes and thoughts, practical and critical, of a working amateur 2011-06-02T02:00:22.983Z A gap in the hedge by Hazel Corner leads through a fringe of hawthorn bushes into the ash copse. Wild Life in a Southern County 2011-08-04T02:00:27.037Z "May 20.—Coo of dove in copse first." The Eulogy of Richard Jefferies 2011-05-27T02:00:19.437Z Bidding the artist stay outside the copse, Kent entered on hands and knees and made extended exploration. The Secret of Lonesome Cove 2011-06-07T02:00:12.563Z Often when Bettina and I were both supposed to be at the Helmstones, I had stayed behind in the copse "to read." My Little Sister 2011-05-27T02:00:14.023Z The growths of the copses are sold by auction in some near county town, as they stand, the buyer clearing them during the winter. Wood and Garden Notes and thoughts, practical and critical, of a working amateur 2011-06-02T02:00:22.983Z Beyond the fir trees the copse runs up into a corner, where hawthorn bushes, briar, and bramble succeed to the ash-stoles, and are in turn bordered by some width of furze and brake fern. Wild Life in a Southern County 2011-08-04T02:00:27.037Z The burning village of Elsasshausen was carried by storm, and the little copse south of Fr�schwiller was also won after a gallant defence. The Franco-German War of 1870-71 2011-05-26T02:00:14.447Z Don’t be abrupt about it; but just take a look at that lilac copse on the crest of the hill.” The Secret of Lonesome Cove 2011-06-07T02:00:12.563Z As for me, I was a great deal with my books in the copse. My Little Sister 2011-05-27T02:00:14.023Z Throughout the copse are "stools" of Spanish chestnut, cut about once in five years. Wood and Garden Notes and thoughts, practical and critical, of a working amateur 2011-06-02T02:00:22.983Z If not disturbed they stay a good while, and then return by the way they came to a copse at the top of the meadow. Wild Life in a Southern County 2011-08-04T02:00:27.037Z Two brigades had necessarily been sent to strengthen the left flank, and of the 12th Brigade remaining in rear of Vionville two squadrons had been detached to the Tronville copses. The Franco-German War of 1870-71 2011-05-26T02:00:14.447Z I can afford but a few; for beneath yonder hedgerow, and within the twilight of the copse behind it, there are flocks of other sweet flowers, waiting for their praise. Mirror of the Months 2011-05-21T02:00:10.227Z His first essay along the direct road vi� Sheering was repulsed by the fire of the Scots Guards lining the copses about Gladwyns. The Invasion 2011-05-20T02:00:29.260Z Here it is a precious thing in the region where garden melts into copse. Wood and Garden Notes and thoughts, practical and critical, of a working amateur 2011-06-02T02:00:22.983Z Clustering cones hang from the firs, fringing the copse on one side—first green, and then a pale buff, and falling at last hard and brown to strew the earth beneath. Wild Life in a Southern County 2011-08-04T02:00:27.037Z Its fire, in conjunction with that of the promptly further advancing batteries of the IIIrd Corps, checked the French rush made on both sides of the Tronville copses simultaneously. The Franco-German War of 1870-71 2011-05-26T02:00:14.447Z Let us wait till winter for that; and in the mean time pass out of this pleasant little copse, and make our way windingly towards the village. Mirror of the Months 2011-05-21T02:00:10.227Z But they reckoned without their escort of Mounted Infantry, who had been lying low behind the long, narrow line of copse north of Lowerfield Farm. The Invasion 2011-05-20T02:00:29.260Z The arable fields of an upland farm give place to hazel copses as the ground rises. Wood and Garden Notes and thoughts, practical and critical, of a working amateur 2011-06-02T02:00:22.983Z In another county in the same latitude there is a small copse of birch which borders a much-frequented road. Wild Life in a Southern County 2011-08-04T02:00:27.037Z At three o'clock four of their Divisions advanced towards the Tronville copses. The Franco-German War of 1870-71 2011-05-26T02:00:14.447Z I mean the Birds’ nests that are seen here and there in the now transparent hedges, bushes, and copses. Mirror of the Months 2011-05-21T02:00:10.227Z The last time I ever saw him was one day in the copse, and he got down some hazel-nuts for me. Trevlyn Hold 2011-05-16T02:00:12.977Z Now we go into the copse and cut the trees that have been provisionally marked, judged, and condemned, with the object of leaving the remainder standing in graceful groups. Wood and Garden Notes and thoughts, practical and critical, of a working amateur 2011-06-02T02:00:22.983Z Here the stream of vehicles and passengers is nearly continuous; and the birch copse abounds with nightingales in the spring. Wild Life in a Southern County 2011-08-04T02:00:27.037Z Many lagging stragglers were taken prisoners, others hid themselves in the copses and farmhouses, or tried to escape by swimming the river. The Franco-German War of 1870-71 2011-05-26T02:00:14.447Z Little lad is wandering Through a wooded copse, Strutting with a green bough Walking down the slopes. An Anthology of Jugoslav Poetry; Serbian Lyrics 2011-05-14T02:00:10.287Z Passing through a copse after quitting the field, she emerged from it just as George was riding quietly past. Trevlyn Hold 2011-05-16T02:00:12.977Z But the glory of the copse just now consists in the great stretches of Daffodils. Wood and Garden Notes and thoughts, practical and critical, of a working amateur 2011-06-02T02:00:22.983Z For the copse is dark and gloomy, the bare oaks are dark behind; the eye cannot see across the prairie, whose breadth is doubled by the night. Wild Life in a Southern County 2011-08-04T02:00:27.037Z The first line charged some horse-lengths further forward, then wheeled outward to both flanks, and came under the fire of the supporting troops occupying the broom copses. The Franco-German War of 1870-71 2011-05-26T02:00:14.447Z A swimming pool is tucked into a copse of pine trees along the sweeping driveway. Ex-Senator Said to Have Paid Contractors at Discount 2011-05-12T02:00:30Z The tournament would take place in a considerable hollow, with green hillsides and dense copses around, where a multitude might witness the wondrous pageantry and the struggle for the honours of the day. The Last of the Vikings 2011-05-09T02:00:04.200Z Already we have been at work on some broad grass rides through the copse that were roughly levelled and laid with grass last winter. Wood and Garden Notes and thoughts, practical and critical, of a working amateur 2011-06-02T02:00:22.983Z Going on further and further, before I was aware of it I had reached the further end of the copse and came out on the river Moskva. White Nights and Other Stories The Novels of Fyodor Dostoevsky, Volume X 2011-05-07T02:00:35.433Z Another part penetrated into the Bois de la Leu and the copses near La Pierre Perc�e, where it recaptured the gun which had been lost there earlier. The Franco-German War of 1870-71 2011-05-26T02:00:14.447Z Somewhere in a neighboring copse a bird, disturbed by the dog or misled by the splendor of the night, twittered, and then, to reassure his brooding mate near by, broke into a rapture of song. A Speckled Bird 2011-05-06T02:00:09.097Z "Come with me to yonder copse, and I'll measure steel with you." The Last of the Vikings 2011-05-09T02:00:04.200Z It passes from the garden upwards to near the middle of the copse. Wood and Garden Notes and thoughts, practical and critical, of a working amateur 2011-06-02T02:00:22.983Z Moved by curiosity I went into the copse, and before I had gone many steps I caught the sound of voices speaking rapidly, though in subdued tones. White Nights and Other Stories The Novels of Fyodor Dostoevsky, Volume X 2011-05-07T02:00:35.433Z Ditches and fences afforded his marksmen complete cover, farmsteads and copses furnished excellent defensive positions. The Franco-German War of 1870-71 2011-05-26T02:00:14.447Z Its habitat is the dense copse or thicket. Memoirs of Orange Jacobs 2011-05-01T02:00:10.143Z On reaching the described copse the leading cab was pulled up—its passenger leaping instantly out, and gliding in under the trees. The Child Wife 2011-04-21T02:00:50.050Z In my own case, having some acres of rough heath and copse where the wild grasses are of fine-leaved kinds, I made the lawn by inoculation. Wood and Garden Notes and thoughts, practical and critical, of a working amateur 2011-06-02T02:00:22.983Z But after going a few steps along the track she seemed suddenly to recollect herself, hurriedly parted the bushes and walked on through the copse. White Nights and Other Stories The Novels of Fyodor Dostoevsky, Volume X 2011-05-07T02:00:35.433Z North of that place three batteries opened fire against the artillery of the Division Payen, and then the 65th Regiment passed to the attack of the forward-lying copses. The Franco-German War of 1870-71 2011-05-26T02:00:14.447Z He walked quietly, almost stealthily, through the copses. The Finger of Fate A Romance 2011-04-21T02:00:43.830Z There’s a copse that comes close to the road. The Child Wife 2011-04-21T02:00:50.050Z They are cut every six years, and a good copse of Chestnut has been known to fetch �54 an acre. Wood and Garden Notes and thoughts, practical and critical, of a working amateur 2011-06-02T02:00:22.983Z Hurriedly dressing I went out into the garden and from there into the copse. White Nights and Other Stories The Novels of Fyodor Dostoevsky, Volume X 2011-05-07T02:00:35.433Z At noon the Brigade Lagrange also advanced once more on the small copse and forced its way into it for a short time, but was again driven back by the 65th. The Franco-German War of 1870-71 2011-05-26T02:00:14.447Z Still, the river shone dazzlingly where it came rippling out of the gloom of a copse, and a long row of windows blinked in the building beside its bank. The Dust of Conflict 2011-04-14T02:01:04.343Z Here and there a bright-plumed pheasant might be seen shooting from copse to copse; or a hare, scared from her form, dashing down into the covert of the dale. The Child Wife 2011-04-21T02:00:50.050Z I always think of the Hazel as a kind nurse to Primroses; in the copses they generally grow together, and the finest Primrose plants are often nestled close in to the base of the nut-stool. Wood and Garden Notes and thoughts, practical and critical, of a working amateur 2011-06-02T02:00:22.983Z "No, into the copse," she said, with a slight flush. White Nights and Other Stories The Novels of Fyodor Dostoevsky, Volume X 2011-05-07T02:00:35.433Z There, at Francilly, and in the northern copses, they still held their own at half-past one, while at that hour, on the German side, all three brigades had been brought up into the fighting-line. The Franco-German War of 1870-71 2011-05-26T02:00:14.447Z It is a common shrub in copses and hedges in England; the small cream-white flowers are borne in dense roundish clusters. The New Gresham Encyclopedia Volume 4, Part 1: Deposition to Eberswalde 2011-04-14T02:00:57.977Z The carriage was an open one, the day clear and fine, the country looking its best—the swedes showing green, the stubble yellow, the woods and copses clad in the ochre-coloured livery of autumn. The Child Wife 2011-04-21T02:00:50.050Z The Primrose was on a bit of level ground, just at the outer and inner edges of the hazel copse. Wood and Garden Notes and thoughts, practical and critical, of a working amateur 2011-06-02T02:00:22.983Z I was tormented by two questions: first, what had the wretched fair beauty seen, and, in fact, what could she have seen that morning in the copse between Mme. White Nights and Other Stories The Novels of Fyodor Dostoevsky, Volume X 2011-05-07T02:00:35.433Z The latter regiment now took complete possession of the larger copse, and forty-eight guns were brought up on both sides of the road from Savy. The Franco-German War of 1870-71 2011-05-26T02:00:14.447Z I saw a carriage disappear behind the copse yonder. The Knight Of Gwynne, Vol. I (of II) 2011-04-04T02:00:09.197Z I had got out of sight, as he supposed, when this Mr Maynard popped out from behind a holly copse, and joined her. The Child Wife 2011-04-21T02:00:50.050Z In one part, where the foot of the hill joined the copse, there were hosts of lovely things planted on a succession of rather narrow banks. Wood and Garden Notes and thoughts, practical and critical, of a working amateur 2011-06-02T02:00:22.983Z Softly, silently, creeping through the hazel copse, came Frisky, the fox pup, as curious as his nose was long. The Adventures of Fleetfoot and Her Fawns 2011-04-03T02:00:18.337Z What if the dogs were put into our copse? 13 Days The Chronicle of an Escape from a German Prison 2011-04-01T02:00:33.827Z The cuckoo had forsaken the copse; and the swallows were making rendezvous on the spire of the village church. The White Gauntlet 2011-03-30T02:00:16.130Z You will?” were other words not spoken by himself, but heard by him, as he stood within a holly copse, screened by its evergreen frondage. The Child Wife 2011-04-21T02:00:50.050Z Here and there in the copse, among the thick masses of green Bracken, is a frond or two turning yellow. Wood and Garden Notes and thoughts, practical and critical, of a working amateur 2011-06-02T02:00:22.983Z The two spotted fawns heard the cry from their laurel copse on the rim of Lone Lake. The Adventures of Fleetfoot and Her Fawns 2011-04-03T02:00:18.337Z We quietly moved off and got to the edge of a dense copse, where we doubled on our tracks as quickly as possible, crossing the railway some two hundred yards from the cottage. 13 Days The Chronicle of an Escape from a German Prison 2011-04-01T02:00:33.827Z Everything was as before: the spotted kine lounging slowly over the lea; the fallow deer browsing upon the sward; and the birds singing their sweet songs, or winging their way from copse to copse. The White Gauntlet 2011-03-30T02:00:16.130Z Irritated by it, the young sportsman turned his back upon his pretty partner, and whistling to his spaniel, broke abruptly away, soon disappearing behind a clump of copse wood. The Child Wife 2011-04-21T02:00:50.050Z A large group, quite detached from this one, and more in the shade of the copse, is of the best of the lilacs, purples, and whites. Wood and Garden Notes and thoughts, practical and critical, of a working amateur 2011-06-02T02:00:22.983Z How swift her slender hoofs, how strong her long hind legs that could send her over a hazel copse like steel springs! The Adventures of Fleetfoot and Her Fawns 2011-04-03T02:00:18.337Z Fortunately the dogs never came into our copse, so murder was not necessary. 13 Days The Chronicle of an Escape from a German Prison 2011-04-01T02:00:33.827Z The woman and the donkey were now upon the plain, and for some time were concealed from us by the copse and brushwood which intervened. The Bible in Spain Vol. 1 [of 2] 2011-03-23T02:00:19.910Z The poor children who are brought up on the borders of commons and copses, are accustomed to little labour, but too much idleness and pilfering. A Treatise on the Police of the Metropolis Containing a Detail of the Various Crimes and Misdemeanors by which Public and Private Property and Security are, at Present, Injured and Endangered: and Suggesting Remedies for their Prevention 2011-03-23T02:00:17.353Z Towards the end of June the bracken that covers the greater part of the ground of the copse is in full beauty. Wood and Garden Notes and thoughts, practical and critical, of a working amateur 2011-06-02T02:00:22.983Z The ruffed grouse strutted and drummed in every wood, copse, and cobble. Vermont A Study of Independence 2011-03-17T02:00:13.130Z A small densely planted copse of trees of the Christmas-tree variety, situated in lonely fields, seemed to offer as good a place as we could wish, but had the disadvantage of being near no water. 13 Days The Chronicle of an Escape from a German Prison 2011-04-01T02:00:33.827Z At first he walks along over the dew-freshened sward, under the isolated oak giants, or between the more gregarious beeches and limes of spinny and copse, without seeing them. Doctor Cupid 2011-03-13T03:00:23.987Z Presently, however, I discerned the glimmer of a lamp amidst a copse upon the right-hand side, and the droshky driver indicated with his whip that it was the house which Captain L�on had visited. The Great White Army 2011-03-12T03:00:25.450Z The planting of Daffodils in this part of the copse is much better than in any other portions where there were no guiding track-ways, and where they were planted in haphazard sprinklings. Wood and Garden Notes and thoughts, practical and critical, of a working amateur 2011-06-02T02:00:22.983Z “A stream runs through part of the property, and there is likely to be plenty of game in the copse,” replied Mr. Trevor. The Haunted Room A Tale 2011-03-10T03:00:46.157Z Eventually, at about 5.15 we found a small copse of fir trees situated in pasture land, and were not sorry to get into it. 13 Days The Chronicle of an Escape from a German Prison 2011-04-01T02:00:33.827Z She wakes: the grey dawn streaks the dark: With early song the copses ring: Far off she hears the watch-dog bark A joyful bark of welcoming! Three Sunsets and Other Poems 2011-03-08T03:00:46.420Z Lantern in hand, the man at his heels, he crushed through the swampy copse to the shore. Miss Maitland Private Secretary 2011-03-08T03:00:39.100Z How strangely little of positive green colour is to be seen in copse and woodland. Wood and Garden Notes and thoughts, practical and critical, of a working amateur 2011-06-02T02:00:22.983Z A few seconds later several musket-shots rang out from the copse, and he heard the sing of bullets about his head. The Road to Paris 2011-03-07T03:00:11.103Z At 5 a.m., finding a good thick copse of small fir-trees, we lay up for a rest. 13 Days The Chronicle of an Escape from a German Prison 2011-04-01T02:00:33.827Z About a hundred yards away, a very dark-colored doe was leaping toward a copse of sheltering rhododendron. The Black Fawn 2011-03-07T03:00:09.513Z The man whirled his horse to the side of the trail, lifted the bag of kittens from his saddle horn and threw the still-tied sack into a copse of brush. Swamp Cat 2011-03-06T03:00:20.453Z But where it looks best with me is in a grassy place strewn with dead leaves, under young oaks, where the garden joins the copse. Wood and Garden Notes and thoughts, practical and critical, of a working amateur 2011-06-02T02:00:22.983Z He could make out its dark, round, stone top in the midst of the thick copse. The Road to Paris 2011-03-07T03:00:11.103Z We tried copse after copse only to find them all too open. 13 Days The Chronicle of an Escape from a German Prison 2011-04-01T02:00:33.827Z Raising a front foot, the fawn tapped a hoof no bigger than a twenty-five-cent piece and looked back over his shoulder at the laurel copse where the doe had left him. The Black Fawn 2011-03-07T03:00:09.513Z He knew the trees or copses of trees which the great horned owls preferred, and where the grouse were inclined to roost. Swamp Cat 2011-03-06T03:00:20.453Z The early Pyrenean Daffodil is already out, gleaming through the low-toned copse like lamps of pale yellow light. Wood and Garden Notes and thoughts, practical and critical, of a working amateur 2011-06-02T02:00:22.983Z But when he was ready for a second shot, he shouldered his gun, evidently thinking the bird out of range, although it remained over the copse. The Road to Paris 2011-03-07T03:00:11.103Z It is a shrub or small tree growing in copses or hedges, with a grey smooth bark, four-angled green twigs, opposite leaves and loose clusters of small greenish-white flowers. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 9, Slice 8 "Ethiopia" to "Evangelical Association" 2011-03-05T03:00:24.537Z The trees among which they threaded their way were mostly second-growth yellow birch but now and then there was a grove of aspens, a solitary black cherry or a copse of laurel and rhododendrons. The Black Fawn 2011-03-07T03:00:09.513Z Curious, the thrush flew back to the copse, tilted on a twig and gave voice to a few questioning notes. Swamp Cat 2011-03-06T03:00:20.453Z Other parts of the copse, where there was no Heath or Whortleberry, were planted thinly with the large Lily of the Valley. Wood and Garden Notes and thoughts, practical and critical, of a working amateur 2011-06-02T02:00:22.983Z When they had passed a few suburban mansions, some fields and swamps and wooded hills, Tom said, "Whist a bit!" and turned aside into a little copse. The Road to Paris 2011-03-07T03:00:11.103Z They were cut off in a small copse, and lay quiet there for several days, surrounded by the enemy. From Bapaume to Passchendaele, 1917 2011-03-04T03:01:00.007Z They entered the copse, Gramps following the grouse tracks and Bud ten feet to one side. The Black Fawn 2011-03-07T03:00:09.513Z Woods and fields bank themselves inland; here a dewy pasture, there a stretch of plowed earth recently sown and harrowed; elsewhere a grove of fir or maple or a hazel copse. The High Heart 2011-03-04T03:00:52.683Z Now, in the third week of May, Rhododendrons are in full bloom on the edge of the copse. Wood and Garden Notes and thoughts, practical and critical, of a working amateur 2011-06-02T02:00:22.983Z He now heard a shout at the edge of the copse and saw the same officer who had enabled him to pass. The Road to Paris 2011-03-07T03:00:11.103Z One of them is the Rozebeek, and another is the Wambeek, and the third is the Blawepoortbeek, and there is a small ridge between each of them, and a copse between them. From Bapaume to Passchendaele, 1917 2011-03-04T03:01:00.007Z If the copse could swallow Old Yellowfoot as though he had melted into the air, how could you expect to find the grouse? The Black Fawn 2011-03-07T03:00:09.513Z Some years ago when out rabbit-shooting on the South Downs, not far from Eastbourne, one of our party shot a cat of this colour in a copse not far from the village of Eastdean. Our Cats and All About Them Their Varieties, Habits, and Management; and for Show, the Standard of Excellence and Beauty; Described and Pictured 2011-03-03T03:00:48.597Z If my copse were some acres larger I should like nothing better than to make a good-sized clearing, laying out to the sun, and to plant it with these aromatic bushes and herbs. Wood and Garden Notes and thoughts, practical and critical, of a working amateur 2011-06-02T02:00:22.983Z Suddenly the carriage dropped below into a copse dividing two lakes or swamps; a string of carts which had been driven up one behind another, and would not move on, blocked the road. Withered Leaves. Vol. III.(of III) A Novel 2011-02-25T03:01:13.983Z Armed with two rifles each, we stealthily advanced against the wind, under the cover afforded by the dry copse wood, which yielded up a cloud of impalpable dust, and rendered the inclination to sneeze incessant. The Highlands of Ethiopia 2011-02-25T03:01:07.193Z His shotgun was half raised, but his mind was not on the grouse that, any moment now, might rocket up from the copse of brush he was approaching. The Black Fawn 2011-03-07T03:00:09.513Z At eleven o'clock that night, when every one, except the sentries, was slumbering, the copse was suddenly filled with a fearful din, with occasional shots, and a few shouts. 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 Klaas scrambled through the copse as fast as he could, and the others, shocked at the sight, drew back instinctively. Jasper Lyle 2011-02-19T03:01:11.070Z I then suddenly saw there were more men in the copse, so I mounted the party and galloped at it, yelling, with my revolver held out. 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 Yes, he heard them now plainly enough, and had barely time to conceal himself in the copse when Dr. Beattie and Mrs. Sewell descended the steps, and walked out upon the gravel. Sir Brook Fossbrooke, Volume II. 2011-02-18T03:00:19.343Z Sewell bowed, and went his way; not straight towards the house, however, but into a little copse at the end of the garden, to recover his equanimity and collect himself. Sir Brook Fossbrooke, Volume I. 2011-02-18T03:00:17.957Z German troops were holding a copse near a village north of the British-French position, and, fearing an attack, were in the habit of protecting themselves every night by a double line of sentinels. 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 But summer’s far off, and still in the copse, The cold winter’s snow doth descend, Fierce winds, and sharp frosts, may yet blast thy hopes, And bring thy sweet song to an end. Awd Isaac, The Steeple Chase, and other Poems With a glossary of the Yorkshire Dialect 2011-02-16T03:00:41.223Z Some birds woke and twittered half in sleep; answers came over from one copse and then from another, but there was no danger at hand, and they slept once more ... there was peace all around. Arne; A Sketch of Norwegian Country Life 2011-02-14T03:00:32.700Z "Come here, Tom," said he, passing his arm within Len-drick's, and leading him off the terrace into a little copse of wild hollies at the foot of it. Sir Brook Fossbrooke, Volume II. 2011-02-18T03:00:19.343Z With all the stealth of the panther they crept through the thickets, and advanced with the greatest caution till they reached the edge of the copse nearest to the unsuspecting herdsmen. The World and Its People: Book VII Views in Africa 2011-02-13T03:00:17.920Z The copse considerably hampered the advance of the Allies, and an Indian regiment was brought up as a reinforcement. 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 Once, in the distance on the edge of a copse, he saw a man creeping about on all-fours, evidently searching for some lost object in the thicket. The Streets of Ascalon Episodes in the Unfinished Career of Richard Quarren, Esqre. 2011-02-12T03:00:30.987Z I ran all over the place; I went far into the fields; but I couldn't find you: I looked in every copse; I questioned everybody; I came here, too; but you didn't answer.... Arne; A Sketch of Norwegian Country Life 2011-02-14T03:00:32.700Z Chilly, yes, but choose a spot near the lake for a water view or try the Nethermead for the coziness of a copse of bare trees, and it becomes a romantic repast. Busy Tonight? I Know a Nice Subway Ride... 2011-02-10T20:16:09Z Two afternoons later Helen went with the women Bond and Hardman to gather blackberries, which were ripening in rich profusion upon bushes scattered along the southern border of a copse of hemlock. In the Van; or, The Builders 2011-02-09T03:00:42.387Z "Father said we were to go to the hazel copse," answered Pierot. A Round Dozen 2011-02-07T03:00:26.887Z |
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