| 单词 | spinney |
| 例句 | It happened that there was in the yard a pile of timber which had been stacked there ten years earlier when a beech spinney was cleared. Animal Farm: A Fairy Story 1945-08-17T00:00:00Z Then they made a tour of inspection of the whole farm and surveyed with speechless admiration the ploughland, the hayfield, the orchard, the pool, the spinney. Animal Farm: A Fairy Story 1945-08-17T00:00:00Z Merry went in front leading a laden pony, and took his way along a path that went through a spinney behind the house, and then cut across several fields. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z He led me into a small spinney, ample enough to hide us from view. Crispin: The Cross of Lead 2002-06-01T00:00:00Z Less than half a mile to the west, they came upon a spinney adjoining the southern edge of Caesar’s Belt. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z The flowery meads and bird-fruitful spinneys of the Arras teemed and rippled over the four walls. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z Retired again to far side of spinney and disguised myself in pair of false whiskers, which I always keep for these occasions. Mr. Punch in the Hunting Field 2012-03-17T02:01:06.070Z Day in we hunt the spinney fox, Day out the rapparee; His cave is in the broken rocks Above the Correi-buidhe. The Mountainy Singer 2012-02-20T03:00:20.273Z Next season, at a "coffee-housing" by a spinney side, where hounds were at work, an old friend of the bereft uncle ventured to condole with him on his loss. The Barb and the Bridle A Handbook of Equitation for Ladies, and Manual of Instruction in the Science of Riding, from the Preparatory Suppling Exercises 2012-02-13T03:00:14.370Z Do ye mind the time he fought young Mr. Welsh over yonder in the spinney with half the countryside watching? The Black Moth A Romance of the XVIIIth Century 2012-01-31T03:00:13.827Z The hounds got him out of the spinney where he was known to reside, in no time, but he immediately took refuge in another and a larger one half a mile or so off. The Eldest Son 2012-01-24T03:00:28.780Z Beneath us, the spires of the poplars in the spinney were warm gold, as if the blood shone through. The White Peacock 2012-01-14T03:00:21.627Z On the left was a spinney of larches showing as yet no crimson plumes of Spring, round which numbers of rabbits gambolled in air that sparkled like golden wine. The Passionate Elopement 2011-12-02T03:00:19.930Z The soft horn blew, Tom turned the hounds up wind; they drew Up wind, down hill, by spinney side. Reynard the Fox 2011-11-20T03:00:13.153Z When the body was found in the spinney, although he had little evidence to go upon, he had, personally, no doubt as to who was the guilty party. Miss Arnott's Marriage 2011-11-11T03:00:33Z Pickersdyke halted his little command behind the remains of a spinney and went forward to reconnoitre. Servants of the Guns 2011-10-06T02:00:39.987Z We were entering the spinney of black poplar. The White Peacock 2012-01-14T03:00:21.627Z Every one pressed close and glanced back and forth between the baronet and the spinney, which was an exceedingly ordinary spinney with some fir-trees beyond. The Tigress 2011-08-30T02:00:39.657Z There were rabbit tracks in the grass, and live things rustled in the spinney. Barnaby A Novel 2011-07-12T02:00:39.777Z Moreover he starts on an important journey to-morrow and would propose a very brief encounter with you at dawn, in one of the spinneys of the Park. Petticoat Rule 2011-04-18T02:00:14.507Z Said so; and at once started to execute the order; riding slowly off towards the spinney, in zigzags, with body bent and eyes searching over the ground. No Quarter! 2011-03-26T02:00:16.330Z They used to tryst in the poplar spinney. The White Peacock 2012-01-14T03:00:21.627Z "And is it to be the spinney or Daggs Farm?" cried the host. The Tigress 2011-08-30T02:00:39.657Z A scream on the hidden side of the spinney beneath them linked up the field, believing in one of the glorious surprises that light up the dragging end of the day. Barnaby A Novel 2011-07-12T02:00:39.777Z The Duke of York himself was chased from spinney to spinney and escaped by a stroke of luck, finding a bridge across the last brook held by a detachment of Hessians. The French Revolution 2011-02-10T03:00:50.577Z The party must be behind that spinney of Scotch firs. No Quarter! 2011-03-26T02:00:16.330Z He had to go into the spinney near the house to a well, and being warm disliked turning out. The White Peacock 2012-01-14T03:00:21.627Z When opposite he loses sight of it; a spinney of tall poplars drawing curtain-like between him and the higher bank. Gwen Wynn A Romance of the Wye 2011-02-09T03:00:45.007Z They ran from Owston, my lady, and lost the fox on yon side of our bottom spinney. Barnaby A Novel 2011-07-12T02:00:39.777Z “Long time finding a fox this morning,” said Charley impatiently, as he turned his horse along by the side of a spinney. By Birth a Lady No more did they of the hawking party, who, led by the chase, had pushed on through the spinney of firs to be forward at the kill. No Quarter! 2011-03-26T02:00:16.330Z Skirting the spinney, we followed the brook course, and came at last to the quarry fence. The White Peacock 2012-01-14T03:00:21.627Z At nightfall, just as the stripling moon sank behind a spinney of firs that crowned the farthest visible dip of that rolling way ahead across the wold, they turned down into Wychford. Sinister Street, vol. 2 Hounds were in the spinney; she had glimpses of dappled bodies ranging among the trees; at the eastern side an interminable troop of riders were pouring into the field. Barnaby A Novel 2011-07-12T02:00:39.777Z By the way, Charley, Leathrum says they are hatching plenty of pheasants: the spinneys will be full this season; and I want you to have some good shooting. By Birth a Lady "Along by the spinney, Sergeant, then along the back lane and I see it vanish it-self through th' orchard wall and that's what!" Our Admirable Betty A Romance Over the fence of the spinney was the hillside, scattered with old thorn trees. The White Peacock 2012-01-14T03:00:21.627Z They turned towards the interior of the spinney. The Missioner That's one of the whips riding on," he explained; "they are going to draw the spinney down there, just underneath. Barnaby A Novel 2011-07-12T02:00:39.777Z Gorse-coverts, hedge-rows, and little spinneys would be of no avail unless there were some grandly wild domain in which maternal and paternal foxes could roam in comparative security. Ayala's Angel Hill and dale, hedge and wall, copse and spinney, O demn! Our Admirable Betty A Romance So they went on to where they could climb the fence into the spinney. The White Peacock 2012-01-14T03:00:21.627Z Her cheeks were aflame, and her heart was beating like a girl’s as she reached the spinney. The Missioner There were deep lanes, with high hedges, which at the present season of the year were a mass of flowering hawthorn; and every little copse and spinney showed blue with hyacinths. A Fourth Form Friendship A School Story "By the holy," said Twentyman, suddenly, "the hounds have put a fox out of that little spinney." Ayala's Angel Or again, I watch Buntings and Finches deserting the flock and seeking stations in the marsh, or amongst the furze-bushes on the common, or in the spinneys. Territory in Bird Life The spinney opened out; the ferns were serenely uncoiling, the bluebells stood grouped with blue curls mingled. The White Peacock 2012-01-14T03:00:21.627Z Macheson threw his remaining rug over the prostrate figure, and, lighting his pipe, strolled out into the spinney. The Missioner He was horribly afraid; he skulked in the jungle like a wary old fox in a trusty spinney. Miss Cayley's Adventures Twice or thrice they looked back at the spot where they had made their first camp, but soon a spinney hid it from their view. The Wolf Patrol A Tale of Baden-Powell's Boy Scouts He was particular also about his snipe, and would boast that in a little spinney at Ballytowngal were to be met the earliest woodcock found in the West of Ireland. The Landleaguers After wading through bog systems and bramble entanglements for some hours I came out behind a spinney and there spied a small urchin with red cheeks and a red woollen muffler standing beneath a holly-tree. Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. CLVIII, January 7, 1920 The spinney itself seemed alive with birds and animals, startled by her light footsteps in the shelter which they had sought, disturbed too by their instinct of the coming storm. The Missioner And he knew nothing of preserving and of a land that is all parcelled out into parks and gardens and spinneys. The Twentieth Century American Being a Comparative Study of the Peoples of the Two Great Anglo-Saxon Nations I well recollect, for example, being caught in this way in a Hampshire spinney, at that time one of my most frequented haunts. Byways of Ghost-Land There was a long spinney rather than a wood stretching down a bottom, through which a brook ran. Marion Fay He had been out to collect Christmas decorations in his own private fenced spinney, and confound it if some scoundrels hadn't been and gone and stripped his pet holly-tree of every twig! Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. CLVIII, January 7, 1920 "I'm taking a short cut through your grounds to the fir spinney," he said. Blake's Burden We drew several covers blank, and found a fox, about one o’clock, in a small spinney, from which he bolted at the first summons. A New Illustrated Edition of J. S. Rarey's Art of Taming Horses With the Substance of the Lectures at the Round House, and Additional Chapters on Horsemanship and Hunting, for the Young and Timid I grew angry; I coughed, laughed, whistled; and from afar off, from the distant lees, and streams, and spinneys, came a repetition of the noises. Byways of Ghost-Land The fox made his way along the whole length, and then traversing, so as to avoid the hounds, ran a ring up the hillside, and back into the spinney again. Marion Fay The night was clear when I drove away from the inn, but there was some mist in the fields and a goodish bit about the spinney they had pointed out to me. The Man Who Drove the Car Heggs, and you, Smith, and you, Cook, go through the spinney as fast as you can, one in the middle and one on each side, mind! The New Tenant I say; I wonder whether pheasants feel the same as I do when they’re beginning to be driven to the end of a spinney?” Fix Bay'nets The Regiment in the Hills The rooks are cawing in the elms, the cuckoo's note has been heard in the spinney for some time before these little visitors pass in jerky flight up and down the valley. Birds in the Calendar It is not simply that foxes will not dwell in every spinney, or break as soon as found, or always run when they do break. Marion Fay You drive to the edge of the spinney which you'll find directly you turn the corner. The Man Who Drove the Car The master never thought of “harking back,” his pack having followed a strong scent beyond the brow; but pushed on to a spinney lying on the slope of the next “dean.” Records of Woodhall Spa and Neighbourhood Historical, Anecdotal, Physiographical, and Archaeological, with Other Matter I made this discovery in a spinney, or copse, near a small tarn some half mile to the eastward of Fernbridge's precincts. Fibble, D.D. Another owl behaved in somewhat similar fashion in a spinney close to Axmouth, South Devon, punishing a coastguard so severely that the man took to his heels. Birds in the Calendar But then there's the pheasants a-breedin', and there's four brood of flappers in the withey bed, and a sight of young hares in the spinneys. Tom Brown at Oxford So he found her when he came round the corner of the spinney. Anna the Adventuress Patches of wood in places, spinney size for the most part. The Doings of the Fifteenth Infantry Brigade August 1914 to March 1915 The birds were singing their hearts out in the mellow sunshine, and now and again the cuckoo's call came floating over the meadows from copse or spinney. The Making of a Soul Thus resolved, he walks up through the lands of the Court, through the valley filled with opening fronds of ferns, and through the spinney beyond that again, until he comes to where the Monktons live. April's Lady A Novel In order to get rid of the evidence against them they hid the stolen things in the spinney which then grew where the gas-house now stands, just by the mill stream bridge. Fragments of Two Centuries Glimpses of Country Life when George III. was King At last the longed-for baying of excitement sounded from within a spinney which was being drawn, while the field waited in scattered groups to right and left. Etheldreda the Ready A School Story At the spinney overhanging Hobwick Quarry he had seen Mallalieu and Stoner, and had at once noticed that something in the shape of a quarrel was afoot. The Borough Treasurer Pending such a fate, I was sent to bivouac in a windswept spinney known as Ponne Copse. The Story of the 2/4th Oxfordshire and Buckinghamshire Light Infantry One misty night in October, my friend Alec and I, both being keen on rabbiting, determined to visit a spinney adjoining the Cortachy estate, in pursuit of our quarry. Scottish Ghost Stories The second and heavier blow was that the inhabitants of our little spinney suddenly and unmistakably made their presence felt. With Our Army in Palestine The plains of Salisbury, ideal for summer military camps, are rolling, prairie-like lands stretching for miles, broken by a very occasional farm house or by plantations of trees called "spinneys." On the Fringe of the Great Fight As I got to that spinney at the edge of the quarry, I saw Mallalieu and our clerk. The Borough Treasurer The darkness clung close to the ground, the spinney between our lines was a bulk of shadow thinning out near the stars. The Red Horizon Early the next day, Mr. Vance set out for the spinney and cottage; they were not to be found—nobody had ever heard of them. Scottish Ghost Stories The Turkish trenches enclosed a lovely little spinney of fig-trees and almond-trees in full bloom, under which we concealed the guns and beneath whose sheltering branches we slept. With Our Army in Palestine Picketed in the open plain or in the partial shelter of the occasional "spinneys," they stood with ears drooping and tails to the wind, pictures of dejection. On the Fringe of the Great Fight It was in the midst of this that he met his senior employer—at the corner of a thin spinney which ran along the edge of a disused quarry. The Borough Treasurer By Jove, you did hop into that roofless house and scamper out of that spinney! The Red Horizon Poem 155. airts: quarters; row: roll; shaw: small wood in a hollow, spinney; knowes: knolls. The Golden Treasury Of the Best Songs and Lyrical Poems in the English Language We explored a circuit of six miles about Wishford; every fold of the hills, every spinney, every hedgerow was thoroughly examined. Lore of Proserpine She found herself in a small spinney of young birch-trees, filling up the extremity of a triangular field into which she had come. Vera Nevill Or, Poor Wisdom's Chance A few yards more the spinney ceased, and we were away out in the open country, plunging and galloping as if our very souls depended on it. Animal Ghosts Or, Animal Hauntings and the Hereafter I went in by the wrong gate; there were so many on the left, and found myself in a dark spinney where the rain was dripping heavily from the branches of the trees. The Red Horizon "Never tell anyone," Pa Tridge would say, "who it was you saw in the spinney with Mr. Jay or Mrs. Woodpecker." Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 152, May 30, 1917 He led the way along a tangled path, doubled back, plunged into a little spinney and came suddenly to a small shed. The Black Box The fir trees in a little spinney close at hand were twisted into all manners of shapes. The Double Life Of Mr. Alfred Burton On the one side the hedge was high, but on the other there was a slight gap leading into a thick spinney. Animal Ghosts Or, Animal Hauntings and the Hereafter The firing-line was about five miles away; the starlights seemed to rise and fall just beyond an adjacent spinney, so deceptive are they. The Red Horizon Cultivated fields there were few, tracts of furze--spinneys, as men then called small patches of wood--in plenty. The House of Walderne A Tale of the Cloister and the Forest in the Days of the Barons' Wars "The spinney gate was open, so some one has passed through." The Betrayal Just about dusk a hail of bullets came upon our party from a small spinney of fir trees on the side of a hill. Tommy Atkins at War As Told in His Own Letters Yet we know a golfer who always shouts "Fore!" on slicing a ball into a spinney. Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 159, 1920-07-28 What dire offence have serious Fellows found To raise their spleen against the Regent's spinney? The Poetical Works of Thomas Hood I don't forget that there is a fox-earth in the spinney attached. In a Green Shade A Country Commentary "The trees in the spinney are snapping like twigs, sir," Grooton remarked. The Betrayal They felt pretty well winded by now, as they stood panting in a breezy spinney, watching for the appearance of their quarry on the brown road beneath them. Acton's Feud A Public School Story "There's a pair of foxes, my lord, in the Nowers spinney that have been doing a shocking amount of damage lately…." The Mating of Lydia In another part of Worcestershire, on the side of the Cotswolds, there is, in a little spinney, a large flat stone, much worn on its under surface, which is called the White Lady's Table. A Philological Essay Concerning the Pygmies of the Ancients Elsewhere you might plant and cultivate a forest for cut wood and a spinney for fowling. Roman Farm Management The Treatises of Cato and Varro Some on 'em got it hot, I reckon, in the new spinney yonder. Bred in the Bone But here the sharp song of the yellow-hammer from the hedge, or the cry of the owl from the spinney, come pure and keen through the thin air, purged of all uncertain murmurs. The Silent Isle The fox had been found in a spinney running down to Withy Brook, and his race for life had begun. Vanishing Roads and Other Essays In the distance, a low range of hills, irregularly wooded; then a river; then woods and spinneys; then vineyards—boundless vineyards which climbed in varying slopes out of the valley almost to our feet. Over There War Scenes on the Western Front "They are cutting down the oaks in the lower spinney," he told them one day. Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 153, July 18, 1917 The usual accompaniment of the chalk—small "tufts" of foliage, that become spinneys when close at hand, dot the surface of the great plateau. Wanderings in Wessex An Exploration of the Southern Realm from Itchen to Otter Was it a strangled cry for "Help!" repeated once, twice, thrice, or was it the cold wind clanging and grinding the naked branches of the spinney? The World's Greatest Books — Volume 06 — Fiction You will just go round by that spinney to see if the earth you gave orders to be stopped up is properly closed. A Cotswold Village It had many little woods and spinneys, and no watercourses. Over There War Scenes on the Western Front The poor birds flew over the glen to another spinney, but we brought them back over the guns and seven fell. The Moon Endureth: Tales and Fancies He muttered something exclamatory, and she heard a match struck, and shortly afterwards he moved across the garden patch towards the little spinney. The Shuttle I myself joined the searchers, but soon separated from them, and passing the home spinney, near by which was the famous Wolsey oak, a tree of great age. The World's Greatest Books — Volume 06 — Fiction I hear the nightingale, That from the little blackthorn spinney steals To the old hazel hedge that skirts the vale, And still unseen sings sweet. Life and Remains of John Clare "The Northamptonshire Peasant Poet" Looking up she saw her father, following the winding path through the spinney towards his home. From One Generation to Another Early Nightingale When first we hear the shy-come nightingales, They seem to mutter oer their songs in fear, And, climb we eer so soft the spinney rails, All stops as if no bird was anywhere. Poems Chiefly from Manuscript Close to it was a dripping spinney, its trees forming a darkling background to the tumble-down house, whose thatch was rotting into holes, and its walls sagging forward perilously. The Shuttle It is a bare fold of land with one or two little scrubby spinneys alongside the plough. First and Last In a few minutes we came to the side of a spinney with a low wall of rough stones cutting it off from the field. The Yeoman Adventurer If he had come into the spinney he would have seen them, but he kept straight on. Gone to Earth There is not a spinney over the whole course that I do not know by heart. Pebbles on the shore [by] Alpha of the plough If she kept near it—somewhere—somewhere quite close, and let him search the spinney, she might get away to its cover after he gave up the search and came back. The Shuttle You come to a spinney where a ride has been cut through by the woodreeve, and it is all in the same line. First and Last I was here alone in a lonely field, at nine of the clock on a winter night, and there, flittering and gliding through the spinney was a something in white. The Yeoman Adventurer He knew there was not a soul near, for the people from the farm at the foot of the spinney had all gone to church. Gone to Earth I saw the one she meant, a little chap operating in a detached sort of way above a spinney. Right Ho, Jeeves She could see the massed outline of the trees of the spinney. The Shuttle What dire offense have serious Fellows found To raise their spleen against the Regent's spinney? The Humorous Poetry of the English Language; from Chaucer to Saxe The countryside would be scoured; no stone left unturned, no spinney unbeaten. Once Aboard the Lugger It was cold in the Callow—a spinney of silver birches and larches that topped a round hill. Gone to Earth If not, I must e'en walk with you out to the spinney. Love and Life An Old Story in Eighteenth Century Costume You are not on the road, and I have been through the spinney. The Shuttle O Love, you silent wayfarer, How many years all unaware By blackthorn hedge, and spinney green With larch, I wandered, while unseen You in my shadow walked, nor made Even a whisper in the shade. Preludes 1921-1922 The air is fresh, soft and fragrant, laden with rain; the earth smells sweet; and the wild woodland scent comes blowing to me out of the heart of the spinney. The Altar Fire The shadow-figure, traced in lines of light, this time adorned the other end of the spinney's edge. Under Fire: the story of a squad But you'd never find your way to her cot; it lies out beyond the spinneys. Love and Life An Old Story in Eighteenth Century Costume We mean to make our way across the copse at our leisure, picking flowers as we go, and come out into the road on the other side of the spinney. The British Barbarians On the other side of the brook is a spinney of beeches, with smooth, straight trunks, like pillars. The Life of the fly; with which are interspersed some chapters of autobiography To return to the nest, my lost Bees had only to cross slight obstacles, the hedges and spinneys of the tilled fields. The Mason-Bees Some score yards from the lower edge of the spinney, upon the farther side of the ridge, a tiny beck babbled through its bed of peat. Bob, Son of Battle Leonora had gone to pay some calls; Edward was looking after some planting up in the new spinney. The Good Soldier Did you hear him down in that spinney? The Country House What fun I had in that delightful spinney! The Life of the fly; with which are interspersed some chapters of autobiography On our way home there lay a long narrow spinney, which was a very favourite "lie" for woodcocks, and generally held a pheasant or two as well. Maiwa's Revenge He strolled out of doors into the sodden spinney behind the house, and solaced himself with a pipe. The Way of All Flesh He caught no further glimpse of Ella, whom the green depths of the spinney hid well; and he heard no more shots. The Bittermeads Mystery After that the spinney just off the road, and the welcome presence of Tony, Hastings, and the horses. El Dorado, an adventure of the Scarlet Pimpernel I asked the owner of the spinney about the matter. The Life of the fly; with which are interspersed some chapters of autobiography I stood at the right-hand corner of the spinney, which curved round somewhat, and Quatermain stood at the left, about forty paces from me. Maiwa's Revenge Ernest had been out all the morning, but came in to the yard of the Rectory from the spinney behind the house just as Ellen’s things were being put into the carriage. The Way of All Flesh "Come and look for violets with me in the spinney, and let us talk of the houses we are going to build, and the dreams we shall dream in them." The Vanished Messenger He told of the rescue of the Dauphin from the Temple, the midnight drive in the coal-cart, the meeting with Hastings and Tony in the spinney. El Dorado, an adventure of the Scarlet Pimpernel I rested after my dinner, then pushed on again, till I had won to a little spinney only four miles from Taunton, where my legs began to fail under me. Martin Hyde, the Duke's Messenger I assented, and he called to the keeper who was following with a little knot of beaters, and told him to beat the spinney. Maiwa's Revenge Then Ernest slunk off into a coppice or spinney behind the Rectory paddock, and consoled himself with a pipe of tobacco. The Way of All Flesh The spinney lay on the right of the road. El Dorado, an adventure of the Scarlet Pimpernel "The spinney must be sharp on our right now," he said. El Dorado, an adventure of the Scarlet Pimpernel I crept into the spinney, wondering if it contained some good shelter in which I could sleep for the night. Martin Hyde, the Duke's Messenger Turn down there and go along the road until you meet a close spinney of fir-trees on your right. El Dorado, an adventure of the Scarlet Pimpernel Some two hundred metres down this road on the right there is a small spinney, which will afford splendid shelter for yourselves and your horses. El Dorado, an adventure of the Scarlet Pimpernel We slept in various parts of the spinney, wherever there was good shelter; but we were all so full of jangling nerves that our sleep was most uneasy. Martin Hyde, the Duke's Messenger Then he called to Sir Andrew and led the way across the road and into the spinney. El Dorado, an adventure of the Scarlet Pimpernel |
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