How To Use Copse In A Sentence
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For a start, when you drive through the gate, instead of just driving through just a field of grass, you actually drive through copses of trees and little forests.
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We preferred to forage on grassy plains dotted with copses of trees because they offered protection from predators, which we could easily spot as they crept up on us in the short grass.
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The road curved, and I emerged from a copse to confront a splendid panorama.
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While her thoughts were occupied with these melancholy reflections, a shadowy figure seemed to detach itself from the copsewood on her right hand.
The Heart of Mid-Lothian
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A woodpecker called loudly in the beech wood; a "wish-wish" in the air overhead was caused by the swift motion of a wood-pigeon passing from "holt" to "hurst," from copse to copse.
The Life of the Fields
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She had conceived of a barren desolate waste, shrubless and treeless; and she saw grassy hillocks, leafy copses, and even, as she thought, patches of dwarfish woods.
The Story of Ida Pfeiffer and Her Travels in Many Lands
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Its sides were wild, abrupt, and precipitous, and partially covered with copse-wood, as was the little brawling stream which ran through it, and of which the eye of the spectator could only catch occasional glimpses from among the hazel, dogberry, and white thorn, with which it was here and there covered.
The Black Baronet; or, The Chronicles Of Ballytrain The Works of William Carleton, Volume One
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They accordingly dismounted, and leaving their horses in a thick copse, "snaked" in the direction of a large Federal camp near at hand, taking advantage of every cover.
The Romance of the Civil War
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The copse was loud with birds; a gang of titmice was foraging in the oak clump to the left, and I could hear what I thought was a thrasher in the near distance.
Sick Cycle Carousel
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Wandering into a copse by the road – side — but not in that place; two or three miles off — he tore out from a fence a thick, hard, knotted stake; and, sitting down beneath a hayrick, spent some time in shaping it, in peeling off the bark, and fashioning its jagged head with his knife.
The Life and Adventures of Martin Chuzzlewit
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We shall drop now into the field of stubble, midway between the copse and the family of rabbits that the vixen is preparing to destroy.
THE ANCIENT AND SOLITARY REIGN
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Gradually, I descended into the marshes; there was a little copse of trees off to my right so I made for that direction, hoping against hope to find some dry wood.
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Mona looked toward the copse and went still, swallowing hard.
T2®: THE FUTURE WAR
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When my boddy-suvnt came with my ot water in the mawning, the livid copse in the charnill was not payler than the gashly De la Pluche!
The diary of C. Jeames De La Pluche, Esq., with his letters
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It looked very peaceful seated in that fold of the hill, no tossing of trees about it, though a little higher up the slim oaks and beeches of the copse were flinging themselves about against the grey sky in a kind of agonised appeal.
The Marriage of Elinor
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O culver of the copse, with salams I greet, v. 49.
The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night
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There's something about that copse which unsettles me.
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I was standing on the brow of a small hill behind my house, a warm breeze coming through the copse of trees behind me, and my eyes skimming over the roof tops and across to the lush fields in the distance.
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“Do, do,” said Mowbray, recklessly; “I thank you, I thank you;” and hastily traversing the garden, as if desirous to get rid at once of his visitor and his own thoughts, he took the shortest road to a little postern-gate, which led into the extensive copsewood, through some part of which Clara had caused a walk to be cut to a little summer-house built of rough shingles, covered with creeping shrubs.
Saint Ronan's Well
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I could hear titmice in the copse to the left, and a flock of jays calling out to each other as they fed, further on.
Sick Cycle Carousel
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Here there's a nice 1898 Arts and Crafts style house, sheltered by beech copses with kettle nest boxes and carpeted yellow by winter aconites.
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A valley, through which flowed a small tributary stream, exhibited the wild, but not unpleasant, features of “a lone vale of green braken;” here and there besprinkled with groups of alder-trees, of hazels, and of copse-oakwood, which had maintained their stations in the recesses of the valley, although they had vanished from the loftier and more exposed sides of the hills.
Castle Dangerous
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My sons and their friends spent many boyhood hours in the Copse, which they called "the jungle", in the 1970s.
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They were in the fifth field near a copse of native trees when the incident occurred.
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Tyrrel turned away from the man, and hastily left the hotel — not, however, by the road which led to the Aultoun, but by a footpath among the natural copsewood, which, following the course of the brook, intersected the usual horse-road to Shaws – Castle, the seat of Mr. Mowbray, at a romantic spot called the Buck-stane.
Saint Ronan's Well
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During our brief visit to this pathetic copse, our driver told us how the cedars of Lebanon used to stretch from Syria to Israel, a vast scented legendary canopy of a dozen million acres.
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Dappled by the fluid, playful light reflected from the canal below the vast leaded windows, a uniformed maid deals with sheaves of dead foliage from a small copse of indoor plants.
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Where the lawn had been grew a large clump you could hardly call it a copse - of coconut palms.
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We met the volunteer reserve manager, Richard Headley, who immediately pointed out a group of sword leaved helleborines for which the copse is most famous.
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The ship had crashed into a copse of desert trees.
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To the east of the track the land rises immediately and forested to the moors; the land to the west pans out as pasture after sheep pasture, interspersed with a few areas of springs and copses of alder or birch.
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The Day Trekker the lumbar and is best suited for those looking for an easy, unencumbered ramble in their favorite piney copse.
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But it soon becomes dull; the only notable thing happened about the third day, when we came to a little stream and copse where there was a fairish assembly of wagons, and the trail divided-our fork continuing south-west, while the northern trail branched up towards the Kanzas River, and then to the North Platte, and eventually to Oregon.
Isabelle
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The monks repaired their ravaged shrines — the feuar again roofed his small fortalice which the enemy had ruined — the poor labourer rebuilt his cottage — an easy task, where a few sods, stones, and some pieces of wood from the next copse, furnished all the materials necessary.
The Monastery
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Behind this eminence, but detached from it, arose a higher hill, partly covered with copsewood, partly opening into glades of pasture, where the cattle strayed, finding, at this season of the year, a scanty sustenance among the spring heads and marshy places, where the fresh grass began first to arise.
The Fair Maid of Perth
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That was when I saw Benny Fritch, running behind a copse of barren hackberry trees.
Kings of Colorado
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But it's also a rustic idyll - an extensively renovated old style estate cottage in the middle of a copse of tall tree where rooks caw incessantly in the Spring sunshine.
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The sky had partially cleared by then, a mild and milky sun was warming the air without quite disseminating the mist, and the young man who came strolling along a headland with a hound at his heel and a half-trained merlin on a creance on his wrist had dew-darkened boots, and a spray of drops on his uncovered light-brown hair from the shaken leaves of some copse left behind him.
The Devil's Novice
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Woolf was one of those authors whose "paper rivers" formed the origin of Laing's watery obsessions, and there's an intriguing correspondence between "sources": rooting in "a copse of hazel and stunted oak" to find the indefinite "clammy runnel" of the Ouse, and shuffling among original manuscripts in a bone-dry archive.
To the River: A Journey Beneath the Surface by Olivia Laing – review
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That night they slept under a copse of low trees that hopefully concealed their whereabouts to any watching eyes in the tower that they now felt was very near.
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Somerset looked as if it'd just got out of the shower and wasn't properly towel-dried yet, with trees and copses and hedgerows on all sides bedraggled and uncombed.
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_campo_, on the higher and drier ground, are seen palms of other and different species, both fan-leaved and pinnate, growing in copses or larger "montes," with evergreen shrubs and trees of deciduous foliage interspersed.
Gaspar the Gaucho A Story of the Gran Chaco
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From the open ground in the front of the building, their eye could pursue a considerable part of the course of the river Douglas, which approached the town from the south-west, bordered by a line of hills fantastically diversified in their appearance, and in many places covered with copsewood, which descended towards the valley, and formed a part of the tangled and intricate woodland by which the town was surrounded.
Castle Dangerous
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The warm southern winds were full of their warbling -- beccafico, loriot, merle, citronelle, woodlark, nightingale, -- every tree, copse and tuft of grass held a tiny minstrel.
Masters of the Guild
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The new wood will link two other copses to create a two-hectare area and an ideal habitat for birds and animals including badgers and foxes that are rare to the Dales.
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In her tiny showing, her rose paintings seem as wispy as the aquarelles of some cooing Edwardian maiden lady celebrating the beauties of copse and dell.
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Hard by our trysting-place was a hazel-copse thick enow, for it was midsummer, and she said she would go thereinto and shift gowns, and bear me out thence the gift of the old clout (so she called it, laughing merrily).
The Water of the Wondrous Isles
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The road curved, a copse of trees obscuring the view ahead.
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While we waited for our tour guide, an Irishman named Willie Leahy, we were treated to lunch beneath a weeping copse of trees.
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Five trails flanked by shoulder-high bushes ran away from the main hospital buildings like spokes of a wheel, leading to five thatched-roof bungalows that were all but hidden by copse, by hedgerows, by wild eucalyptus and pine.
Excerpt: Cutting For Stone by Abraham Verghese
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The two sides of the vale were so near, that at every double of the river the shadows from the western sky fell upon, and totally obscured, the eastern bank; the thickets of copsewood seemed to wave with a portentous agitation of boughs and leaves, and the very crags and scaurs seemed higher and grimmer than they had appeared to the monk while he was travelling in daylight, and in company.
The Monastery
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Rounding a bend past a corkwood copse, I had to swerve to avoid an extinct Holden smack in the middle of the track.
Wildwood
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This grove appeared of that kind usually termed a coppice or copse -- such as may be often observed in English parks.
Ran Away to Sea
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The approaching figures crashed through the underbrush of the nearby copse.
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The sun had begun to slip behind the copse of trees just beyond the parking lot, the rich crimson and honey folding and unfolding into one another.
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Cindy swallowed and nodded without a word as the two of them headed across the cropped green lawn toward a small gazebo nestled underneath a copse of danra trees.
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A valley, through which flowed a small tributary stream, exhibited the wild, but not unpleasant, features of “a lone vale of green braken;” here and there besprinkled with groups of alder-trees, of hazels, and of copse-oakwood, which had maintained their stations in the recesses of the valley, although they had vanished from the loftier and more exposed sides of the hills.
Castle Dangerous
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She breathed deeply, made her way towards a little copse of trees she liked to wander in at the crest of the meadow.
DREAMS OF INNOCENCE
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They were in the fifth field near a copse of native trees when the incident occurred.
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The monks repaired their ravaged shrines — the feuar again roofed his small fortalice which the enemy had ruined — the poor labourer rebuilt his cottage — an easy task, where a few sods, stones, and some pieces of wood from the next copse, furnished all the materials necessary.
The Monastery
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The full moon shone with a bright radiance as Vincent walked slowly down the sidewalk of the park, which was sometimes alongside the lake, sometimes going through a copse of trees.
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The banks of this creek are adorned with natural groves and copses, in which Mr. Hall observed the candleberry myrtle in great abundance: but a more interesting sight was afforded by numerous organic remains, with which the blocks of limestone, scattered through the low ground around it, are encrusted, as if with rude sculpture.
Travels in North America, From Modern Writers With Remarks and Observations; Exhibiting a Connected View of the Geography and Present State of that Quarter of the Globe
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Green-yellow, bursts from the copse the laughing yaffle;
Love in the Valley
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Within minutes you will see our first objective, Wath Hill, a grassy mound with a copse.
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It is very surprising to find certain relict habitats related to the northern European freshwater ecosystems, such as sphagnum peat bogs, and birch (Betula pendula) copses.
Southwest Iberian Mediterranean sclerophyllous and mixed forests
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It has 300 miles of exquisite coastline, the bleak beauty of Dartmoor, a chunk of unspoilt Exmoor, as well as its characteristic combes, vast hanging copses of oak and beech, and rugged, still-healthy rivers.
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I was standing on the brow of a small hill behind my house, a warm breeze coming through the copse of trees behind me, and my eyes skimming over the roof tops and across to the lush fields in the distance.
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Neither of us said a word as we watched the bright flame devour the cold, stiff copse of our dead son.
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The more open moorland included complex areas of wetlands, copses and pits in which detailed navigation skills were a premium.
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Every one knows the climbing-bittersweet, or "waxwork" (_Celastrus scandens_), with its bright berries hanging in clusters in the autumn copses, each yellow berry having now burst open in thin sections and exposed the scarlet-coated seeds.
My Studio Neighbors
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Two days ago, Noel had ridden out with the stable master, and together they had found the copse of trees Erik had been so eager to show his young wife.
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The copse was loud with birds; a gang of titmice was foraging in the oak clump to the left, and I could hear what I thought was a thrasher in the near distance.
Sick Cycle Carousel
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Some of the trees have grown so fast that decisions need to be made as to whether they are to be thinned or allowed to develop into copses.
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A low, fitful piping, as of some reedy flute, was coming from the depth of a neighbouring copse, and there seemed to be some subtle connection between the animal's restless pacing and the wild music from the wood.
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These were crowned with copses of shrubby trees, principally of the wild filbert or hazel (_corylus_), with several species of _rosa_ and raspberry (rubus), and bushes of the june-berry
The Hunters' Feast Conversations Around the Camp Fire
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I don't see the hedges, the trees, the copses; and the flights of wild fowl passing across my window go unseen, too.
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As one approaches the copse of trees at the entrance to Tobernalt, one usually stands still by a large rock to look around in the shady dim light.
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But the people who had the best of the entertainment were the boys and girls who wandered through the thickets and down the brooks, pushed their way into the tangled copses and crept venturesomely across the swamps, to look for the flowers.
Fisherman's Luck and Some Other Uncertain Things
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And think of the features that make our landscape so gorgeously English: the hedgerows, drystone walls and the shady copses and spinneys punctuating the expanses of green.
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A spring was negotiated and a beech copse, and a roe deer stood still and camouflaged in tussocks of grass by a stream.
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The boatmen were ordered to make the best of their way round the headland to the ordinary landing-place; the two gentlemen, followed by their servant, sought their way by a blind and tangled path, through a close copsewood, to the Manse of Knocktarlitie, where their arrival was anxiously expected.
The Heart of Mid-Lothian
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As they all plunged into a copse of petrified saplings, the fleeter ones darted ahead, the slower ones lagging.
Demon From The Dark
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The warm southern winds were full of their warbling -- beccafico, loriot, merle, citronelle, woodlark, nightingale, -- every tree, copse and tuft of grass held a tiny minstrel.
Masters of the Guild
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Here hills are topped with copses and rough-hewn fields roll towards the horizon.
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Together we bounded over a meadow and parked the car on the edge of a copse.
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Of the remaining ancient woodland, over 80 percent consists of small copses of less than 50 acres.
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There was a large copse of trees in the distance.
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It transpires that the ‘pink tree’ is not in the immediate environs of White Wells but is, in fact, close to the copse of trees near Backstone Beck.
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The young great green macaw wobbled aerially into a nearby copse of trees, where it disappeared in the dense leaves, green vanishing into green.
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A bay on the southern side of Loch Tay presented a beautiful beach of sparkling sand, on which the boats might land with ease, and a dry meadow, covered with turf, verdant considering the season, behind and around which rose high banks, fringed with copsewood, and displaying the lavish preparations which had been made for the entertainment.
The Fair Maid of Perth
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But they don't live alone, they cluster together in tight-knit communities and range out along the verges and in warm spots under hedges and at the edge of copses and thickets.
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In a copse near where she stood a little bird was busy with her fledglings, and from a meadow came the plaintive bleat of a late yeaned lamb.
Lancashire Idylls (1898)
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Some of them bear fine large trees, which have as yet escaped the axe, and upon the sides of most there are scattered patches and fringes of natural copsewood, above and around which the banks of the stream arise, somewhat desolate in the colder months, but in summer glowing with dark purple heath, or with the golden lustre of the broom and gorse.
Saint Ronan's Well
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On the far side of the copse he found himself looking into a little clearing.
LORD PRESTIMION
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We ascended about two hundred yards from the shores of the lake, guided by a brawling brook, and left on the right hand four or five Highland huts, with patches of arable land around them, so small as to show that they must have been worked with the spade rather than the plough, cut as it were out of the surrounding copsewood, and waving with crops of barley and oats.
Rob Roy
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The warm southern winds were full of their warbling -- beccafico, loriot, merle, citronelle, woodlark, nightingale, -- every tree, copse and tuft of grass held a tiny minstrel.
Masters of the Guild
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Over sandy reaches thick with willows, and through long, matted, dried-out cranberry marshes and copses of prickly thorn, the borderman hung to his purpose.
The Last Trail
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The Telegraph & Argus reported earlier this year how a copse of trees on the site was felled.
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Guiding her into a copse of trees, Gil looked down at Laurie's face, finding confusion in her knitted brow.
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I caught glimpses of fields and copses as we fled along, that could have afforded me amusement for hours, and orchards on gentle acclivities, beneath which I could have walked till evening.
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I track down the holy hay to the edge of a copse where someone long ago chucked some sainfoin seeds down for their cows, not knowing that 300 years later we would value the flowers like rare jewels, a living vernacular treasure.
Country diary: Wenlock Edge