groves

• Palm groves are a conspicuous feature in the Sindh. —  The Panjab, North-West Frontier Province, and Kashmir
• The most interesting objects on shore were the orange-groves, for which the banks of the Indian River are celebrated. —  In the Wilds of Florida A Tale of Warfare and Hunting
• The power of the music of the groves, and the sweet voice of Nelly Gordon, was the angel of the moment, that unlocked the harmony of the universe. —  The Forest King Wild Hunter of the Adaca
• For this purpose he would conceal himself for a whole afternoon at a time up in the fir-groves, listlessly gathering into heaps the red sheddings of their umbrage, and pulling to pieces their dry and fragrant cones; or, when he feared that these resorts would be disturbed by some little gang of lounging smokers, he would choose some lonely place, under the shadow of the mountain cliffs, and sit for hours together, aimlessly rolling white lumps of quartz over the shingly banks. —  St. Winifred's, or The World of School
• When he came home from his walks, he might find his floors flooded by a shower through the broken roof; but could spare no money for its reparation In time his expenses brought clamours about him, that overpowered the lamb's bleat and the linnet's song; and his groves were haunted by beings very different from fawns and fairies[181]. —  The Works of Samuel Johnson, LL.D. in Nine Volumes Volume the Eighth: The Lives of the Poets, Volume II

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