spinney

• “I found it in the spinney, embedded in a tree trunk.” He might have touched off a high-explosive. —  Scales of Justice - Ngaio Marsh - Alleyn 18
• Description: star from the spinney, waedsmill and rush green loop rumboljo —  WalkJogRun New Running Routes
• 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
• My eyes wandering to the horizon, I detected, on the very margin of the moorland, a dense clump of trees, which I instantly associated with the spinney in my old friend Mr. Porter's story, and, determining that the renowned spinney should be my goal, I at once aimed for it, vigorously striking out along the path which I thought would be most likely to lead to it. —  Scottish Ghost Stories
• The firing-line was about five miles away; the starlights seemed to rise and fall just beyond an adjacent spinney, so deceptive are they Part of our journey ran along the bank of a canal; there had been some heavy fighting the night previous, and the wounded were still coming down by barges, only those who are badly hurt come this way, the less serious cases go by motor ambulance from dressing station to hospital--those who are damaged slightly in arm or head generally walk. —  The Red Horizon

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