coppices

On the further side, where the bulk of their numbers fled, the din of their flight subsided gradually into the depths of the neglected coppices, seeking thicker cover into which they could scatter and be lost.

A Caregiver's Homage To The Very Old 2010

I saw no paths, but there were signs of men: hazel coppices and stumps of trees felled by axes; a place where pigs had rooted for acorns.

Wildfire Sarah Micklem 2009

I saw no paths, but there were signs of men: hazel coppices and stumps of trees felled by axes; a place where pigs had rooted for acorns.

Wildfire Sarah Micklem 2009

I saw no paths, but there were signs of men: hazel coppices and stumps of trees felled by axes; a place where pigs had rooted for acorns.

Wildfire Sarah Micklem 2009

Wild pigs may be captured further in the following fashion: The nets are fixed for them at the entrances of woody glens,342 in coppices and hollows, and on screes, where there are outlets into rank meadow-lands, marshes, and clear pools. 343 The appointed person mounts guard at the nets with his boar-spear, while the others work the dogs, exploring the best and likeliest spots.

On Hunting 2007

From tangled coppices of birch and fir proceeded the tinkle of the bells of numerous cows, and, mingled with the hum of the city, the strains of a military band rose from the streets to our ears.

The Englishwoman in America 2007

Up the hill from the denser thickets of Orthodoxy in the Manchester/Salford lowlands to the more feathery coppices of half-belief in Heaton Park, then up the hill again to where the Gentiles breathed the clean air of the foothills of the Pennines and not a Jew of any sort had been seen since Leo the Peddler passed by selling pins and ribbons in the 1780s.

Kalooki Nights Howard Jacobson 2006

We went on: my companion took me over a stile behind the house which he had pointed out, and along a path through hazel coppices.

Wild Wales : Its People, Language and Scenery 2004

But when your poor father was by the back-door, going out toward the woods and coppices, he turned sharp round, and he said,

Erema Richard Doddridge 2004

Pastures and grain fields were interspersed with small orchards, vegetable gardens, and wooded coppices of alder and birch.

Hadrian's Wall.html Dietrich, William 2004