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Example sentences for "coppice"

Lexicographically close words:
copperplates; coppers; coppersmith; coppersmiths; coppery; coppices; coppie; coppies; copping; copra
  1. A hill side coppice bearing the name of Rosamunds Bower and the Moate House are within easy walking distance.

  2. She came towards him saying: "I've been trespassing; I came up through the coppice and garden.

  3. Into that coppice the moon-light would have crept; there would be shadows, and those shadows would be the only things awake.

  4. He had sent no word beforehand, so walked up from the station, entering his domain by the coppice gate.

  5. He was looking fixedly ahead, as though something had caught his attention in the coppice they were approaching.

  6. Then voices came from the coppice ahead--a godsend to the poor old lady, whose courage had been sorely tried by the interview--and she quickened her pace to meet them.

  7. A light and open coppice with plenty of bushes.

  8. The coppice was so light that the two who went in must have seen anybody who was lurking there.

  9. The field in question, the common property of the community, was an irregular square, sloping towards the river, its upper boundary being a coppice which also belonged to the parish.

  10. I have the papers, and therein it is plainly put down: 'The boundary of the parish field is marked by the coppice on the one side, by the black cross on the other; beyond the cross as far as the river the soil belongs to the Count.

  11. In a considerable number of cases all the members of the same group of coppice trunks from an old stump show a similar degree of resistance.

  12. The young chestnut coppice is not so seriously affected, but the losses caused by the blight will make growing coppice on a 10- to 20-year rotation basis less profitable than formerly.

  13. There is a thick hedgerow at each end of this bridge, and moreover another hedgerow runs along the side of the stream, going up to the coppice on one side and down to the Dyke on the other, so that the entrances are shielded from observation.

  14. It was near three o’clock when we drew near to Snaith, and pulled up our horses under the shelter of a wayside coppice to consider our further plans.

  15. We left the horses with the guide, and, noiselessly as ghosts, we stole through a coppice which hid the lake from view.

  16. For this pleasure the Vale of Esthwaite, abounding in coppice wood, furnished a very wide range.

  17. The wind, rumbling in the rocking chimney, and occasional raindrops hissing on the embers, seemed but to call forth a ruddier light from that goodly pile of burning peat and peeled coppice oak.

  18. The hillsides, new washed, were vividly green in their clothing of pasture coppice and feathery birch.

  19. But as they drew near to the farther end of the coppice the path became clearer, and now he walked by her side.

  20. So that betrothal was completed; and when they passed out from the coppice into the whiter air, behold!

  21. You know the coppice that goes up from Winstead station.

  22. The descriptions are not drawn to include the leaf forms, and sizes of coppice shoots or seedlings.

  23. Leaves of small trees, coppice shoots, and of the lower branches of some trees are often all or for the greater part 3-lobed.

  24. The tree is quite tenacious of life and when cut off at the ground, usually sends up several coppice shoots.

  25. The leaves of seedlings, coppice shoots and of vigorous shoots of old trees sometimes vary considerably in size, form and leaf-margins.

  26. Binks has lived at the White Coppice ever since I was a girl, and afore then, and him church-warden too, and owner of the Britannia, as good a schooner as any about.

  27. The White Coppice was so called because it stood on the borders of a birch wood that lay in a gorge between the hills.

  28. The White Coppice lay opposite to Silversands, at the other side of a narrow peninsula, and you could either reach it by going five miles round by the road, or by walking two miles across the hills.

  29. Revolver in hand I ran--ran for my life toward the gap in the trees that marked the coppice end.

  30. At a point where a dense coppice spread down to the roadway and a lane crossed west to east, the car became invisible.

  31. Follow me at once--at once, mark you--to the coppice by the river.

  32. What need have I to bid you meet me in the coppice yonder?

  33. Go to the coppice at the appointed time, and things will fall out as I have predicted.

  34. Passing Goose Brook (a little stream meandering through the trees, with a rustic bridge across it: though why it should bear that name I never knew), we soon came to the coppice end of the wood.

  35. She had been out on some errand, and he overtook her in the little coppice path between the church and the farm.

  36. Tom Pemberton, as ill-luck would have it, had been passing the coppice while the two labourers were after the rabbits, and had either heard their voices or the whistling, made more audible by the fog.

  37. Oh, there's a warren up in Squire Greenaway's fir coppice to the left here, just off the Banbury road.

  38. Sir ROGER told me it put him in mind of a little Coppice by his House in the Country, which his Chaplain used to call an Aviary of Nightingales.

  39. This coppice is a place to live and die in.

  40. Another turning of the dell gives a glimpse of the dark coppice by which it is backed, and from which we are separated by some marshy, rushy ground, where the springs have formed into a pool, and where the moor-hen loves to build her nest.

  41. You see, once in the coppice he had only to watch his moment for throwing off the skin and jumping on me from behind; a dig in the back before a man had time to fire his piece was easy work enough.

  42. I didn't want anything behind me, you may be sure, not even a hog, and as it was now only a few yards from my coppice I kept my eye more constantly on it, and cast up in my mind whether I should fire or not.

  43. As I wandered home across the peaceful fields, the Cuckoo's call seemed spoken and repeated from coppice to hedgerow, and in every mossy dingle.

  44. Wild flowers come amidst the grass, and blossom at their own sweet will in their own sweet place, and the moor, meadow, or coppice make the most enchanting background for their loveliness.

  45. It war the fashion," he said, "in the old time for all the lads and lasses to wend their way to the Stanhill Coppice or down to the great Edge Wood, and a merry time they had.

  46. We're up by the Coppice And we're down by the Mill, We're out upon the Common, And the hounds are running still.


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