Imhoffs front was covered by coppices and ditches, there being a rising ground on his right, from whence he could plainly discern the whole force that advanced against him, together with the manner of their approach.
The period of cutting coppices varies in Europe from fifteen to forty years, according to soil, species, and rapidity of growth.
But the shoots were soon attacked by the same decay, and the operation had to be renewed at shorter and shorter intervals, until at last it was found necessary to treat as coppices plantations originally designed for the full-growth system.
Across the road is Northwood, where, close by Eastman’s great school, are thick coppices of hazels and undergrowths that the primroses and bluebells love.
The land lay on the river Berlya, which had some coppices on its banks near the source; and there was also "Bear Hollow," which was left untouched for some time and is now the only forest on the property.
Skirting the edge of the Tokaido, we soon came to a path that led us windingly around through highcoppices and up the far slope of the hill.
We advanced quickly along a narrow clean-swept path, between coppices tenanted only by birds, and our course was so full of irregular twists and turns that I soon lost our bearings.
On the other side of the valley sloping coppices abound, and therein can I show thee many badger holes.
Wooded hills were the northern, and sloping coppices the southern boundary of the vale.
The last word he told me was that it would break his heart if he saw the coppices drawn blank.
The roe-bucks remain in winter in the thickest coppices and feed on briars, broom, heath, &c.
Many countrymen have assured me that they have found the nests of dormice in coppices and in hedges, that they were surrounded with leaves and moss, and that each nest contained three or four young ones.
They remain no longer in deep covert, but seek the beautiful part of the country, and continue among the coppices during the summer, and until their antlers are renewed.
Garth's eyes meanwhile swept the wide, brown, undulating sea, seeking in the hollows and the coppices for any sign of motion.
The only breaks in its expanse were here and there, springing in the sheltered hollows, coppices or bluffs of slender poplar saplings, with crowding stems, as close and even as hair.
Already the gloomy coppices were resounding with the growls of ferocious beasts,--but no, there are no ferocious beasts, and I am sorry.
In the thorny coppices the nests of the annubis swung like hammocks, and on the shores of the lagoons magnificent flamingoes, marching in regular file, spread their fiery-colored wings to the wind.
She glanced around her and motioned to Cai Tamblyn to bring the boat to shore by a grassy spit whence (as she knew) a cart-track led alongshore through the young oak coppices to the village.
Oak-coppices or "little woods" are cut over at from twelve to thirty years old.
Alder-coppices are very valuable to the makers of--gunpowder!
These gloomy coppices are succeeded by rude clearings and fields of small extent.
That the other twoe coppices which are well stored have nothinge in them but younge beaches, and some other woodd of XX or XXX yeares growth.
Lastly, that the enclosinge of these coppices wth a sufficient mound will cost me 200 markes the least, beside the great quantitie of woodd that must necessarilye be spent therein, for wch no manner of allowance is made mee, &c.
Winter:--"A true Answere to the objections made against my late bargaine for some of his Mties coppices or colletts adioyning to the fforest of Deane.
That in dyvers of those coppices there are many acres wch have noe manner of woodd standing vpon them at all.
According to Sykes it constructs its nest of oleraceous herbs in the fields, and Hodgson states it to tenant woods and coppices in Nepal.
Below the fantastic houses clustered to the lake's edge in their little groves and coppices of green.
The brown coppices and hedges by which the train hurried were bright with the scarlet of many berries.
On the lower slopes of the range grew coppices of Spanish chestnut, and rods of this wood served admirably for broom-handles.
Upon seeing this, I asked the man whom these coppices belonged to, and he told me to Squire Leech, at Lea.
The woods and coppices are not numerous; but they are good, particularly the ash, which always grows well upon the chalk.
Of course the coppices and oak woods are very frequent.
All is not appropriated where there are coppices and wood, where the cultivation is not so easy and the produce so very large.
A great many hop-poles are cut here, which makes the coppices more valuable than in many other parts.
Even in winter thecoppices are beautiful to the eye, while they comfort the mind with the idea of shelter and warmth.
The trees of all sorts grow well here; and coppices yield poles for the hop-gardens and wood to make charcoal for the powder-mills.
Between Ilsley and Newbury the country is enclosed; the land middling, a stony loam; the woods and coppices frequent, and neither very good, till we came within a short distance of Newbury.
The coppicesand woods very much like those upon the clays in the South of Hampshire and in Sussex; but the land better for corn and grass.
In the next place I had to ride, for something better than half a mile of my way, along between fields and coppices that were mine until they came into the hands of the mortgagee, and by the side of cottages of my own building.
We have upon many occasions, during the twenty years or so that we resided in Sheffield, met with these waves of migrant Goldcrests and Titmice in the birch and alder coppices of the Rivelin Valley.
Few woods in our experience more abounded with Titmice than the birch and alder coppices along the Rivelin Valley, especially in autumn, and invariably mingled with them at that season were flights of migrant Goldcrests.
Yet this vast tract of intervening country has not absorbed the waves of birds, and we have found them literally swarming in these Rivelin coppices during October.
Yet another and he was out of the garden, and in an old-fashioned orchard which ran, thick with trees, to the very edge of the coppices at the foot of the Shawl.
He was looking through the papers when he heard a sound in the neighbouring coppices or bushes.
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