I was glad enough, after three hours spent among the frescoes of this cloister, to wander forth into the copses which surround the convent.
Songs of cuckoos and nightingales echoed from the copses on the hill-sides.
Gaupa remembered what had happened some time before on a farm north in the Lower Valley, a farm where the outlying meadows mingled with the highest birch copses just below the bare mountain.
But in the copses to the south the crash of the elk’s hoofs could be heard, and there was Rauten forcing his way, half mad with terror.
But stars may gleam even from dark copses and gullies, from marten and from fox, from all the animals that rise when the sun sets.
The ground was dotted with smallcopses which the darkness made indistinguishable, and no report of this post's relief was ever made.
So quiet was it that Abraham used to ride up to the two small copses that lay behind our front.
The copses are astir, and the rooks on the tops of the tall trees have begun the work of the day.
Another waves from sea to summit with beech-copses and oak-woods, as verdant as the most abundant English valley.
Prom where they sat in the dry grass they could hear a hollow sound of moving feet as the cattle wandered down through folds of the hills, seeking the willow copses by the water.
I caught glimpses of fields and copses as we fled along, that could have afforded me amusement for hours, and orchards on gentle acclivities, beneath which I could have walked till evening.
We passed Pistoia in haste, and about three in the afternoon entered the Lucchese territory, by a clean, paved road, which runs through some of the pleasantest copses imaginable, bordered with a variety of heaths and broom in blossom.
Heaps of hay still lay dispersed under the copseswhich hemmed in on every side this little sequestered paradise.
With these dispositions I proceeded; and soon the cliffs and copses opened to views of the Baian bay, with the little isles of Niscita and Lazaretto lifting themselves out of the waters.
While this stubborn fight was under way the British were driving out the Germans from their fortified positions among the groves and copses around Contalmaison, and consolidating their gains.
In such large isolated woods, the wild life of the ordinary countryside exists under conditions somewhat differing from those found even in estates where the natural cover of woodland is broken up into copses and plantations.
If the long-eared owl can remain and find a living all the year round in the copses on the downs, why should not the short-eared owl make a practice of what is its occasional custom, and nest in the fens and marshes?
They nest in it, fly to it at once for shelter when disturbed, lie in the thick copses during the heat of the day, and roost there at night.
With these dispositions I proceeded; and soon the cliffs and copses opened to views of the Baian sea with the little isles of Niscita and Lazaretto, lifting themselves out of the waters.
Copses of hazel and holly terminate the prospect on almost every side, and in the midst of the glen a broad clear stream reflects the impending vegetation.
Near Aquapendente, which is situated on a ledge of cliffs mantled with chesnut copses and tufted ilex, the country grew varied and picturesque.
I caught glimpses of fields and copses as we were driven along, that could have afforded me amusement for hours, and orchards on gentle acclivities, beneath which I could have walked till evening.
But now the end of the meadows had been reached, little copses and ploughed fields came into view; a little village flashed with two or three lights on one side--it was only four miles now to the main road.
And a memorial of her couch abides Still 'neath the oaks; for mid the copses round Was poured out milk of kine; and still do men Marvelling behold its whiteness.
Copses of young wood relieved the monotony of too much flatness, and in a few hours after our start, pretty lakes shimmered in the sinking sun light, and sweetly homelike villas were ever in view.
The funnel-shaped mushroom grows in woods or copses in summer and autumn, especially in wet seasons.
The plant grows in thin woods, copses and partly cleared lands and may be found from August to September.
A short zigzag through thick copses took us down to the meadows.
Oak thickets and chestnutcopses clothe the slopes; cyclamens, common as daisies at home, bend their graceful heads on every sunny bank.
Copses of birch and fragrant pine-woods afford shelter to a host of rare ferns and wild flowers, while the sides of the path are garlanded with dog-roses blooming with a profusion and brilliancy peculiar to the spot.
Only by Buriton and at Up Park, to the south, is there much woodland; but at the latter place the deep shady copses and the ferny dells where the red deer still browse are delightful.
His first essay along the direct road viâ Sheering, was repulsed by the fire of the Scots Guards lining the copses about Gladwyns.
Therfield Heath, and managed to get a number of their howitzers up there, and at once opened fire from the cover afforded by several copses out of which our men had been driven.
By the aid of my glass I fancied I could distinguish green uniforms moving about near the copses in front of Rettendon Hall, but that was about all.
It was not a continuous thicket, but only an assemblage of copses and clumps, so that they required to steal very cautiously from one to the other.
He passed through grassy plains of different sizes, separated from each other by copses of the delicate-leaved mimosa; some of these forming large thickets, while others consisted of only a few low bushes.
It was mid-winter; but among the sheltered copses of Vernon Park there was slight sign of the season.
The hedgerows were full of starry primroses, and the copses carpeted with bluebells.
Everything was at its barest and austerest--the grass thin in the pastures, the copses leafless.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "copses" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
