Though it was so near the town, the clump of trees in which it was environed was a veritable grove.

A clump of bushes standsa clump of hazels, Upon their very top there sits an eagle, And upon the bushes' topupon the hazels, Compress'd within his claw he holds a raven, And its hot blood he sprinkles on the dry ground; And beneath the bushes' clumpbeneath the hazels, Lies void of life the good and gallant stripling; All wounded, pierc'd and mangled is his body.

Every white-birch clump around us is bent divergingly to the ground, each white form prostrated in mute despair upon the whiter bank.

A small clump of mangrove-trees on the beach was the first sign of vegetation that we had seen; and, from the absence of verdure hereabout, is a conspicuous object.

And then the pigeons came in; for a great distance there was no other wood, so numbers shelter there, though the clump is small and of so evil a look (if they notice that); the first one frightened Amuel, he felt that it might be a spirit escaped from torture in some dim parlour of the house that he watched, his nerves were strained and he feared foolish fears.

I was for pushing onward but Mr. Purdy insisted that this clump of woods was exactly such a place as a cow would like.

It did not make for ease of mind to know that any brush clump might be their enemy's ambush; that any instant a concealed rifle might speak death to them in the silence.

It was like an assuagement, a sigh of relief, a resting of surrounding Nature, of the puny almond trees, the twisted olives, under the paling sky, cloudless and serene; while at the back of the house the clump of plane trees was a mass of black and impenetrable shadows, where the fountain was heard singing its eternal crystal song.