29 Metaphors for groves

[Footnote 1: The Rev. Henry Grove was a Presbyterian minister, who kept school at Taunton.

Green Grove is a Baptist church.

Can fierce passions vex his breast, While every gale is peace, and every grove Is melody?

Witness the monastic institutions of the Romish Church, of which Indian penance-groves were the type.

A palm-grove is really a beautiful object, and requires scarcely less attention than a vineyard.

' Even Paradise itself, says Evelyn, was but a kind of 'nemorous temple or sacred grove,' planted by God himself, and given to man tanquam primo sacerdoti; and he goes on to suggest that the groves which the patriarchs are recorded to have planted in different parts of Palestine may have been memorials of that first tree-shaded paradise from which Adam was expelled.

Your fine grove is a sort of 'call of the wild' to me.

A grove there is whose boughs Stretch from the western marge of Thurston-mere, [k] With length of shade so thick, that whoso glides 460 Along the line of low-roofed water, moves As in a cloister.

The tall pines growing on the moraines stood transfigured in the glowing light, the poplar groves on the levels of the basin were masses of orange-yellow, and the late-blooming goldenrods added gold to gold.

The thirsty mountaineer knows well that in every Sequoia grove he will find running water, but it is a mistake to suppose that the water is the cause of the grove being there; on the contrary, the grove is the cause of the water being there.

The grove was only a few rods away, but it seemed to Donald an eternity before he reached the spot, to see not only the spruce boughs and flax on fire, but Elspie tossing up her arms like one crazed, her gown all ablaze.

The budding groves appear'd as if in haste To spur the steps of June; as if their shades Of various green were hindrances that stood Between them and their object: yet, meanwhile, There was such deep contentment in the air 1800.]

"The pine grove isn't your front yard, and the farther end of it is so far away from the road, nobody could tell who was who, back there.

Holy father, the sacred grove will be a desert without [S']akoontalá.

A mature olive grove in good bearing is a fortune.

Their religion has been a natural and spontaneous blossoming of the intellect and emotionsthey have worked in love, not only one day in the week, but all days, and to them the groves have always and ever been God's first temples.

Ashwick Grove is a prettily-situated mansion, said to contain a good collection of pictures.

A grove is a smaller assemblage of trees, not crowded together, but possessing very generally their full proportions, and divested of their undergrowth.

"Groves and meadows are the most pleasing in the spring."Id.

The grove was a favourite haunt with us all while we lived at Town-end.

A grove there is whose boughs Stretch from the western marge of Thurston-mere, [k] With length of shade so thick, that whoso glides 460 Along the line of low-roofed water, moves As in a cloister.

A group of small boys who have just read "Robin Hood" do not say: "Wouldn't it be fun to play that we are Robin Hood and his Merry Men, and that our grove is Sherwood Forest?"

The groves of trees are in themselves sources of great delight, and also of immense wealth.

They were now some distance from the grove in which the camp breakfast had been prepared, and the grove, in turn, was some distance from the highway.

And because the Indian Cañon groves, from their peculiar exposure, are the warmest, the birds congregate there, more especially in severe weather.

29 Metaphors for  groves