Toward midday, after a long, tingling scramble through copses of hazel and ceanothus, I gained the summit of the highest ridge in the neighborhood; and then it occurred to me that it would be a fine thing to climb one of the trees to obtain a wider outlook and get my ear close to the Aeolian music of its topmost needles.

On one of the first days of the year 1880, in the early afternoon, husband and wife went for a walk in the copse on the little hill above Rylands.

Even recently, writes Sir John Lubbock[10], an oak copse at Loch Siant, in the Isle of Skye, was held so sacred that no persons would venture to cut the smallest branch from it.

A man lies stretched on his blanket in a copse in the depths of a black pine forest of the Saginaw Valley.

And a neat little copse by the house all pretty to look at, birch and willowI'll plant a bit more other side of the house when I've time.

Busy bees go humming past, straight as arrows, express-freight-trains from one blossoming copse to another.

Later, when all verdure is profusely expanded, these miniature strokes would be lost, and Nature then practises landscape-gardening in large, lights up the copses with great masses of White Alder, makes the roadsides gay with Aster and Golden-Rod, and tops the tall coarse Meadow-Grass with nodding Lilies and tufted Spiraea.

Two squirrels, happy in the mild weather, frisk out of the copse into the dank grass, till a curvet of one of the horses frightens them up into the firs again.

Struck by a musket ball, as he fought opposite Monckton, he continued in the engagement, till, in attempting to rally a body of fugitive Canadians in a copse near St. John's gate, he was mortally wounded.

Old Benoit had seen Willan and Victorine going down through the poplar copse toward the pear orchard.

The fir copse from which the pheasant rose covers a rather sharp descent on one side of the highway.

They have returned from Bushy Copse before this; and I am sure they are asking about me.

At last he broke through the copse behind the oak-tree, and saw her.

The site on which this modern house now stands was Roman, before that Early Britain, with burial mounds, before that again, Druidthe Druid stones still lie in that copse below the field, the Tumuli among the ilexes behind the drive.

Like the gleam Of a star so bright! Kindly spirits High above the clouds Nourished him while youthful In the copse between the cliffs.

Then from the copse beyond the orchard there sounds the mournful threnody of the owl.

Then, with a short laugh, he conceded that this was Camoys' right, and they fixed upon the following Saturday, with Poges Copse as the rendezvous.