Quotations

• 1798 Wordsworth, William, Lines composed a few miles above Tintern Abbey, lines 9-15 (for syntax):

  The day is come when I again repose

  Here, under this dark sycamore, and view

  These plots of cottage-ground, these orchard tufts,

  Which at this season, with their unripe fruits,

  Are clad in one green hue, and lose themselves

  'Mid groves and copses.

• 1919 Firbank, Ronald, Valmouth, Duckworth (hardback edition), p19:

  Striking the highway beyond the little copse she skirted the dark iron palings enclosing Hare.

See also

• bush, bushes, forest, mott, orchard
• stand, thicket, wood, woods