Songs of cuckoos and nightingales echoed from the copses on the hillsides.
The fir copse from which the pheasant rose covers a rather sharp descent on one side of the highway.
The river, the copse, both banks, green and washed, trees and fields—all were bathed in bright morning light.
They were passing through a little copse, where the light was but misty and indistinct, and where the road made a sudden sharp turn almost at right angles, affording complete shelter to any person or persons lying in ambush.
When they came to beyond the copse, after it touched the Professor's garden, they paused and took in the view.
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How many people would go to this encyclopaedia and look up 'globalisation,' 'capacity building,' 'low level flight training,' or even 'copse'?
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Our bluebell groves and our chestnut copses and our hop fields are gradually giving way to the spread of concrete.
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Many amenity woods, small woods, copses, and all hedgerow and park timber have been deliberately kept outside the scheme.
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I am thinking especially of small copses of parkland timber and timber planting which would not naturally be the subject of dedication agreements.
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Added to that, there are innumerable copses and much hedgerow timber, on which so much of the beauty of the countryside depends.
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Is the fact that some of this land is unplantable due tocopse?
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Eventually they discovered this little cottage, which was at that time in a wilderness of weeds and, as its name implies, in a largishcopse.
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The idea that one could have city farms or acopsein an urban jungle should not be passed over.
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It is very much their wood—it is more of acopsethan a wood, but it is how they see it that matters.
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That is all right in a large wood, but it could destroy a smallcopsewithin a relatively short time.
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That can be of benefit for the planting of hedgerows, copses and spinneys.
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For example, a woodland or smallcopsemay have been destroyed and there may be no evidence of what existed before.
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They should also be encouraged to retain the small banks and copses around some fields.
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The small owner with small areas of amenity woods—copses, spinneys and the like—is most unlikely to find that his woodland is under a dedication scheme.
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They planted woods and copses with a view to blending forestry and agriculture to achieve a proper balance.
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