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6 total sentences available.
And the fields; they must have been a little more trackless and irregular, more bosky and tumbled, retaining a little more hill and dale, an irregularity which generation after generation of ploughing has nearly counteracted ; […].
Source: wiktionary
Even in 1869 it had had more than half a century of development, and to judge from photographs must already have been a place of charm. Indeed, it seems to have had at that time more and finer trees than now, and to have been more bosky with scattered copses and masses of shrubbery.
Source: wiktionary
The Harvard Yard is also darkened and made to seem far more bosky and umbrageous than it was.
Source: wiktionary
We rambled around wet fields and bosky paths that smelled of jasmine.
Source: wiktionary
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Closest matches include brushy, bushy, drunk, forest, forested.
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