Groves

Examples

• Says he feels as if it was groves! Charles Dickens. Little Dorrit.
• Medina was a comparatively well-watered town, and possessed abundant date groves; its inhabitants were Yemenites, from the fertile land to the south. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• It was the same with the groves of deserted bedsteads I peeped at, on my way to, and when I was in, my own bed. Charles Dickens. David Copperfield.
• Both stood in a suburb of the city, which was still country-like, with groves and lawns, large gardens, and quiet streets. Louisa May Alcott. Little Women.
• He hunted and played and went about in his sunny world of gardens and groves and irrigated rice-fields. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• The far-reaching orange groves surrounding Riverside are one of the most beautiful of all beautiful sights in Southern California, and the fragrance of the blossoms is subtlest witchery. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
• Its work is to plane the surfaces of boards, and to cut the edges into tongues and groves, such as are required for flooring. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
• The few enormous trees of great age which are now preserved in groves are known as the _Sequoia Gigantia_. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
• The fountains, gardens, walks, avenues, and groves, were all disposed with exact judgment and taste. Jonathan Swift. Gulliver's Travels into Several Remote Nations of the World.
• Late we envied their abodes, their spicy groves, fertile plains, and abundant loveliness. Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
• What is to disprove that this tribe, instead of camping under palm groves in Asia, wandered beneath island oak woods rooted in our own seas of Europe? Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
• From the mountain's peak its broken turrets rise above the groves of ancient oaks and olives, and look wonderfully picturesque. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
• These big trees grow at an altitude between 4,000 and 7,000 feet, and, whether individual or in groves, they are found in protected valleys, canyons, etc. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.

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