Sentence examples for from a copse of from inspiring English sources

Another five minutes of walking over springy turf and we emerge from a copse of trees and stop dead in our tracks.

An Afghan Army sergeant, Mohammed Daoud, who had spent the previous afternoon shooting at the attackers from a copse of trees across the road, returned on Wednesday with dozens of other security officers to inspect the bloody remnants of the attack and look at the bodies.

Will they ask whether anyone raised this issue?" The new memorial is an immense concrete and glass museum emerging from a copse of trees beside the cemetery of mass graves (there are more than 70,000 bodies buried there), which had been the camp site.

Birds called from a copse of larches.

They wear earth-toned uniforms and pay little attention to us, even when we stand sometimes only 10 feet away as the guide explains what they're doing: planting brodiaea bulbs, trimming deadwood from a copse of Douglas Fir, mapping with white flags a stretch of grass and unwanted fir and cedar saplings for the next prescribed burn.

The largest artwork in the house, a series of intricate drawings composed of tiny capital letters that coalesce, from afar, into a copse of bare tree trunks, is by an interloper: Gustavo Bonevardi, an architect who was one of the creators of the "Tribute in Light" memorial at the World Trade Center site, as well as Mr. Weiselberg's first employer.

The house where we stopped was near the Chattahoochee River, set back from the road in a copse of spindly oaks.

Dejected and unmoored after the breakup of a relationship, the British journalist Olivia Laing sets out on a ramble from the river's source in "a copse of oak and hazel not far from Haywards Heath" to its mouth at Newhaven on the English Channel.

This particular evening, the crows obliged by appearing over the tree-line, winging their way back from a day of foraging to roost in a copse of mangroves, unaware of the ambush ahead.

I had visited once before in the company of a young man from the sports information director's office who pointed in the vague direction of a copse of trees, and said, "Over there".

They had turned a copse of trees into an al-fresco bathroom.