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Shrubbery   /ʃrˈəbəri/   Listen
noun
Shrubbery  n.  (pl. shrubberies)  
1.
A collection of shrubs.
2.
A place where shrubs are planted.





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"Shrubbery" Quotes from Famous Books



... Agnes, sitting up, her cheeks flushed, her eyes full of tears, but no one answered. The boys, who had been looking in at the window of the housekeeper's room, had turned into the shrubbery, and Agnes felt as if she had been guilty of a very mean, unworthy action in listening, even involuntarily, to a conversation not intended for her ears. Her cousins, too, she felt quite sure, would be exceedingly ...
— Little Folks (July 1884) - A Magazine for the Young • Various
... he had turned the corner of the summer-house, and was lost to view in a shrubbery on the westward side ...
— I Say No • Wilkie Collins
... insult the Bishop leaped at his tormentor, striking a blow into space. The youth bounded over the low rail of the verandah and disappeared amongst the shrubbery in ...
— Civilization - Tales of the Orient • Ellen Newbold La Motte
... opened my window. The very air is sad with the moaning of the sea, and the rustling of the night breeze in the thick, tangled shrubbery below. But to me it is sweet and grateful! I am in no mood for pleasant sounds or sights. The dreariness of the night finds its echo in my heart. The damp breeze cools my forehead! To-night I feel conscious of a new strength. ...
— A Monk of Cruta • E. Phillips Oppenheim
... heard those words, in whose ears they rang like a death-knell; one crouched behind among the shrubbery, whose hands clung to the lattice of the arbor; who, though secure in her concealment, could scarcely hide the anguish which raged within her. At these words the anguish burst forth. A groan escaped her, and all her senses seemed to fail in that ...
— The Cryptogram - A Novel • James De Mille


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