bosky
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Most Saturday mornings, I stroll half a mile downhill from my tiny apartment in a bosky part of San Francisco to a farmers market.
From Los Angeles Times ● May 5, 2026
From the coastal Pine Barrens of New Jersey, Lin brought to Manhattan 49 full-grown Atlantic white cedars, each around 40 feet tall, and planted them together at the center of a bosky Madison Square Park.
From New York Times ● Jul. 1, 2021
Güell had ambitious plans for his hillside property: it was to be designed by Antoni Gaudí, the celebrated architect, with sixty houses set on the bosky grounds.
From The New Yorker ● Apr. 22, 2019
Families emerged from bosky banks, baseball fields behind.
From Washington Post ● Apr. 3, 2018
A big white swan full of little children approached my bench, then turned around a bosky islet covered with ducks and paddled back under the dark arch of the bridge.
From "The Bell Jar" by Sylvia Plath
Bonchurch is perhaps a mile from Ventnor, and is the boskiest bit of loveliness in all the lovely island.
From Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science, Vol. 12, No. 32, November, 1873 by Various
I asked, as we sped into Central's boskiest dell.
From Options by Henry, O.
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