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The flowery meads and bird-fruitful spinneys of the Arras teemed and rippled over the four walls.

From "The Once and Future King" by T. H. White

The plains of Salisbury, ideal for summer military camps, are rolling, prairie-like lands stretching for miles, broken by a very occasional farm house or by plantations of trees called "spinneys."

From On the Fringe of the Great Fight by Nasmith, George G. (George Gallie)

The usual accompaniment of the chalk—small "tufts" of foliage, that become spinneys when close at hand, dot the surface of the great plateau.

From Wanderings in Wessex An Exploration of the Southern Realm from Itchen to Otter by Holmes, Edric

For my own part, it is in the autumn that I like Hopton best, when the old cock pheasants call defiance to each other in the spinneys, and the hedgerows rustle with life.

From Dross by Merriman, Henry Seton

To return to the nest, my lost Bees had only to cross slight obstacles, the hedges and spinneys of the tilled fields.

From The Mason-Bees by Teixeira de Mattos, Alexander