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Definition of Greenwoods
1. greenwood [n] - See also: greenwood
Lexicographical Neighbors of Greenwoods
Literary usage of Greenwoods
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. A Biographical Dictionary of Eminent Scotsmen by Robert Chambers, Thomas Thomson (1853)
"... My heart, forth from my breast to go, As light leaves in the greenwoods dan«',
And mix with hers, already wanting, Now beat, now trembled to and fro, ..."
2. Bird Watching by Edmund Selous (1901)
"CHAPTER IX Watching Birds in the greenwoods I HAVE called attention in the last
chapter to that independent or self-reliant quality which so many birds ..."
3. Transactions of the Royal Society of Literature of the United Kingdom by Royal Society of Literature (Great Britain) (1903)
"Chorus—To the greenwoods we will go, To the greenwoods we will go, To the greenwoods
we will go, go, go, To the greenwoods we will go. ..."
4. Barkhamsted, Conn., and Its Centennial, 1879: To which is Added a Historical by William Wallace Lee, Henry Roger Jones (1881)
"When it had been a few years in operation the greenwoods Turnpike was extended
on through ... After the extension of the greenwoods Turnpike as mentioned, ..."
5. The Connecticut Magazine: An Illustrated Monthly by William Farrand Felch, George C. Atwell, H. Phelps Arms, Frances Trevelyan Miller (1897)
"Rockwells, about the middle of the greenwoods," was a tavern in Colebrook,
Connecticut. ... The greenwoods road which extended from New Hartford to Norfolk, ..."
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