They took the nearest path west, heading deeper into the park where the trees thickened into surprisingly dense copses of old-growth forest.

William Fitzstephen, who died circa 1190, described it as "vast forest, its copses dense with foliage concealing wild animals - stags, does, boars, and wild bulls."

They reached the dense copse of trees that was their attack position and crept in among them.

They came to a dense copse of small trees.

The troops approached in two groups, one through each of the dense copses.

They landed in a dense copse of oak and maple near a tall, thin stone monument that towered over the trees.

So we camped in a dense copse of trees, near a small stream.

It pointed to a dense copse of trees where they'd have a better chance in a fight.

Within the shelter of a dense copse of pines Saigo stopped them.

Now Janson stationed himself within a dense copse of Aleppo pine and took an inventory of the others in the area.