tree-edged

Updated: July 28, 2026

Except that the roadside ditches were littered with beer bottles and scraps of paper, and the road itself rutted by cannon wheels, we saw little enough after leaving Leefdael to suggest that an army had come this way until we were in the outskirts of Brussels. In a tree-edged, grass-plotted boulevard at the edge of the Bois, toward Tervueren, cavalry had halted.

Irvin S. (Irvin Shrewsbury) Cobb - Paths of Glory: Impressions of War Written at and Near the Front