tree-masses

Updated: May 19, 2025

In front of them the stretches of grass, bathed in silvery light and air, ran into far distances of shade under majestic trees just thickening to a June wealth of foliage. Below, these distant tree-masses made sharp capes and promontories on the white grass; above, their rounded tops rose dark against a blue, light-breathing sky.

Mrs. Humphry Ward - Sir George Tressady — Volume I

Victoria, sitting in the shade beside Lady Barbara, who had gone to sleep, looked dreamily round on the rose-red pile of building, on the great engirdling woods, the hills, the silver reaches of river interwoven now with the dark tree-masses, now with glades of sunlit pasture. Duddon was one of the great possessions of England.

Mrs. Humphry Ward - The Mating of Lydia