sugar-bush

I descend a steep hill, and approach the hemlocks through a large sugar-bush.

The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 17, No. 104, June, 1866 Various

As the darkness increased, I began to think the sugar-bush not the most desirable place in the world, in which to pass the night, and all the stories I had ever heard of bears, wolves, and other wild animals rushed across my mind, and filled me with terror.

Stories and Sketches Harriet S. Caswell

The sugar-bush was about two miles from our dwelling, and I was much elated by the prospect of being allowed to assist in the labors of sugar-making.

Stories and Sketches Harriet S. Caswell

As the darkness increased, I began to think the sugar-bush not the most desirable place in the world, in which to pass the night, and all the stories I had ever heard of bears, wolves and other wild animals rushed across my mind, and filled me with terror.

The Path of Duty, and Other Stories

The sugar-bush was about two miles from our dwelling, and I was much elated by the prospect of being allowed to assist in the labors of sugar-making.

The Path of Duty, and Other Stories

Although that neat little arch that I have made up my mind to build every spring for many years, and which I have neglected to attend to every summer, is still a thing of dreams, I cannot keep away from the sugar-bush, 'When the sap be gins to stir.'

Culturing Canadian Patriotism 1924

Word coming for more men, Clay and Reardon were sent forward, and I saw them despatched off to the right, Clay toward a nearby sugar-bush, a little grove with its sugar house at its edge, and Reardon further forward, toward a suspicious hollow behind which was a railroad embankment which might conceal a regiment.

At Plattsburg Allen French 1908

Meanwhile Clay, having found nothing in his sugar-bush, returned, and attention was fixed on our flanking patrol to the left, who having discovered that we had stopped, likewise became stationary, and leaving un-rummaged the thick little growth of birch ahead of him, sat himself down in the midst of an apple orchard, and visibly regaled himself on something red.

At Plattsburg Allen French 1908

We struck soft ground and formed in squad columns, then came to a place where the enemy was visible in a sugar-bush, across a ravine.

At Plattsburg Allen French 1908

Waal, rumors is thicker than spotted flies in the sugar-bush.

The Reckoning 1899