1 There was a spinney they'd made their own, by the river.

2 The dragon continued through the spinney, incinerating every likely-looking bush and clump of ferns.

3 At a twist in the river lay the spinney, a clump of birch saplings sprouting through a thicket of bramble.

4 Ahead of him a whole spinney of the tree men awaited.

5 There are forest, spinney , open woodland, plough field, grass and rock around the Great Wall.

6 Just after dawn that day her corpse, cold and hard,[] had been found in a rat-infested spinney.

7 But with a bit of money spent you could have a nice little spinney there - be pretty in the spring.

8 They made a dam on the stream, which was something they often did when they came to the spinney.

9 It happened that there was in the yard a pile of timber which had been stacked there ten years earlier when a beech spinney was cleared.

10 Then they made a tour of inspection of the whole farm and surveyed with speechless admiration the ploughland, the hayfield, the orchard, the pool, the spinney.