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- n a dense growth of bushes
- Within five weeks he made a hair-raising escape from the Boer prison at Pretoria, walked unnoticed through the crowded town, hid all day in a copse tenanted by a large vulture .
- From the deep heart of the copse comes a multilateral clickety-clackingthe beaters' sticks upon the tree boles.
- On a steep, rocky alpine slope outside the northeast corner of Yellowstone National Park, scientists examine what they call the "dead trees standing," a copse of ancient whitebark .