Embower

//ɛmˈbaʊɚ//

"Embower" in a Sentence (8 examples)

Her hand he seis’d, and to a shadie bank, Thick overhead with verdant roof imbowr’d

A small Indian village, pleasantly embowered in a grove of spreading elms.

The house stood in a situation so embowered, solitary, and remote from others, that when evening closed in, Mrs. De Brooke and her daughter, had they not reposed their security on the usual tranquillity of the neighbourhood, might have felt their courage forsake them;[…]

And the silent isle imbowers / The Lady of Shalott

The embowered lanes, and the primroses and the hawthorn

A few rods farther led him past the old black Presbyterian church, with its square tower, embowered in a stately grove; past the Catholic church, with its many crosses, and a painted wooden figure of St. James in a recess beneath the gable; and past the old Jefferson House, once the leading hotel of the town, in front of which political meetings had been held, and political speeches made, and political hard cider drunk, in the days of "Tippecanoe and Tyler too."

But the small birds in their wide boughs embowring / Chaunted their sundrie tunes with sweete consent;

Thick as autumnal leaves that strow the brooks In Vallombrosa, where th' Etrurian shades High overarch't imbowr; or scattered sedge Afloat

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