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Definition of Embowered
1. embower [v] - See also: embower
Lexicographical Neighbors of Embowered
Literary usage of Embowered
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Rise of the Dutch Republic: A History by John Lothrop Motley (1868)
"... haunted by faun and satyr, embowered the country, and separated it from Celtic
Gaul. Thus inundated by mighty rivers, quaking beneath the level of the ..."
2. The Complete Poetical Works of Sir Walter Scott by Walter Scott (1900)
"Now, "gainst the vault's rude walls reclined, The cottage once his sire's he
seea, An early image fills his mind: 370 embowered upon the banks of Tees; ..."
3. Lectures, Illustrated and Embellished with Views of the World's Famous by John Lawson Stoddard (1898)
"Broad avenues, often completely embowered in the shade of giant elms, one ON THE
ALHAMBRA HILL. hundred feet in height, lead the way upward in gradual ..."
4. The Monthly Review by Ralph Griffiths (1807)
"A lofty mansion, which is now naked, cannot be absolutely embowered in the cours?
of three years. Trees will not perform such a feat " at the bidding" of ..."
5. A Biographical History of Lancaster County: Being a History of Early by Alexander Harris (1872)
"... and embowered in the midst of beautiful and majestic oaks, he saw a gushing
stream of limpid water issuing from its fountain in all its native purity. ..."
6. The American Literary Magazine edited by Timothy Dwight Sprague (1847)
"A SPRING embowered IN TREES. BY AF OLMSTED. The spring! the spring ! the playful
spring, That bubbles through the grass, From rock to rock its echoes ring, ..."
7. Pennsylvania School Architecture: A Manual of Directions and Plans for by Thomas Henry Burrowes (1855)
"embowered in trees and surrounded with flowers, it will ornament any situation;
and after the Schools shall have been regularly graded, such a School-house ..."
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