How To Use Embower In A Sentence
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We passed ancient cottages embowered with climbing roses that Edward Elgar must have known as he cycled here on what he called his "trusty steed".
Country diary: Malvern Hills
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How lovingly and admiringly do we follow him on his way from London, taking his last view of those many sweet scenes which were thenceforward to embower in his memory all the joys of more than forty years!
The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 13, No. 75, January, 1864
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Tom picked a few, and they ate them and still said almost nothing until they reached the wrought-iron gate of a community that was embowered by a high red-brick wall.
Rot & Ruin
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Garden parties had been heard of, were a trifle repetitional, and even dull, but at this one there was real music and real dancing, and clever entertainments were given at intervals in a green-embowered little theatre, erected for the occasion.
The Shuttle
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The minstrels were embowered in greenery as they played waltzes and quadrilles, which were danced with great zest, and the hall rang with good-humored laughter . . .
A Renegade History of the United States
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-- Across the heath, encircled with fences of uncouth stones, stands a stern record of feudal yore; at the next turn peeps the rectory, encircled with old firs, trained fruit trees, and affectionate ivy; beneath yon darkened thickets rolls the lazy Ure, expanding into laky broadness; and, beyond yon western woods, which embower the peaceful hamlet, are seen the
The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 12, No. 343, November 29, 1828
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Vines were planted that in the course of time would cover and embower it; there was a tiny fireplace for chilly days.
Mark Twain: A Biography
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The homestead is sitting there tranquilly on its hilltop, embowered by an orchard -- fig, apple, pear, orange, lemon, and peach trees, and grape vines, all heavy laden with fruit.
War Nears New Zealand
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There they sit, the two old friends, embowered in the snugness of their first-floor rooms.
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The valley itself, rich and wooded, with the little river running its course, marked by a thick embowering of trees; the hills that enclosed the valley taking every form of beauty, sometimes wild and sometimes tame, heathery and barren, rough and rocky, and again rounded and soft.
The Old Helmet
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When it has paid its tribute to the royal pile, and visited its gardens and parterres, it flows down the long avenue leading to the city, tinkling in rills, gushing in fountains, and maintaining a perpetual verdure in those groves that embower and beautify the whole hill of the Alhambra.
The Alhambra
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We directed our steps to that part of the town where the better class seemed to reside, in cool, shady lanes, the houses embowered in large-leaved tropical trees, cocoa-nut, banana, bread-fruit, calabash, and other palms, with cycas and tree-ferns with stems some fifteen feet high.
A Boy's Voyage Round the World
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It was a very delightful room, with fine wide outlook -- over towards the church in its dark embowerment of evergreen oaks, which some of the folk would not pass by night; over the long sweep of the land towards Little Sark; then, over to the left, a glimpse of the sea and
Pearl of Pearl Island
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On these occasions, his beloved was left behind, embowered in his apartment, perhaps because he feared someone would steal her away from him.
The Mirror of Venus
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The valleys are green, the brooks are frequent, the rivers are tortuous, the mountains are high, and luxuriant walnut-trees embower the roads.
The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 12, No. 70, August, 1863
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We passed ancient cottages embowered with climbing roses that Edward Elgar must have known as he cycled here on what he called his "trusty steed".
Country diary: Malvern Hills
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But still come the budding spring and the blooming summer to embower those quiet streets and to fill the morning hour with birds 'sweet singing.
The Continental Monthly, Vol. 2, No 3, September, 1862 Devoted to Literature and National Policy.
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Dropping down through the pungent pines, they passed woods-embowered cottages, quaint and rustic, of artists and writers, and went on across wind-blown rolling sandhills held to place by sturdy lupine and nodding with pale
CHAPTER VI
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Resolved, that a committee of three be appointed by the president of this association to look after the welfare of the pines, to study their diseases and remedies, and to investigate how such trees may be increased, planted and transplanted, in order that our borough may in years to come be more than ever embowered among them and achieve enduring fame as Beachwood among the Pines.
2008 December 18 « Beachwood Historical Alliance
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Vast tombs, embowered beneath the weeping willow and the fir tree, told of the antiquities of the Lloyd family, as well as of their wealth.
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Contemporary photos show a nondescript, unkempt home, not a “big, rambling, orchard-embowered house” with a dooryard neat enough to eat off.
Land of Green Gables
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Yea, thou queen of Golgi, of Idaly leaf-embower'd,
Poems and Fragments
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However choice examples of their kind, too, these plants were of a kind peculiarly adapted to the embowerment of Mrs. Pipchin.
Highways & Byways in Sussex
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Contemporary photos show a nondescript, unkempt home, not a “big, rambling, orchard-embowered house” with a dooryard neat enough to eat off.
Land of Green Gables
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Vast tombs, embowered beneath the weeping willow and the fir tree, told of the antiquities of the Lloyd family, as well as of their wealth.
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However choice examples of their kind, too, these plants were of a kind peculiarly adapted to the embowerment of Mrs Pipchin.
Dombey and Son
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Now the few ancestral mansions embower themselves in an aristocratic seclusion of trees and vines that shut them in with their birds and flowers and sunshine, and the Van Ness
Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 12, No. 33, December, 1873
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You'll find it painted pink, like a rare orchid embowered by its own green leaves.
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When it has paid its tribute to the royal pile, and visited its gardens and pastures, it flows down the long avenue leading to the city, trinkling in rills, gushing in fountains, and maintaining a perpetual verdure in those groves that embower and beautify the whole hill of the Alhambra.
Journeys Through Bookland, Vol. 8
