arbours

I am now writing to you in one of these arbours, which is so thickly shaded, the sun is not troublesome, even at noon.

Lady Mary Wortley Montague Melville, Lewis 1925

Czaslau, with its large open square, and a few neat houses; the latter provided with so-called arbours (or _verandahs_), which enable one to pass round the square dry-footed, even in the most rainy weather.

Visit to Iceland Ida Pfeiffer 1827

Birds sang in hidden gardens and the perfume of trellised vines came wistful from arbours his grandfather had reared.

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With a rapid step the lady came, snapping through the tall arched shadows thrown back by the garden against the house, the shadow of gates and trellises, the rose arbours with their ruined roses.

Hilary Mantel Comma 2010

A few years later, Cotton was thundering that the savages be “blasted in all their green groves, and arbours.”

The Chosen Peoples Todd Gitlin 2010

I assume the plants and arbours were for his dog! on May 3, 2008 at 3: 56 pm | Reply whichendbites

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A few years later, Cotton was thundering that the savages be “blasted in all their green groves, and arbours.”

The Chosen Peoples Todd Gitlin 2010

A few years later, Cotton was thundering that the savages be “blasted in all their green groves, and arbours.”

The Chosen Peoples Todd Gitlin 2010

For buds that rise to straggle, as their arbours be.

Upwards, Into the White Eye Rising 2009

While the poem is laden with classical and pastoral allusion, it's worth remembering that moonlit arbours and groves would have been local and ordinary features of the various country-houses Montagu inhabited.

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