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- verb Third-person singular simple present indicative form of
embower .
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Examples
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The house itself is made to look like a cosy little nest by the vine that embowers it.
Jean Francois Millet Hurll, Estelle M 1900
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The house itself is made to look like a cosy little nest by the vine that embowers it.
Jean Francois Millet 1893
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Those lodes and pockets of earth, more precious than the precious ores, that yield inimitable fragrance and soft fire; those virtuous Bonanzas, where the soil has sublimated under sun and stars to something finer, and the wine is bottled poetry: these still lie undiscovered; chaparral conceals, thicket embowers them; the miner chips the rock and wanders farther, and the grizzly muses undisturbed.
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She found that she could not stay in a hotel with Cook's tourists, and she took her father's place in the exploring party which went down to the watering-place in the afternoon, on the top of a tram-car, under the leafy roof of the adorable avenue of trees which embowers the track to
The Kentons William Dean Howells 1878
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Those lodes and pockets of earth, more precious than the precious ores, that yield inimitable fragrance and soft fire; those virtuous Bonanzas, where the soil has sublimated under sun and stars to something finer, and the wine is bottled poetry: these still lie undiscovered; chaparral conceals, thicket embowers them; the miner chips the rock and wanders farther, and the grizzly muses undisturbed.
The Silverado Squatters Robert Louis Stevenson 1872
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Among these grows the original forest, which descends to their foot, fringes the river, and embowers the road.
Letters of a Traveller Notes of Things Seen in Europe and America William Cullen Bryant 1836
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Sparkling beneath the heaven which embowers -- _10
The Complete Works of Percy Bysshe Shelley — Volume 2 Percy Bysshe Shelley 1807
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Sparkling beneath the heaven which embowers -- _10
The Complete Works of Percy Bysshe Shelley — Complete Percy Bysshe Shelley 1807
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