embower
Americanverb (used with or without object)
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That grey village spire, with its groves of oak and pine, how invitingly it stands! those trees that embower it, once formed a covert for the deer.
From Canadian Crusoes by Catharine Parr Strickland Traill
The ancient and hereditary groves, too, that embower this island, are most of them full of story.
From Bracebridge Hall, or The Humorists by Washington Irving
One of his most delightful tasks, however, was in aiding Amy to embower the old house in wreaths and festoons of evergreens.
From Nature's Serial Story by Edward Payson Roe
What the bee is to the floweret, When he looks for honey-dew, Thro' the leaves that close embower it, That, my love, I'll be to you.
From The Complete Poems of Sir Thomas Moore Collected by Himself with Explanatory Notes by William Michael Rossetti
And I can think I see the groves again, 6 The larches that yon peaceful roof embower; The airy down, the cattle-speckled plain, And the slant sunshine on the village tower.
From The Poetical Works of William Lisle Bowles, Vol. 1 With Memoir, Critical Dissertation, and Explanatory Notes by George Gilfillan by George Gilfillan
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