embower
Americanverb (used with or without object)
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The branches of trees rose on all sides as if to embower the house, and birds and bees flew about his casement, through which came the fresh perfumes of the woods, in summer.
From Septimius Felton, or, the Elixir of Life by Nathaniel Hawthorne
The valleys are green, the brooks are frequent, the rivers are tortuous, the mountains are high, and luxuriant walnut-trees embower the roads.
From The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 12, No. 70, August, 1863 by Various
He makes the like to flourish out of mere flowerpots, and embower his balconies and windows, and why shouldn't this flourish with me?
From The Letters of Elizabeth Barrett Browning (1 of 2) by Sir Frederic G. (Frederic George) Kenyon
She meets us in our private walks, 'Mid groves that fairy glens embower, When Morning gems her purple locks, Or Vesper rules the silent hour.
From Graham's Magazine Vol XXXII. No. 5. May 1848 by Robert Taylor Conrad
Even the grove of banana trees that used to embower his house had been swept away.
From The Log of a Sea-Waif Being Recollections of the First Four Years of My Sea Life by Frank T. Bullen
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