embower
Americanverb (used with or without object)
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Such were the surroundings Guy chose to embower the doubts and hesitations that followed close upon the morning when on Wychford down he had been so nearly telling Pauline he loved her.
From Plashers Mead A Novel by Compton MacKenzie
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
Juniper and tamarack and fir stand in groves along the busy thoroughfare, and garlands of green embower mission and dive impartially.
From Out of Mulberry Street Stories of Tenement life in New York City by Jacob A. (Jacob August) Riis
This accounts for the wealth of roses which embower the trees and houses.
From A Flight in Spring In the car Lucania from New York to the Pacific coast and back, during April and May, 1898 by J. Harris (John Harris) Knowles
Browning is spending a luxurious year in Italy—is, at this present writing, with his poetess bride dwelling in some hermit hut in Vallombrosa, where the Etruscan shades high overarched embower.
From The Brownings Their Life and Art by Lilian Whiting
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