Example Sentences

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For the eyes loved, For the face lifted In that still light, Dark trees are groved, The snow drifted, And the mound white.

From Perpetual Light : a memorial by Benét, William Rose

The boxings, the rough lumber, the two by fourteen's finished, the dropped sidings and groved roofing, and lath and ceiling and rough fencings and all the rest?

From The White Desert by Fischer, Anton Otto

After luncheon they all gathered in the deep-recessed window of the music-room which commanded a view of the groved pasture with its background of mountain slope and precipice.

From The Quickening by Ashe, E. M.

I was so interested in the many kinds of planks and tools used by these carpenters, every floor board being tongued and groved by them.

From Old Rail Fence Corners The A. B. C's. of Minnesota History by Morris, Lucy Leavenworth Wilder