| 单词 | embower |
| 例句 | These branches might seem gay and cheerful were not cannon embowered there. All Quiet on the Western Front: A Novel 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z Many an Elm Street across America today is planted with some other tree, once was lost the embowering shade of elms that created a quintessential main street view of small-town America. Centenarian elm falls in Seattle park, closing a chapter of history 2018-01-13T05:00:00Z They are nearly always embowered amongst great stately trees, that the forefathers planted when the foundations of the new home were laid. Sidelights on Chinese Life 2012-04-21T02:00:23.993Z We passed through a number of villages which, though the dwellings were of the rudest, yet had a pretty look, as they were embowered in foliage of palms and bamboos. From Egypt to Japan 2012-04-19T02:00:28.147Z They live in a very pretty house embowered in roses on the crest of the hill and commanding lovely views over the Teesta Valley and up to the snowy peaks of Kanchenjunga. Mount Everest the Reconnaissance, 1921 2012-04-12T02:00:28.417Z A little way down high road, on right-hand side, lane suddenly opened and delved downwards, its sinuous course embowered in trees; where they failed, barricaded with hedges. Punch, or the London Charivari, October 28th 1893 2012-04-05T02:00:37.137Z The little village was composed of neat huts, embowered in luxuriant plantations. The Sea: Its Stirring Story of Adventure, Peril, & Heroism. Volume 1 2012-04-03T02:00:38.807Z Early in the morning of that eventful day there was hurrying to and fro in the Dennys’ cottage, on Seneca Street, embowered in flowers which even luxuriant as they were we did not deem sufficient. Blazing The Way True Stories, Songs and Sketches of Puget Sound 2012-04-03T02:00:30.677Z At a distance they have rather a pretty effect, as they are generally embowered in palm trees, out of which sometimes peers the white minaret of a mosque. From Egypt to Japan 2012-04-19T02:00:28.147Z I recall, too, the Mosaic Mosque, once the church of the monastery of the Chora, which stands on a hill from which Stamboul looks like a beautiful village embowered in green, cheerful and gaily fascinating. The Near East Dalmatia, Greece and Constantinople 2012-03-26T02:00:38.077Z As we went up and up we paused often to look down to where, deep in the valley, Sóller lay embowered in its orange gardens. The Fortunate Isles Life and Travel in Majorca, Minorca and Iviza 2012-03-21T02:00:34.053Z So the summer days went by, with the lilacs and the roses embowering the Hargreave home. The Million Dollar Mystery Novelized from the Scenario of F. Lonergan 2012-03-15T02:00:21.153Z Two are shown in this chapter, from Waterford, Virginia; one bearing little foliage and another embowered in vines, in order to show what a really good vine support they were. Old-Time Gardens Newly Set Forth 2012-03-06T03:00:22.850Z They know not what islands, embowered in foliage, lie in those Southern seas—what visions would reward them if they would but "those realms explore." From Egypt to Japan 2012-04-19T02:00:28.147Z It was a lovely afternoon, and I, too, strolled down the station road embowered in shade. Solomon 2012-02-29T03:00:26.127Z The farther ranges enclose a valley of wave-like hills,—which look as if a tumultuous ocean had been transfixed and solidified,—dotted with farmsteads and picturesque villages whose white spires rise from embowering trees. Literary Shrines The Haunts of Some Famous American Authors 2012-02-18T03:00:15.287Z It drapes many an unsightly stump, or clambers up into shrubs, embowering them with its pretty foliage. The Wild Flowers of California: Their Names, Haunts, and Habits 2012-02-17T03:00:37.163Z Ilkley nestles cosily at the foot of green slopes which swell away from the stream and are dotted with copses and embowered villas. A Literary Pilgrimage Among the Haunts of Famous British Authors 2012-02-17T03:00:36.500Z Hundreds of bungalows are clustered on these eminences, shaded with palms and embowered in tropical foliage, with steep roofs, always thatched as a better protection from the sun. From Egypt to Japan 2012-04-19T02:00:28.147Z A large shed stood a short distance off, embowered in a grove of banana, papaw, and mango trees; and under it were the troughs, ovens, sieves, and other apparatus, for the preparation of mandioc. Oregon and Eldorado or, Romance of the Rivers 2012-02-07T03:00:09.010Z We were taken to Haggard’s quarters, a two-storied house called Ruge’s Buildings, embowered in trees, containing a fine long reception room upstairs, with bedrooms off it for my daughter, myself, and my maid. Fifty-One Years of Victorian Life 2012-01-15T03:00:15.917Z First, the water-works tower rises above the mass of trees which embower the settlement. Historic Waterways?Six Hundred Miles of Canoeing Down the Rock, Fox, and Wisconsin Rivers 2012-01-13T03:00:14.813Z Through the quaint, old-fashioned gate-way, under the embowering branches of tall trees, he drove up a short, broad avenue, clumped at each side with old timber, to the open hall-door of the pretty Elizabethan house. Checkmate 2012-01-03T03:00:10.887Z One first catches sight of this retired Moravian settlement only when actually entering the place itself, embowered as it is among lofty trees. Narrative of the Circumnavigation of the Globe by the Austrian Frigate Novara, Volume I (Commodore B. Von Wullerstorf-Urbair,) Undertaken by Order of the Imperial Government in the Years 1857, 1858, & 1859, Under the Immediate Auspices of His I. and R. Highness the Archduke Ferdinand Maximilian, Commander-In-Chief of the Austrian Navy. 2012-01-02T03:00:25.873Z Juniper and tamarack and fir stand in groves along the busy thoroughfare, and garlands of green embower mission and dive impartially. Out of Mulberry Street Stories of Tenement life in New York City 2011-12-28T03:00:42.950Z We arrive at the summit, travel across and arrive at its western rim, and—pause, reader—the port of Ujiji is below us, embowered in the palms, only five hundred yards from us. Stanley's Adventures in the Wilds of Africa A Graphic Account of the Several Expeditions of Henry M. Stanley into the Heart of the Dark Continent 2011-12-24T03:07:57.647Z From thence we returned to the house by new and ever more beautiful and embowered pathways. The Joy of Captain Ribot 2011-12-15T03:00:16.510Z Occasional avenues lead to picturesque villas embowered in flowering shrubs and trees, among which the adelfa, or rose-laurel, the acacia, eucalyptus and cypress are conspicuous. Wild Spain (Espa?a agreste) Records of Sport with Rifle, Rod, and Gun, Natural History Exploration 2011-12-05T03:00:38.980Z “But let my dear feet never fail To walk the studious cloisters’ pale, And love the high embowered roof With antique pillars, massive proof And storied windows richly dight, Casting a dim religious light. From the Thames to the Tiber or, My visit to Paris, Rome, Florence, Venice, Milan, Switzerland, etc. 2011-12-03T03:00:10.397Z The villa itself, which was a pretty white house with green shutters, was embowered in a thick grove of immense orange-trees, now in full bloom, which protected it from the scorching rays of the sun. The Seven Cardinal Sins: Envy and Indolence 2011-11-28T03:00:23.427Z This verandah, and indeed the whole house, was embowered in dense masses of different-coloured creepers, which in the brilliant sunshine presented a most charming and novel effect. The Beautiful White Devil 2011-11-11T03:00:24.760Z The farm-buildings, as a rule, form part of the village; the villages are small and mostly hidden from sight among embowering trees or in a coombe. Birds and Man 2011-10-20T02:00:25.513Z The splash of a flower embowered fountain is music to ear and the cool shade under the arches a rest for eye. Cathedral Cities of Italy 2011-10-12T02:00:42.597Z A feudal drawbridge connected it with the outside world, and it was embowered in lofty trees and surrounded by gardens and orchards. Vondel's Lucifer 2011-10-09T02:00:28.557Z All were embowered in masses of color and shadowed by the graceful curves of cocoanut palms and bananas. Jungle Peace 2011-10-06T02:00:42.363Z The old inhabitants still speak in terms of fond regret of the place when embowered in its orange groves, and the pleasantness of its old customs and usages. The Spaniards in Florida Comprising the notable settlement of the Huguenots in 1564, and the History and Antiquities of St. Augustine, Founded A.D. 1565 2011-09-24T02:00:14.187Z Their path lay across the grassy plain towards the town, and passed immediately within the space embowered by an ancient, spreading poplar, scarce a hundred paces in front of the chapel. Rob of the Bowl, Vol. I (of 2) A Legend of St. Inigoe's 2011-09-11T02:00:10.443Z In 1880 The Times described the houses as “embowered in foliage,” although it observed that they were “rather damp and unwholesome in rainy weather.” STREETSCAPES/Seventh Avenue: A Vanished Row of Unusual Grace 2011-09-09T09:00:31Z It was embowered in trees, and behind the castle were gardens and conservatories. Music-Study in Germany from the Home Correspondence of Amy Fay 2011-09-07T02:00:17.597Z On the north side, embowered in palm trees, is a great statue of Columbus, at whose feet kneels the figure of America. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 11, Slice 5 "Gassendi, Pierre" to "Geocentric" 2011-09-02T02:00:20.450Z Orange-trees of the size and height of the pear-tree, often rising higher than the roofs of the houses, embowered the town in perpetual verdure. The Spaniards in Florida Comprising the notable settlement of the Huguenots in 1564, and the History and Antiquities of St. Augustine, Founded A.D. 1565 2011-09-24T02:00:14.187Z His house was covered with climbing roses, absolutely covered, embowered in them like a nest. Caybigan 2011-08-31T02:01:21.780Z Or we see a little embowered shack with a pile of fuel logs beside it, and a crude name-board, where the river boats replenish when traversing this stream, during the season, for rubber. The Sea and the Jungle 2011-08-30T02:00:30.350Z After following the windings of the road for a long distance, we at last arrived at the little castle, perched upon a hill-side and embowered in trees. Music-Study in Germany from the Home Correspondence of Amy Fay 2011-09-07T02:00:17.597Z From different points in the embowered roads I could catch a glimpse of the light in his window, at Rydal Mount. English Lands Letters and Kings Queen Anne and the Georges 2011-08-29T02:01:10.603Z That cemetery is embowered in trees, and occupies little more than half an acre of ground, to the left of the road, interposing between it and the park of the Ch�teau de la Carque. In a Glass Darkly, v. 2/3 2011-08-25T02:00:31.597Z Regaining his breath and his confidence as he went, he bethought him of the Jago Row retreat, where he might examine his prize at leisure, embowered amid trucks and barrows. A Child of the Jago 2011-08-05T02:00:52.533Z The ivy kept it green through all the year; the porch was embowered in honeysuckle, clematis, passion-flower, and Virginia creeper. Harriet Martineau 2011-08-05T02:00:51.493Z The scenery, on either side, is exceedingly beautiful, opening occasionally, as you pass along, the most picturesque landscapes, and then completely embowering you in the shade of the luxuriant trees, that overhang the stream. Rambles by Land and Water or Notes of Travel in Cuba and Mexico 2011-07-29T02:00:23.127Z Thoughtless of Beauty, she was beauty's self Recluse among the close embowering woods. English Lands Letters and Kings Queen Anne and the Georges 2011-08-29T02:01:10.603Z That the sassafras embowered With the spice of early May? Kentucky Poems 2011-07-11T02:00:07.060Z And, to crown my pleasures, when I had strayed as far as I dared, I came suddenly upon a pretty villa in an open glade, the house itself being embowered in the most gorgeous blossoms. The Log of a Sea-Waif Being Recollections of the First Four Years of My Sea Life 2011-07-09T02:00:13.057Z Landscapes of the boldest composition would be continual, but that the road, formed into a deep hollow, and overtopped by hedge-row elms, excludes the traveller from almost every view but that of his embowered track. A Tour throughout South Wales and Monmouthshire 2011-07-08T02:00:18.387Z Passing the chapel, a Gothic gem, set in an embowering of foliage, Wagram espied the family chaplain seated in front of his rose-grown cottage, reading. The Red Derelict 2011-07-05T02:00:30.143Z A curve in the road brought the city into full view, lying beneath, embowered in its bosky gardens. The Fire Trumpet A Romance of the Cape Frontier 2011-07-05T02:00:23.353Z Climbing roses, in full bloom, embowered the wide verandas. The Brute 2011-06-30T02:00:30.283Z Even the grove of banana trees that used to embower his house had been swept away. The Log of a Sea-Waif Being Recollections of the First Four Years of My Sea Life 2011-07-09T02:00:13.057Z Opposite to us, beyond the moat, appeared the low embowered ruins of the fourth and last court, separated from the principal mass of building by a drawbridge. A Tour throughout South Wales and Monmouthshire 2011-07-08T02:00:18.387Z The grand east window, wholly covered with shrubs, and half mantled with ivy, rises like the portal of a majestic edifice embowered in wood. The Wye and Its Associations a picturesque ramble 2011-06-12T02:00:06.820Z His vision takes him first into a grove or garden of trees and flowers and fountains, with a feast of summer fruits spread on the moss before an embowered arbour. Life of John Keats His Life and Poetry, his Friends, Critics and After-fame 2011-06-10T02:00:19.290Z How beautiful was my old home, embowered in trees and perfumed with flowers! In Both Worlds 2011-06-08T02:00:17.360Z Below me, almost embowered in trees, lay the palace of Sans Souci, and winding along, with curves and turnings, ran the white and dusty road which led to Le Cap. Latitude 19 degree A Romance of the West Indies in the Year of Our Lord Eighteen Hundred and Twenty 2011-05-30T02:00:18.047Z The whole laid out in rich pastures and meadows, continually intersected with tufted inclosures, and enlivened with embowered hamlets and detached whitened buildings, formed a coup d’œil of considerable interest. A Tour throughout South Wales and Monmouthshire 2011-07-08T02:00:18.387Z It is a beautiful spot, embowered in trees, and all its grounds and gardens are kept in becoming order, with the nicest care and attention. The International Monthly, Volume 3, No. 3, June, 1851 2011-05-18T02:00:14.897Z The embowered cell of the latter he could not discern, but all the windows of the convent where his loved one dreamed glistened in the sparkling moonlight. Hesperus or Forty-Five Dog-Post-Days Vol. II A Biography 2011-05-14T02:00:08.440Z On this day everything seems exceptionally lovely, and, slowly as Jeannette is pulling, the confines of the park are quickly overpassed, and the castle is cut off from view by embowering woods. The Last of the Vikings 2011-05-09T02:00:04.200Z The ruin is so pleasantly embowered by trees and ivy, so agreeable for a lounge on a July day, that I regretted being summoned away too soon by “t’ boos” driver’s horn. A Month in Yorkshire 2011-04-24T02:00:10.977Z The translucid Towey here wantons in perpetual variety among gay meadows and embowering plantations, where the eye with pleasure traces its fantastic meanders until they disappear behind projecting groves. A Tour throughout South Wales and Monmouthshire 2011-07-08T02:00:18.387Z They are varied in style; many of them of picturesque appearance, and all more or less embowered in shrubbery. The Child Wife 2011-04-21T02:00:50.050Z The forest is my home," replied Mr. Johnson, "and in its equal shade my humble hut stands sacredly embowered. The Orpheus C. Kerr Papers, Series 1 2011-04-21T02:00:47.647Z Soon they reached the fringe of the forest again, where, embowered within its shelter, was the house of this Saxon; but it was deserted and plundered of everything. The Last of the Vikings 2011-05-09T02:00:04.200Z I went down and took a drink at the spring which, embowered by trees and bushes, sparkles forth from the rocky brink of the river; and rambled away to Rokeby. A Month in Yorkshire 2011-04-24T02:00:10.977Z Across the valley, under its sheltering hill-slope the gray front of Northrop Hall showed through embowering trees, and the tower of a little time-worn church rose in the foreground. The Dust of Conflict 2011-04-14T02:01:04.343Z Each stands in its own grounds of a quarter to half an acre, embowered in a shrubbery of lilacs, laburnums, and laurels. The Child Wife 2011-04-21T02:00:50.050Z She lived in a palace embowered with trees and those were the only signs of vegetation on her island. Wonder Stories The Best Myths for Boys and Girls 2011-03-31T02:00:19.150Z Then it was embowered, almost buried, in trees; here and there only a spot of whitewashed walls or a quaint lead window, seen through the thick foliage. No Quarter! 2011-03-26T02:00:16.330Z Now the path skirts precipitous rocks, hung with ivy, now drops gently among ferns to an embowered seat, until at a sudden turn the noise of the fall bursts grandly upon you. A Month in Yorkshire 2011-04-24T02:00:10.977Z A little to the left the embowered gables and red chimneys of an old house. Unlucky A Fragment of a Girl's Life 2011-03-24T02:00:14.360Z Then gallop was kept up until the spire of Vilagos came in sight, shooting up over the groves of olive and acacia embowering the Puszta village. The Child Wife 2011-04-21T02:00:50.050Z It was surrounded, and almost overhung, by mountains, and embowered in trees of various kinds; waters sounded, nightingales sang, and the cuckoo’s full note boomed from the distant branches, but the village was miserable. The Bible in Spain Vol. 1 [of 2] 2011-03-23T02:00:19.910Z There it stood in all its grey grandeur, still embowered in the midst of beautiful groves of orange and olive. Osceola the Seminole The Red Fawn of the Flower Land 2011-03-22T02:00:20.123Z Turning presently into a road on the left, which rises gently, you get an embowered view of the town, terminated by the soaring arch. A Month in Yorkshire 2011-04-24T02:00:10.977Z The quaint houses, red and white, with terraced roofs, and embowered amid verdant groves, recalled the simile of the poet who likened Granada to “a silver vase full of hyacinths and emeralds.” With the World's Great Travellers, Volume 3 2011-03-21T02:00:11.920Z The ineffable sappy green of spring everywhere sets and embowers it. Doctor Cupid 2011-03-13T03:00:23.987Z Muckross is far surpassed in interest by many other Irish ruins, but it is very beautiful, embowered as it is in magnificent trees and all but covered with glistening ivy. The Charm of Ireland 2011-03-10T03:00:53.650Z Beyond are rows of pretty little cottages, uniform in size and shape, each embowered in its grove of orange-trees, whose ripening fruit and white wax-like flowers fill the air with perfume. Osceola the Seminole The Red Fawn of the Flower Land 2011-03-22T02:00:20.123Z Gentle, tender, and clinging, the maiden’s type might be found in the fragrant white jasmine that embowers the porch of her pleasant home. The Haunted Room A Tale 2011-03-10T03:00:46.157Z Both were embowered in trees at the foot of the hill which lords it over the town. With the World's Great Travellers, Volume 3 2011-03-21T02:00:11.920Z The stony and devious lanes wound about the bleak hillside, passing here and there small, solitary cottages of whitewashed stone, with children, fowls, and dogs at the doors, all embowered in huge fuchsia trees. Anna of the Five Towns 2011-03-08T03:00:38.117Z He halted and lingered for awhile in that embowered part of the little by-road which opens on the shore, half afraid to terminate a suspense in which was still a hope. The Tenants of Malory Volume 1 of 3 2011-03-04T03:01:04.443Z Here, dearest, as I sit embowered beside the wide and winding Rhine, the day-dream of my childhood is at length realized. The Dodd Family Abroad, Vol. I 2011-03-03T03:00:56.130Z At last we arrived at our little inn called "La Pace,"—how beautifully it sounds, dearest! and really stands so, too, beside a gushing mountain-stream, and perfectly embowered in olives. The Dodd Family Abroad, Vol. II 2011-03-03T03:00:54.950Z Who thought that, instead of an embowered porch, rudely built and thatched with rushes, they now met beneath the stately colonnade of a noble mansion! Jasper Lyle 2011-02-19T03:01:11.070Z It appears that in the long ago, the Cardinal Schalchi-Visconti was the benefactor of this town, and there on the hillside, tree embowered, was his villa with its little port for the lake boats. Hospital Sketches 2011-02-16T03:00:37.920Z It is not quaint, as Nuremberg, romantic as Prague, or even embowered in foliage, as are some of the Dutch villages in the western provinces of Cape Colony. The World and Its People: Book VII Views in Africa 2011-02-13T03:00:17.920Z We passed plantations of sugar-cane, and admired the houses in which their owners dwelt—handsome villas, embowered amid orange groves, and shaded with Persian lilacs and magnolias. The Guerilla Chief And other Tales 2011-02-10T03:00:53.627Z Shade trees half embower them and the court-house in their rich foliage. The South-West By a Yankee. In Two Volumes. Volume 2 2011-02-05T03:00:13.817Z Those in rear dropped behind the embowered rocks, and kept strict silence till ordered by the commanding officer, Frankfort, to advance upon the enemy, who was soon discovered. Jasper Lyle 2011-02-19T03:01:11.070Z The grassy roads run beneath the embowering beeches straight from carrefour to carrefour. Hospital Sketches 2011-02-16T03:00:37.920Z Other plantations retain their original dimensions, crowned, on the borders of the river, with noble mansions, embowered in the evergreen foliage of the dark-leaved orange and lemon trees. The South-West By a Yankee. In Two Volumes. Volume 1 2011-02-02T03:00:22.253Z Tall trees embower it; and over its porches, and all along its picturesque, irregular front, and on its thatched roof, the woodbine and the ivy climb, and there are wild roses and the maiden's blush. Shakespeare's England 2011-01-30T03:00:17.313Z It was a chaste and pretty mansion, though not so luxuriantly embowered as the abode of the clergyman above alluded to. The South-West By a Yankee. In Two Volumes. Volume 2 2011-02-05T03:00:13.817Z Pierre! thou art foolish; rebuild—no, not that, for thy shrine still stands; it stands, Pierre, firmly stands; smellest thou not its yet undeparted, embowering bloom? Pierre; or The Ambiguities 2011-01-17T03:00:45.163Z The landscape, still green in mid-winter, was dotted with villas and villages, all white, contrasting prettily with the groves in which they were embowered. Memoirs of Service Afloat, During the War Between the States 2011-01-04T03:01:01.887Z I stood almost embowered in the foliage of exotics and native plants, which stood upon the gallery in handsome vases of marble and China-ware. The South-West By a Yankee. In Two Volumes. Volume 1 2011-02-02T03:00:22.253Z The house is one in a block of dwellings, situated in what is called the Grove—a broad, embowered street, a little way from the centre of the village. Shakespeare's England 2011-01-30T03:00:17.313Z The whole village was embowered in the foliage of China trees, which thickly lined both sides of the main street. The South-West By a Yankee. In Two Volumes. Volume 2 2011-02-05T03:00:13.817Z Caracas is embowered among the mountains three thousand feet above the streets of La Guayra. Where Duty Called or, In Honor Bound 2011-01-01T03:00:22.753Z Dearest Uncle Bertram, do you know such a house which 'stands amidst orange groves, with sublimest view of the blue infinity of the ocean, a fair, white hostelry embowered in roses'? Quisisana, or Rest at Last 2010-12-29T03:00:30.857Z Fronting this station are no stores, but several elegant private dwellings, constructed after the combined French and Spanish style of architecture, almost embowered in dark, evergreen foliage, and surrounded by parterres. The South-West By a Yankee. In Two Volumes. Volume 1 2011-02-02T03:00:22.253Z At a little distance, all around the village green, the peaceful, embowered cottages kept their sentinel watch. Shakespeare's England 2011-01-30T03:00:17.313Z "Oh, sir," replied Duncan, with great simplicity of manner, "I'm looking at yon beautiful hoose yonder," pointing to a handsome house that stood amidst an embowering wood on the face of a gentle acclivity. Wilson's Tales of the Borders and of Scotland Volume 8 In the environs are many delightful residences, embowered with creeping vines and surrounded with flower-gardens. Under the Southern Cross or Travels in Australia, Tasmania, New Zealand, Samoa, and Other Pacific Islands In Capri there stands amidst orange groves, with sublimest view of the blue infinity of the ocean, a fair white hostelry, embowered in roses, Quisisana. Quisisana, or Rest at Last 2010-12-29T03:00:30.857Z Stillness of summer noontide over hill, And deep embowering wood, and rock, and stream, Spread forth her downy pinions, scattering sleep Upon the drooping eyelids of the air. The International Monthly, Volume 3, No. 4, July, 1851 The house to-day overlooks extensive grounds and is embowered in a wealth of rambler roses and iris. Remodeled Farmhouses One cannot now walk over the embowered campus of Mount Holyoke College without meditating on what a forceful will of a frail woman, set toward the beautiful and good, can do within the severest limitations. What You Can Do With Your Will Power Shrubs and trees embowered it, and the fresh green stood out in contrast with creamy walls and Romanesque arches. Glories of Spain The farms are certainly not small in extent, but rather isolated from each other, and surrounded by orchards of plums, apples, and other fruit trees, in which they are completely embowered. The Life of Yakoob Beg Athalik Ghazi, and Badaulet; Ameer of Kashgar This accounts for the wealth of roses which embower the trees and houses. A Flight in Spring In the car Lucania from New York to the Pacific coast and back, during April and May, 1898 Hence the city is somewhat removed from the banks, and embowered amid extensive groves and gardens, from the midst of whose luxuriant foliage its towers and dwellings rise in broken but graceful lines. History of the War Between Mexico and the United States, with a Preliminary View of its Origin, Volume 1 A water panorama worth crossing the Atlantic to see, for its immensity, its picturesque bordering, and the magnificent view of the foreground of an embowered city by the sea. With the World's Great Travellers, Volume 2 It was of sturdy growth, completely covered with buds and blossoms of satiny white deeply embowered in a soft greenery of moss. Bee and Butterfly A Tale of Two Cousins Masses of pink crape myrtle embower some of the old houses, and waxen leaved magnolia trees shade the door yards. Across the Continent by the Lincoln Highway After a delay of a few hours in the lovely city of rose-covered homes and embowering trees, we began our journey to Santa Barbara, which we reached well on into the evening. A Flight in Spring In the car Lucania from New York to the Pacific coast and back, during April and May, 1898 I followed a woodland path, embowered with the glistening boughs, and plucked, and ate, and mused. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 17, No. 99, January, 1866 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. Plashers Mead A Novel Once it was an embowered Florida residence, shaded by many trees, clothed in flowering vines. East Angels On through rolling green country we drive, and into the suburb of Burlingame with its vine covered and rose embowered bungalows, and its houses of brown shingle and of stucco. Across the Continent by the Lincoln Highway The parks, gardens, fountains, hothouses, groves, flower-beds, and embowered paths of Peterhoff are kept in the most perfect order by a small army of household attendants. Due North or Glimpses of Scandinavia and Russia It led also to a little white building embowered in trees. Man and Maid Long before the traveller comes to that hotel, he will pass on his left hand a small house, embowered in trees, standing in its own grounds, sweeping down nearly to the sea. The Ruined Cities of Zululand Fountains of solid silver gushed forth a brilliant foam of waters amid the embowering foliage, and there glad priests, in the society of priestesses sweeter than the flowers themselves, dreamed life away in enthusiastic peace. The Goddess of Atvatabar Being the history of the discovery of the interior world and conquest of Atvatabar Clusters of villages, embowered in luxuriant foliage, and crimson with flowers, fringed the lake. Hernando Cortez Makers of History Then from within the embowered retreat 120 Where she had found a grateful seat Perturbed she issues. The Poetical Works of William Wordsworth, Volume IV (of 8) The whole is overgrown with ivy, and embowered in shrubbery. An American Girl Abroad This was a truly gracious little region, embowered in trees, with spaces and walks and flowers all near at hand, yet nothing crowded. The Pentecost of Calamity Emerging from these embowering woods, the river enters a new and totally different tract of country,—the hills, bare of trees, are higher, almost mountainous in character, with outlines fantastic and rugged. The Daltons, Volume II (of II) Or,Three Roads In Life For the road here left the quay and began to wind between large houses embowered in trees. Captain Macedoine's Daughter On each side of the magnificent palace were six summer-houses communicating with one another by walks embowered with jessamine and honeysuckle. The Memoirs of Madame Vigée Lebrun By the time they reached the embowered little glade in the ca�on his sullenness was completely dissipated, and he kissed her very passionately as he lifted her from her horse. The Song of the Wolf If you pass through the embowered ways of this district after nightfall, your path will be lighted by glow-worms and fireflies, just as phosphorescence illumines the darkness upon the waters traversed by a ship's hull. The Pearl of India It was late in the evening before they saw in the distance the lofty church of Zeb with its copper roof, and the bastions of the city embowered in gardens. Pretty Michal To the east of the park a series of parallel roads, named after former British governors, are lined with beautiful bungalows embowered in trees. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 6, Slice 6 "Cockaigne" to "Columbus, Christopher" It is about a Scottish mile, we should think, from Bowness to Cook's House—along the turnpike road—half the distance lying embowered in the Rayrig woods—and half open to lake, cloud, and sky. Recreations of Christopher North, Volume I (of 2) Houses, homes of care and culture, Public buildings grand and costly, Deckings rural and artistic, All the mart and traffic symbols, Mark the once entangled wildwood, Deck the erst embowered valley. The Song of Lancaster, Kentucky to the statesmen, soldiers, and citizens of Garrard County. It is too thickly embowered with palms to form a pleasing picture of itself: but ah, the tropical night, luxurious and calm, with its wonderful brilliancy above, and its dark, mysterious shadows below! The Pearl of India An old man on crutches, a blooming matron with rosary beads at her waist, and a nut-brown maid with laughing eyes stood under the porch, embowered in tamarisk and laurel-rose. Romantic Spain A Record of Personal Experiences (Vol. II) The day after their arrival at Balaklava they undertook a boating excursion to explore the geological formation of the coast, and landed in a delightful little cove, embowered amid flowering trees and shrubs. Celebrated Women Travellers of the Nineteenth Century At the foot of the hill, where two lines of maples sentinelled the way, an electric lamp glowed high among the embowering branches, and made most wonderful shadow-etchings on the road below it. The Monster and Other Stories They built their nests near the windows, for the house was embowered in trees, and half covered with ivy. A Rebel War Clerk's Diary at the Confederate States Capital There is a dismal, graceless, bald air about town and house and master, which is utterly revolting to the lad, whose childish feet had pattered beside the tender Rachel along the embowered paths of Ashfield. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 15, No. 92, June, 1865 A noisy concourse, glittering with diamonds and all the embellishments of wealth, thronged the embowered avenues and the sumptuous halls. Maria Antoinette Makers of History A hundred yards farther on the cart whipped out of the high-road into a lane embowered with leafless trees, and became lost to view. The Works of Robert Louis Stevenson - Swanston Edition Vol. 20 (of 25) Our fantastic villa was embowered in flowers and foliage. Memoirs of Life and Literature 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. The Brownings Their Life and Art Convent and villa, cottage and farmhouse, peep out of embowering verdure, whilst our road is shaded in many places by the overhanging boughs of blossoming almond and loquat trees. The Naples Riviera The deserted house was embowered in great blossoming shrubs, and filled with hyacinthine odors, among which predominated that of the little Chickasaw roses which everywhere bloomed and trailed around. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 15, No. 90, April, 1865 I live on standard bread, in a wooden hut embowered, when feasible, with sweet peas. Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. CLVIII, January 7, 1920 Here and there, as we ascended, we passed a house embowered in white roses. The Works of Robert Louis Stevenson - Swanston Edition Vol. 2 (of 25) Mr. Browning loved to recall the traditions of that poetic little court, which for two decades was held within those walls, whose decay was fairly hidden by the wealth of flowers that embowered them. The Brownings Their Life and Art Caroline found herself out of sight of the crowd almost before she was aware, and ushered into a narrow shady spot, embowered above with hawthorns, and enamelled under foot with daisies. Shirley Pleasant were the weeks we have recently passed together in this ancient and embowered mansion! A Book of Sibyls Miss Barbauld, Miss Edgeworth, Mrs Opie, Miss Austen The rectory is a commodious house, built in 1839, doubtless on the site of the former monastic grange; it stands in an extensive garden, embowered among trees of goodly growth. A History of Horncastle from the earliest period to the present time You turn out of a steep lane, embowered by trees, into a little gravel sweep, approaching the house from the side. The Thread of Gold They were sitting in the most embowered recess the hothouse could afford—in a little shrine she kept free, yet secret, for the purpose of their meetings. The Side Of The Angels A Novel The larger one, overlooked by the stone castle on top of a great hill embowered in trees, is Kenoza—a name signifying pickerel. Whittier-land A Handbook of North Essex, Containing Many Anecdotes of and Poems by John Greenleaf Whittier Never Before Collected. Wields still anyone the power To repeat her anthems strong, And with joyful heart embower, Zion with triumphant song. Hymns and Hymnwriters of Denmark We carried him to a neighboring sunny parlor, where ivy embowers all the walls, and the sun lies all day. Our Young Folks, Vol 1, No. 1 An Illustrated Magazine Alas, that the only sound from the little hill-platform, the embowered walks, should be the dull rolling of wheels—motors, coaches, omnibuses—in the road below! The Thread of Gold There was a decentralizing movement toward the rugs and cushions on the steps, or to the seclusion of seats skilfully embowered amid groups of palms. The Side Of The Angels A Novel Vividly I remember the white-skinned sycamores, the gracefully drooping elms, and the sweet-scented honey-locust that grew about the cabin and embowered it in leafy glory. A Forest Hearth: A Romance of Indiana in the Thirties A few steps farther on rose a little white-washed cottage, with sloping roof, and two large china-trees embowering it in front. Graham's Magazine Vol XXXII No. 6 June 1848 We cross a dozen murmuring watercourses embowered in the dark, glistening foliage of the oleanders glowing with great soft flames of rosy bloom. Out-of-Doors in the Holy Land Impressions of Travel in Body and Spirit The more nearly one approaches Srinagar, the more numerous become the villages embowered in the verdure. The Unknown Life of Jesus Christ The Original Text of Nicolas Notovitch's 1887 Discovery 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. Graham's Magazine Vol XXXII. No. 5. May 1848 Through the rich gloom Of one embowered haunt I see thee now, Where 'neath thy hand the "Flower and Leaflet" bloom. Graham's Magazine Vol XXXII. No. 3. March 1848 Then from her seat, amid the palms embowered That shade the Lion-land, Swart Africa in dusky aspect towered— The fetters on her hand! Graham's Magazine Vol XXXII No. 6 June 1848 There she is!” said Charlie, in a loud whisper, looking in the direction of a tall, unpainted building that stood among the trees that embowered the little settlement. The Boy Settlers A Story of Early Times in Kansas Quite close to the busy parts, so it seems to us, houses stand in their own wide gardens; the streets and roads are lost amid the embowering foliage of trees and shrubs. Brighter Britain! (Volume 1 of 2) or Settler and Maori in Northern New Zealand They are built of dark wood, and stand on posts, with wide verandahs and thatched roofs, are nearly always embowered in great trees, and have a luxuriant growth of plantains and trees around. Round the Wonderful World We landed at a little pier at the foot of the garden; the house, embowered in a grove of orange and magnolia trees, was close at hand. Graham's Magazine Vol XXXII. No. 3. March 1848 Access was had to the enclosure through an embowered entrance on one side, facing a number of towering cocoa-nut trees, planted at intervals along a level area of a hundred yards. Typee One could see Mount Airy and Clieveden and other summer homes, and the Schuylkill winding placidly about, peeping through its embowered banks here and there. A Little Girl in Old Philadelphia It contains two or three hamlets, the principal village seeming to hang on the rocky slope of a hill, embowered in fruit trees. Rambles in the Islands of Corsica and Sardinia with Notices of their History, Antiquities, and Present Condition. Within the fork of the trails lies a fallen giant of the coves, a huge yellow poplar, almost hidden along its length by the embowering thickets. Heart of the Blue Ridge From the gates of Milan to the skirts of the mists that veiled the Alps the plain was all a-gleam with white-walled villages, beautifully embowered. Pilgrimage from the Alps to the Tiber Or The Influence of Romanism on Trade, Justice, and Knowledge It was a beautiful spot, with streets embowered in maple trees and bordered by lawns and gardens. 'Lizbeth of the Dale At the gates of the entrance of Moor Park stands a charming cottage, brick and timber embowered in roses. Highways and Byways in Surrey Below, the eye rested on the tall and graceful campanile of the village church, with the houses radiating from it, half concealed by the groves of chestnut-trees embowering the valley. Rambles in the Islands of Corsica and Sardinia with Notices of their History, Antiquities, and Present Condition. It has some very pretty houses, and they seem to be embowered by cocoa-nut and other trees, so that the whole scene is more tropical in its appearance than any other place on the islands. Scenes in the Hawaiian Islands and California Castles and convents crown their summits; while their slopes display the pillar-like cypress, the gray olive, the festooned vine, with a multitude of embowered villas. Pilgrimage from the Alps to the Tiber Or The Influence of Romanism on Trade, Justice, and Knowledge In those closed, embowered houses, people were preparing for dinner, the great event of the day, and Mr Wentworth was aware of that. The Perpetual Curate On each of the larger islands we noticed snug temples, like miniature Swiss chalets, embowered in woods—their peculiar architecture standing out in relief from a tangled mass of vegetation. In Eastern Seas Or, the Commission of H.M.S. 'Iron Duke,' flag-ship in China, 1878-83 One day he came to a pool, clear as a spring to its sandy bottom, embowered in trees, except on one side where the sun shone. The Art of Disappearing Then there was Stoke House, near the rectory, standing well back from the road, embowered in trees, and with a carriage-drive running straight up through its beautiful rose-garden to the front door. The Voyage of the Aurora The parks, gardens, fountains, hot-houses, groves, and embowered paths of Peterhoff are kept in the most perfect order by a small army of household attendants. Foot-prints of Travel or, Journeyings in Many Lands Yes," Merna replied; "these embowered canals are very popular with the Martians, as they furnish such cool and pleasant walks in the summer time. To Mars via The Moon An Astronomical Story It lies very low and close to the water's edge, the houses of the natives being all constructed on piles driven into the mud, and embowered in a dense framework of cocoa palms. In Eastern Seas Or, the Commission of H.M.S. 'Iron Duke,' flag-ship in China, 1878-83 Outside the town, is a public walk beautifully embowered in trees. Journal of a Visit to Constantinople and Some of the Greek Islands in the Spring and Summer of 1833 After passing through two tiny hamlets embowered in walnut trees, we reached the head of the valley and faced a long, steep zigzag. A Wayfarer in China Impressions of a trip across West China and Mongolia Here every variety of villa is seen embowered in attractive verdure, and a highly rural effect is obtained within city limits. Foot-prints of Travel or, Journeyings in Many Lands The Towers of Silence occupy the finest site on Malabar Hill, overlooking beautiful Bombay, and high above the Arabian Sea—it is Nature's beauty spot, embowered in graceful shrubbery and palms, with fragrant flowers everywhere. East of Suez Ceylon, India, China and Japan Artistically the effect is very pleasing, the glistening white houses seem as if embowered in the darkest of green foliage, each roof, each angle standing out most distinctly. In Eastern Seas Or, the Commission of H.M.S. 'Iron Duke,' flag-ship in China, 1878-83 All day the little steamer passes half-ruined villages, embowered in feathery palms, with camels in the background and an occasional bullock straining at the wheel which lifts the Nile water on the shadouf. The Critic in the Orient On passing out from the suburbs of the town, charmingly embowered in fruit orchards, we struck across the open, treeless plain. A Wayfarer in China Impressions of a trip across West China and Mongolia Imagine that same being, who dealt death to Agnes, now seated beneath the shade of myrtles and embowering vines, distributing bread or pomegranate seeds to the birds that hopped cheerfully around her. Wagner, the Wehr-Wolf There was a consciousness in the back of his mind of wonderful leafiness and embowering, of vines and riotous bloom about Ann's home. A Warwickshire Lad The Story of the Boyhood of William Shakespeare We live very happily in a charming, old-world farmhouse embowered in roses and honeysuckle, on the Portsmouth Road at Cobham, in Surrey. The Stretton Street Affair These houses are embowered in trees, among which the magnolia, acacia and palm are the favorites, with banana and pomelo trees heavy with fruit. The Critic in the Orient The road to this ferry is so steep as to be almost precipitous, and the cottages abutting on its side are embowered in fragrant bloom. The Cornwall Coast We were surprised at starting to find such fine roads, lined with gardens and cottages, embowered in groves of cocoa-nut, bananas, and bamboos. Borneo and the Indian Archipelago with drawings of costume and scenery The road indeed by which she had come passed close before Eleanor's window; but trees embowered it, though they had been kept down so as not to hinder this distant view. The Old Helmet, Volume I Punctually at three o’clock next day I called with my beloved and her mother at the house embowered in roses and geraniums up on the hill above the broad Rhône river. The Stretton Street Affair He had a lovely wife, and four beautiful children, and there was no happier or sweeter home in all the country round than the modest little Rectory, embowered in ivy and climbing roses. Stories of Many Lands Opening off from this is Blackheath Park, and here, in a lovely homelike cottage, embowered in trees and flowers and vines, I spent some of the happiest days of my happy visit in England. Stories and Legends of Travel and History, for Children Upon his estate at Kreisau he built a little mausoleum, situated on a beautiful eminence, embowered in foliage. Great Men and Famous Women. Vol. 2 A series of pen and pencil sketches of the lives of more than 200 of the most prominent personages in History Madame Le Prun sat down upon the marble couch that stood there, carved with doves and Cupids, and embowered, in the transparent shadows of myrtle, like a throne of Venus. The International Magazine, Volume 2, No. 3, February, 1851 On the right stood a large, stately residence, embowered in gardens and orchards; while beyond it, stretching away to the south-east, opened a broad, shallow valley. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 15, No. 87, January, 1865 Yet Grey Town was, in the distance, a pretty spot, embowered in green trees, the blue smoke resting over it, and in the distance the great blue ocean. Grey Town An Australian Story It was a genuine retreat, right at the foot of a tall mountain, embowered in a grove of quaking asps. Birds of the Rockies The city is spread out before you, embowered in orchards, in the midst of a plain of 300 square miles. The Contemporary Review, January 1883 Vol 43, No. 1 Listen: there is land in sight, a most lovely island embowered in richest verdure, where I am sure we shall be able to get all the food we need. The First Mate The Story of a Strange Cruise As he sat on the embowered porch of his house in the evening and thought things over, while the two young voices murmured near him, his reflections were not greatly joyful. In Connection with the De Willoughby Claim I am fixed in a little town retired by the seashore, embowered in woody hills that rise round me, huge, rocky, and capped with clouds. Emily Brontë He piped his musical miscellany with as much good-cheer as if he were dwelling in the neighborhood of some embowered cottage in Dixie-land. Birds of the Rockies One home, remembered alone, would stand embowered forever,—if not among ancestral trees and vines, then in clustering memories far more lovely and more cherished. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 18, No. 108, October, 1866 Halfway up the height stood, embowered in trees, the chapel he sought to reach—the sanctuary of refuge for the condemned. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 56, Number 348 A short distance away, embowered among the trees, was the house of Burrowes. The Tapu Of Banderah 1901 The palace is luxuriantly embowered in vines and trees. Travels in the Far East Nor did I waste time in finding the way to the lake, a small sheet of water, as clear as crystal, embowered in the lovely park lying between towering, snow-clad mountains. Birds of the Rockies Half-way between the white men's houses was the unfinished church, and near to that the teacher's house, embowered in a grove of orange and lemon trees. Rodman The Boatsteerer And Other Stories 1898 Shortly before noon, the boat rounded a low headland and entered a lovely little bay, embowered in thick groves of coco-palms and breadfruit trees. John Frewen, South Sea Whaler 1904 She carried it, with her work, to a dilapidated summer-house, embowered by venerable trees. Fairy Fingers A Novel Beyond the embowered region of the Vega you behold, to the south, a line of arid hills down which a long train of mules is slowly moving. Journeys Through Bookland, Vol. 8 While Green Lake was embowered in a forest of pine, its companion lay in the open sunlight, unflecked by the shadow of a tree. Birds of the Rockies They looked quite cool and pleasant, embowered in green papyrus, tamarind, and palm-trees, which shaded them from the hot tropical sun with their large-leaved foliage. A Boy's Voyage Round the World Hidden from the street by a high retaining wall and a colonnade embowered in vines was a beautiful garden where she gradually collected rare plants from various parts of the world. The Life of Mrs. Robert Louis Stevenson Then there was a very pretty cemetery embowered in red and white roses which hung in clusters over the monuments. The Twenty-fifth Regiment Connecticut Volunteers in the War of the Rebellion History, Reminiscences, Description of Battle of Irish Bend, Carrying of Pay Roll, Roster Flowers, too, festooned every arch and embowered every corner, while rare vases fulfilled their esteemed privilege of holding and showing fragrant blossoms. The Right Knock A Story They had left far behind them both wood and swamp; and, though the mansion seemed to be embowered in the green shade, they had to cross open ground to reach it. The Hour and the Man, An Historical Romance A smile from slumbering nature clear Did seem to greet the youthful year; The heavens shone in deeper blue, The woods, still naked to the view, Seemed in a haze of green embowered. Eugene Oneguine [Onegin] A Romance of Russian Life in Verse It was, as he says, "embowered in creepers," for over its front a cloth-of-gold rose spread its clinging arms, and over one side a Banksia flung a curtain of green and yellow. The Life of Mrs. Robert Louis Stevenson Bright flowers ornament the gardens, and gay creepers embower doors and windows. The Continental Monthly, Vol 6, No 5, November 1864 Devoted To Literature And National Policy They, then and there, seated themselves at their ease and pleasantly, upon the long and thick arm of a maple in the embowering shade. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine - Volume 55, No. 344, June, 1844 Yonder among the embowering trees is the residence of Judge Halliburton, the author of "Sam Slick." Acadia or, A Month with the Blue Noses Just behind them, embowered by a covering of cedar boughs, stood the tent of General McClellan. Campaigns of a Non-Combatant, and His Romaunt Abroad During the War Along these banks may be seen the rural cottages, scattered here and there among the valleys, almost concealed from view by the deep embowering shade of the forest which surrounds them. Fostina Woodman, the Wonderful Adventurer Suddenly they made an abrupt turn, coming in sight of a small, neat-looking cabin, covered with clustering vines and embowered in verdure. Monte-Cristo's Daughter His bedroom window looked towards the pleasant house and garden of Mrs Home, and he did not lie down till he had seen the light extinguished in the embowered window of Violet’s room. Julian Home The neat and light-built native dwellings dotted the side of the slope, or peeped out from among embowering trees along the banks of the brook, in the most picturesque manner. The Island Home She thought Arthur unkind, and the beautiful, embowering trees, gurgling waters, and sweet, singing birds, lost their charms to her. Helen and Arthur or, Miss Thusa's Spinning Wheel The spire of the village church towered up through the foliage, close to the narrow footbridge; and beside it stood the parsonage,—a long, low, stone house, embowered in ivy. Clare Avery A Story of the Spanish Armada Of St. Mary's Church there remain the chancel and two stout towers; I can see them from my embowered terrace, the blunt red roofs rising above a glorious riot of fruit blossom. From a Terrace in Prague There are such lovely villages there, embowered in foliage and flowers at the bottom of rocky glens, and such pleasant peasants, with quiet, gentle manners. From Edinburgh to India & Burmah He stood embowered among some trees, rocks, and bushes some distance ahead on the left hand side of the road. Jack Wright and His Electric Stage; or, Leagued Against the James Boys A grove of poplars embowered the quarry that we were seeking; and soon our steps were guided by the neighing of horses, and by the raised voice of the R.S.M. hectoring his drivers. Pushed and the Return Push His thoughts cross the sea to an embowered spot, near a beautiful lake, where one timidly and in faltering accents had announced her solemn consecration to like humble yet exalted ministry. Oswald Langdon or, Pierre and Paul Lanier. A Romance of 1894-1898 First along broad, well-kept roads, through the plains of Veneto, where trellised vine hung heavy laden, past homesteads, villas of warm ochre hues or red, or pink, and all embowered in rich green foliage. From a Terrace in Prague What they saw was a long, low, rambling house, with wide, hospitable verandas embowered in half-tropical vines. Blue Bonnet's Ranch Party The shade of the embowering elms is grateful as he strolls on into the main street of the town. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 17, No. 103, May, 1866 They are lying in the embowered nooks, near the fountains, upon the velvety hillocks, amid the flowers, under the trees, and upon the broad leaves of the lilies in the silver lakes. Second Book of Tales They sat down in an embowered spot, under a small tree, upon a grassy knoll. Oswald Langdon or, Pierre and Paul Lanier. A Romance of 1894-1898 They had now reached a flat shoulder; and on this the houses were somewhat scattered, standing in little inclosures, with hedges of cactus and geranium, and embowered in shrubs and flowers. Held Fast For England A Tale of the Siege of Gibraltar (1779-83) Roofs of brown weather-beaten thatch or of dull red tiles, in the midst of embowering trees and shrubbery, formed for us pictures of beauty long to be remembered. In and Around Berlin Scattered everywhere about the valley were single houses embowered in trees, and from where we stood we could see also four or five little towns, which also were plentifully shaded. The Aztec Treasure-House I see a large, fair garden, filled with shrubbery and flowers; there are fountains and velvety hillocks and silver lakes and embowered nooks. Second Book of Tales Balsam and hemlock and fir stand in groves along the busy thoroughfare, and garlands of green embower mission and dive impartially. Children of the Tenements Sailing along its level top we could see far off the embowered roofs and spires of a town which Mr. van Buren said was the once powerful city of Hoorn. The Chauffeur and the Chaperon A pretty villa, embowered by trees! a rarity in these regions. Voyages and Travels of Count Funnibos and Baron Stilkin It is beautifully situated, and, although not perhaps very suitable to a new country, it is a great ornament to the vicinity of Hamilton, embowered as it is in the natural forest. Canada and the Canadians, Vol. 2 The cosy residence of the Venerable Archdeacon Cowley was pointed out to us, beautifully embowered among the trees. By Canoe and Dog-Train They turned to the left at the top of the hill, and went a few yards along the lane, to a little cottage embowered in ivy, which was Anthony’s home. The Gold that Glitters The Mistakes of Jenny Lavender The wedding had been in the school-house, embowered in foliage and all the flowers the land afforded, decorated by the loving hands of Margaret's pupils, old and young. A Voice in the Wilderness His presence seemed to carry with it a fragrance of his own, as real as that of the mignonette and roses and sweet-Williams amid which he left them embowered. Brother Copas The Indian village and its church are down the stream to the left, about two miles from the town, and embowered in woods. Canada and the Canadians, Vol. 2 Green meadows, running streams, great plantation of maguey, giving their characteristic semi-tropical aspect to the landscape, surround haciendas and villages embowered in luxuriant foliage, all lying beneath the azure vault of the Mexican sky. Mexico Its Ancient and Modern Civilisation, History, Political Conditions, Topography, Natural Resources, Industries and General Development To the right, embowered in trees, were the vine-covered stone towers of Chouteau's mill, and beyond, gentle grassy slopes, with drooping trees dipping their branches in the water. The Rose of Old St. Louis There lurks the silent mouse relieved of heat, And, safe embowered, avoids the chance of fate. Character Sketches of Romance, Fiction and the Drama A Revised American Edition of the Reader's Handbook, Vol. 3 But still come the budding spring and the blooming summer to embower those quiet streets and to fill the morning hour with birds' sweet singing. The Continental Monthly, Vol. 2, No 3, September, 1862 Devoted to Literature and National Policy. Ladies, too, were there, fairer than ever walked the fields of earth, embowered in roses; little cherubs with laughing faces, on cloudlets of amber and gold, floated around. Daring and Suffering: A History of the Great Railroad Adventure Sing the joy of love's encounter, Join arms against the invading damp, Deep chill of embowering ferns. Unwritten Literature of Hawaii The Sacred Songs of the Hula To the left rose high banks with overarching foliage, and then for a mile or two the lake wound from one embowered cove to another, till it was lost in the hazy distance. The Rose of Old St. Louis Within the embowering unsearchable recesses of the soul, far beyond the reach of revolutionary persecution, the pure unappalled spirit of devotion erected her viewless temple, in secret magnificence, sublime, and unassailable! The Stranger in France or, a Tour from Devonshire to Paris Illustrated by Engravings in Aqua Tint of Sketches Taken on the Spot. Before me now the village stands, Its cottages embowered in bloom; Behind me lies the burying ground, Its sepulchres in cypress gloom. The International Monthly Magazine - Volume V - No II There were the stereotyped noble ruins, and cottages, either embowered in roses or half-buried in snow. A Houseful of Girls The income of this bequest would not go far in any other sort of monument, but it has embowered his native city in beautiful trees. Captains of Industry or, Men of Business Who Did Something Besides Making Money Its dwellings, some of them of imposing size, were embowered in trees, and, at that distance, seemed to stand in the midst of large gardens. The Rose of Old St. Louis Pleasant our dreams in early hours, When Mother-love our life embowers;— Ah! Evenings at Donaldson Manor Or, The Christmas Guest The other side is grown up with dark and thick shrubbery and ancient trees, rising and embowering the whole place, adding to the retired and singular effect of the whole. Autographs for Freedom, Volume 2 (of 2) (1854) Every little hamlet was embowered in trees, and the small white houses with their red tiled roofs spoke of peace. The Great War As I Saw It With prospering shade embower me, whilst I sing Thy wonders yet unreached by mortal flight. Nala and Damayanti and Other Poems We entered another inclosure beautifully embowered in trees, and found a long, low building, not of stone, like her son's house, but built, in the French fashion, of upright logs. The Rose of Old St. Louis Perhaps it is on this account that its appearance from the car window is not as attractive as that of Riverside or Pasadena, which from all points of view seem peacefully embowered in half-tropic foliage. A Truthful Woman in Southern California Not such the lay it sings in summer hours, When love beats high within its little breast, And its exulting song it joyous pours, Where thick embowering leaves conceal its nest. The Knickerbocker, or New-York Monthly Magazine, January 1844 Volume 23, Number 1 It is embowered in a magnificent grove of plantains and papayas. The Andes and the Amazon Across the Continent of South America The square ceiling is completely covered with a simulated trellis, embowered in foliage and flowers, and pierced by oval windows through which children are seen at play. Correggio A Collection Of Fifteen Pictures And A Portrait Of The Painter With Introduction And Interpretation Happy homes are embowered in living groves, whose summer foliage is emblematical of innocence, progress, and peace. Thoughts on Educational Topics and Institutions The last patches of vapor were dissolving over the wood embowered lake, and one or two early canoes were already moving aimlessly upon its placid bosom. Tom Slade at Black Lake 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. The Poetical Works of William Lisle Bowles, Vol. 1 With Memoir, Critical Dissertation, and Explanatory Notes by George Gilfillan The first week in February and flowers were blooming on every lawn of every embowered cottage and every stately house! The Victim A romance of the Real Jefferson Davis A growth of crisp green watercress embowered a juicy steak, and in its shade, as it were, lay two long slices of bacon, not stupidly broiled to a crisp, but delicately pink, and exemplarily lean. A Pair of Patient Lovers In accord with my own desire, we bought this embowered island, and built this spacious home. Nick Baba's Last Drink and Other Sketches The door was open, and Helen could see the square of the entry, papered, where the plaster had not been broken away, with pale green castles embowered in livid trees. John Ward, Preacher "There was never a castle seen So fair as mine in Spain; It stands embowered in green, Overlooking a gentle slope, On a hill by the Xenil's shore." The Story of the Innumerable Company, and Other Sketches The drive seemed all too short, when at the corner of a lane embowered in trees, Meg Ross pulled up short. The Treasure of Heaven A Romance of Riches It seems as if nothing were left undisturbed in New England except here and there an old graveyard, and these dear old College buildings, with the trees in which they are embowered. Model Speeches for Practise It abounds, too, in quiet park-like spots which are the delight of artists, and contains many villages and hamlets picturesquely situated upon slopes and embowered among trees. Hertfordshire At noon, we pitched our tents in some shady valley, or embowering wood among the mountains, while a stream prattling over pebbles induced grateful sleep. The Last Man She had often admired, upon the outskirts of the village, a pretty cottage, embowered in trees, and curiosity had led her to question others about its occupant. Clemence The Schoolmistress of Waveland The city lies below us, fully embowered as in a wooded park. The Hudson Three Centuries of History, Romance and Invention They were not on the great carriage road, but following one of the embowered paths which led through the woods. Wych Hazel His house is a cozy, pretty affair, freshly painted and nestled under great embowering trees. The Bay State Monthly, Volume 3, No. 5 Mrs. Brandon was lounging on a fauteuil, in an elegant morning toilet—literally plunged and embowered in costly Brussels lace. The Three Brides, Love in a Cottage, and Other Tales Late roses climbed and hung and clustered and the sunshine deepening the hue of the yellowing trees made one feel that one stood in an embowered temple of gold. The Secret Garden The best part of residential Yonkers lies to the northward, beautifully embowered in trees as seen from the Hudson. The Hudson Three Centuries of History, Romance and Invention From every point outside the Castle is well embowered in trees, only the tower being visible. Pictures in Colour of the Isle of Wight Then there was Queen Matilda's famous tapestry to study in the museum, a very retired, rustic nook, all embowered in vines. The Vicissitudes of Bessie Fairfax Descending to the garden, she went directly to a secluded arbor, embowered in foliage, at no great distance from the house. The Three Brides, Love in a Cottage, and Other Tales No long avenues of villas, embowered in lilacs and laburnum, extended from the great source of wealth and civilization almost to the boundaries of Middlesex, and far into the heart of Kent and Surrey.” Interludes being Two Essays, a Story, and Some Verses Humble cottages embowered in roses and wisteria; stately châteaux standing in large luxuriant gardens flaming with flowers, proudly secluded behind great iron gates. The Argosy Vol. 51, No. 1, January, 1891 The Church, embowered among the trees, stands on an elevated site close to the Priory, with which it was associated. Pictures in Colour of the Isle of Wight The opposite bank was embowered in deep green wood, and the place was very refreshing after the torrid bricks and distressing odours of the July streets of London. The Disentanglers The dwelling, "a doll's house of many rooms," embowered in roses, and with a terraced garden, was a place after his own heart. Life of Charles Dickens We plunged into the raspberry canes, and crouched beneath their embowered arches, and the fulness of the situation began to sink into our souls. All on the Irish Shore Irish Sketches True, near the village church, a fair-sized house stood, embowered in trees, with a fine view out over the bay and the wide St. Lawrence. A Canadian Manor and Its Seigneurs The Story of a Hundred Years, 1761-1861 Its front and right flank were protected by the hill, while still further to the right lay Crecy village embowered in its trees, beyond which the dense forest formed an excellent protection from attack. The History of England From the Accession of Henry III. to the Death of Edward III. (1216-1377) We arrived at Mbanga, a village embowered in trees, chiefly of the euphorbia, so common in the Manganja country further south. The Last Journals of David Livingstone, in Central Africa, from 1865 to His Death, Volume I (of 2), 1866-1868 All over the sunny landscape peace and prosperity smiled, and gray-steepled churches and red-roofed villages, embowered in thick protecting shade, seemed to beckon the eye to rest as it wandered over the charming prospect. Records of a Girlhood And this bolt—I withdraw it, And there laughs the lady, not bare, but embowered With—who knows what verdure, o'erfruited, o'erflowered? Browning's Shorter Poems The house, seen by daylight for the first time, was embowered in trees and fringed back and front with pretty flower beds and miniature lawns. The Workingman's Paradise An Australian Labour Novel We see suspended on the opposite slope, the humble ale house, resting "Beneath an aged oak's embowering shade." Brannon's Picture of The Isle of Wight The Expeditious Traveller's Index to Its Prominent Beauties & Objects of Interest. Compiled Especially with Reference to Those Numerous Visitors Who Can Spare but Two or Three Days to Make the Tour of the Island. Every lesser feature is swamped in verdure, except that here and there the white-washed walls of a negro cottage of the better sort gleam pleasantly forth from embowering hedges and fruit trees. The Continental Monthly, Vol. 4, No. 4, October, 1863 Devoted to Literature and National Policy There was a pretty embowered residence, a short distance from the chateau, on the portion of the estate I had inherited from my father. Adèle Dubois A Story of the Lovely Miramichi Valley in New Brunswick Fruit is cultivated, and the houses are frequently embowered in trees; in many yards are bee-hives. In Indian Mexico (1908) The valleys are green, the brooks are frequent, the rivers are tortuous, the mountains are high, and luxuriant walnut-trees embower the roads. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 12, No. 70, August, 1863 Indeed, from the roof of the Opera-House the city looks fairly embowered in green. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 13, No. 78, April, 1864 The stately mansions embowered in green and guarded by immemorial oaks are accepted as symbolic of an ordered life. Humanly Speaking Instead, our Church sits on a tree-shaded corner in the old town, and the roomy white-piazza'd Parish House is next door, embowered in the pleasantest of all gardens. Slippy McGee, Sometimes Known as the Butterfly Man The walk was not long to the parsonage, a low rambling cottage, with deep windows and overhanging roof, embowered in trees and fragrant with the breath of flowers. Scenes in Switzerland Troubled, she wandered back towards the house; caught sight of him, lonely and abstracted, pacing the lawn: saw him stop near the great twin beeches—that embowered a hammock, chairs and rugs—and disappear inside. Far to Seek A Romance of England and India Our place is in a deep cleft of V�a Mountain; some six hundred feet above the sea, embowered in forest, which is our strangling enemy, and which we combat with axes and dollars. The Life of Robert Louis Stevenson for Boys and Girls It was, however, a nice little room, placed above the passage and ascended to by a few steps, and it had a picturesque lattice window, embowered in ivy and passion-flowers. Hetty Gray Nobody's Bairn A few huts, forming the little village of Barley, lay sleeping in the moonlight beneath him, while further off could be just discerned Goldshaw, with its embowered church. The Lancashire Witches A Romance of Pendle Forest Even as we entered the gates of Mr. Reverie's house beneath embowering chestnuts, there advanced across the moonlit spaces to meet us a figure on foot like ourselves, leading his horse. Henry Brocken His Travels and Adventures in the Rich, Strange, Scarce-Imaginable Regions of Romance It was the best thing Maude had ever done, for the likeness to Jerrie and to herself was perfect, while the cottage, embowered in trees and flowers, made it a most attractive picture. Tracy Park On the Asiatic shore, opposite Constantinople, lies Scutari, a beautiful city embowered in the foliage of the cyprus. The Empire of Russia The commanding heights and embowered shores are covered with villas and cottages, and afford a pleasant and convenient summer resort for the people of New York. Great Fortunes, and How They Were Made Merely to ramble along the winding saw-dust walks to the deep embowered springs, was a sufficient augury of improved health. Idle Hour Stories They passed the "Widow Gardiner's hog-lot" and came into a pleasant country road, which, turning, brought them to a shabby little cottage, embowered in trees. The Diamond Master Certainly the village, as it lay bathed in moonlight, its whitewashed terraces and glimmering roofs embowered in dark clusters of fuchsia and tamarisk, seemed to harbour nothing but peace and sleeping innocence. The White Wolf and Other Fireside Tales After a long hour the road turned, discovering yellow wheat-fields and shady orchards, the gleam of a shrunken stream and a brick house embowered in wistaria. Lewis Rand It didn't disturb Mr. Twist's unprejudiced American mind that an English inn embowered in heliotrope and arum lilies and eucalyptus trees would be odd and unnatural, and it wouldn't disturb anybody else there either. Christopher and Columbus On the lower slopes a few houses peeped from the embowering parau trees, and on a small hill, near the dismantled fort, the flag of France drooped above the gendarme's cabin. White Shadows in the South Seas The sweet honeysuckle and fragrant white jasmine, and the rich, aromatic, climbing rose, had run all over the walls and windows of the house, embowering it in verdure, bloom and perfume. The Missing Bride You might almost touch the ceiling with your hand, it hovers so low with its counterfeit of vine-clambered trellis-work, and its pretty boys looking roguishly through the embowering leaves. Italian Journeys She stepped forward briskly, gained the high road, and presently saw in front of her a small white house, recently built, and already embowered in a blossoming garden. The Mating of Lydia A clambering wistaria, tree-like geraniums, a giant fuchsia and trellised rose-vines soon embowered the verandas, while, on the south side, English ivy was gradually coaxed up the bare brick wall. Through stained glass Twenty years before my host had planted the trees that embowered his home. White Shadows in the South Seas The day was bright and cheery, the air not too ardent, and across the coppery waters there stretched slants of shadow from the embowering forest trees. The Mississippi Bubble The rambling old house is embowered in climbing vines and clambering rosebushes and is set thick about with cedars, so that you can scarcely see the chimney-tops above the mass of green. Little Journeys to the Homes of the Great - Volume 03 Little Journeys to the Homes of American Statesmen Deep embowered beside the forest river, Where the flame of sunset only falls, Lapped in silence lies the House of Dying, House of them to whom the twilight calls. Collected Poems 1897 - 1907, by Henry Newbolt The fronds of the trees reached over and embowered the lane. Through stained glass The village was embowered in trees in contrast to the Russian shore where the only trees were those in the park. Overland through Asia; Pictures of Siberian, Chinese, and Tartar Life Further east, near Fantah, nearly every village is found thus embowered, and date-palm groves form a very conspicuous feature of the landscape. Around the World on a Bicycle - Volume II From Teheran To Yokohama This isle many pass, marking its outward brightness, but dreaming not of the sad secrets here embowered. Mardi: and A Voyage Thither, Vol. II And ere long we came to a spacious grove, embowering an oval arbor. Mardi: and A Voyage Thither, Vol. I As Ann sat one evening on the embowered veranda looking away to the north, a child within the circle of each arm, the old aching in her breast was stilled. Through stained glass The town was most attractive, embowered in gardens which skirt the river's edge for a distance of four or five miles. War in the Garden of Eden The ancient and hereditary groves, too, that embower this island, are most of them full of story. Bracebridge Hall, or The Humorists We accordingly landed on a delectable part of the island of Mannahatta, in that shady and embowered tract formerly under dominion of the ancient family of the Hardenbrooks. Tales of a Traveller Presently she came to a deep cutting in the chalk, where the road, embowered in wild roses and clematis, turned sharply at the foot of a hill. The Testing of Diana Mallory It was idyllic—and on our left a mere stone's throw, it seemed, behind the embowering forest, the mountain of our quest thrust a treeless, grassy shoulder into the blue. A Woman's Impression of the Philippines Think you these felt no charms In their gray homesteads and embowered farms? The Complete Poetical Works of James Russell Lowell They hoisted sail; the wind was fair; they soon lost sight of Albany, and its green hills, and embowered islands. Bracebridge Hall, or The Humorists At length Sam shot his skiff into a little cove, darkly embowered by trees, and made it fast to the well known iron ring. Tales of a Traveller She sat down to the piano, and there ensued a 300 death-like silence—a silence broken only by the striking of matches and the tinkle of the embowered fountain in front of the stage. Tales of the Five Towns Above the steep-cut steps as they did grow, The children's cottage homes embowered are seen; Were this a world unfallen, they scarce could show More beauteous red and green. Poems by Jean Ingelow, In Two Volumes, Volume II. Groves of aspen spring up, and hardy pines, and the hemlock spruce, until it is richly overshadowed and embowered. The Lake of the Sky Lake Tahoe in the High Sierras of California and Nevada, its History, Indians, Discovery by Frémont, Legendary Lore, Various Namings, Physical Characteristics, Glacial Phenomena, Geology, Single Outlet, Automobile Routes, Historic Towns, Early Mining Excitements, Steamer Ride, Mineral Springs, Mountain and Lake Resorts, Trail and Camping Out Trips, Summer Residences, Fishing, Hunting, Flowers, Birds, Animals, Trees, and Chaparral, with a Full Account of the Tahoe National Forest, the Public Use of the Water of Lake Tahoe and Much Other Interesting Matter The house itself is made to look like a cosy little nest by the vine that embowers it. Jean Francois Millet A gate opened thence into the fields,—a wooden gate made of boards, in a high, unpainted board wall, and embowered in the clematis creeper. Memoirs of Margaret Fuller Ossoli, Volume I Before me lay the village, a cluster of white houses embowered in trees. Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 15, No. 87, March, 1875 The house was spacious and embowered in beautiful trees and shrubbery. Reveries of a Schoolmaster The building itself is completely embowered in pine, cedar, spruce and firs of differing ages, sizes and qualities of color. The Lake of the Sky Lake Tahoe in the High Sierras of California and Nevada, its History, Indians, Discovery by Frémont, Legendary Lore, Various Namings, Physical Characteristics, Glacial Phenomena, Geology, Single Outlet, Automobile Routes, Historic Towns, Early Mining Excitements, Steamer Ride, Mineral Springs, Mountain and Lake Resorts, Trail and Camping Out Trips, Summer Residences, Fishing, Hunting, Flowers, Birds, Animals, Trees, and Chaparral, with a Full Account of the Tahoe National Forest, the Public Use of the Water of Lake Tahoe and Much Other Interesting Matter In the rear is a low stone house embowered in trees. Jean Francois Millet These embowering elms stood in solemn black, the praying monastics of this holy night; full of grace, in every sense; their life so full, so hushed; not a leaf stirred.' Memoirs of Margaret Fuller Ossoli, Volume I Just before them the grand course of the stream, making a sudden bend, wound among embowered promontories and shores of emerald verdure that seemed to melt into the wave. Knickerbocker's History of New York, Complete He makes the like to flourish out of mere flowerpots, and embower his balconies and windows, and why shouldn't this flourish with me? The Letters of Elizabeth Barrett Browning (1 of 2) Built in sections from generation to generation, half-covered with ivy and embowered in climbing roses, it is an institution entirely different from the "Grand Palace Hotel" at Oshkosh. Little Journeys to the Homes of the Great - Volume 01 Little Journeys to the Homes of Good Men and Great As we rode about the city the courteous driver, a Mr. Haney, pointed out a beautiful house embowered in trees, which had a romantic history. By the Golden Gate In one delicious village they wandered, after lunch at the inn, into the little church which stood embowered among blossoming trees. Penny Plain Autumn tinted ivy embowered his front door and climbed over the wall nearly to the low roof. Dorian Little by little we wandered, and, burying ourselves in the interior, we found ourselves all at once confronting a little cottage embowered in a grove of oranges. Strange True Stories of Louisiana The Spring lies embowered in a wood of oaks, open to the south-west whose dense foliage shelters and protects it. The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 19, No. 542, April 14, 1832 Then through the open window of the villa embowered in roses, there amid the palms and pines—and in a falling cadence too: "How shall ever one like me Win thee back again?" Deadham Hard There are Swiss cottages embowered in the foliage where every afternoon the social citizens assemble to drink their coffee and enjoy a few hours' escape from the noisy and dusty streets. Seeing Europe with Famous Authors, Volume 5 Germany, Austria-Hungary, and Switzerland, Part 1 The view of the church, as it is approached from Clevedon, is particularly pretty, the woods near it seeming to embower it; whilst from its vicinity a fine prospect is obtainable. Somerset Here we see pretty vine-clad cottages embowered in orange groves, and surrounded by luxuriant harvests of everything to make life worth the living. The Gentleman from Everywhere We dream of an immense change in the tone of the human spirit, and in the character of the civilization which shall in time embower the earth. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 09, No. 55, May, 1862 In one of these the Pennsylvania College is embowered, while in another is seen the Theological Seminary. Camp-Fire and Cotton-Field Southern Adventure in Time of War. Life with the Union Armies, and Residence on a Louisiana Plantation The domes and spires at a distance give it a rich Italian look, which is heightened by the white villas embowered in trees gleaming on the hills around. Seeing Europe with Famous Authors, Volume 5 Germany, Austria-Hungary, and Switzerland, Part 1 Turning to the other side, behind the hill which shuts out the sea, the landscape is of the richest description—roads winding through thick plantations, houses peeping from embowering trees, and an umbrageous forest beyond. Notes of an Overland Journey Through France and Egypt to Bombay Ours, you see, was not to be a flower-strewn journey of tinselled prince to embowered princess. Yolanda: Maid of Burgundy The Virgin is seated on a lofty throne, embowered by garlands of fruit, leaves, and flowers, and branches of coral, fancifully disposed as a sort of canopy over her head. Legends of the Madonna as Represented in the Fine Arts Every village now is coming to be embowered in this green legacy to the future; like a young mother decorating a Christmas-tree for her children. A Walk from London to John O'Groat's I saw in syringa embowered A cottage, and thou my heart's Dove— And bowed was thy little curly head, My beautiful sad pale Love! Russian Lyrics The habit of embowering the house with a dense growth of shrubs and trees, even where the soil is naturally dry, defeats the desired end, and provokes disease. Minnesota; Its Character and Climate Likewise Sketches of Other Resorts Favorable to Invalids; Together With Copious Notes on Health; Also Hints to Tourists and Emigrants. Twonette slept in a corner of the arbor, her flaxen head embowered in a cluster of leaves and illumined by a stray beam of moonlight that stole between the vines. Yolanda: Maid of Burgundy It was what remains to the ruffled bird, as he shivers in the leafless tree, in which he had sung so loud in the high summer, embowered in greenness and rustling leafage. The Silent Isle Here, embowered among the trees in a silver curve of the river, stands this grand monument of one of the most remarkable ages of the world. A Walk from London to John O'Groat's It is completely hidden in the lap of a wooded valley, and so embowered in trees that not a roof nor a chimney peeps out to betray its hiding-place. Seeing Europe with Famous Authors, Volume 4 France and the Netherlands, Part 2 And crossing a low, embowered terrace with various unoccupied tables, he opened a door and bade them enter a room having only one window. Mare Nostrum (Our Sea) A Novel It was also of brick, and covered almost entirely by a creeping vine; its wide verandas were embowered in clematis and honeysuckle, its smooth, velvety lawn was shaded by giant elms. The Camp Fire Girls Do Their Bit Or, over the Top with the Winnebagos The house had a few sloping fields below it; a lawn embowered in trees, and a pretty old walled garden, where the sun-warmed air was redolent with the homely scent of old-fashioned herbs and flowers. The Silent Isle He viewed a noble country, good to live in, rich with grain and metal, embowered with tall forests, and watered by pleasant streams. Figures of Earth Merle glanced up to see him despoiling a bush that embowered one of the brown headstones and an all but obliterated mound. The Wrong Twin The domes and spires at a distance give it a rich Italian look, which is heightened by the white villas, embowered in trees, gleaming on the hills around. Views a-foot Now the owner of all this property lives in a very humble cottage, embowered in dense shrubbery and making no show…. American Negro Slavery A Survey of the Supply, Employment and Control of Negro Labor as Determined by the Plantation Regime In the adjoining grove of oaks is the antique tower; in a beautiful amphitheatre of wood, an Ionic rotunda; and in an embowering grove a Palladian bridge, with a light airy portico. The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 14, No. 382, July 25, 1829 About three miles inland from St. Helier, is a singular structure named Prince's Tower, erected on an artificial mound or tumulus, and embowered in a grove of fine trees. The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 14, No. 396, October 31, 1829 Higher up the river is pretty Figheldean with its old thatched cottages embowered among the huge trees that line the banks of the stream, and with a fine Early English church. Wanderings in Wessex An Exploration of the Southern Realm from Itchen to Otter The sweetest cottages were embowered among the orchards, and the whole country bloomed like a garden. Views a-foot And then his craving for the romantic and beautiful was satisfied for the moment by gazing about this big, strange, shadowy, embowered room. Round Anvil Rock A Romance Beautiful ye raise Your green embowering groves, and smoothly spread Your waters, glistening in a silver sheet. The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 12, No. 322, July 12, 1828 For a while there is traversed a little valley quite embowered in green, but presently this abruptly leads into a wild gorge, with jagged peaks on every side. Seeing Europe with Famous Authors, Volume 6 Germany, Austria-Hungary and Switzerland, part 2 Deeply embowered among the trees is the small cruciform church with an interesting Norman door, showing in the tympanum, a bishop, said to represent St. Aldhelm, in the act of benediction. Wanderings in Wessex An Exploration of the Southern Realm from Itchen to Otter All other sign of the town than this one roof was shut in from view by the abundant foliage which embowered it. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 05, No. 27, January, 1860 Presently a scattered fire was opened from the walls of a country house, standing embowered in trees on an eminence near what appeared to be the mouth of the valley. Jack Archer The house stands on an eminence, once embowered in trees which the hurricanes have leveled, overlooking a broad valley, where palms were scattered in every direction; for the estate had formerly been a coffee plantation. Letters of a Traveller Notes of Things Seen in Europe and America To avoid being seen from the windows I went down a quiet little avenue that skirted one side of the inclosure, at the bottom of which was a seat embowered in roses and honeysuckles. The Tenant of Wildfell Hall The spot where we sat was embowered by a vine. Memoirs of Carwin, the Biloquist These, added to the odours of the cedars which embowered it, and of the honey-suckle which clustered among the lattices, rendered this my favorite retreat in summer. Wieland: or, the Transformation, an American Tale The gold all color and grace are folded o'er, The warmth all beauty and tenderness embower, — Thou quiverest at Nature's perfumed core, The pistil of a myriad-petalled flower. Poems 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 It was surrounded and almost overhung by huge mountains, and embowered in trees of various kinds; waters sounded, nightingales sang, and the cuckoo’s full note boomed from the distant branches, but the village was miserable. Letters of George Borrow to the British and Foreign Bible Society As he wrote a word on his card and waited for an envelope he glanced about the embowered shop, and his eye lit on a cluster of yellow roses. The Age of Innocence Here and there, as we ascended, we passed a house embowered in white roses. The Silverado Squatters The two walked together, danced together, and in adjoining chairs watched the performance in the embowered theatre. The Shuttle Orange-trees, of the size and height of the pear-tree, often rising higher than the roofs of the houses, embowered the town in perpetual verdure. Letters of a Traveller Notes of Things Seen in Europe and America She fancied she could see the very house as she looked down on the mass of green in which the town was embowered. The Cost Into this romantic region the father and daughter proceeded, arm in arm, by a noble avenue overarched by embowering elms, beneath which groups of the fallow-deer were seen to stray in distant perspective. The Bride of Lammermoor Again I heard the nightingale Sing as she sang those years ago In his embowered Italian vale To my revered Boccaccio. The Love Affairs of a Bibliomaniac At last he loosed his hold on the young boughs and, after standing a few moments in thought, sat down upon the earth in the midst of his embowered tent. The Lost Prince The town, so charmingly embowered, reminded me of New Haven, though the variety of trees is greater. Letters of a Traveller Notes of Things Seen in Europe and America These are far less interesting and characteristic, however, than the mansions set in the midst of spacious pleasure grounds and the lovely home cottages embowered in honeysuckle and climbing roses. Steep Trails California, Utah, Nevada, Washington, Oregon, the Grand Canyon He walked beside her in silence, with quick precipitate steps, till they reached the embowered slopes to the east of the Casino; then, pulling up abruptly, he said: "Have you seen Bertha?" House of Mirth She turned her head — the gateman's candle shimmering upon her quick, clear eyes as she did so — passed through the gate, and was soon wrapped in the embowering shades of mysterious summer boughs. Far from the Madding Crowd At last, embowered, garlanded, and hung with waving banners, the train drew in at the chief station at Melzarr. The Lost Prince Vast tombs, embowered beneath the weeping willow and the fir tree, told of the antiquities of the Lloyd family, as well as of their wealth. My Bondage and My Freedom The carpentry of that city, embanked and embowered in foliage, shared the picturesqueness of Charlestown in the distance. The Rise of Silas Lapham Late roses climbed and hung and clustered and the sunshine deepening the hue of the yellowing trees made one feel that one, stood in an embowered temple of gold. The Secret Garden She turned her head—the gateman's candle shimmering upon her quick, clear eyes as she did so—passed through the gate, and was soon wrapped in the embowering shades of mysterious summer boughs. Far from the Madding Crowd A short turning embowered with tall trees whose dense foliage only allows a soft green light to filter through, goes steeply down to the river. Yorkshire It was of two stories only, and encircled with a great veranda supported by embowered pillars. The Avenger It did not consist of more than fifty houses, but they were all detached, and each beautifully embowered in trees. Vivian Grey In a minute or so we were again at the small bridge over the embowered creek which ran through the camping-ground. The Cavalier It seemed the illusion of a dream, that between such land and sky, there should be not one street in that embowered city unsmitten by sorrow and death. Strong Hearts The pictures in my memory, save those of the snug winter rooms already referred to, are all of a beautiful Valley, embowered in green, radiant with sunshine--each day live-long with delight. In the Valley Gradually they, drew abreast a tavern standing back a distance from the road, embowered in a grove of trees between whose ancient boles the tap-room windows shone enticingly, aglow with comfortable light. The Black Bag At long intervals ranch houses rose above embowering foliage, a green core in the midst of fields where the brown earth was striped with lines of fruit trees or hidden under carpets of alfalfa. Treasure and Trouble Therewith A Tale of California One glance up the embowered alley, one glance down it, and I whirled to the right, drove in the spur, and flew for the bridge. The Cavalier Already the days were growing shorter, and the little house, embowered in trees, and shut in by a tall hill from the western sky, was nearly completely engulfed in darkness. The Ashiel mystery A Detective Story The walls of the palaces are embowered in eucalyptus, acacia and cypress trees. The Architecture and Landscape Gardening of the Exposition A Pictorial Survey of the Most Beautiful Achitectural Compositions of the Panama-Pacific International Exposition That cemetery is embowered in trees and occupies little more than half an acre of ground to the left of the road, interposing between it and the park of the Château de la Carque. The Room in the Dragon Volant Her message came to him from sky and earth, from sweep of flowered land, from embowered village and thronging town—that life was good, to savor it, plunge in it, live it to the full. Treasure and Trouble Therewith A Tale of California She gave a wide berth to the vicarage, which with two or three cottages, embowered in larches and cherry-trees, lay immediately below the chapel. Helbeck of Bannisdale — Volume II It was the first of June, and Wennott, embowered in trees, was beautiful. The Widow O'Callaghan's Boys The cab now turned in at a gate and followed a curving drive bordered with trees to a pretty stone house with a porch embowered with Virginia creepers, before which it stopped. What Katy Did Next As Fausta uttered these words, our eyes at the same moment caught the forms of Zenobia and Longinus, as they emerged from a walk very near, but made dark by overhanging and embowering roses. Zenobia or, the Fall of Palmyra I may see my mistress Italy embowered in a belfry, a fresco, the scope of a Piazza, the lilt of a Stornello, the fragrance of a legend. Earthwork out of Tuscany Being Impressions and Translations of Maurice Hewlett The profound solitude of this refuge, embowered in its twilight grove of orange and palm trees, was strangely tranquillizing. The English Governess at the Siamese Court Being Recollections of Six Years in the Royal Palace at Bangkok They had now entered the mountains which rose steeply above them, embowered in wood. By Sheer Pluck, a Tale of the Ashanti War The burg itself, which lies close to the castle and is much embowered with trees, has something of the open, spacious, and decorative air of Brantôme. Two Summers in Guyenne And now and then you see a pillared and porticoed great manor-house, embowered in trees. Life on the Mississippi, Part 8. Wanless, as they call it there,—Wanless Hall, Felsboro', as it is politically,—stands squarely and deeply in the hills of a northern county, plentifully embowered in trees, with a river washing its southern side. Rest Harrow A Comedy of Resolution In fact, I saw across the fields, embowered in foliage, the hospitable mansion in which we had eaten the famous supper, on the route to Pennsylvania. Mohun, or, the Last Days of Lee The houses are all large and bright with yellow tinged whitewash, and the place is completely embowered in palms and other tropical trees. By Sheer Pluck, a Tale of the Ashanti War 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. Canadian Crusoes At the embowered doorway, sat an old man, confidentially communing with his pipe: while a little child, sprawling on the ground, was playing with his shoestrings. Redburn. His First Voyage As I woke, sounds of battle penetrated to my palace halls, removed somewhat from the city, and embowered in trees; and I rushed forth, forgetful of Hector's warning. National Epics With joyful spirits they descended into the fertile land, and stopped at a beautiful Greek village, embowered in orchards and groves of olive-trees. The Rise of Iskander He glanced smilingly at the festal tea-table and the embowered desk. Sanctuary “It's all ready and waiting for us, all embowered and carpeted for love,” said Allan musingly. Darkness and Dawn The house was simple and unpretentious in its architecture, and beautifully embowered amid elms and oaks. John James Audubon Old authors are unanimous in declaring that the town was embowered in oak forests; as late as 1844 it was lamented that this "ancient barbarous custom" of cutting them down had not yet been discontinued. Old Calabria I pictured a placid expanse, an eye of blue, sleepily embowered among wooded glens and throwing upward the gleam of its calm waters. Alone 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. Septimius Felton, or, the Elixir of Life The musicians were placed in the most obscure and embowered spots, so as to elude the eye and strike the imagination. A Sicilian Romance But, just the same, he insisted on his getting home by the short cut--a foot-path, lined and embowered by trees, then leading from the war office to the White House. The Lincoln Story Book A Judicious Collection of the Best Stories and Anecdotes of the Great President, Many Appearing Here for the First Time in Book Form The men were sitting in a bark hut, handsomely reinforced and embowered with fresh spruce boughs. Travels in Alaska This space is also enclosed, but the iron fence which bounds it is higher and firmer, and there is nothing of such seclusion as embowering foliage gives. London Films Goldenrod foamed round the cottage, deeply embowering it, and lavender made a grey mist beside the red quarries of the path. Gone to Earth He repaired to the pavilion, and secreted himself among the trees that embowered it. A Sicilian Romance The Château stood embowered amidst lilac groves and other ornamental shrubs, so far as I can recollect, with a background of elms, white birch, spruce, &c. Picturesque Quebec : a sequel to Quebec past and present The stream was bridged at short intervals with picturesque, moss-embossed logs, and the trees on its banks, leaning over from side to side, made high embowering arches. Travels in Alaska It held a wine-press, having its workmen embowered among the vines, and it contained the family of the second father of the human race. The Headsman The Abbaye des Vignerons Still further, I could see the houses of the village of Sharon, embowered in olives. The Lands of the Saracen Pictures of Palestine, Asia Minor, Sicily, and Spain You glance, again, running down the coast of Martinique, into a deep bay, ringed round with gay houses embowered in mango and coconut, with the Piton du Vauclain rising into the clouds behind it. At Last The eye next dwells on the rustic church of St. Michael, embowered in evergreens. Picturesque Quebec : a sequel to Quebec past and present Verty drew near the house, which was a tall, wooden structure, embowered in trees, and carefully reconnoitered with true huntsman-like precision. The Last of the Foresters Or, Humors on the Border; A story of the Old Virginia Frontier She fixed her gaze on that part where the lonely cottage was embowered, and she had a longing to see even a little whiff of smoke from Tulee's kitchen. A Romance of the Republic It is so buried in its embowered gardens that little, except the mosque, is seen as you approach it. The Lands of the Saracen Pictures of Palestine, Asia Minor, Sicily, and Spain |
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