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Definition of Embowering
1. embower [v] - See also: embower
Lexicographical Neighbors of Embowering
Literary usage of Embowering
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Works of Nathaniel Hawthorne by Nathaniel Hawthorne, George Parsons Lathrop, Julian Hawthorne (1896)
"catch but a glimpse among its embowering trees, appeared the immensely gigantic
figure of a hound, crouching down with head erect, as if keeping watchful ..."
2. The Works of Nathaniel Hawthorne by Nathaniel Hawthorne (1883)
"catch but a glimpse among its embowering trees, appeared the immensely gigantic
figure of a hound, crouching down with head erect, ..."
3. The Influence of Milton on English Poetry by Raymond Dexter Havens (1922)
"Above th' embowering shade. Monody, io. Where the Etrurian shades High ovcr-arch'd
embower. PL ». 303-4; cf. ix. 1038, Cornus, 62, (Warton also has "in ..."
4. The Complete Poetical Works of James Thomson by James Thomson, James Logie Robertson (1908)
"The original form was as follows :— Oh ! bear me then to high embowering shades,
To twilight groves and visionary vales, To weeping grottos and to hoary ..."
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