Isis, which flows beside it through meadows of exquisite verdure, is spread forth into a placid expanse of waters, which reflects its majestic assemblage of towers, and spires, and domes, embosomed among aged trees. ❋ Unknown (2010)
I recently bought a Gainsborough, which a contemporary critic said had been "embosomed by nature" and that is what I feel about my house. ❋ Bruce Palling (2011)
From a home "embosomed by nature" to the wild countryside, it is built into his weekend. ❋ Bruce Palling (2011)
"Daughter of Leda, in addition to my first letter I now send thee word not to despatch thy daughter to Euboea's embosomed wing, to the to the waveless bay of Aulis; for after all we wiltlelebrate our child's wedding at another time." ❋ Unknown (2008)
But the lake was much larger, and adorned with several islets besides that on which the fortress was situated; and instead of being embosomed in hills like that of Avenel, had upon the southern side only a splendid mountainous screen, being the descent of one of the Lomond hills, and on the other was surrounded by the extensive and fertile plain of ❋ Unknown (2008)
A half-mile to the eastward of the town, two or three hundred feet up the steep mountain side, stood a large, low, white house embosomed in trees and gardens. ❋ Unknown (2007)
He does not wear a look of melancholy resignation, neither does he live in love-gilded poverty, in a cottage embosomed in roses. ❋ Unknown (2007)
It was old, but in good repair, and stood snugly embosomed in a grove of sycamore, with a well-stocked garden in front, bounded by the small river, which was partly visible from the windows, partly concealed by the bushes, trees, and bounding hedge. ❋ Unknown (2007)
Pursuing the path which Madge had chosen, Jeanie Deans observed, to her no small delight, that marks of more cultivation appeared, and the thatched roofs of houses, with their blue smoke arising in little columns, were seen embosomed in a tuft of trees at some distance. ❋ Unknown (2007)
But as there was no mistaking the woodland lane, which led from thence to the shore, and as the moonlight showed her one of the white chimneys rising out of the wood which embosomed the building, ❋ Unknown (2007)
At the foot of the precipice below us lay a lovely lake, wood embosomed, from or near which the bright St. Vrain and other streams take their rise. ❋ Unknown (2007)
The houses were for the most part embosomed in peach orchards, whose leaves of more delicate green contrasted well with the sombre hue of those that clad the neighbouring indigenous trees. ❋ Unknown (2004)
There were several native villages scattered about, so embosomed in fruit trees that at a distance they looked like clumps or patches of forest. ❋ Unknown (2004)
At some little distance they perceived the ruins of a fabric which had once been a castle; it stood almost on a point of rock that overhung a deep valley; and its broken turrets rising from among the woods that embosomed it, heightened the picturesque beauty of the object. ❋ Unknown (2004)
Wars, however, have limited his possessions to three or four villages snugly embosomed within a jungle, whose outer rim is so dense that it serves like a stone wall to repel invaders. ❋ Henry Morton (2004)
On the 28th we arrived at a small snug village embosomed within the forest called Benta, three hours and a quarter from Ugunda. ❋ Henry Morton (2004)
I passed an avenue leading somewhere through groves, and was presently overtaken and passed by hounds and a respectable-looking old huntsman on a black horse; a minute afterwards I caught a glimpse of an old red-brick mansion nearly embosomed in groves, from which proceeded a mighty cawing. ❋ Unknown (2004)
Viewing Canton from the “five-storied pagoda,” or from the dignified elevation of a pawn tower, it is apparent that it is surrounded by a high wall, beyond which here and there are suburban villages, some wealthy and wood-embosomed, others mean and mangy. ❋ Isabella Lucy (2004)
