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. ❋ Unknown (2008)
We had now reached THE garden-chair; the directress sat down, and signed to me to sit by her, but I only rested my knee on the seat, and stood leaning my head and arm against the embowering branch of a huge laburnum, whose golden flowers, blent with the dusky green leaves of a lilac-bush, formed a mixed arch of shade and sunshine over the retreat. ❋ Unknown (2006)
Leicester viewed those grey and massive towers, when she first beheld them rise above the embowering and richly-shaded woods, over which they seemed to preside. ❋ Unknown (2004)
They pursued their way for some time between high embowering banks, till they arrived at an eminence, whence ❋ Unknown (2004)
St. Aubert, rejoicing in rest, seated himself in an arm - chair, and his senses were refreshed by the cool and balmy air, that lightly waved the embowering honeysuckles, and wafted their sweet breath into the apartment. ❋ Unknown (2004)
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. ❋ Unknown (2003)
Just as the stilly hum, the embowering shade, the warm, lonely calm of my retreat were beginning to steal meaning from the page, vision from my eyes, and to lure me along the track of reverie, down into some deep dell of dreamland — just then, the sharpest ring of the street-door bell to which that much-tried instrument had ever thrilled, snatched me back to consciousness. ❋ Unknown (2003)
When he returned to college, he walked the grounds more than once, summoning through the avenues of embowering elms the slender figure, the smiling face, with the glow of the setting sun upon it, which had so often awaited his coming at the stile of the old orchard. ❋ Various (N/A)
Then valour and beauty strayed side by side, beneath embowering branches, the fire of the one attempered to gentleness by the softer graces of the other, and the souls of both elevated and purified by nature's holy and resistless influences. ❋ M. Florian (N/A)
The comfortable farmsteads nestle amid their embowering peach and apple orchards, the very types of peace and plenty. ❋ Unknown (N/A)
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. ❋ Ledyard Bill (N/A)
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. ❋ Minerva Brace Norton (N/A)
Orange groves embowering sheltered nooks in the environs of the town, and hedges of the Indian fig (_cactus opuntia_), betokened the warmth of this southern shore; and, as we advanced, the rank growth of vegetation on the flats realised all we had heard of the teeming richness of the _littorale_. ❋ Thomas Forester (N/A)
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. ❋ Mary Helen Fee (N/A)
Over our old manse, of which I could 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 guard while the master of the mansion was away .... ❋ Various (N/A)
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 ❋ Various (N/A)
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. ❋ Thomas Forester (N/A)
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. ❋ Various (N/A)
Yonder among the embowering trees is the residence of Judge Halliburton, the author of "Sam Slick." ❋ Frederic S. Cozzens (N/A)
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. ❋ Unknown (N/A)
