"Embower" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... of crowded heart-strugglings to make his last visit at the dear homestead, and then to take of it his eternal farewell. How lovingly and admiringly do we follow him on his way from London, taking his last view of those many sweet scenes which were thenceforward to embower in his memory all the joys of more than forty years! He did not then know for what a rugged landscape, and for what uncouth habitations, he was to exchange those fair scenes and the ivy-clad and -festooned churches and cottages of his dear ...
— The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 13, No. 75, January, 1864 • Various
... substantial edifice; its shining roof and pillared portico may be seen from every approach to the town. 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. Yonder scattered groups of neat white cottages, each with its garden of flowers and fruit, are spread over what was once an open plain, thinly planted with poplar, oaks, and pine. See, there is another church; and nearer, towards the west end ...
— Canadian Crusoes - A Tale of The Rice Lake Plains • Catharine Parr Traill
... beach Of that inflamed sea he stood, and called His legions—Angel Forms, who lay entranced Thick as autumnal leaves that strow the brooks In Vallombrosa, where the Etrurian shades High over-arched embower; or scattered sedge Afloat, when the fierce winds Orion armed Hath vexed the Red-Sea coast, whose waves o'erthrew Busiris and his Memphian chivalry, While with perfidious hatred they pursued The sojourners of Goshen, who beheld From the ...
— National Epics • Kate Milner Rabb
... the anxious heart envision Still its morning dream, View, despite the world's derision, Zion's sunlit height and stream? Wields still anyone the power To repeat her anthems strong, And with joyful heart embower, Zion ...
— Hymns and Hymnwriters of Denmark • Jens Christian Aaberg
... orchids floating in pendant luxuriance from baskets attached to the ceiling. Then, Madeleine had not forgotten the picturesque use so often made of the ivy in her native land, and had trained the obedient parasite to embower windows, or climb around frames of mirrors, until the gilt background gave but a golden glimmer through the dark-green network ...
— Fairy Fingers - A Novel • Anna Cora Mowatt Ritchie |
