Not realising that happiness is bowered in illusion. From Wordnik.com. [Swirling Waters] Reference
I bowered this book from the library almost 25 years ago for my son!. From Wordnik.com. [Polka Dot Cottage: Cranberry Thanksgiving] Reference
The horse-shoe hollow in which the tiny station was set was bowered in vegetation. From Wordnik.com. [The Jungle Girl] Reference
There was no sign of the house until they came abruptly upon it, bowered among the trees. From Wordnik.com. [CHAPTER XVIII] Reference
It represented any American town; preferably one bowered with maple and elm, and cast in a setting of emerald landscape. From Wordnik.com. [The Greater Love] Reference
There were even two black kittens playing on the brick walkway leading to the rose-bowered front door, for heaven's sake. From Wordnik.com. [A Darker Place]
Yet these fair curves, and liberal reaches, and bright rapids of the birchen-bowered river were only solitary, not lonely. From Wordnik.com. [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 10, No. 62, December, 1862] Reference
A great boulder as big as a moderate-sized house protected the place from view on the village side, and the place was bowered in trees. From Wordnik.com. [In Direst Peril] Reference
The ground was level; the land rich rice field with its interspersed and picturesque clumps of trees and bamboo, its verdure bowered villages. From Wordnik.com. [Bakemono Yashiki (The Haunted House), Retold from the Japanese Originals Tales of the Tokugawa, Volume 2] Reference
Resignation is not, as we are too apt to portray her, beauty bowered in willows, and bending over a sepulchral urn; neither is she a tragic queen, pathetic only in her weeds. From Wordnik.com. [The Ladies' Vase Polite Manual for Young Ladies] Reference
In the faintly spattered sunlight percolating through the bowered roof vivid lizards rivalled in colour the rare finger of an orchid clinging to the great tree beside the hut. From Wordnik.com. [Witch-Doctors] Reference
Rock-bowered Loch Lene broidered with sanguine bead. From Wordnik.com. [The Legends of Saint Patrick] Reference
The weather-worn, low domicile was bowered in trees. From Wordnik.com. [The Mothers Of Honoré From "Mackinac And Lake Stories", 1899] Reference
She leaped a tiny creek bowered in pussy-willow buds. From Wordnik.com. [Main Street] Reference
Deep-bowered in sorrow, all its little life-time's day!. From Wordnik.com. [The House of Atreus] Reference
Back from the road, bowered in roses, was a tumble-down house. From Wordnik.com. [Shehens` Houn` Dogs] Reference
I composed it long, long since, when Yillah yet bowered in Odo. From Wordnik.com. [Mardi: and A Voyage Thither, Vol. II (of 2)] Reference
The houses, bowered in dense groves of green, are of the picturesque Tarascan type. From Wordnik.com. [In Indian Mexico (1908)] Reference
But mainly the young people were in huge bowered lumber wagons in wildly hilarious groups. From Wordnik.com. [A Spoil of Office A Story of the Modern West] Reference
For the matter of that, every cottage we visited, even the smallest, was bowered in flowers. From Wordnik.com. [Kent Knowles: Quahaug] Reference
Dora, with glistening eyes and glowing cheeks, retreated within the shelter of the bowered porch. From Wordnik.com. [Lanier of the Cavalry or, A Week's Arrest] Reference
Now, however, it was but as to a leafless wintry tree, instead of a nest bowered in green leaves. From Wordnik.com. [Alec Forbes of Howglen] Reference
It stands on a high bank in the menagerie, between a pond and a vale, totally bowered over with oaks. From Wordnik.com. [The Letters of Horace Walpole, Earl of Orford — Volume 3] Reference
It is pleasantly situated on the banks of the Tennessee, and is bowered in amidst lofty mountain peaks. From Wordnik.com. [Daring and Suffering: A History of the Great Railroad Adventure] Reference
West Horsley itself is a fascinating collection of old cottages, vine-bowered and fronted with clipped yews. From Wordnik.com. [Highways and Byways in Surrey] Reference
The sky was cloudless; the park bowered in fresh green; the streets, under new shadows, clean-swept and warm. From Wordnik.com. [Undertow] Reference
They made a handsome couple, bowered amid plants which blossomed at the command of a Chelsea wholesale florist. From Wordnik.com. [The Grand Babylon Hotel] Reference
She began to drag him away from the bowered homestead, but he planted his feet, and took his hand from her arm. From Wordnik.com. [Sisters] Reference
Next they came up to a waggon, bowered over with leaves and flowers, so that the men inside could hardly be seen. From Wordnik.com. [The Trumpet-Major] Reference
Fane Court stands bowered in trees, with a wide stretch of the greenest of green lawns sloping down to the river stairs. From Wordnik.com. [My Lady Caprice] Reference
Conception and the tower built for its ancient bell, the convent northward, and all the pleasant streets bowered in trees. From Wordnik.com. [Old Kaskaskia] Reference
Ferns, flowers in profusion -- lilacs and clover and climbing roses and some new, strange scarlet blossoms -- bowered their nest. From Wordnik.com. [Darkness and Dawn] Reference
An arbor, bowered with wistarias and the waxen spikes of the new fleur de vie, stood near the woodbine-covered wall edging the cliff. From Wordnik.com. [Darkness and Dawn] Reference
He walked down to a little bowered terrace at the water's edge and sat upon a seat and breathed in all the heavenly scents of the night. From Wordnik.com. [The Secret Garden] Reference
The modest courthouse stood on one side, as green-bowered as if Justice were a smiling goddess; a few churches broke the stretch of houses. From Wordnik.com. [Life at High Tide] Reference
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