cowering
Example Sentences
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Pine, beech and plane, oak, walnut, apricot, Vine, cypress, poplar, myrtle, bowering in The city where she dwells.
From Becket and other plays by Tennyson, Alfred Tennyson, Baron
Ah, hapless! thee Anguitia's bowering vale, 910 Thee Fucinus' clear waves and liquid lakes bewail!
From The Æneid of Virgil Translated into English Verse by E. Fairfax Taylor by Taylor, Edward Fairfax
Lay the stern in beneath this bowering tree!
From The Poetical Works of Robert Bridges by Bridges, Robert
Moreover, it could not so readily be seen from a distance as formerly, for the reason that the bowering trees had enviously stretched forth their boughs around it.
From A Vendetta of the Desert by Scully, W. C. (William Charles)
It is a straggling hamlet of thatched cottages, set among bowering orchards and gardens and wearing an aspect of tranquil comfort.
From A Literary Pilgrimage Among the Haunts of Famous British Authors by Wolfe, Theodore F. (Theodore Frelinghuysen)
