embosom

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At the silence of twilight's contemplative hour, I have mused in a sorrowful mood, On the wind-shaken weeds that embosom the bower, Where the home of my forefathers stood.

From The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 14, No. 407, December 24, 1829 by Various

The waters," said the King, "embosom the high hills and insolently menace heaven itself.

From The Awakening of China by Martin, W. A. P. (William Alexander Parsons)

Do they not embosom him in a style of grandeur worthy, if such it be, of a "City of Palaces?"

From Recreations of Christopher North, Volume I (of 2) by Wilson, John Lyde

Other parts are laid into floors, or wrought into wainscoting, or carved for frames of noble pictures, or fashioned into chairs that embosom the weakness of old age.

From How to Succeed or, Stepping-Stones to Fame and Fortune by Marden, Orison Swett

There is a fire of autumn colour in the tufted woods that embosom Fernilea. 

From Angling Sketches by Lang, Andrew