embowed
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But let my due feet never fail 155 To walk the studious cloister’s pale, And love the high embowed roof, With antique pillars massy-proof, And storied windows richly dight, Casting a dim religious light.
From Minor Poems by Milton by John Milton
Crest—An arm embowed, couped at the shoulder, the hand grasping a hammer, all proper.
From The True Legend of St. Dunstan and the Devil by Edward G. Flight
Crest, an armed arm, embowed, grasping a broken spear.
From Notes and Queries, Number 232, April 8, 1854 A Medium of Inter-communication for Literary Men, Artists, Antiquaries, Genealogists, etc by Various
Above is the "high embowed roof" of the central tower; around are the stalls set in a screen of woodwork intricately carved.
From Evesham by E. H. (Edmund Hort) New
His legs were slightly embowed, and he bore himself like a man rarely out of the saddle.
From The Lancashire Witches A Romance of Pendle Forest by William Harrison Ainsworth
