embowed

Example Sentences

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Their live pillars upheaved a thick embowed roof, betwixt whose leaves and blossoms hardly a sunbeam filtered.

From Lilith, a romance by MacDonald, George

But let my due feet never fail To walk the studious cloisters pale, And love the high embowed roof, With antic pillars massy-proof And storied windows richly dight, Casting a dim religious light.

From The Hundred Best English Poems by Gowans, Adam L. (Adam Luke)

An arm embowed has the elbow to the dexter, unless blazoned to the contrary.

From The Handbook to English Heraldry by Utting, R. B.

But let my due feet never fail To walk the studious cloisters pale, And love the high embowed roof With antique pillars massy proof, etc.”

From Tennyson and His Friends by Various

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 Flight, Edward G.