embowed
Example Sentences
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But let my due feet never fail, To walk the studious Cloysters pale, And love the high embowed Roof With antick Pillars massy proof, And storied Windows richly dight, Casting a dimm religious light.
From The Poetical Works of John Milton by Milton, John
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 Ainsworth, William Harrison
Crest: An armed arm, embowed, holding a lance, erect.
From Notes and Queries, Number 47, September 21, 1850 by Various
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 antique pillars massy proof, etc.”
From Tennyson and His Friends by Various
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
