empowering

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Many an Elm Street across America today is planted with some other tree, once was lost the embowering shade of elms that created a quintessential main street view of small-town America.

From Seattle Times • Jan. 13, 2018

She thought Arthur unkind, and the beautiful, embowering trees, gurgling waters, and sweet, singing birds, lost their charms to her.

From Helen and Arthur or, Miss Thusa's Spinning Wheel by Hentz, Caroline Lee

They, then and there, seated themselves at their ease and pleasantly, upon the long and thick arm of a maple in the embowering shade.

From Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine - Volume 55, No. 344, June, 1844 by Various

The grassy roads run beneath the embowering beeches straight from carrefour to carrefour.

From Hospital Sketches by Peabody, Robert Swain

At the foot of the hill, where two lines of maples sentinelled the way, an electric lamp glowed high among the embowering branches, and made most wonderful shadow-etchings on the road below it.

From The Monster and Other Stories by Crane, Stephen