bower
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Years later, a fig tree from that bower flourishes in London, where a woman named Ada attempts to reconstruct her family’s difficult history before it’s too late.
From Los Angeles Times • Aug. 24, 2021
In one, the woman waits in a bower for her lover, adorning herself, and the anticipation, so strong it hurts, comes through in the physicality and rhythms of the dance.
From New York Times • May 24, 2021
Visiting Barbara Kingsolver on her farm in Appalachia feels like entering some form of enchanted bower.
From The Guardian • Oct. 8, 2018
A friend posted a photo of a botanical bower of a bedroom in Beauport, officially called the Sleeper-McCann House.
From The Wall Street Journal • Aug. 3, 2018
“You need no judge, I see. But perhaps you will let me share your bower, which was my Lotus’s before you came. I have food to eat, too.”
From "The Golden Goblet" by Eloise Jarvis McGraw
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Vocabulary lists containing bower
"The Wife of Bath's Tale," Vocabulary from the narrative poem
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"The Tragedy of Romeo and Juliet," Vocabulary from Act 3
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Selection Vocabulary 3, Unit 5
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