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  • One night I became really alarmed when I stood in the rose arbor watching him for one solid hour, during which he never moved from his knees and never once lowered his arms, which he held outstretched in the form of a cross.   (source)
  • When Julia, the tall wench, ate too many grapes from Madame Edith's arbor and was sick all night, Areida nursed her, although Julia's friends slept soundly.   (source)
  • On each side was a shady arbor with a latticed covering of jasmine.   (source)
  • Cico pointed at a green arbor.   (source)
  • The broken, dirty arbors served as a refuge for wild animals and a garbage dump for the neighbors.   (source)
    arbors = frameworks that support climbing plants
  • Mother used to stand in the arbor with an armful of cut flowers.   (source)
    arbor = a framework that supports climbing plants; or a shady rest area made by such a framework or by trees and shrubs
  • One day as he was strolling peacefully about the grounds, he discovered two tiny babies that had been abandoned in a basket under the grape arbor.   (source)
    arbor = framework that supports climbing plants
  • But the details were beyond a child: the fine arbor of blood vessels on his cheeks; muttonchop sideburns dyed bootpolish black; the white ring of arcus senilis around his pupils; gray eyebrows that betrayed his pretense at youthfulness.   (source)
    arbor = a framework that supports climbing plants; or a shady rest area made by such a framework or by trees and shrubs
  • A few blocks ahead, passing a lovely Victorian house just north of Andrews dorm, Barbara admires the wide, circular porch and an apple arbor alongside it.   (source)
  • The front of the house had a traditional vato, a shady arbor under which to relax and entertain visitors.   (source)
  • It wasn't unreasonably hot yet, and the kids were bouncing around the house like superballs (this was mainly Turtle, with Dwayne Ray's participation being mainly vocal), so we took them out to sit under the arbor for a while.   (source)
  • A touring Shakespeare company had let Loma try out after their performance in Cold Sassy's brush arbor and then asked her to join the troupe.   (source)
  • Farther back there was a white garden swing, a fire pit, and a grill under a wooden arbor that was draped with purple-colored vines.   (source)
  • You're having it outdoors, so I might suggest arbors, wisteria.   (source)
    arbors = frameworks that support climbing plants
  • She said she got the Holy Ghost once at a bush arbor meetin' and got saved.   (source)
    arbor = a shady rest area in a garden
  • In the third quarter a flower garden bloomed in so many colors that it seemed to be coolly on fire, and in the fourth a grape arbor produced much of the Giulianis' wine.   (source)
    arbor = a framework that supports climbing plants; or a shady rest area made by such a framework or by trees and shrubs
  • Early walked over and sat on the railing of the arbor.   (source)
  • An arbor of vegetation enclosed her as she waited with her hands inside her raincoat pockets.   (source)
  • It was a high brick house set back off the street, with round-arched windows, great heavy dentils along the roof overhang, latticework arbors on either side.   (source)
    arbors = frameworks that support climbing plants
  • She knew that Bailey would not be willing to lose any time looking at an old house, but the more she talked about it, the more she wanted to see it once again and find out if the little twin arbors were still standing.   (source)
  • At the side of the house was a brush arbor, and out of its top stuck a little whittled windmill, rolling in the breeze like a crazed sunflower.   (source)
    arbor = a framework that supports climbing plants; or a shady rest area made by such a framework or by trees and shrubs
  • Yes, in a sort of arbor, hadn't she laughed, leaned forward ...and that vision of a face which was a little like all the other faces, the trusting child's, the innocent old traveler's, even the greedy barber's and Lethy's and the wandering peddlers' who one by one knocked and went unanswered at the door-and yet different, yet far more-this face had been very close to hers, almost familiar, almost accessible.   (source)
  • Under the arbor sat the married women, their dark dresses decorous notes in the surrounding color and gaiety.   (source)
  • One of them sits quiet on the bench, at the brush-arbor revival, listening, and all of a sudden he jumps up and lifts up his arms and yells, "Oh, Jesus!"   (source)
  • Grandma had arranged this with Sylvester's father, whom she knew from the old people's arbor in the park.   (source)
  • There were great stables, where a dozen grooms and boys held forth, rows of vine-clad servants' cottages, an endless and orderly array of outhouses, long grape arbors, green pastures, orchards, and berry patches.   (source)
    arbors = frameworks that support climbing plants
  • Yes, a still hot quiet Sunday afternoon like this afternoon; I remember yet the utter quiet of that house when we went in and from which I knew at once that he was absent without knowing that he would now be in the scuppernong arbor drinking with Wash Jones.   (source)
    arbor = a framework that supports climbing plants; or a shady rest area made by such a framework or by trees and shrubs
  • Early in their acquaintance it had seemed for a while that there was a deep and spontaneous mutual attraction that first August, for example—three days of long evenings on her dusky veranda, of strange wan kisses through the late afternoon, in shadowy alcoves or behind the protecting trellises of the garden arbors, of mornings when she was fresh as a dream and almost shy at meeting him in the clarity of the rising day.   (source)
    arbors = frameworks that support climbing plants
  • It was a wooden house with towers, swings, hammocks, rather mussy shade trees, a rather mangy lawn, a rather damp arbor, and an old carriage-house with a line of steel spikes along the ridge pole.   (source)
    arbor = a framework that supports climbing plants; or a shady rest area made by such a framework or by trees and shrubs
  • About us neither had gained a footing; laburnums, pink mays, snowballs, and trees of arbor-vitae, rose out of laurels and hydrangeas, green and brilliant into the sunlight.   (source)
  • Birds were twittering in the arbors and bees were humming in the flowers.   (source)
    arbors = frameworks that support climbing plants
  • I never saw such a garden—large and shady, full of box-bordered paths, and lined with long grape-covered arbors with seats under them.   (source)
    arbors = a framework that supports climbing plants
  • Alyosha had at once observed his brother's exhilarated condition, and on entering the arbor he saw half a bottle of brandy and a wineglass on the table.   (source)
    arbor = a framework that supports climbing plants; or a shady rest area made by such a framework or by trees and shrubs
  • How I remember the arbor and the seat!   (source)
  • Still another was given her, and she took it, not as a reward, but as a comfort, as Christian took the refreshment afforded by the little arbor where he rested, as he climbed the hill called Difficulty.   (source)
  • Speaking for myself, I was glad to oblige, and we stretched out beneath an arbor of winged kelp, whose long thin tendrils stood up like arrows.   (source)
  • We left him bestirring himself to feed the fowls, and we sat down to our punch in the arbor; where Wemmick told me, as he smoked a pipe, that it had taken him a good many years to bring the property up to its present pitch of perfection.   (source)
  • There were no longer either arbors, or bowling greens, or tunnels, or grottos; there was a magnificent, dishevelled obscurity falling like a veil over all.   (source)
    arbors = frameworks that support climbing plants
  • He got down, and passed with Mr. Moss into the garden, toward an old yew-tree arbor, while his sister stood tapping her baby on the back and looking wistfully after them.   (source)
    arbor = a framework that supports climbing plants; or a shady rest area made by such a framework or by trees and shrubs
  • The young man stopped suddenly, looked around him, and perceived Caderousse sitting at table with Danglars, under an arbor.   (source)
  • So this oddly composed little social party used to assemble under the ruinous arbor.   (source)
  • While the children were playing in the grape-vine arbor, the day before, Mr. Thorne came out with a letter in his hand, which he tore up and scattered about.   (source)
  • Tom and Eva were seated on a little mossy seat, in an arbor, at the foot of the garden.   (source)
  • I can wind my horn, though I call not the blast either a 'recheate' or a 'morte'—I can cheer my dogs on the prey, and I can flay and quarter the animal when it is brought down, without using the newfangled jargon of 'curee, arbor, nombles', and all the babble of the fabulous Sir Tristrem.   (source)
  • BRANDER
    Here, over this green arbor bending,
    See what a vine!   (source)
  • When she walked toward the arbors and glanced back at her parents, they both smiled and nodded, encouraging her forward.   (source)
    arbors = frameworks that support climbing plants
  • Jem, who hadn't been near Miss Maudie's scuppernong arbor since last summer, and who knew Miss Maudie wouldn't tell Atticus if he had, issued a general denial.   (source)
    arbor = a framework that supports climbing plants
  • Our tacit treaty with Miss Maudie was that we could play on her lawn, eat her scuppernongs if we didn't jump on the arbor, and explore her vast back lot, terms so generous we seldom spoke to her, so careful were we to preserve the delicate balance of our relationship, but Jem and Dill drove me closer to her with their behavior.   (source)
  • On one side of the highway, acres of grapevines stretched out in soldiered rows and swallowed up the arbors.   (source)
    arbors = frameworks that support climbing plants
  • "Papi, this is my favorite time of year," she said, watching the brightly colored shirts of the workers slowly moving among the arbors.   (source)
  • So I picked up your basket and carried you over to the grape arbor.   (source)
    arbor = a framework that supports climbing plants; or a shady rest area made by such a framework or by trees and shrubs
  • I ask Nathaniel as we stroll over to the arbor.   (source)
  • I got to the grape arbor fast enough, but I didn't have the muslin.   (source)
  • He could see stables as well, and an arbor heavy with vines.   (source)
  • The firm possession of a yard, a porch, a grape arbor.   (source)
  • Besides, the Great Masters had burned the best arbors along with the olive trees.   (source)
    arbors = frameworks that support climbing plants
  • She stood in the garden on a warm afternoon, the arbor heavy with blooming honeysuckle.   (source)
    arbor = a framework that supports climbing plants; or a shady rest area made by such a framework or by trees and shrubs
  • "I like the arbor idea," Eve announced, springing up when Mark left them.   (source)
  • 'Member ...the brush arbor ...Mr. Bla'slee?   (source)
  • We had a dozen milk cows and a bull, a hundred beehives, a vineyard and an apple arbor.   (source)
  • I remember I was at a magic show in the brush arbor and they called me out.   (source)
  • Then the grinding stopped, and Tater came out of the arbor holding a sickle.   (source)
  • She thought of the little windmill at the corner of the Haneys' brush arbor that he must have made.   (source)
  • I call Stuart Robinson while Nathaniel sets up under the arbor and tell him it looks like something has died in the apartment.   (source)
  • I would have known right away who you was when the sun blotted out your face the way it did when I took you to the grape arbor.   (source)
  • The grape arbor.   (source)
  • The best chair, the biggest piece, the prettiest plate, the brightest ribbon for her hair, and the more she took, the more Sethe began to talk, explain, describe how much she had suffered, been through, for her children, waving away flies in grape arbors, crawling on her knees to a lean-to.   (source)
    arbors = frameworks that support climbing plants
  • There lies our summer arbor.   (source)
    arbor = a framework that supports climbing plants; or a shady rest area made by such a framework or by trees and shrubs
  • It was the rooftop summer, still, and she sat in the dense shade of a grape arbor on a Chelsea roof, redwood posts and rafters and a latticework of cedar that was weathered bony gray.   (source)
  • He said he had tried going to bush arbor meetings to git saved, but there was always girls around them too that kept after him to fornicate.   (source)
  • Dividing the vegetable garden and the orchard, on one side, from the flowers and the arbor on the other was a crushed stone path flanked by hedges high enough so that Alessandro, at twenty, could leap them only with difficulty.   (source)
  • And Klara looked out through the opening at the front of the arbor, fringed with broad puckered leaves, grape leaves of whatever variety of native grape, and she saw the smoke from a skywriting plane, spelling the name Marie.   (source)
  • They went out into an arbor and sat in the warm evening under the grapevines and the soft sky and Ewell sat on the ground and hiked up his pants to show Lee where the bullet had hit, a Minnie ball just below the jointed knee, a vast gash of splintered white wood.   (source)
  • There was a timelessness to those Sundays: a greenness to its parks and private arbors; the quiet hum of well-dressed crowds gathering beneath the columns of its churches; then the sudden bloom of sails and the gestures of small crews far out in the river; the abstraction of the walkers along the Battery; the pleasant symmetry of eighteenth-century houses clustered along the narrow feminine streets; bells over the city; the shrill robust games of happy children and the healthy glow of those children; the movement of freighters into the harbor after trans-Atlantic voyages.   (source)
    arbors = frameworks that support climbing plants
  • Eve studied the holograms, tried to envision herself standing under an arbor with Roarke, exchanging vows.   (source)
    arbor = a framework that supports climbing plants; or a shady rest area made by such a framework or by trees and shrubs
  • Stables and other outbuildings surrounded it, and there was an arbor in back, and apple trees, a small garden.   (source)
  • He said he had found an old preacher who was too old to fornicate, he figgered, because he was holding a bush arbor meeting and was preaching, no-holds-barred, agin' fornicatin'.   (source)
  • She said being a Christian made you happy and that bush arbors was times when they was happiest, being full of the Holy Ghost and all.   (source)
    arbors = frameworks that support climbing plants
  • I had figured out long time ago that my mother must have been conceived under the brush arbor — and I blushed to think about that now.   (source)
    arbor = a framework that supports climbing plants; or a shady rest area made by such a framework or by trees and shrubs
  • As Grandpa held her hand tight and tears rolled down his cheeks, I thought how Granny used to tell me about them camping out under a thick brush arbor their whole first married summer while Grandpa and Uncle Ephraim Toy built her a two-room house out of poplar logs so big it took just five to make a wall.   (source)
  • She said the house had six white columns across the front and that there was an avenue of oaks leading up to it and two little wooden trellis arbors on either side in front where you sat down with your suitor after a stroll in the garden.   (source)
    arbors = frameworks that support climbing plants
  • Someone in the arbor was using a grindstone, hidden by the propped branches of willow still shaggy with dry leaves.   (source)
    arbor = a framework that supports climbing plants; or a shady rest area made by such a framework or by trees and shrubs
  • There was too much talk in the arbor for that.   (source)
  • Pork, what of the corn whisky Pa buried in the oak barrel under the scuppernong arbor?   (source)
  • But they would drink together under the scuppernong arbor on the Sunday afternoons,   (source)
  • They would sit down in the arbor and be served.   (source)
  • ...of monotonous peace which they spent beneath the scuppernong arbor in the back yard,   (source)
  • The Yankee lay in the shallow pit Scarlett had scraped out under the scuppernong arbor.   (source)
  • From the wall I saw old da Fiori in the arbor as he picked his nose.   (source)
  • Under the arbor, the deaf old gentleman from Fayetteville punched India.   (source)
  • India rose tiredly from her seat beneath the arbor and went toward the angry Stuart Tarleton.   (source)
  • Duncan Trice returned to the house to get punch for the three of them, leaving Annabelle and Cass seated side by side in the arbor.   (source)
  • Duncan Trice, his wife, and Cass happened to stroll at some moment into the garden and to sit in a little arbor, which was covered with a jasmine vine.   (source)
  • ...who until Sutpen went away had never approached nearer than the scuppernong arbor behind the kitchen...   (source)
  • But whatever she was after for herself, in the arbor, she wasn't forgetting us, and she got me the handbill job through old Sylvester, called "the Baker" because he wore white ducks and white golfer's cap.   (source)
  • ...he must have sat there and sensed, felt them gathering with the horses and dogs and guns—the curious and the vengeful—men of Sutpen's own kind, who used to eat at his table with him back when he (Wash) had yet to approach nearer the house than the scuppernong arbor—   (source)
  • There was a bare track worn from the arbor at the far end of the yard to the hurdle, and all morning long the yard resounded with excited yells.   (source)
  • "So are you," said Bonnie generously and, hammering a heel into Mr. Butler's ribs, she galloped down the yard toward the arbor.   (source)
  • All the ladies except Mrs. Tarleton moved out of the back yard, leaving the shade of oaks and arbor to the men.   (source)
  • Then an ominous murmuring arose in the crowd and from under the arbor came a humming as unmistakable as that of a hive of newly disturbed bees.   (source)
  • "Europe and New York and Philadelphia and, of course, the ladies have been to Saratoga" (he bowed slightly to the group under the arbor).   (source)
  • I could bury him in the corner of the garden under the arbor—the ground is soft there where Pork dug up the whisky barrel.   (source)
  • Through the wide bay window on the lawn she could see the men still lounging in their chairs under the trees and in the shade of the arbor.   (source)
  • From the window on the landing, she could see the group of men sitting under the arbor, drinking from tall glasses, and she knew they would remain there until late afternoon.   (source)
  • It was two o'clock and the sun was warm overhead, but India, wearied with the three-day preparations for the barbecue, was only too glad to remain sitting beneath the arbor, shouting remarks to a deaf old gentleman from Fayetteville.   (source)
  • It did not occur to her that if she married Ashley she would automatically be relegated to arbors and front parlors with staid matrons in dull silks, as staid and dull as they and not a part of the fun and frolicking.   (source)
    arbors = frameworks that support climbing plants
  • Hide Bolly and Silvermane in the little arbor down in the orchard.   (source)
    arbor = a framework that supports climbing plants; or a shady rest area made by such a framework or by trees and shrubs
  • He paced his hidden walk behind the arbor, at every turn glancing sharply up and down the road.   (source)
  • Later I'll hide Bolly and Silvermane in the arbor.   (source)
  • And taking the letter, he squeezed it up in his hands and threw it into a corner of the arbor.   (source)
  • The poplar foliage had the downiness of a Corot arbor; the green and silver trunks were as candid as the birches, as slender and lustrous as the limbs of a Pierrot.   (source)
  • His rider bent low to dodge the vines of the arbor, and reined in before the porch to slip out of the saddle with the agility of an Indian.   (source)
  • The seedy Pickerbaugh domain was enchanted; the tangled grass was a garden of roses, the ragged grape-arbor a shrine to Diana, the old hammock turned to fringed cloth of silver, the bad-tempered and sputtering lawn-sprinkler a fountain, and over all the world was the proper witchery of moonstruck love.   (source)
  • Out of one window I can see the garden, those mysterious deepshaded arbors, the riotous old-fashioned flowers, and bushes and gnarly trees.   (source)
    arbors = frameworks that support climbing plants
  • I always fancy I see people walking in these numerous paths and arbors, but John has cautioned me not to give way to fancy in the least.   (source)
  • No, no—give me the strong places of the wilderness, which is the trees, and the churches, too, which are arbors raised by the hand of natur'.   (source)
  • The arbor was vacant, and its floor, table, and circular bench were still damp, and bestrewn with twigs and the disarray of the past storm.   (source)
    arbor = a framework that supports climbing plants; or a shady rest area made by such a framework or by trees and shrubs
  • Mitya was in haste; he rushed towards Fyodor Pavlovitch's by the back way, to his arbor, to get hold of Smerdyakov as soon as possible.   (source)
  • [Illustration]
    [Illustration]
    XIII
    A GARDEN-ARBOR
    (MARGARET comes in, conceals herself behind the door, puts her
    finger to her lips, and peeps through the crack    .)   (source)
  • At last, when we got to his place of business and he pulled out his key from his coat-collar, he looked as unconscious of his Walworth property as if the Castle and the drawbridge and the arbor and the lake and the fountain and the Aged, had all been blown into space together by the last discharge of the Stinger.   (source)
  • Seryozha had been caught by the rain in the big garden, and he and his nurse had taken shelter in an arbor.   (source)
  • Their entrance into the yew-tree arbor surprised several fowls that were recreating themselves by scratching deep holes in the dusty ground, and at once took flight with much pother and cackling.   (source)
  • The surface of the water was crisscrossed by a floating arbor of marine plants belonging to that superabundant algae family that numbers more than 2,000 known species.   (source)
  • In the midst of this moving vegetation, under arbors of water plants, there raced legions of clumsy articulates, in particular some fanged frog crabs whose carapaces form a slightly rounded triangle, robber crabs exclusive to these waterways, and horrible parthenope crabs whose appearance was repulsive to the eye.   (source)
    arbors = frameworks that support climbing plants
  • But our business is with Holgrave as we find him on this particular afternoon, and in the arbor of the Pyncheon garden.   (source)
    arbor = a framework that supports climbing plants; or a shady rest area made by such a framework or by trees and shrubs
  • It was a rush of that sudden, furious, revengeful anger of which he had spoken, as though foreseeing it, to Alyosha, four days ago in the arbor, when, in answer to Alyosha's question, "How can you say you'll kill our father?"   (source)
  • This is not a Corsican arbor, but an English garden; badly kept, I own, but still you must not calumniate it for that.   (source)
  • Mr. Tulliver walked abruptly out of the arbor as he uttered the last sentence, and, without looking round at Mr. Moss, went on to the kitchen door, where the eldest boy was holding his horse, and his sister was waiting in a state of wondering alarm, which was not without its alleviations, for baby was making pleasant gurgling sounds, and performing a great deal of finger practice on the faded face.   (source)
  • The feast had been made ready on the second floor at La Reserve, with whose arbor the reader is already familiar.   (source)
  • Let me go and rest me in the arbor, where I used,—oh, very long ago, it seems to me, after what has befallen us,—where I used to be so happy with little Phoebe!   (source)
  • But he gave out his own thoughts, likewise, with an airy and fanciful glow; so that they glistened, as it were, through the arbor, and made their escape among the interstices of the foliage.   (source)
  • "Hold your tongue, will you?" said Danglars, pretending to restrain Caderousse, who, with the tenacity of drunkards, leaned out of the arbor.   (source)
  • To have seen them both sitting at table together under an arbor at Pere Pamphile's the evening before the day fixed for my wedding.   (source)
  • But the girl seldom failed to propose a removal to the garden, where Uncle Venner and the daguerreotypist had made such repairs on the roof of the ruinous arbor, or summer-house, that it was now a sufficient shelter from sunshine and casual showers.   (source)
  • I only wish I could see it now as plainly as I saw it lying all crushed and crumpled in a corner of the arbor.   (source)
  • As her next resort, Phoebe made her way into the garden, where on so warm and bright a day as the present, she had little doubt of finding Clifford, and perhaps Hepzibah also, idling away the noontide in the shadow of the arbor.   (source)
  • He used to thrust his head softly out of the arbor to see them the better; all the while, too, motioning Phoebe to be quiet, and snatching glimpses of the smile upon her face, so as to heap his enjoyment up the higher with her sympathy.   (source)
  • Do you recollect in the arbor of the Hotel des Postes, at Perugia, seeing a man in a brown cloak, whom your stepmother was questioning upon aqua tofana?   (source)
  • The impression of the whole scene was that of a spot where no human foot had left its print for many preceding days,—probably not since Phoebe's departure,—for she saw a side-comb of her own under the table of the arbor, where it must have fallen on the last afternoon when she and Clifford sat there.   (source)
  • I was arrested and became a prisoner because, under the arbor of La Reserve, the day before I was to marry you, a man named Danglars wrote this letter, which the fisherman Fernand himself posted.   (source)
  • When they had advanced about twenty yards, Danglars looked back and saw Fernand stoop, pick up the crumpled paper, and putting it into his pocket then rush out of the arbor towards Pillon.   (source)
  • You, madame, remained under the arbor; do you not remember, that while you were seated on a stone bench, and while, as I told you, Mademoiselle de Villefort and your young son were absent, you conversed for a considerable time with somebody?   (source)
  • Fernand wiped away the perspiration steaming from his brow, and slowly entered the arbor, whose shade seemed to restore somewhat of calmness to his senses, and whose coolness somewhat of refreshment to his exhausted body.   (source)
  • No—it was somewhere—away from here—it was—I do not know—but it appears that this recollection is connected with a lovely sky and some religious fete; mademoiselle was holding flowers in her hand, the interesting boy was chasing a beautiful peacock in a garden, and you, madame, were under the trellis of some arbor.   (source)
  • Monte Cristo, on stepping into the house, heard a sigh that was almost a deep sob; he looked in the direction whence it came, and there under an arbor of Virginia jessamine, [*] with its thick foliage and beautiful long purple flowers, he saw Mercedes seated, with her head bowed, and weeping bitterly.   (source)
  • He did not see the Englishman fold up and place in his pocket the accusation written by Danglars under the arbor of La Reserve, and which had the postmark, "Marseilles, 27th Feb., delivery 6 o'clock, P.M." But it must be said that if he had seen it, he attached so little importance to this scrap of paper, and so much importance to his two hundred thousand francs, that he would not have opposed whatever the Englishman might do, however irregular it might be.   (source)
  • Moreover, he hath left you all his walks,
    His private arbors, and new-planted orchards,
    On this side Tiber: he hath left them you,   (source)
    arbors = shady rest areas
  • There was a small arbor there with a bench, on which I seated myself, looking about with interest.   (source)
    arbor = a framework that supports climbing plants; or a shady rest area made by such a framework or by trees and shrubs
  • Besides the arbor, there was a small walled garden, blooming with the last of the summer roses.   (source)
  • In fact, as he drew near to the arbor, I could see that he was only in his twenties.   (source)
  • As we approached the corner of the dovecote, we heard voices in the arbor.   (source)
  • The windows were open to the warm weather, and the disputants were quite audible from the arbor, though not all the words were clear.   (source)
  • He paused at the entrance to the arbor, leaning heavily on the lattice, and looked in at me with interest.   (source)
  • Clusters of purple grapes dangled from backyard arbors, lavender wisteria blossoms perfumed the air from the great vine enclosing the end of my grandmother's porch, and wild roses covered the fences.   (source)
    arbors = frameworks that support climbing plants
  • Give me an arbor, give me the trellis'd grape,   (source)
    arbor = a framework that supports climbing plants; or a shady rest area made by such a framework or by trees and shrubs
  • [Pg242] VII Differences in Spelling § 1 /Typical Forms/—Some of the salient differences between American and English spelling are shown in the following list of common words: /American/ /English/ Anemia anaemia aneurism aneurysm annex (noun) annexe arbor arbour armor armour asphalt asphalte ataxia ataxy ax axe balk (verb) baulk baritone barytone bark (ship) barque behavior behaviour behoove behove buncombe bunkum burden (ship's) burthen cachexia cachexy caliber calibre candor candour center centre check (bank) cheque checkered chequered cider cyder clamor clamour clangor clangour clotur   (source)
  • Close by a hollow rock, again we sit, New dress the dinner, and the beds refit, Secure from sight, beneath a pleasing shade, Where tufted trees a native arbor made.   (source)
  • It looked over the wall, if you stood on tip-toe; and, with a trellis-work of scarlet beans and a canary or so, would become a very Arbour.†   (source)
    unconventional spelling: This is a British spelling. Americans use arbor.
  • With the world shut out (except that part of it which would be shut in); with its troubles and disturbances only known to them by hearsay, as they would be described by the pilgrims tarrying with them on their way to the Insolvent Shrine; with the Arbour above, and the Lodge below; they would glide down the stream of time, in pastoral domestic happiness.†   (source)
  • His weapon now steadied by both hands, he started towards the arbour.†   (source)
  • He raised his head and looked over at the arbour of bougainvillaea.†   (source)
  • Will your Royal Highness be pleased to open Pulverulentus Siccus at the fourth page of his Grammatical garden or the Arbour of Accidence pleasantlie open'd to Tender Wits?†   (source)
  • Bourne dragged him out of sight into a latticed arbour with a profusion of bougainvillaea that reached nearly 6 feet high.†   (source)
  • The Bishop came and sat down in a wheelbarrow that stood at the edge of the arbour.†   (source)
  • There are bowers and arbours in these villa gardens and young men in shirt-sleeves on ladders trimming roses.†   (source)
    unconventional spelling: This is a British spelling. Americans use arbors.
  • They went away and sat in an arbour, from which they could watch the young people practising their shots.†   (source)
  • Father Vaillant was lying on an army cot, covered with blankets, under the grape arbour in the garden, watching the Bishop and his gardener at work in the vegetable plots.†   (source)
  • From the garden it looked like an arbour.†   (source)
  • We were soon seated together in a little stone arbour, engaged in conversation, chiefly of smiles.†   (source)
  • He slept a good deal after dinner, or basked in the arbours of the pleasant inn-gardens.†   (source)
  • Only one arbour of lilac and acacia had grown fairly well; they sometimes had tea and dinner in it.†   (source)
  • In the arbour was sitting Fenitchka, with Dunyasha and Mitya.†   (source)
  • The arbour was an arch in the wall, lined with ivy; it contained a rustic seat.†   (source)
  • The next day Charles went to sit down on the seat in the arbour.†   (source)
  • They went and sat down with their workboxes by the waterside under the arbour.†   (source)
  • They were walking on the other side of the arbour, and could not see him.†   (source)
  • He preferred staying out of doors to taking the air "in the grove," as he called the arbour.†   (source)
  • We must make friends though,' he added, and turned back towards the arbour.†   (source)
  • Half an hour later Nikolai Petrovitch went into the garden to his favourite arbour.†   (source)
  • Fenitchka at once gathered up all her roses and went out of the arbour.†   (source)
  • —F to P is the route Skin-the-Goat drove the car for an alibi, Inchicore, Roundtown, Windy Arbour, Palmerston Park, Ranelagh.†   (source)
  • And for all that he was driving through a city of stone to immure himself in a house without grass or garden, what was incessantly before his eyes was a park which he owned, near Combray, where, at four in the afternoon, before coming to the asparagus-bed, thanks to the breeze that was wafted across the fields from Meseglise, he could enjoy the fragrant coolness of the air as well beneath an arbour of hornbeams in the garden as by the bank of the pond, fringed with forget-me-not and iris; and where, when he sat down to dinner, trained and twined by the gardener's skilful hand, there ran all about his table currant-bush and rose.†   (source)
  • [Pg242] VII Differences in Spelling § 1 /Typical Forms/—Some of the salient differences between American and English spelling are shown in the following list of common words: /American/ /English/ Anemia anaemia aneurism aneurysm annex (noun) annexe arbor arbour armor armour asphalt asphalte ataxia ataxy ax axe balk (verb) baulk baritone barytone bark (ship) barque behavior behaviour behoove behove buncombe bunkum burden (ship's) burthen cachexia cachexy caliber calibre candor candour center centre check (bank) cheque checkered chequered cider cyder clamor clamour clangor clangour cloture closure[1] col†   (source)
  • His arbour, as he called the reeking outhouse which he shared with the cat and the garden tools, served him also as a sounding-box: and every morning he hummed contentedly one of his favourite songs: O, TWINE ME A BOWER or BLUE EYES AND GOLDEN HAIR or THE GROVES OF BLARNEY while the grey and blue coils of smoke rose slowly from his pipe and vanished in the pure air.†   (source)
  • In the middle of the orchard we came upon a grape arbour, with seats built along the sides and a warped plank table.†   (source)
  • As we then had no room large enough to accommodate all who would be present, the place of meeting was under a large improvised arbour, built partly of brush and partly of rough boards.†   (source)
  • In places the wild muscadine and scuppernong vines stretched from tree to tree, making arbours which were always full of butterflies and buzzing insects.†   (source)
  • And the citizen and Bloom having an argument about the point, the brothers Sheares and Wolfe Tone beyond on Arbour Hill and Robert Emmet and die for your country, the Tommy Moore touch about Sara Curran and she's far from the land.†   (source)
  • After I had admired the arbour sufficiently, the youngsters ran away to an open place where there was a rough jungle of French pinks, and squatted down among them, crawling about and measuring with a string.†   (source)
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  • IT'S ARBOR DAY!   (source)
    arbor = a holiday when people are encouraged to plant trees
  • From the Arbor.   (source)
    arbor = the name of a place
  • During the summer, in Ann Arbor, we built the Chrysler proving grounds.   (source)
  • This someplace turned out to be a huge house in the Arbors, at the end of a cul-de-sac.   (source)
    arbors = a neigborhood
  • He had a breach of promise with a hairdresser, a widow, who came to Ann Arbor from St. Louis, Mich.   (source)
    arbor = the name of a place
  • Ann Arbor, Michigan   (source)
  • It was exciting to move to Baltimore from the relatively small town of Ann Arbor.   (source)
  • He didn't like Ann Arbor.   (source)
  • Like Ann Arbor.   (source)
  • I discover Razor was the youngest of five kids, grew up in Ann Arbor, where his dad worked as an electrician and his mom as a middle school librarian, played baseball and soccer and loved Michigan football.   (source)
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  • By night, he'd slip out of Ann Arbor, for that town's opposite number.   (source)
  • Are you going to stay in Ann Arbor?   (source)
  • Then, at the suggestion of colleagues at the Ann Arbor observatory, Karp began to investigate meteorites with the intent of determining whether they harbored life, or showed evidence of having done so in the past.   (source)
  • We visited a group called the Athletic Mic League performing at the Blind Pig club in Ann Arbor.   (source)
  • Sometimes he asked Lelia what a municipal employee did on trips to Providence or Ann Arbor or Richmond.   (source)
  • A repeat killer of elderly women in Ann Arbor and Kalamazoo, Michigan.   (source)
  • Some fool makes a law against planting trees and you and me will be out there, like it or not, and we'll shut down Arbor Day.   (source)
    arbor = a holiday when people are encouraged to plant trees
  • Ann Arbor!   (source)
    arbor = the name of a place
  • She was studying to be a dietitian at Ann Arbor.   (source)
  • "I guess I seen some things in the Arbor you never seen!" complained the boy.   (source)
  • He was going directly to Omaha, to read law in the office of a Swedish lawyer until October, when he would enter the law school at Ann Arbor.   (source)
  • The University of Michigan opened its new Computer Center in 1971, in a brand-new building on Beal Avenue in Ann Arbor, with beige-brick exterior walls and a dark-glass front.   (source)
    arbor = part of a name
  • I have a dry red from the Arbor, crisp and delectable.   (source)
    arbor = the name of a place
  • Then there was this fancy restaurant in Ann Arbor where I got a job waiting tables.   (source)
  • "Sweet reds," he cried in fluent Dothraki, "I have sweet reds, from Lys and Volantis and the Arbor."   (source)
  • "The Redwyne sigil," he said, pointing, "for the Arbor."   (source)
  • He had other sons but had never tasted Arbor gold.   (source)
  • "I'm not going back to Ann Arbor in the fall, Andy," I say.   (source)
  • The wine was very fine; an Arbor vintage, she thought.   (source)
  • The wine was poor stuff compared to the vintages from the Arbor the house normally served.   (source)
  • If the ironmen decided to take the Arbor next, the whole realm might soon be going thirsty.   (source)
  • As if that could impress a prince who was heir to the entire realm, from the Arbor to the Wall.   (source)
  • They taught me what roast swan tastes like, and how to bathe in Arbor wine.   (source)
  • Only the Arbor has enough strength at sea to oppose a fleet that size.   (source)
  • "The Arbor makes the best wine in the world," Dany declared.   (source)
  • Wash it down with Arbor gold and savor every bite.   (source)
  • I tell him about how I was going to stay in Ann Arbor and wait for Andy to get his degree.   (source)
  • One flagon of Arbor gold, and one of that sweet red.   (source)
  • We shall serve him lies and Arbor gold, and he'll drink them down and ask for more, I promise you.   (source)
  • It might just be simpler to stay in Ann Arbor for one last semester.   (source)
  • Come with me to the Arbor, Xaro, and you'll have the finest vintages you ever tasted.   (source)
  • There is a flagon of good Arbor gold on the sideboard, Sansa.   (source)
  • Joffrey has no strength at sea until Lord Redwyne sets sail from the Arbor.   (source)
  • I mean, you say you want to stay in Ann Arbor...and he'll be in Ann Arbor.   (source)
  • His back was to her as he filled two cups with sweet Arbor red.   (source)
  • Without the Arbor's galleys, how will we maintain the siege of Storm's End?   (source)
  • His father sold him to Lord Varys for a jug of Arbor gold.   (source)
  • She could not rely upon the Arbor for her navy; the Redwynes were too close to the Tyrells.   (source)
  • Symon says there's to be a dancing bear at the feast, and wines from the Arbor.   (source)
  • I almost feel like I'm back in Ann Arbor.   (source)
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