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Example sentences for "arbors"

Lexicographically close words:
arboreous; arbores; arborescent; arboretum; arboribus; arborum; arborvitae; arbour; arbours; arbres
  1. Even the Indians have recourse to these fantastic arbors as a place of refuge during rain storms.

  2. In all ornamental plantings on arbors or pergolas, if fruit is to be considered, the permanent trunk is carried to the top of the structure.

  3. Some growers construct arbors entirely of wood, using slats or poles instead of wires.

  4. The grape is a favorite ornamental for fences, arbors and to cover buildings; for all of these purposes the vines must be trained as occasion calls.

  5. The vines are almost immune to mildew, rot, phylloxera, or other fungal or insect pests; they give not only an abundance of fruit but on arbors and trellises are much prized for their shade and beauty.

  6. Fortunately, several arbors were empty, although one or two were engaged, and I walked into the first I came to.

  7. In 1710 a reason given for the disuse and destruction of "quicksetted arbors and hedges" was that they "agreed very ill with the ladies' muslins.

  8. There are many pretty trellises and vine supports and arbors which can be made of light poles and rails, but I do not like to hear the pretentious name, pergola, applied to them.

  9. Tree arbors were in use in Elizabethan times, platforms built in the branches of large trees.

  10. These upright arbors were in high favor; Ballard says they offered "fragrant savours, delectable sights, and sharpening of the memory.

  11. A distinction was made between arbors and bowers.

  12. Although the men had been expecting to remain some time longer at Iuka, they willingly proceeded to pull down arbors and strike tents.

  13. Some of the companies are taking great pains in the construction of arbors adjoining their tents.

  14. The small pine shrubbery affords excellent material for the construction of shades and arbors to protect against the scorching rays of the sun.

  15. If the Chinese Wistaria had been a tree, and some one could have induced it to climb and cover our porches and arbors and old trees and buildings, what a grand improvement it would have been.

  16. A traveler informs us that he has seen them in California trained over arbors and to the houses just as we train grape vines here, and growing most luxuriantly.

  17. The little isles in the Lake of Cachemire are set with arbors and large-leaved aspen-trees, slender and tall.

  18. It was a quiet, sheltered spot, adorned with arbors and green alleys, and protected from the passing gaze by trees and hawthorn hedges.

  19. Arbors for milling cutters may be driven in two ways.

  20. The driving pulleys are held to the arbors by being bored a driving fit, and are driven on so as to avoid the use of keys, which would throw the wheels out of balance.

  21. Circular saws of large diameter, as from 40 inches upwards, are made a fair sliding fit upon their arbors or mandrels, and are provided with two diametrically opposite pins that are fast in the arbor collar.

  22. The countershaft for driving the saw arbors is below the machine, so that the saw that is not in use remains stationary.

  23. Rotary cutters are carried on arbors fitted to the cutting spindle (g, Fig.

  24. Mandrels or arbors are sometimes made adjustable for diameter by forcing a split cone upon a coned plug, examples being given in the following figures, which are extracted from Mechanics.

  25. It follows, therefore, that the holes and arbors should both be made to a certain standard, and the only way to do this is to so construct the reamer that it may be readily adjusted to size by moving its teeth.

  26. The mouth of A is coned to receive the arbors or mandrels for driving the mills or cutters.

  27. In the figure a globe valve is shown chucked between two plugs or arbors fitting its bore, but it is obvious that centres or other work-holding appliances may be used to suit the kind of work.

  28. When larger and better gardens were demanded to meet the architecture of the large, square, Colonial homes, green arbors were popular.

  29. High and low were to be found there, and the drinking of tea and coffee in the arbors was a feature.

  30. Then there were the Adam and Eve tea gardens, with arbors for tea-drinking parties, which subsequently became the Adam and Eve Tavern and Coffee House.

  31. With what apostolic cleverness would he impose himself upon these people, and how after the gravid midday meal of the Sabbath he would sit in those green arbors like a horrible Chinese fum.

  32. Many arbors are enclosed at the sides too tightly.

  33. The shade of the arbors kept the soil beneath them moist, if not wet, for several weeks at a time.

  34. Stakes will answer as supports to the vines during the first and second seasons; but thereafter trellises or arbors are needed.

  35. The two arbors are set as near the point of suspension, or top of the pendulum spring, as possible.

  36. The pivots of the wheel D are set in the frame AP, which rides on the arbors of the hour-wheel and scape-wheel, or on another short arbor between them.

  37. The arbors of the scape-wheel and hour-wheel are distinct, their pivots meeting in a bush fixed somewhere between the wheels.

  38. In the arbors joining the two kiosks were the seats for the musicians and a table covered with sweetmeats and confections, with bottles of water for the thirsty public, all decorated with leaves and flowers.

  39. The view is closed on the side of the river by curious wooden arches, half Chinese and half European, affording glimpses of a terrace with arbors and bowers faintly lighted by paper lanterns of many colors.

  40. She saw the azotea with its little arbors bathed in the ghostly light of the moon.

  41. Their grape arbors were delightful pictures in their season of maturity.

  42. As a rule, too much wood must be allowed to grow, and the soil about arbors is rarely ever cultivated.

  43. Arbors and bowers are usually formed with little reference to pruning and training.

  44. My boy's grandfather had a large and beautiful garden, with long arbors of grapes in it, that the old gentleman trimmed and cared for himself.

  45. This in itself was a great merit, and there were grape-arbors and peach-trees in his yard which added to his popularity, with cling-stone peaches almost as big as oranges on them.


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