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Example sentences for "arbour"

Lexicographically close words:
arboretum; arboribus; arbors; arborum; arborvitae; arbours; arbres; arbusta; arbutus; arc
  1. The nurse was sitting with the boy in an arbour of blossomless juniper; the brethren were busy in the house with their prayers and duties.

  2. To the east it would go naturally into an extension of the orchard; to the west it would end at a grape arbour just beyond the farthest woodshed.

  3. Our ramblers did their duty well, but the grape arbour and the pergola would not be covered properly in a season.

  4. To the west the grape arbour rises above a white bench of real marble, and I can see dappled shadows beneath the whitish young leaves.

  5. The grape arbour along the west side of the sundial lawn was also built, of plain chestnut.

  6. I ascended to the dark arbour which had been called by my name, where an appointment had been made to meet me.

  7. A kind of arbour was made for Mistress Rebecca in the small iron gallery surmounting the entrance to the tavern.

  8. Again he turned him to explore Each chamber, hall, and corridor, And arbour bright with scented bloom, And lodge and cell and picture-room.

  9. Each arbour clad with climbing bloom, Each grotto, cell, and picture room, Each lawn by beast and bird enjoyed, Each walk and terrace was destroyed.

  10. Everyone left the arbour except her and the old man, and Brigit, feeling that Joyselle was close on her heels, went into the house and into the sitting-room.

  11. Beyond, a clearly defined square of moonlight showed her a smooth patch of lawn, beyond which the side of a creeper-clad arbour blocked the view.

  12. His bride--his chosen Sophia--disappearing into an arbour with a young man!

  13. Clatworthy, and was pressing her, polite as a lamb, towards the nearest arbour to seat her there and persuade her.

  14. I was alone; and the arbour a little house of gloom on the borders of evening.

  15. There is shade as deep, and fruit to refresh you, in a little arbour yonder.

  16. Yura was about to get up to go into the arbour and there begin life anew, with an imperceptible transition from the old, when suddenly he heard voices in the arbour.

  17. Fortunately it turned out to be the same arbour which was covered with wild grapes and in which father and mother had sat that day.

  18. I begged Burbidge to leave, as last year, the old iron kettle in the arbour of honeysuckle, where he and Madam had their nest and reared their offspring last spring.

  19. In Green Arbour Court Goldsmith spent the roughest part of the toilsome years before he became known to the world.

  20. A faint sweetness was in the air from the honeysuckle arbour outside, which led into the box-bordered walks of the garden.

  21. It is much improved since then: I have had a little arbour built under the large tree on its summit: you will have no objection to view it, Alonzo?

  22. The viny arbour was broken, and principally gone to decay; yet the "lonely wild rose" blushed mournfully amidst the ruins.

  23. So he bore her across the garden into the arbour and laying her upon the divan, sank beside it on his knees, panting a little.

  24. Hermione rose and coming to the entrance of the arbour leaned there.

  25. And in a similar way it occurred that I became a Latinist because Friar Ange was taken by the watch and put into ecclesiastical penance for having knocked down a cutler under the arbour of the Little Bacchus.

  26. It stretches with its head to the blue vault of the sky, forming as a canopy of black arbour of black Tamala trees over it.

  27. The arbour of desire extends on all sides of the sky, and fills the space of the whole world, by embodying the gods and demigods and men and all kinds of living beings in it.

  28. No one has any faith in the arbour of his imagination or aerial castle.

  29. Allegory of the arbour of desire, the resort of all living beings.

  30. They lived a fortnight in the arbour of Suktimat mountain, beset by mandara trees and Kalpa plants; and feasted upon the fruits which they could reach with their hands.

  31. How flourishing is the kalpa tree or all fruitful arbour of delusion; which is ever fraught with endless objects of our imaginary desire, and stretches out the infinite worlds to our erroneous conception as its leaves.

  32. The words sky, firmament, and the vacuum of Brahma and the world, are all applicable to the Intellect, as the words arbour and tree are but synonymous expressions for the same thing.

  33. As long as there exist the seeds of error, and the sources of endless networks of imagination; so long the arbour of gross illusion does not cease, to sprout in endless ramifications.

  34. Enmity is like a wild fire, it consumes the arbour of the body, and lets out the smoke through the orifice of the mouth in the desert land of the heart, and exhibits the rose of the heath as the burning cinders.

  35. This nest of mine, this branch of the tree, this kalpa arbour and this myself, are all blessed by your propitious presence in this place.

  36. He who lops off the branches and brambles of the arbour of his mind, by his manliness of reason and discretion; is able also to root out this tree at once from his heart.

  37. When in the arbour you were not allowed to stir, or to make the slightest remarks, or to wear attractive colours; and everybody stood up in silence.

  38. The King, the Queen, the captain of the guards, and the grand ecuyer were in the first arbour with about twenty guns and the wherewithal to load them.

  39. I remained walking up and down in the arbour all the time, reflecting on the wickedness of my enemies, and the gross credulity of Monseigneur.

  40. He then went directly to the arbour at the end of the garden, and there to his wish he found Caelia quite alone; and he addressed her exactly in the same manner concerning her cousin, as he had before spoke to Chloe concerning her.

  41. Thus ended the story of the two giants: and Miss Jenny being tired with reading, they left the arbour for that night, and agreed to meet there again the next day.

  42. But meeting again in the same arbour in the evening, when their good mistress continued to them the favour of her presence, Miss Jenny pursued her story.

  43. One morning, as they were sitting in a little arbour at the corner of a pleasant meadow, on a sudden they heard a voice, much sweeter than they had ever heard, warble through the following song: A SONG.

  44. In the house was bustle and movement; but in the garden, in an arbour of blossoming elder, stood an open coffin.

  45. What's the use of being a Roi Soleil if you can't ask a lady of your Court to sit in an arbour without being interrupted like this?

  46. Breakfast over, she picked up a little Revised Bible from her book-corner, and went out into the arbour for a few minutes' quiet, hoping she might gain a little light.

  47. In one corner a little arbour had been erected, and, till the climbing plants had completed the covering, a gay red-striped awning had been fixed up, adding still more colour to the scene.

  48. With his hands clasped behind him, he paced across the arbour and back again.

  49. And he entered, as into another world, the circular arbour in which the pergola ended, so complete in contrast was its atmosphere to that of the house.


  50. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "arbour" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.