embowed
Example Sentences
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But let my due feet never fail To walk the studious cloisters pale, And love the high embowed roof With antique pillars massy proof, etc.”
From Tennyson and His Friends by Various
On the west side the Rambler passes the precincts of Westminster Abbey, beneath whose “high embowed roof” repose the sacred ashes of the illustrious dead.
From Rambles in Dickens' Land by Robert Allbut
Above is the "high embowed roof" of the central tower; around are the stalls set in a screen of woodwork intricately carved.
From Evesham by E. H. (Edmund Hort) New
Their live pillars upheaved a thick embowed roof, betwixt whose leaves and blossoms hardly a sunbeam filtered.
From Lilith, a romance by George MacDonald
The inn was formerly the private mansion of the Courtenay family, and its sign was one of the family crests, "a Dolphin embowed" or bent like a bow.
From From John O'Groats to Land's End by Robert Naylor
