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Examples
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Save the lone screech-owl's note, who builds his bow'r
Romance Two Lectures Walter Alexander Raleigh 1891
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This seven year I have served you in hall and in bow'r
A Select Collection of Old English Plays, Volume 1 William Carew Hazlitt 1873
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See'st now how Ocean overwhelms his marge * And stores the pearl-drop in his deepest bow'r:
Arabian nights. English Anonymous 1855
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Haste from the wars, &c. Lone ev'ry field, and lone the bow'r;
Tales and Novels — Volume 01 Maria Edgeworth 1808
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He flew to the bow'r of his love; it was still as the chamber of death.
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She starts at the voice of the breeze, and runs to the door of her bow'r.
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The long haunted bow'r, where the nightingale grieves.
The Mysteries of Udolpho Ann Ward Radcliffe 1793
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In the grove or the bow'r I'll pass the long hour,
Eileen Aroon 5 1778
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Tis sweet in the bow'r at ev'ning's fall To list to the night-bird's singing;
Watlington Hill; a poem Mitford, Mary Russell, 1787-1855 1812
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Who, terrible to sight, at that fix'd hour Still treads the round about his dreary bow'r.
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