Citations:arbours

English citations of arbours

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• 1678 — John Bunyan. The Pilgrim's Progress.

  So the gardener had them into the vineyards, and bid them refresh themselves with the dainties. [Deut. 23:24] He also showed them there the King's walks, and the arbours where he delighted to be; and here they tarried and slept.

• 1851, Herman Melville, Moby Dick:

  To and fro I paced before this skeleton — brushed the vines aside — broke through the ribs — and with a ball of Arsacidean twine, wandered, eddied long amid its many winding, shaded colonnades and arbours.