embower

Luther provides the "tropologia" Bunyan needs to happily embower Christ in his conscience while entombing the law in his body.

since "gutted palaces and cloisters embowered in weed" were

And in the interspaces the embowered remnants of the old and pleasant town remained, timid, retreating, overwhelmed, to remind one in all this harsh new din, of foot-falls in a quiet street as men went home at noon, of laughter and quiet voices and the leafy rustle of the night.

The thronged boughs of the shadowy sycamore Still bear young leaflets half the summer through; From when the robin 'gainst the unhidden blue Perched dark, till now, deep in the leafy core, The embowered throstle's urgent wood-notes soar Through summer silence.

This effort meant modifying melodramatic conventions in order to make them amenable to depictions of female characters as empowered rather than embowered. The alteration of melodramatic plot devices, the injection of documentary-like realism, the addition of psychological depth and motivation to characters, and the use of rhetorical strategies that turned antisuffrage logic against itself were part of the suffrage playwright's arsenal for disrupting melodramatic conventions.

She awaits her worshippers in a golden gazebo embowered in bushels of fresh flowers.

'That town, embowered in the different shade, of tamarinds, panspans, and papaws, ...' [Caribbeana: an Anthology of English Literature in the West Indies, 1657-1777, T W Krise, 1999]

(6) This conceit fosters a sense that Ophelia's appearances proliferate in the contemporary world; in this, it corresponds to Tom Hunter's 2000 photograph 'The Way Home', whose embowered woman cites John Everett Millais's famous Ophelia oil painting of 1852.

In addition to the locus ainoenus and hortus conclusus, the romance epic furnishes the bower with "the figure of the lone knight/hero whose dynastic quest is punctuated by digressive interludes of embowered, sexualized encounters with maids, sorceresses, or divine female figures" (Crawford, Poetry, Enclosure 226).

Ottawa began to feel proud of its trees: a book published by city council in 1884 boasted of a new suburb, New Edinburgh, where "the greater number of streets have been planted with shade trees which add much to the beauty of the place." (14) By 1904 Anson Gard enthused, "Tree embowered Ottawa is becoming a veritable beauty spot." (15) Trees defined space in the city by identifying a hierarchy of streets: commercial streets were generally treeless, and the appearance of trees on one section of a commercial street marked a shift to residential uses.

During a visit to the region north of Hanford, John Muir welcomed the change and noted that "cheerless shanties [were] being displaced by true homes embowered in trees and lovingly bordered with flowers; and contentment, which in California is perhaps the very rarest of the virtues, is now beginning to take root." (28) Actual or ideal, the lithographs clearly show that some of the profits of the settlers' economic lives now were being reinvested in the place itself, not only for future commercial gain but for substantial and comfortable homes as well.