Arbour in example sentence

The old lady was very precise and very particular; and as this ceremony had been observed for three successive summers without the slightest deviation from the accustomed form, she was not a little surprised on this particular morning to see the fat boy, instead of leaving the arbour, walk a few paces out of it, look carefully round him in every direction, and return towards her with great stealth and an air of the most profound mystery.

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At the end of the garden, by the side of the water, he had an arbour built just for the purpose of drinking beer in summer; and if madame is fond of gardening she will be able—""My wife doesn't care about it," said Charles; "although she has been advised to take exercise, she prefers always sitting in her room reading."

Through the bars of the arbour and away beyond, the river seen in the fields, meandering through the grass in wandering curves.

He read aloud, bareheaded, sitting on a footstool of dry sticks; the fresh wind of the meadow set trembling the leaves of the book and the nasturtiums of the arbour.

It was in the arbour, on the same seat of old sticks where formerly Leon had looked at her so amorously on the summer evenings.

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