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The bower was always invitingly open in the back garden; hence the bower was the regular rendezvous of the trappers.— The Wild Man of the West A Tale of the Rocky Mountains
In the centre of the bower was a splendid Platanus, or Oriental plane--a huge hill of leaves--one of the noblest specimens of that regularly beautiful tree which I remember to have seen.— Memoirs of the Life of Sir Walter Scott, Volume I (of 10)
In the meantime, Arthur led Alice along the edge of the rock to a little, natural bower beyond, which Alice called her bower, and where she and Helen had made a bed of moss, and adorned it with shells.— Helen and Arthur or, Miss Thusa's Spinning Wheel
By-and-by she crept into the old bower where Rosamund and Irene had spent a midsummer night--a night altogether very different from the present one, for the bower was not waterproof, and the cold sleet came in and fell upon the half-dressed child.— A Modern Tomboy A Story for Girls
He was a very little boy Lady Ker shut herself up in her own room--her "bower," the servants called it Soon Randal heard heavy steps on the stairs, and whispering.— The Gold Of Fairnilee

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