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  • That translates into lower bowering costs for people buying homes or cars for better or for worse.

    You Know I’m Right Michelle Caruso-Cabrera 2010

  • And for years, we've been bowering from abroad, but we've stuck (INAUDIBLE) with tremendous losses.

    CNN Transcript Sep 22, 2007 2007

  • Over and beside us breathes the joy of hope and promise; under foot are troubles past; in the distance bowering newness tempts us ever forward.

    Lorna Doone Richard Doddridge 2004

  • Thai, Porn, with black hair bowering to her buttocks.

    An Apostate: Nawin of Thais

  • Prospero's isle to make his nest in Wellesley's bowering rhododendrons -- in blossom time he is always hovering there, a winged bloom, for eyes that are not holden.

    The Story of Wellesley Florence Converse 1919

  • There was the little house, white as paint could make it, and snug in bowering foliage.

    Tiverton Tales Alice Brown 1902

  • There was the little house, white as paint could make it, and snug in bowering foliage.

    Tiverton Tales Alice Brown 1902

  • A long, box-bordered walk led from the great door down to the old turnpike, and thickly bowering lilac-bushes forced the eye to play an unsatisfied hide-and-seek with the view.

    Meadow Grass Tales of New England Life Alice Brown 1902

  • "Planned beneath the summer leaves, on the far shore of picturesque Hell Gate, above smiling fields and bowering orchards of his Angevine home, those leaves had scarcely fallen when the story was told -- 'the most uniformly exciting and powerful of his fictions' -- 'The Last of the Mohicans,' and Natty and Chingachgook were left in the wilderness beside the rude grave of Uncas."

    James Fenimore Cooper 1901

  • He was thinking himself of household duties, and had his own sweetheart safe at home, nestling in the bowl of a great beech deep in the bowering wood by the loch.

    The Lilac Sunbonnet 1887

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