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She liked to stand under the arboured gate with extended hands and from there to speak the first welcoming words and then to link arms and lead the visitor indoors with promises of tea or fires in bedrooms and little kindly appreciations of the fatigue of travelling.

Men of Affairs Roland Pertwee

He retreated to a little arboured seat, and a few minutes later would have given anything to escape from it.

The World's Greatest Books — Volume 06 — Fiction Various 1909

"Another Cuneo!" groaned Aunt Kathryn, at sight of the hotel in the steep little town of Desenzano, on Lake Garda; but later she apologized to the quaint courtyard for her misunderstanding, and was more than tolerant of her vast bedroom draped with yellow satin, and opening on an arboured terrace worthy even of a Countess Dalmar.

My Friend the Chauffeur Frederic [Illustrator] Lowenheim 1901

It was a tangle of orange and lemon trees, looped with garlands of roses and flowering creepers, carpeted with a thousand fragrant, old-fashioned flowers, and arboured with grapevines, whose last year's leaves, though sparse, were still russet and gold: altogether a mere bright ribbon of beauty pinned like a lover's knot on a high shoulder of jutting rock.

The Guests Of Hercules M. Leone Bracker 1901

"And therefore it goes against our grain to 'ave' arboured the maid -- that's what we used to call them in England -- and the time has come, I think, to do something about it."

Ringfield A Novel 1897

Our hotel with its pleasant garden and the fine shops -- (where it seems you can still buy every fascinating thing from newest jewellery and oldest curiosities, to Amiens 'special "_roc_" chocolates) -- the long, arboured boulevards, the cobbled streets, the quaint blue and pink houses of the suburbs, and the poplar-lined walk by the Somme, all, all have the friendliest air!

Everyman's Land 1889

Along the arboured road from Cairo, flashed motor-car after motor-car, their lights winking in and out between the dark trees, now blazing, now invisible, their occupants all intent on doing the right thing: dining at Mena House, and seeing the full moon feed honey to the Sphinx.

It Happened in Egypt 1889

We also had not been impressed when, on arriving that evening, the waiter told us that the lovely arboured garden would close at 10. 30pm, for when we then asked him what time it was, gave us a look of "that's not my responsibility" and said that he did not know.

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