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  • Outside there are these benches with these grape-arbor sort of vines that creep above them.

    Number 6 Fumbles Rachel Solar-Tuttle 2002

  • The long grape-arbor at the end of the lawn looked viny and cool.

    The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 10, No. 62, December, 1862 Various

  • Then turn the pot on its side under a tree or grape-arbor, and let the soil dry up completely; this will kill the stalk but not injure the bulb.

    Your Plants Plain and Practical Directions for the Treatment of Tender and Hardy Plants in the House and in the Garden James Sheehan

  • There was Aunty Edith holding on to the grape-arbor while George pulled at the can, and the paint flowing around pretty free.

    W. A. G.'s Tale Margaret Turnbull

  • And so, with the balloons floating out in front, the children went back to sit under the grape-arbor and eat bread and jam that Parker spread for them.

    Six Little Bunkers at Aunt Jo's Laura Lee Hope

  • As soon as all danger of heavy frosts is over in the spring, the plants should be taken from the house and removed to some shady location, under a grape-arbor, in a pit or frame covered with shades; here leave them standing in the pots "plunging" the pots in earth or sand to prevent too rapid drying out.

    Your Plants Plain and Practical Directions for the Treatment of Tender and Hardy Plants in the House and in the Garden James Sheehan

  • He tore downstairs in a great hurry, though very careful at the same time to close the shutters of his window again; for it gave him a cold chill to imagine that great yellow-maned lion scrambling up the grape-arbor near by, and finding entrance to his sleeping apartment.

    Chums of the Camp Fire Lawrence J. Leslie

  • She went back to the house, down the long walk, under the grape-arbor, still only faintly shaded with sprigs of pale green.

    The Brimming Cup Dorothy Canfield Fisher 1918

  • You could see the grape-arbor plainly from there -- Muvver sitting with her hair all mussed up around her face, listening to the new man, who sat across the table from her and talked and talked and talked, and never moved a finger.

    The Squirrel-Cage Dorothy Canfield Fisher 1918

  • The new man put her down, and asked her with a "please" and "I'd be much obliged" as though she were a grown-up herself, if she would do something for him -- go to Muvver and ask her if she felt strong enough to come down into the grape-arbor to see him.

    The Squirrel-Cage Dorothy Canfield Fisher 1918

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