He had turned to retrace his steps when, through the foliage of a bower of jasmine, he thought he could distinguish a white dress.
The eating-room, which comes next, is decorated so as to represent a verdant bower, the paintings are under mirrors, and tin-plate, cut out in the Chinese manner, seems to shew light through the foliage.
The fair olive tree and the dark cypress mingle their foliage with the luxuriant chestnut boughs, and the frequent marble villa flashes a white gleam from amid its surrounding laurel bowers.
But the central question surrounding bower birds was the purpose of the bowers.
On the ground outside the bower are two juvenile males.
Other beings lurk in bowers and infest pregnant women to feed on their fetuses.
At the center is a female seated in the bower, its sides encircling her.
