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Enwrap

verb
1.
Enclose or enfold completely with or as if with a covering.  Synonyms: enclose, enfold, envelop, wrap.






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"Enwrap" Quotes from Famous Books



... of wintry wrath is o'er, The whirlwind and the storm have pass'd, The whiten'd ashes of the snow Enwrap the ruined world no more; Nor keenly from the orient blow The venom'd hissings ...
— Poems • Denis Florence MacCarthy

... who herself Hath honour'd manifest our hallow'd feast. Haste, one, into the field, to order thence 530 An ox, and let the herdsman drive it home. Another, hasting to the sable bark Of brave Telemachus, bring hither all His friends, save two, and let a third command Laerceus, that he come to enwrap with gold The victim's horns. Abide ye here, the rest, And bid my female train (for I intend A banquet) with all diligence provide Seats, stores of wood, and water from the rock. He said, whom instant ...
— The Odyssey of Homer • Homer

... Song Enwrap our fancy long, Time will run back, and fetch the age of gold; And speckled vanity Will sicken soon and die, And leprous sin will melt from earthly mould; And Hell itself will pass away, And leave her dolorous mansions to ...
— The Golden Treasury - Of the Best Songs and Lyrical Poems in the English Language • Various

... The wind was against them; they were exposed to the full force of the blizzard. Maurice pushed till he panted; but their progress was slow. At intervals, he stopped, to shake the snow off the rug, and to enwrap Louise afresh; and each violent gust that met him when he turned a corner, smote him doubly; for he pictured to himself the fury with which it must hurl itself against her, sitting motionless ...
— Maurice Guest • Henry Handel Richardson

... retires; Clear'd from the smoke the joyful navy lies; In heaps on heaps the foe tumultuous flies; Triumphant Greece her rescued decks ascends, And loud acclaim the starry region rends. So when thick clouds enwrap the mountain's head, O'er heaven's expanse like one black ceiling spread; Sudden the Thunderer, with a flashing ray, Bursts through the darkness, and lets down the day: The hills shine out, the rocks in prospect rise, And streams, and vales, and forests, strike the eyes; ...
— The Iliad of Homer • Homer

... comes stealing anear, When things in the firelight look queer; And shadows the playroom enwrap, They never climb into my lap And toy with my head, smooth and bare, As they do with Mamma's shining hair; Nor feel round my throat and my chin For dimples to put fingers in; Nor lock my neck in a loving vise, And say they're "mousies"—that's mice— And will nibble ...
— The Book of Humorous Verse • Various



Words linked to "Enwrap" :   engulf, cover, hide, capsule, capsulise, envelop, sheathe, shroud, wrap, enshroud, capsulize, tube, cocoon, capsulate, bathe, benight



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