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enlace

[en-leys] / ɛnˈleɪs /


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Among the many tattoos that enlace her limbs is one of the Bataclan, on her left forearm.

From Seattle Times Oct. 19, 2021

Three minutes into the conversation with the Matamoros editor, the senior editor began raising his voice about the enlace.

From Washington Post Dec. 9, 2015

And thou, Yma Sumac, come to me, I enlace you in the thread of love; Thou art the pure essence of Coyllur.

From Apu Ollantay A Drama of the Time of the Incas by Sir Clements R. (Clements Robert) Markham

A very large sperm whale was locked in deadly conflict with a cuttle-fish or squid, almost as large as himself, whose interminable tentacles seemed to enlace the whole of his great body.

From The Cruise of the Cachalot Round the World After Sperm Whales by Frank T. Bullen

Marion, for her possession of him who should have been her husband; Philip, for her ceaseless efforts to enlace herself round his heart.

From The Sapphire Cross by George Manville Fenn

They came from a world enlaced with traditional forms, in which the idea of an avant-garde was barely conceivable and the notion of radical renewal seemed like cultural parricide.

From Time Magazine Archive

At this moment, as if to confirm Sir Grummore’s opinion, a pair of enlaced figures sauntered along the diff road.

From "The Once and Future King" by T. H. White

"Be strong!" whispered the girl, pressing the hand of her brother which was enlaced in hers.

From The Lion of Janina The Last Days of the Janissaries by Mór Jókai

Also in feather work, partly useful and partly ornamental, they assorted feathers piece by piece, and enlaced the feathers in the meshes of their hats and caps, or fastened them into scepters with pitch.

From Folkways A Study of the Sociological Importance of Usages, Manners, Customs, Mores, and Morals by William Graham Sumner

The goldcrests twittered, the squirrels chased, While the lofty pines, brown arms enlaced, Lisped a dryad-taught melody, sung by the sea.

From The Dales of Arcady by Dorothy Una Ratcliffe

The subject of both literary arts, for Maxwell, is the enlacing of human passions in the web of relationships, rules, habits and prejudices that make up what is called society.

From New York Times Aug. 23, 2021

It was one of those moments when the accumulated impressions of life converge on heart and brain, elucidating, enlacing each other, in a mysterious confusion of beauty.

From The Custom of the Country by Edith Wharton

Fixing her hinder claws in the meshes of the wire gauze the mother drags her burden towards her; then, enlacing it with her legs, she holds it suspended.

From Social Life in the Insect World by Bernard Miall

But Winsome moved away from him, walking down towards the mouth of the linn, through the thickly wooded glen, and underneath the overarching trees, with their enlacing lattice-work of curving boughs.

From The Lilac Sunbonnet by S. R. (Samuel Rutherford) Crockett

There is no end and no release; it is our destiny to live; the darkness is all about us, but we are the light, enlacing it with struggling beams, piercing it with fiery spears.

From Escape, and Other Essays by Arthur Christopher Benson




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