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enlace

[en-lays] / 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

Do you, within your little hour of Grace, The waving Cypress in your Arms enlace, Before the Mother back into her arms Fold, and dissolve you in a last embrace.

From The Sufistic Quatrains of Omar Khayyam by Omar Khayyam

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

I sail Between two banks, where heavy boughs enlace, Whose verdurous luxuriance wakes once more My many griefs.

From A Lute of Jade : selections from the classical poets of China by L. (Launcelot) Cranmer-Byng

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

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

He seized her gently by the waist and kissed her, holding her thus enlaced until they were at the door.

From Là-bas by Keene Wallace

Many turned to look at the two friends, as enlaced they wandered across the 'gravel' on their way to change out of flannels, Michael nut-brown and Alan rose-bloomed like a peach.

From Sinister Street, vol. 1 by Compton MacKenzie

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

Here Mrs Thorne sighed deeply, and began to strive to extricate herself from her child’s enlacing arms.

From The New Mistress A Tale by George Manville Fenn

For she walks—She our Lady, our Mistress of Wedlock,—the woodlands atween, And the bride-bed she weaves them, with myrtle enlacing, with curtains of green.

From Brother Copas by Sir Arthur Thomas Quiller-Couch

So they stand with their limbs enlacing, Nymph and mortal, upon this shore, He forever a vine embracing Her a silvery sycamore.

From A Voice on the Wind and Other Poems by Madison Julius Cawein

For she walks—she our Lady, our Mistress of Wedlock—the woodlands atween,     5 And the bride-bed she weaves them, with myrtle enlacing, with curtains of green.

From The Vigil of Venus and Other Poems by "Q" by Sir Arthur Thomas Quiller-Couch


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