unbosoming

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The placid lake that rested far below, Softly embosoming another sky, Still as we gazed assumed a lovelier glow, And seem'd to send us looks of amity.

From The Isle of Palms and Other Poems by Wilson, John Lyde

The country is generally undulating and fertile, with occasional mountain ranges, of which the Comeraghs are rendered especially interesting and picturesque by the deep "cooms," embosoming tarns, which give them their name.

From The Sunny Side of Ireland How to see it by the Great Southern and Western Railway by Praeger, Robert Lloyd

So she passed under the pretty hamlet of Gulvall, with its picturesque church-tower peeping forth from the embosoming trees, and descended to the hard sands of the sea-shore.

From Trevethlan: (Vol 2 of 3) A Cornish Story. by Watson, William Davy

Here they whom pitiless love hath wasted in cruel decay hide among untrodden ways, shrouded in embosoming myrtle thickets; not death itself ends their distresses.

From The Aeneid of Virgil by Virgil

It was smooth as the sea of summer, embosoming only deep cloud-shadows and the full sunlight, but no lesser thing.

From Early Letters of George Wm. Curtis by Cooke, George Willis