embosom

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The waters," said the King, "embosom the high hills and insolently menace heaven itself.

From The Awakening of China by Martin, W. A. P. (William Alexander Parsons)

Other parts are laid into floors, or wrought into wainscoting, or carved for frames of noble pictures, or fashioned into chairs that embosom the weakness of old age.

From How to Succeed or, Stepping-Stones to Fame and Fortune by Marden, Orison Swett

There is a fire of autumn colour in the tufted woods that embosom Fernilea. 

From Angling Sketches by Lang, Andrew

Do they not embosom him in a style of grandeur worthy, if such it be, of a "City of Palaces?"

From Recreations of Christopher North, Volume I (of 2) by Wilson, John Lyde

The hills embosom a clear little creek called after the yellow rattlesnake, which is almost as plentiful a luxury in these wilds as the grasshopper.

From The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 18, No. 106, August, 1866 by Various