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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

In the verdant depths where leaves enlace, And dapple with shadow the body's grace— And Pan, with a snort, gives the Dryad chase,     In the forest of Arcadia.

From The Deluge and Other Poems by John Presland

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

Pass your hands beneath him, enlace your fingers, and when I give the word, all lift.”

From The Vast Abyss The Story of Tom Blount, his Uncles and his Cousin Sam 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

He had, further, enlaced the contemporary rulers in the various countries of the West in ties of relationship with himself.

From The Formation of Christendom, Volume VI The Holy See and the Wandering of the Nations, from St. Leo I to St. Gregory I by T. W. (Thomas William) Allies

She flushed and she paled as she lay there, with down-drawn brows and enlaced hands, her yellow hair falling over the hard, shiny horsehair of the sofa.

From Flames by Robert Smythe Hichens

She assented, as enlaced they went up again to the studio.

From Carnival 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

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

Elsewhere we saw terraces higher up, but none on so great a scale, so completely enlacing the slope from base to crest.

From The Head Hunters of Northern Luzon by Cornélis de Witt Willcox

Arms enlacing one another, we walked the floor in silence, slowly passing from her chamber into mine, and back again, heads erect, challenging that Destiny whose shadowy visage we could now gaze on unafraid.

From The Reckoning by Robert W. (Robert William) Chambers

The sense of desperate tendrils enlacing him was almost suffocating, and each tendril craved for recognition; a lapse, a look, an inattention was the cutting of something that bled, and clung the closer.

From The Nest, The White Pagoda, The Suicide, A Forsaken Temple, Miss Jones and The Masterpiece by Anne Douglas Sedgwick




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