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ensphere

[en-sfeer] / ɛnˈsfɪər /


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We want men in law who shall realize that the function of the legal profession is to build up justice and ensphere it in the will of the people.

From Men in the Making by Ambrose Shepherd

Unfaltering trust, complete content, The days ensphere, Each meal becomes a sacrament, And heaven is here.

From Poems with Power to Strengthen the Soul by James Mudge

Mr. Judd was a good scholar, and the word is legitimately compounded, like ensphere and imparadise; but he did not invent it.

From The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 04, No. 25, November, 1859 by Various

And all was happiness and right, beauty and strength; And every star heard all her radiant sons With songs of love ensphere her mother-breast; And all blessed Life.

From Laura Secord, the heroine of 1812. A Drama. and Other Poems. by Sarah Anne Curzon

Thy gloomy snares the world ensphere: Where no man calls, thou lov'st to go; But when we call, thou wilt not hear.

From Sketches and Studies in Italy and Greece, Second Series by Horatio Robert Forbes Brown

Your universal sceptic—if he choose to affect that character,—no man is it—is impregnable; his true emblem is the hedgehog ensphered in his prickles; that is, as long as you are observing him.

From The Eclipse of Faith Or, A Visit To A Religious Sceptic by Henry Rogers

He had ensphered her in light; she was unassailable— his fly in amber.

From Rest Harrow A Comedy of Resolution by Maurice Henry Hewlett

But the public would have none of it, though ensphered in faultless verso, and the poets fled back to their flames and darts, and to the primrose at the river's brim.

From Gossip in a Library by Edmund Gosse

I tried to build about me such a little globe of ease as always ensphered her, and thought of all that remained good in our lives though Chris was gone.

From The Return of the Soldier by Rebecca West

She was ensphered from the world of creative effort in the establishment of her own perfection.

From The Judge by Rebecca West

Emerson's ensphering universality overspreads Carlyle like the sky above a volcanic island.

From Modern Essays by Harry Morgan Ayres

Michael in continuation sings of the ensphering atmosphere and the storms that rage in it, darting forth tongues of lightning, and howling in gusts over land and sea.

From The Three Devils: Luther's, Milton's, and Goethe's With Other Essays by David Masson




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