enlace
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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
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
So closely doth the ivy not enlace The tree where firmly rooted it doth stand, As clasp each other in their warm embrace These lovers, by each other's sweet breath fanned.
From The Development of the Feeling for Nature in the Middle Ages and Modern Times by Alfred Biese
"Alas!" quoth she, "My painful fingers I will here enlace Till I have gain'd your pity for our race."
From The Poetical Works of Thomas Hood by Thomas Hood
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.
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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
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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
The phantoms three enlaced The trembling baron round; He vainly shrieked,—the walls With demon laughs resound; The echoing thunders rolled Along the valley deep; Lightnings, when pale dawn broke, Blasted the castle keep.
From Brittany & Its Byways by Mrs. Bury Palliser
The maidens enlaced one another, and moved across the floor in perfect time.
From Punch Among the Planets by Various
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
But Winsome moved away from him, walking down towards the mouth of the linn, through the thickly wooded glen, and underneath the overarching trees, with their enlacing lattice-work of curving boughs.
From The Lilac Sunbonnet by S. R. (Samuel Rutherford) Crockett
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
Fixing her hinder claws in the meshes of the wire gauze the mother drags her burden towards her; then, enlacing it with her legs, she holds it suspended.
From Social Life in the Insect World by Bernard Miall