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
I sail Between two banks, where heavy boughs enlace, Whose verdurous luxuriance wakes once more My many griefs.
From A Lute of Jade : selections from the classical poets of China by L. (Launcelot) Cranmer-Byng
The time of peril had arrived then; and she thrust her arms more fully through the bamboo trellis, meaning to enlace her fingers firmly, and cling there to the last.
From One Maid's Mischief by George Manville Fenn
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
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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Amaldi could see the beauty of Sophy and Loring in each other's arms as plainly as though they had stood enlaced before him.
From Shadows of Flames A Novel by Amélie Rives
Now enlaced, with wreathèd smiles, All together dance and play.—
From Sketches and Studies in Italy and Greece, Second Series by Horatio Robert Forbes Brown
She had a sharp tongue and no patience for the giggles and enlaced arms of girlhood.
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
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
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
All kinds of geometrical figures are used, enlacing with graceful intricacy, intersecting, combining and dissolving; conventional foliage and fruit, Arabic inscriptions.
From The Land of The Blessed Virgin; Sketches and Impressions in Andalusia by W. Somerset (William Somerset) Maugham
Storm, wind, and rain had vanished like the flying phantoms of an evil dream, and all the beautiful land sparkled with light and life in its enlacing girdle of turquoise blue sea.
From Temporal Power by Marie Corelli
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