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enlace

[en-leys] / 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

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 Fenn, George Manville

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 Bullen, Frank T.

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 Fenn, George Manville

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

Also in feather work, partly useful and partly ornamental, they assorted feathers piece by piece, and enlaced the feathers in the meshes of their hats and caps, or fastened them into scepters with pitch.

From Folkways A Study of the Sociological Importance of Usages, Manners, Customs, Mores, and Morals by Sumner, William Graham

Their cyphers are enlaced above the door, And in each angler's heart, firm-set and sure.

From From John O'Groats to Land's End by Naylor, Robert

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 Palliser, Bury, Mrs.

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

For she walks—she our Lady, our Mistress of Wedlock—the woodlands atween,     5 And the bride-bed she weaves them, with myrtle enlacing, with curtains of green.

From The Vigil of Venus and Other Poems by "Q" by Quiller-Couch, Arthur Thomas, Sir

Through the enlacing fingers of the trees the western sun made ladders of light.

From Diana Tempest, Volume II (of 3) by Cholmondeley, Mary

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 Crockett, S. R. (Samuel Rutherford)

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 Willcox, Cornélis de Witt




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