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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

"They enlace each other to the back of the garden," replies Pelleas.

From Life and Writings of Maurice Maeterlinck by Jethro Bithell

"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

Do you, within your little hour of Grace, The waving Cypress in your Arms enlace, Before the Mother back into her arms Fold, and dissolve you in a last embrace.

From The Sufistic Quatrains of Omar Khayyam by Omar Khayyam

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

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

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 Robert Naylor

Sometimes the circle narrowed, and enlaced her in its furious whirls: the Indians ran through the uncultivated fields, brandishing blazing pine-branches, and surrounding the victim with light.

From The Pearl of Lima A Story of True Love by Anne T. Wilbur

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

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

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

Here Mrs Thorne sighed deeply, and began to strive to extricate herself from her child’s enlacing arms.

From The New Mistress A Tale by George Manville Fenn

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


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