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[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

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 Frank T. Bullen

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

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

She assented, as enlaced they went up again to the studio.

From Carnival by Compton MacKenzie

She had a sharp tongue and no patience for the giggles and enlaced arms of girlhood.

From Carnival by Compton MacKenzie

Trophies of blunderbusses, matchlocks, arquebuses, carbines, all sorts of ancient or modern firearms, were picturesquely enlaced against the walls.

From The Moon-Voyage by Jules Verne

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

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

It was one of those moments when the accumulated impressions of life converge on heart and brain, elucidating, enlacing each other, in a mysterious confusion of beauty.

From The Custom of the Country by Edith Wharton

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

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




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