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[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

Marion, for her possession of him who should have been her husband; Philip, for her ceaseless efforts to enlace herself round his heart.

From The Sapphire Cross 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

And thou, Yma Sumac, come to me, I enlace you in the thread of love; Thou art the pure essence of Coyllur.

From Apu Ollantay A Drama of the Time of the Incas by Sir Clements R. (Clements Robert) Markham

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

Helen’s hands closed, and her fingers were tightly enlaced as she tried to find a way out of her difficulties.

From One Maid's Mischief by George Manville Fenn

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 goldcrests twittered, the squirrels chased, While the lofty pines, brown arms enlaced, Lisped a dryad-taught melody, sung by the sea.

From The Dales of Arcady by Dorothy Una Ratcliffe

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

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

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

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

Arms enlacing one another, we walked the floor in silence, slowly passing from her chamber into mine, and back again, heads erect, challenging that Destiny whose shadowy visage we could now gaze on unafraid.

From The Reckoning by Robert W. (Robert William) Chambers


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