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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

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 Khayyam, Omar

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 Cranmer-Byng, L. (Launcelot)

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 Presland, John

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

So horrible was the impression that once more she felt fascinated, and gazed down with starting eyes, her enlaced fingers clutching more tightly, and her whole being as if under the influence of a nightmare.

From One Maid's Mischief by Fenn, George Manville

A pair of lovers in black plush were sitting enlaced beneath a pink frosted moon.

From Sinister Street, vol. 2 by MacKenzie, Compton

Now enlaced with wreathed smiles, All together dance and play.—

From Renaissance in Italy: Italian Literature Part 1 (of 2) by Symonds, John Addington

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 Crockett, S. R. (Samuel Rutherford)

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 Corelli, Marie

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

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

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




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