lapped

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Lapped in Mark's sunny smile, even the wintry Petrillo has been known to thaw like any spring sap.

From Time Magazine Archive

Lapped by the prayers of years, we sit in silence.

From "Beast Rider" by Tony Johnston & María Elena Fontanot de Rhoads

Ah me, so young, so soft and fair, Lapped in all bliss, untried by care, Rent from her own dear husband, how Will she support her misery now?

From The Rámáyan of Válmíki, translated into English verse by Griffith, Ralph T. H. (Ralph Thomas Hotchkin)

Lapped in the heat and silence for the moment she wanted nothing.

From The Garden of Allah by Hichens, Robert Smythe

Culture's child, Lapped in luxurious laws of line and lilt, Shrank from him shuddering, who was roughly built As cyclopean temples.

From Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 102, April 9, 1892 by Various