Embracing

Examples

• Smith, embracing the mouths of the Tennessee and Cumberland rivers, had been added to my jurisdiction. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
• Dear Tom,' she answered, rising and embracing him, 'how long it is since you have been to see me! Charles Dickens. Hard Times.
• He was embracing his sisters, and ogling Miss Rachel, while he honoured me with that testimony of affection. Wilkie Collins. The Moonstone.
• Jane (bending towards and embracing me), do you mean it now? Charlotte Bronte. Jane Eyre.
• Why did she betray the two of them so terribly, in embracing the glow of the evening? D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
• From first to last Edison has filed in the United States Patent Office--in addition to more than 1400 applications for patents--some 120 caveats embracing not less than 1500 inventions. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
• Bell's patent of 1876 was of an all-embracing character, which only the make-and-break principle, if practical, could have escaped. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
• In another second I was embracing and kissing her rapturously: Bessie! Charlotte Bronte. Jane Eyre.
• And embracing her very affectionately, Good, gentle Fanny! Jane Austen. Mansfield Park.
• The embracing was over; they parted--that is, Miss Sedley parted from her friends. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
• He died embracing the sod, which was piled above his breast, when he was placed beside the beings whom he regretted with such wild despair. Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
• A fluid of immens e extent must be assumed, embracing all these bodies. Walter Libby. An Introduction to the History of Science.
• Heaven bless you, my child, said she, embracing Amelia, and scowling the while over the girl's shoulder at Miss Sharp. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
• Thus the night revealed little of her whose form it was embracing, for the mobile parts of her countenance could not be seen. Thomas Hardy. The Return of the Native.
• At this time where but a hair's line separated the living from the dead, I feared that our friend had become a victim to the all-embracing evil. Mary Shelley. The Last Man.

Typist: Preston