Enclosed
[ɪn'klozd]
Definition
(adj.) closed in or surrounded or included within; 'an enclosed porch'; 'an enclosed yard'; 'the enclosed check is to cover shipping and handling' .
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Examples
- Why should the brain be enclosed in a box composed of such numerous and such extraordinarily shaped pieces of bone apparently representing vertebrae? Charles Darwin. On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection.
- I have the greatest pleasure, my dear Emma, in forwarding to you the enclosed. Jane Austen. Emma.
- The enemy had in addition to their intrenched line close up to Petersburg, two enclosed works outside of it, Fort Gregg and Fort Whitworth. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
- I hastily broke open the plain wafer seal, and found a two hundred pound bank-note, merely enclosed in a blank cover. Harriette Wilson. The Memoirs of Harriette Wilson.
- DEAR FRIEND, I send you enclosed the copies you desired of the papers I read to you yesterday. Benjamin Franklin. Memoirs of Benjamin Franklin.
- Entering a portal, fastened only by a latch, I stood amidst a space of enclosed ground, from which the wood swept away in a semicircle. Charlotte Bronte. Jane Eyre.
- It is enclosed by a wall of two feet high, and twenty feet distance from the buildings. Jonathan Swift. Gulliver's Travels into Several Remote Nations of the World.
- I venture to send you the enclosed thick lock of my hair; because you have been good enough to admire it. Harriette Wilson. The Memoirs of Harriette Wilson.
- At length Clym reached the margin of a fir and beech plantation that had been enclosed from heath land in the year of his birth. Thomas Hardy. The Return of the Native.
- He enclosed a letter to Mrs. Casaubon in which he continued a discussion about art, begun with her in Rome. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
- The Synoptical Tabulation for the use of Mrs. Casaubon, she carefully enclosed and sealed, writing within the envelope, I could not use it. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
- He also enclosed a copy of verses on what he elegantly called his cousin's natal day. Wilkie Collins. The Moonstone.
- Marvin's safe was globeshaped, to present no salient points for the action of tools, made of chrome steel, mounted in this shape on a platform, or enclosed in a fire-proof safe. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
- Sometimes the path led her to hollows between thickets of tall and dripping bracken, dead, though not yet prostrate, which enclosed her like a pool. Thomas Hardy. The Return of the Native.
- No wonder that, as soon as the land was enclosed, it became thickly clothed with vigorously growing young firs. Charles Darwin. On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection.
- He later enclosed some fragments of whinstone in a black-lead crucible and subjected it to intense heat in the reverberating furnace of an iron foundry. Walter Libby. An Introduction to the History of Science.
- Then she walked into the enclosed plot and looked through her grandfather's spyglass, as she had been in the habit of doing before her marriage. Thomas Hardy. The Return of the Native.
- A short walk brought us--I mean the Master and me--to Salem House, which was enclosed with a high brick wall, and looked very dull. Charles Dickens. David Copperfield.
- He wanted me to bring him phonograph records and enclosed a list. Ernest Hemingway. A Farewell To Arms.
- Methinks that I felt the presence of my brother's minion, even when I least guessed whom yonder suit of armour enclosed. Walter Scott. Ivanhoe.
- Enclosed in the letter was a receipt for the debt and costs on which I had been arrested. Charles Dickens. Great Expectations.
- Here is a packed and jammed city enclosed in a massive stone wall which is more than a thousand years old. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
- It is to be seen in all hotels and high buildings, and the art of getting up stairs has in very many cases changed into that of being lifted up by a moving car in an enclosed shaft or cage. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
- They appear to take as little note of one another as any two people enclosed within the same walls could. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
- And so, by dint of alternate coaxing and commanding, he contrived to get them all once more enclosed in their separate dormitories. Charlotte Bronte. Jane Eyre.
- She drove him before her, and soon had him enclosed within the cordon. Charlotte Bronte. Villette.
- At the same time he is weaving a net in which Thrasymachus is finally enclosed. Plato. The Republic.
- In the illustration, which shows a slightly modified form, a cruciform rod of zinc within a porous cup is surrounded by a copper cell, the whole being enclosed within a glass jar. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
- I kept out of those disputes pretty well, having wrote only one piece, which I send you enclosed. Benjamin Franklin. Memoirs of Benjamin Franklin.
- She reached out suddenly and, drawing the cheque from her writing-desk, enclosed it in an envelope which she addressed to her bank. Edith Wharton. The House of Mirth.
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