Enclosing
[ɪn'kloz]
Examples
- It was built in the Moorish fashion,--a square building enclosing a court-yard, into which the carriage drove through an arched gateway. Harriet Beecher Stowe. Uncle Tom's Cabin.
- She herself measured out the milk, and distributed the bread round the cosy circle now enclosing the bright little schoolroom fire. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
- His spe cial pride was in having determined the relative dime nsions of the sphere and the enclosing cylinder. Walter Libby. An Introduction to the History of Science.
- I will get an Act for enclosing Nunnely Common, and parcelling it out into farms. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
- Gentlemen:-- Replying to yours of June 26th we are herewith enclosing a photograph of our first flight made at Kitty Hawk, North Carolina, on December 17, 1903. Rupert S. Holland. Historic Inventions.
- The mechanical processes designed to separate the ore from its enclosing rock or other superfluous earthy matter called _gangue_ became known as _ore dressing_ and _ore concentrating_. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
- It was a cage with tin-foil hanging all round it; it was not a complete metallic enclosing shell. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- DEAR SIR, I have received your kind letter of July 17, with its duplicate, enclosing those for Messrs. Benjamin Franklin. Memoirs of Benjamin Franklin.
- It is not a valley, he cried, looking downward in despair; it is a tomb enclosing many dead. Fergus Hume. The Island of Fantasy.
- The victorious general, however, buried him with honor, and on the tomb of the mathematician caused to be inscribed the sphere with its enclosing cylinder. Walter Libby. An Introduction to the History of Science.
- I added my initials, and protected the whole by enclosing it in a second sealed envelope, addressed to Pesca at his lodgings. Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
- This, and this only, brought a polite letter, enclosing two quarters of the promised allowance, from His Grace. Harriette Wilson. The Memoirs of Harriette Wilson.
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