Enveloped

Examples

• That consisted of two matchless lips and a cheek only, her head being still enveloped. Thomas Hardy. The Return of the Native.
• Paths, hedges, fields, houses, and trees, were enveloped in one deep shade. Charles Dickens. The Pickwick Papers.
• She had enveloped both Will and Rosamond in her burning scorn, and it seemed to her as if Rosamond were burned out of her sight forever. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
• The soft isolation of the falling day enveloped them: they seemed lifted into a finer air. Edith Wharton. The House of Mirth.
• And Mrs. Trenor, glowing with her sex's eagerness to smooth the course of true love, enveloped Lily in a long embrace. Edith Wharton. The House of Mirth.
• One night, to test his alleged fearlessness, a man stationed himself behind a tree and enveloped himself in a sheet. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
• While our troops were advancing they were struck in flank, and their flank was enveloped. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
• A fog narrowed our horizon to about a quarter of a mile, and the misty veil, cold and dense, enveloped sky and sea in equal obscurity. Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
• She was startled to find how the atmosphere of her old life enveloped her. Edith Wharton. The House of Mirth.
• She was enveloped in a loose dressing-gown of blue and silver, but a black sequin-covered dinner-dress lay upon the couch beside her. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Return of Sherlock Holmes.
• On the drive homeward May remained oddly silent; through the darkness, he still felt her enveloped in her menacing blush. Edith Wharton. The Age of Innocence.
• The thunder ceased; but the rain still continued, and the scene was enveloped in an impenetrable darkness. Mary Shelley. Frankenstein_Or_The Modern Prometheus.
• Her tone and her look still enveloped her in a soft inaccessibility, and Archer groaned out again: I don't understand you! Edith Wharton. The Age of Innocence.
• Unclouded sunlight enveloped sea and shore in a bath of purest radiancy. Edith Wharton. The House of Mirth.
• She steadied herself with a laugh and drew back; but he was enveloped in the scent of her dress, and his shoulder had felt her fugitive touch. Edith Wharton. The House of Mirth.
• She enveloped the feeble and unconscious creature with love and worship. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
• A cloak or mantle of coarse black serge, enveloped his whole body. Walter Scott. Ivanhoe.

Editor: Upton