Wrapping

Examples

• The same girl who feeds the gum into the wrapping machine closes the lids of the boxes and places them on a packing table by her side. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
• I shall no longer call you the Fairy of Midnight, he whispered, wrapping the shawl round her shoulders; your name will be the 'Moon Elf. Fergus Hume. The Island of Fantasy.
• He held up a soup-tin-shaped bomb, with a tape wrapping around a wire loop. Hemingway, Ernest. For Whom The Bell Tolls.
• Relieved of her wrapping, she appeared exceedingly tiny; but was a neat, completely-fashioned little figurelight, slight, and straight. Charlotte Bronte. Villette.
• The chewing gum wrapping machine is considered by machinery builders to be one of the most ingenious automatic manufacturing machines in use. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
• In the United States alone 67 patents had been granted up to 1895 for fruit wrapping machines. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
• To the devil with this dismal darkness, wrapping itself about one with a chill! Charles Dickens. Little Dorrit.
• They were washing him and wrapping him in something. Ernest Hemingway. A Farewell To Arms.
• I also invented devices for and introduced paraffin paper, now used universally for wrapping up candy, etc. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
• Again they went upstairs, and I, wrapping myself up so that my shadow would not betray me, again listened at the door. Charles Dickens. Oliver Twist.
• The abundance and cheapness of newspapers, coarse wrapping papers, etc. Bertha M. Clark. General Science.
• Rosamond, wrapping her soft shawl around her as she walked towards Dorothea, was inwardly wrapping her soul in cold reserve. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
• They remain in this room from twelve to forty-eight hours, according to the season of the year, and are then ready for the wrapping machines. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
• Her hand travelled toward the outspread letters, and folding them slowly, she made as though to restore them to their wrapping. Edith Wharton. The House of Mirth.
• For of course I knew it must have been the gentleman in the quantity of wrappings, though he was still looking out of his window. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
• To make matters worse it was discovered that the paper wrappings of the fireworks in the box were on fire. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.

Editor: Michel