Embraces
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Examples
- After a battle, they and the boys soothe and relieve the wounded warriors; also they encourage them with embraces and pleasant words. Plato. The Republic.
- What were his kisses, his embraces. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
- You consider my arms filled and my embraces appropriated? Charlotte Bronte. Jane Eyre.
- Therefore I cannot doubt that the theory of descent with modification embraces all the members of the same great class or kingdom. Charles Darwin. On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection.
- The first embraces such arts and industries, or such apparatus, as have already been treated. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- In France--who, knowing me to have been a prisoner in the Bastille, would touch me, except to overwhelm me with embraces, or carry me in triumph. Charles Dickens. A Tale of Two Cities.
- William had got into the carriage, released from the embraces of his landlord. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
- Do you fancy me then so humble and so void of taste as to buy with my money the reluctant embraces of any woman breathing? Harriette Wilson. The Memoirs of Harriette Wilson.
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