embrace

• They stretched out, forming the two horns of a horseshoe, like puny arms seeking to embrace the wide waters of Hudson's Bay Within their embrace was a more or less safe anchorage for light draft craft. —  The Heart of Unaga
• Chaldea dodged him in the alert way of a wild animal That's no love-embrace, my rye," she jibed, retreating swiftly. —  Red Money
• From out a cloudless sky--save where wreaths of vapour fringed the rounding blue--the sun put forth his golden arms towards the heathery sweeps that lay with their rounded bosoms greedy for his embrace, and gave himself in wantonness to his bride, kissing her fair face into blushing loveliness, and calling forth from the womb of the morning a myriad forms of life. —  Lancashire Idylls (1898)
• Now, as she spoke, though her embrace was as ready, and her hands as gentle as ever, yet Miss Priscilla saw that her proud face was set, and stern. —  The Money Moon A Romance
• She submitted to his embrace, and leaned upon his shoulder, and looked up into his face. —  The Eustace Diamonds

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