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  • verb Third-person singular simple present indicative form of inclose.

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Examples

  • Can you favour me so far as to meet Mr Bloomfield here to-morrow morning — He comes early & perhaps you would give me your company to breakfast at ½ past 10 — He says in his letter that he incloses one from you — but he forgot to do so — for none came to me.

    Letter 318 2009

  • Owen Rees to Robert Bloomfield, 29 March 1806*Mr Rees incloses Mr Bloomfield some papers which he has received from the Earl of Buchan whether they be noticed in the next edition of 'Wild Flowers' or not must be left to Mr B himself.

    Letter 181 2009

  • Instead of curtains there is a couziniere or mosquito net, made of a kind of gauze, that opens and contracts occasionally, and incloses the place where you lie: persons of condition, however, have also bedsteads and curtains; but these last are never used in the summer.

    Travels through France and Italy 2004

  • In a letter to Orion — whom he seems to have forgiven with absence — written October 26th, he incloses a gold dollar to buy her a handkerchief, and “to serve as a specimen of the kind of stuff we are paid with in Philadelphia.”

    Mark Twain: A Biography 2003

  • Ulysses arrives at the island of AEolus, who gives him prosperous winds, and incloses the adverse ones in a bag, which his companions untying, they are driven back again and rejected.

    The Odyssey of Homer 2003

  • Lomond been in a happier climate, it would have been the boast of wealth and vanity to own one of the little spots which it incloses, and to have employed upon it all the arts of embellishment.

    A Journey to the Western Isles of Scotland 2003

  • Such is the majestic frame that incloses this vast sheet of water whose roaring tempests rival the cyclones of Ocean.

    In Search of the Castaways 2003

  • A letter from Major Milroy has been forwarded to him from the great house, and he incloses it in his letter to me.

    Armadale 2003

  • Orlinda incloses this Paper, full of Disappointment, Spleen and

    John Adams diary, June 1753 - April 1754, September 1758 - January 1759 1966

  • Field which incloses the whole Circle of Science and Literature, the History,

    John Adams diary, June 1753 - April 1754, September 1758 - January 1759 1966

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