wrapt

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IN silence wrapt, and scarcely drawing breath,

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  • Wonder-wrapt I gaze Such erst, in Delos, I beheld a palm 200 Beside the altar of Apollo, tall And growing still; (for thither too I sail'd And num'rous were my followers in a voyage Ordain'd my ruin) and as then I view'd That palm long time amazed, for never grew So strait a shaft, so lovely from the ground So, Princess! —  The Odyssey of Homer
  • Now Pallas' sons To Cephalus, their chief in years, repair And to the king with Pallas' sons he goes But still deep-wrapt in sleep the king was laid Phocus receiv'd them at the gates; employ'd Were Telamon and Peleus, troops to chuse For the new war. —  The Metamorphoses of Publius Ovidus Naso in English blank verse Vols. I ; II
  • So wrapt was he in the emotions evoked, he had no time to think of what tones called them up, and now all is past and gone. —  An Introduction to the Study of Robert Browning's Poetry
  • She bids me come and drink of the crystal streams in the land of souls; she bids me come and chase with her the fawn and the kid, to bring her berries from the hills, and flowers from the vales, and to brush with our mingled footsteps, in early morning, the dew from the glades, and to blend in early evening the music of our lips, and the breath of our sighs, by the sides of the grass-wrapt fountain. —  Traditions of the North American Indians, Vol. 2 (of 3)
  • The love he felt, perhaps, obscured his view So wrapt was he in all her pretty wiles. —  With the Colors Songs of the American Service
 

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