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  • verb Present participle of embosom.

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Examples

  • But the soldiers were then stunned at the scene — — right around the kid 3 statue-like female teachers were embosoming her.

    China:������; Survival Stories in Quake 2008

  • He has no peculiar felicity in describing natural features in words, or in reproducing the inner harmonies with which the soft lines of distant hills, or the richness of deep embosoming woodlands, or the swift procession of clouds driven by fierce or cheerful winds, compose and strengthen the sympathizing spirit.

    Voltaire 2007

  • Geoffrey Mordacks loved good singing, the grandest of all melody, and, impatient as he was, he forgot all hurry; while the river, and the buildings, and the arches of the bridge, were ringing, and echoing, and sweetly embosoming the mellow delivery of the one-legged tar.

    Mary Anerley Richard Doddridge 2004

  • The people, who in such matters may be trusted, declare that the quarries are still open at Abú Makhárír, under the hills embosoming

    The Land of Midian 2003

  • They rest beneath the sod, the tree their monument; — the hallowed spot is distinct in my memory, paled in by craggy Jura, and the far, immeasurable Alps; the spire of the church they frequented still points from out the embosoming trees; and though her hand be cold, still methinks the sounds of divine music which they loved wander about, solacing their gentle ghosts.

    The Last Man 2003

  • But underneath all the polite suavity of his manner could be detected a curious satisfaction at the contrast between the deep sea of still thought usually embosoming his library, and this sparkling, shallow little stream now flowing into it.

    The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 08, No. 49, November, 1861 Various

  • The fleet he hides close in embosoming groves beneath a caverned rock, amid shivering shadow of the woodland; himself, Achates alone following, he strides forward, clenching in his hand two broad-headed spears.

    The Aeneid of Virgil 70 BC-19 BC Virgil

  • Here they whom pitiless love hath wasted in cruel decay hide among untrodden ways, shrouded in embosoming myrtle thickets; not death itself ends their distresses.

    The Aeneid of Virgil 70 BC-19 BC Virgil

  • The country is generally undulating and fertile, with occasional mountain ranges, of which the Comeraghs are rendered especially interesting and picturesque by the deep "cooms," embosoming tarns, which give them their name.

    The Sunny Side of Ireland How to see it by the Great Southern and Western Railway Robert Lloyd Praeger 1909

  • For the lowest and vaguest of concretions in discourse are the ideas of self and of an embosoming external being, with the felt continuity of both; what Fichte would call the Ego, the Non-Ego, and Life.

    The Life of Reason George Santayana 1907

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