wrapt
Americanverb
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While inland China was wrapt in its customary slumber, the coast provinces, from Kwangtung to Chihli, effervesced in a variety of bubbles.
From Time Magazine Archive
Oh! gracious Power! for thy beloved approach The expecting earth lay wrapt in kindling smiles, Struggling with tears, and often overcome.
From The Isle of Palms and Other Poems by John Lyde Wilson
A blessing undefined Seemed left, as when church-bells declined And left you wrapt in prayer.
From Poems by Rainer Maria Rilke
He rose as he spoke; but I remained on my knees, wrapt and absorbed; staring at the glazing eyes that a few minutes before had been full of life and keenness.
From The Red Cockade by Stanley John Weyman
He was too wrapt in the boy and his object to think soberly of anything else.
From Starvecrow Farm by Stanley J. Weyman
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