wrapt
Americanverb
Example Sentences
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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
"Are you quite sure," I asked, "that it is the same paper in which you wrapt it?"
From There is no Death by Florence Marryatt
A blessing undefined Seemed left, as when church-bells declined And left you wrapt in prayer.
From Poems by Rainer Maria Rilke
A strange calm folded its enshadowing wings around those busy brows and wrapt the imperious monarch in a sweet and childlike slumber.
From Baron Bruno Or, the Unbelieving Philosopher, and Other Fairy Stories by Louisa Morgan
Jeremiah, a magnificent figure, sits with elbow on knee, and head on hand, wrapt in the meditation appropriate to one called to utter lamentation and woe.
From Walks in Rome by Augustus J. C. Hare
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