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
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
"I believe her whole soul is wrapt up in you, and I thank God that it is so, my son."
From It May Be True, Vol. III (of III) by Mrs. Henry Wood
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
His trivialities were reading and penmanship, and he was so wrapt up in them that often he could hardly be got away to his meals.
From The Cloister and the Hearth A Tale of the Middle Ages by Charles Reade
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