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Formally trained in the gamelan, the clarinet, and the piano, she started playing around with a dual-track loop pedal a few years ago, and her vocal excursions are enveloping and enthralling.

From The New Yorker • Mar. 20, 2015

But the student of his life now begins to see that troubles are enveloping him.

From The Life of Cicero Volume One by Trollope, Anthony

To the east rise prodigious hills and mountains: they are Gibil Muza and his chain; and yon tall fellow is the peak of Tetuan; the grey mists of evening are enveloping their sides. 

From The Bible in Spain - Vol. 2 [of 2] by Borrow, George Henry