Example Sentences

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His coming had broken in on the slumber of circumstance, widening the present till it became the encloser of remotest chances.

From The Greater Inclination by Wharton, Edith

An author's first or second play is important mainly—to use Whitman's phrase—as "an encloser of things to be."

From The Theory of the Theatre by Hamilton, Clayton Meeker

I am the acme of things accomplished, and I an encloser of things to be.

From Cinderella Jane by Cooke, Marjorie Benton

I am an acme of things accomplish’d, and I am an encloser of things to be.

From The Letters of Anne Gilchrist and Walt Whitman by Gilchrist, Anne Burrows

I am an acme of things accomplish'd, and I an encloser of things to be.

From Leaves of Grass by Whitman, Walt