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Some chance sight or sound has wrapt him away from the young greenness of the May morning, and plunged him deep into the opulent colour of September.

From A Day with Keats by Byron, May Clarissa Gillington

Ossian has wrapt you in a cloud, a fog, a true Scotch mist.

From The Letters of Elizabeth Barrett Browning (1 of 2) by Kenyon, Frederic G. (Frederic George), Sir

Or where the pining sons of Andamar, When dark eclipse has wrapt the labouring moon, Howl to the demon of the dread monsoon!

From The Poetical Works of William Lisle Bowles, Vol. 1 With Memoir, Critical Dissertation, and Explanatory Notes by George Gilfillan by Gilfillan, George

But the loneliness and longing still press heavily on him when the cloud which has wrapt him from sight parts suddenly asunder, and Dido and Æneas stand face to face.

From Stray Studies from England and Italy by Greene, John Richard

But, mother, now a shade has past, Athwart my brightest visions here, A cloud of darkest gloom has wrapt, The remnant of my brief career!

From The Deerslayer by Cooper, James Fenimore