inwrap
Americanverb (used with object)
verb
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He whom the world could not inwrap Yonder lies in Mary's lap; He is become an infant small, Who by his might upholdeth all.
From The Hymns of Martin Luther Set to their original melodies; with an English version by Bacon, Leonard Woolsey
Once more—for the last time—did the sable robe inwrap us.
From The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 14, No. 85, November, 1864 by Various
Deep shadows inwrap the cab, all the deeper for the glare that flashes through them every minute or two as Dan, back there on his iron shelf, stokes coal in at the red-hot door.
From Careers of Danger and Daring by Moffett, Cleveland
A horrible something, as penetrable as mist, as keen as the sting of conscience, as inevitable as the burden of life, seemed to inwrap him.
From A Tar-Heel Baron by Holloway, Edward Stratton
God grant our new may inwrap our old!
From Mary Marston by MacDonald, George
It implies a pre-existing something, inwrapped as a germ in its environment.
From Life: Its True Genesis by Wright, R. W.
The mist was not dispelled, but it had grown thinner, and trees at some distance down the mountain began to have individual shape through the veil of dry haze that inwrapped them.
From A Tar-Heel Baron by Holloway, Edward Stratton
While they lie dormant, their potential capacities all inwrapped, they constitute what we entitle matter.
From The Destiny of the Soul A Critical History of the Doctrine of a Future Life by Alger, William Rounseville
It wore an inwrapped air, and, with all its mobility, was a mask.
From The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 06, No. 37, November, 1860 by Various
That he owed his employer any thing in integrity and sharp fighting with adverse circumstances, would never enter the mind of such a man, so inwrapped in self.
From Hope Mills or, Between Friend and Sweetheart by Douglas, Amanda Minnie
Here comes to me Roland, with a delicacy of sentiment leading and inwrapping him like a divine cloud or holy ghost.
From English Prose A Series of Related Essays for the Discussion and Practice by Roe, Frederick William
As yet the hills are nearly all gray, the forests also inwrapping them are gray and ghostly, for the sun has but just risen above them, and vapors hang like a veil between.
From Two Years in the French West Indies by Hearn, Lafcadio
Later, a gray fog stole softly over the roofs, soothing the wind-roughened surfaces, and inwrapping all things in an uncertain light and a measureless peace.
From Tales of the Argonauts by Harte, Bret
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