inwrap
Americanverb (used with object)
verb
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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 Cleveland Moffett
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 Edward Stratton Holloway
In the thick veil of fog that seemed suddenly to inwrap her, she stood for a moment irresolute, and then walked toward the beach, guided by the low wash of waters on the sand.
From Mrs. Skagg's Husbands and Other Stories by Bret Harte
Once more—for the last time—did the sable robe inwrap us.
From The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 14, No. 85, November, 1864 by Various
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 Leonard Woolsey Bacon
And as I had suspected, she it was, arriving breathless and cloak inwrapped, only her white face showing.
From Desert Dust by J. Clinton Shepherd
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 Edward Stratton Holloway
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 Amanda Minnie Douglas
The pomp and luxury of plutocracy inwrapped him, and he had a sudden sweet shuddering vision of himself dining with still others of the wealthy just because they were wealthy, and prominent, and successful.
From Under the Skylights by Henry Blake Fuller
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 Frederick William Roe
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 Bret Harte
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 Lafcadio Hearn
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