inwrap
Americanverb (used with object)
verb
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God grant our new may inwrap our old!
From Mary Marston by George MacDonald
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
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
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
Once more—for the last time—did the sable robe inwrap us.
From The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 14, No. 85, November, 1864 by Various
But my attention was too much engrossed, too much inwrapped with all I saw, to be able to give her any answer.
From Memoirs Of Fanny Hill A New and Genuine Edition from the Original Text (London, 1749) by John Cleland
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
Calton was too much inwrapped in the contemplation of his happiness to see the equivoque between Hicks and himself; and threw himself back in his chair.
From Sketches by Boz, illustrative of everyday life and every-day people by Charles Dickens
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
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 William Rounseville Alger
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
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
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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