wrapt

American  

[rapt] / ræpt /

verb

1. a simple past tense and past participle of wrap.

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Example Sentences

While inland China was wrapt in its customary slumber, the coast provinces, from Kwangtung to Chihli, effervesced in a variety of bubbles.

From Time Magazine Archive

Jeremiah, a magnificent figure, sits with elbow on knee, and head on hand, wrapt in the meditation appropriate to one called to utter lamentation and woe.

From Walks in Rome by Hare, Augustus J. C.

"I believe her whole soul is wrapt up in you, and I thank God that it is so, my son."

From It May Be True, Vol. III (of III) by Wood, Mrs. Henry

In winter, wrapt in a blanket, he studied till midnight, and in summer, at dawn, resorted to a cemetery near by, where he found the quiet he desired.

From Famous American Statesmen by Bolton, Sarah Knowles

In other circumstances, as black darkness wrapt him round, Jack might have felt not a few tremors; from Samba he had learnt something of the perils of night in densely-wooded places.

From Samba A Story of the Rubber Slaves of the Congo by Strang, Herbert