How To Use Ensconce In A Sentence
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Dalmius nursed the invigorating fire-drink from a horn-flask, ensconced in leather, e'en as his thin hands trembled.
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Nick was comfortably ensconced in front of the TV set.
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She is now happily ensconced in a new relationship.
Times, Sunday Times
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Sure, he ensconced his old girlfriend Wendy Linka out there.
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We have ensconce ourselves in the most beautiful villa in the south of france.
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Norwegian royalty is shorn of regalia but is safety ensconced in respect.
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However, once inside, they will be comfortably ensconced in well designed seats.
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Every day we continue to be fat, dumb, and happy with our IANA private ranges and doing port address translation at the firewall is another day further ensconced in the inebriation of IPv4.
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The photographer was my old friend Bill Seil, who was at the time a newspaper reporter and is now ensconced in the Boeing PR apparat.
A Personal Note
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After Gus (Giancarlo Esposito) threatened Walt (Bryan Cranston) and his family on last week's Breaking Bad, Walt decides it's time to make sure Skyler (Anna Gunn), Junior (RJ Mitte) and Holly are safely ensconced at Hank's house.
Breaking Bad Sneak Peek: Is Walt Ready to Face His Consequences?
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It's the time when the garden is full of new and constantly changing possibilities every time you step outside, where the farmer's markets are essentially throwing their produce at you and even though the kids are once again ensconced in schoolrooms nobody is quite ready for the warm, golden nights to end.
The Dinners of Summer
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Edward was a year old then, and we were happily ensconced on the south coast.
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I do hope that was safely ensconced in inverted commas.
Times, Sunday Times
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I was ensconced on the sofa reading the paper when its shrill beeping tone drifted down the stairs.
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And the state Department of Public Safety has little jurisdiction to keep the diesels ensconced within their border habitat.
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Looking to be good people and hoping in some vague way to fulfill themselves, its upper-middle-class couple adopts, not a child, but an elderly man and wife formerly ensconced in a nursing facility.
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Why was T J Hooker still working the streets when he was a Sergeant, and should have been ensconced in a cosy desk job at his age?
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October 2: Reynolds ensconces himself in children, refuses to ask children to leave conference room, fields press questions about a congressional man-boy-love sex scandal.
Midterm Roundup
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In the 1814 plan there was no hope to reconquer the United States, but with a British army firmly ensconced in the interior of New York, amid what the British yet again assumed was a sympathetic population, the Americans might have to concede a more southerly border for the Canadian provinces, if not in New York, then perhaps in Maine.
Between War and Peace
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That and a desire to appeal to a more universal crowd left the title firmly ensconced in the "T for Teen" rating category.
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I mean, I'm kind of … 'ensconced' is not the right word, but I'm there, I'm here.
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I intend to ensconce myself in a nice hotel looking out on Central Park on Saturday and Sunday.
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Radio silence can end now: I managed to successfully move flats on the weekend and am now ensconced chez the gracious Meg and Paul in W14.
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In the 1814 plan there was no hope to reconquer the United States, but with a British army firmly ensconced in the interior of New York, amid what the British yet again assumed was a sympathetic population, the Americans might have to concede a more southerly border for the Canadian provinces, if not in New York, then perhaps in Maine.
Between War and Peace
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I have a big project which I can't undertake until we're ensconced in somewhere stable.
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In the intervening years, May Day has become ensconced in international workers' movements.
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Once ensconced as a fully-fledged academic, he narrowed his field of hobbies to include amateur beatification and canasta.
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Sixteen metres below the raging battle, Hitler and his myrmidons were ensconced in a bunker that lacked the facilities to track enemy movements.
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Once safely ensconced inside there is ample space provided to put cups, though very little space in the door pockets for anything.
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Then Martin ensconced himself upon a lower limb of the tree, which had a mossy cushion against the trunk as though nature or time had designed it for a teller of tales.
Martin Pippin in the Apple Orchard
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Anyone who's returned their Apple laptop for repairs knows that Apple first ships out a wonderfully compact box, packed efficiently with protective stuffing to ensconce the computer.
Apple's Uses Ultra-Large Boxes To Replace Ultra-Compact USB Power Chargers - The Consumerist
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Finding myself in want of a particular Gazetteer which was not to be found in the office, and being in no mood to take a clerk, however uncritical, into my confidence, I called a hansom and drove straight to the Museum; where, having ensconced myself in the reading-room with the work in question, I prepared to devote a dusty and laborious morning to the service of State.
The Right Stuff Some Episodes in the Career of a North Briton
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She was soon ensconced in a delivery room that looked over the upper west side.
Times, Sunday Times
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The secret agent in his place, he wrote, the infiltrator safely ensconced.
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Although von Baer was critical of the excesses of Naturphilosophie, Barry manages to give a firmly progressionist message, with Man prominently ensconced at the top.
Thoughts in a Haystack
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After dinner, I ensconced myself in a deep armchair with a book.
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It has just ended in divorce, but both their sons are happily ensconced at Ermysted's Grammar School and are growing up as real Dalesmen.
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Millar has him say this, but then firmly ensconces him in the world of a "geek.
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Considering the disrepute in which the Chicago School currently finds itself within economics, do we really want to ensconce that economic model (er, religion?) in the highcourt?
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The singer did turn up but she remained firmly ensconced in a VIP room at the back of the venue and refused to appear on stage.
Times, Sunday Times
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He appeared in the final Old Vic season (before the new National theatre was ensconced there in 1963), forging a friendship with the actor Vernon Dobtcheff, who remembers "an astringent mentor, an elegant guru and a larky friend" – one who would sail diagonally through the fierce traffic on the Waterloo Road with a cry of: "They wouldn't dare: they couldn't face the litigation.
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Ensconced at First Lutheran Church in Back Bay, the venue provided some questionable Boston hospitality via the city's skinflint approach to parking — a meter maid was already lurking as I fed my quarters; the concert featured multiple announcements of which cars were in the process of being towed.
Authentication keys
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Set beside the lives of his contemporaries ensconced in the unobjectionably attractive stability of writing-program appointments, his biography has long seemed the stuff of legend.
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By then he will be firmly ensconced in Scotland.
Times, Sunday Times
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He was surprisingly lucid, claimed the pain wasn't bad at the moment, and was lamenting the fact that he must remain firmly ensconced in his recliner for the next few days.
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Much to the consternation of marine life advocates and to the relief of the out-of-sight/out-of-mind crowd, most of the damage is uncountably ensconced beneath the surface of the Gulf.
Vet's view: 10 biggest animal news stories of 2010
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The bill ensconces a disastrously wasteful system - or patchwork of systems - in law.
Health Care Relief In 2013 Giving Dems Heartburn
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Mr Bush-ensconced on his Texas ranch more than a thousand miles away-appeared taken aback and ill-prepared.
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They are ensconced in their old room in the castle when she comes to call.
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Impassive he sits, aloof and aloft, ramparted by his desk, ensconced between curtains to keep out the draught -- for might not a puff of wind scatter the animated dust that he consists of?
Yet Again
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The fact that we had to walk half a mile through a near frozen pasture to reach the shed where Peanuts had been ensconced with mountains of hay and a trough of fresh water added another layer of complication.
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As for her first year of marriage, the star is still happily ensconced in a newlywed bubble.
The Sun
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By lunch time we were ensconced in the local pub where another surprise met me.
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The cat ensconced itself in the armchair.
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Agnes had ensconced herself in the best bedroom.
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But after visitin 'a spell, jest after it got duskish, we went out the back door and went cross lots, and got there ensconced in the dark corner without anybody seein' us and before the meetin 'begun.
Samantha on the Woman Question
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She ensconced herself in the closet in order to eavesdrop.
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When smokeless propellants were safely ensconced in society, what did they do with the .45 Colt?
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Then Martin ensconced himself upon the lower limb of the tree, which had a mossy cushion against the trunk as though nature or time had designed it for a teller of tales.
Martin Pippin in the Apple Orchard
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By the 1920's the German historical school was on its last legs but still ensconced in the professorial chairs.
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Moving the setting up a decade was a way of establishing the film as a modern, second generation of its type, while keeping the story still firmly ensconced in a distant enough American past that its simple faith might remain embraceable.
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Arroyo has had to make compromises with Muslim family leaders throughout the region while soldiers pursued elements of the Moro Islamic Liberation Front, deeply ensconced in the province.
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Her son is now happily ensconced there.
Times, Sunday Times
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She was waiting in the library, ensconced at her desk in the puddle of sunlight that seeped through the leaded windowpanes.
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He ensconced himself in the chair
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He's now comfortably ensconced in the supply officer's cabin and being well looked after.
Times, Sunday Times
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The angelfish, butterflyfish and pufferfish were trying to sleep, the parrotfish were already ensconced in their mucus cocoons, but small blacktip reef sharks followed me around.
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He's now comfortably ensconced in the supply officer's cabin and being well looked after.
Times, Sunday Times
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Painter ensconced Frances and Petra in the flat and went off, returning with carrier bags stuffed with food.
INSTANCES OF THE NUMBER 3
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Her impulsive, easily outraged father has removed all his children from school to be home-educated, and her mother, a batty inventor, is usually ensconced among collections of not-quite-perfected gadgets.
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Inside is a wonderfully morish hazelnut praline ensconced in a milk chocolate ganache.
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As for her first year of marriage, the star is still happily ensconced in a newlywed bubble.
The Sun
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Now, the jinrikisha is exactly the vehicle in which one would expect to ride in this land of fairy children – large perambulators that hold one person comfortably; but instead of being trundled from behind by a white-capped nursemaid, one of the Henry II. gentlemen, who wears also straw sandals and an enormous blue mushroom hat on his head, ensconces himself between the little shafts in front and prances noiselessly away with it.
In Seven Stages: A Flying Trip Around the World
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The segregation of the young elite, according to Murray, might not be so bad, except that so many of them have been ensconced in affluent suburbs from birth and have never been outside the bubble of privilege.
Peter M. Shane: The Magical Misdirection of Charles Murray: The Elite is Patriotic, But Not "Of America"
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When English football had its sliding doors moment, one club found itself safely ensconced in the inner sanctum.
Times, Sunday Times
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Ensconced upon the more altitudinous seat of authority he swung his lash out with a report like
The Wrong Woman
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The MEK wants to be free to ensconce itself in Washington and other world capitals and play the role of a legitimate Iranian opposition, similar to what Ahmad Chalabi and his Iraqi National Congress did prior to the Iraq war.
MJ Rosenberg: Why Are Prominent Americans Lobbying for an Iranian Terrorist Group?
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By then he will be firmly ensconced in Scotland.
Times, Sunday Times
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She is ensconced in the embrace of a plump white sofa for our interview, and adopts a relaxed demeanour which hides any visible trace of nerves.
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But there is an element of leisure embedded in the values of fine art, and critics have argued that taste also ensconces and systematizes class divisions (Shusterman 1993; Mattick 1993).
Feminist Aesthetics
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The villagers were still warmly ensconced in their homes, some still clad in their sarongs, sitting with their hands clasped round their knees, gulping their hot coffee or smoking cigarettes.
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My mum is in the passenger seat, her colonel, major and captain ensconced happily on the benches in the back.
Times, Sunday Times
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We have ensconced ourselves in the most beautiful villa in the South of France.
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Or maybe you're happily ensconced in a warm and loving relationship?
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Meanwhile, all the other people are ensconced in their homes, rationing out the milk and bread.
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A Santa Fe resident for 10 years, Neikrug is happily ensconced in the high desert haven.
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Looking to be good people and hoping in some vague way to fulfill themselves, its upper-middle-class couple adopts, not a child, but an elderly man and wife formerly ensconced in a nursing facility.
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Try to imagine yourself ensconced there, having climbed up by the short flight of steps which will be attached to it, enisled and remote amidst the surging traffic that sweeps through a drawing-room.
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Philosopher Michael Sandel, in his 2009 Reith Lecture for the BBC, spoke about how we need more and better public institutions in America - parks, schools, public health clinics, libraries, recreation centers, museums, public transportation - where diverse groups of people can come togehter as Americans, as opposed to private self-segregating places where Americans can ensconce themselves in their own little socioeconomic bubbles.
Michael Rugnetta: My Take on the Recent Brooks-Taibbi Flap
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At the moment, the women are also ensconced in their Third Division, and the race is on to see which squad can secure promotion first.
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After more than a decade firmly ensconced among golf's elite, the seven-time European No.1 bottomed out at No.83 in the world.
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The kitten was ensconced in an easy chair.
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Arroyo has had to make compromises with Muslim family leaders throughout the region while soldiers pursued elements of the Moro Islamic Liberation Front, deeply ensconced in the province.
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No passer-by would have guessed that the three partners were ensconced in the black mouth of the tunnel, ramparted by the dump heap, watching for developments they were fairly sure would start with darkness.
Rimrock Trail
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A single mother and her daughter are happily ensconced on a Greek island, preparing for the daughter's wedding.
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The Prime Minister is now firmly ensconced in Downing Street with a large majority.
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The cat ensconced itself in the armchair.
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It has just ended in divorce, but both their sons are happily ensconced at their Grammar School.
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She collected me from the airport and I was soon ensconced in a comfortable bungalow.
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The Prime Minister is now firmly ensconced in Downing Street with a large majority.
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So when he is safely ensconced in his new job he won't be around to pick up the pieces.
The Sun
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A Santa Fe resident for 10 years, Neikrug is happily ensconced in the high desert haven.
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She is now happily ensconced in a new relationship.
Times, Sunday Times
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Ensconced in the soft blue glow of our cave, dog-tired, warm and snug in a sleeping bag, with tall tales and drams doing the rounds, it all seemed rather heavenly.
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She is ensconced in the embrace of a plump white sofa for our interview, and adopts a relaxed demeanour which hides any visible trace of nerves.
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Safely ensconced midway through the year 2002, any millennial tension feels like a long gone fad.
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Nick was comfortably ensconced in front of the TV set.
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His editors had to ensconce him in a hotel suite and watch him constantly to get him to finish certain books.
Whoosh : Bev Vincent
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Too wide awake to think of sleeping, I ensconced myself with The
CHAPTER XXXVIII
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It all becomes too much: in "Faith in a Tree," she ensconces herself on a branch of a sycamore in a park.
The World At Her Doorstep
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I do hope that was safely ensconced in inverted commas.
Times, Sunday Times
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It makes use of peculiar UV coating way to ensconce the color inside the lens.
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Dalmius nursed the invigorating fire-drink from a horn-flask, ensconced in leather, e'en as his thin hands trembled.
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At least 131 of Howell's Branch Davidians were convinced enough to ensconce themselves in his compound, yielding to him their daughters as young as 12 to be impregnated by the Messiah.
Jeff Schweitzer: Rapture Rupture
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But I think the documentary is accurate as portraying the neoconservatives as playing a key role in getting the evangelical message ensconced into he daily lexicon.
A little less conversation… « Dating Jesus
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John was happily ensconced at West Point.
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My mum is in the passenger seat, her colonel, major and captain ensconced happily on the benches in the back.
Times, Sunday Times
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Within a week of the wedding, he was back at the theater, ensconced in his customary aisle seat in the third row.
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Mary is too comfortably ensconced in her modest, undemanding job ever to consider making a change.
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He ensconced himself in a armchair.
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And so it was that not 48 hours after major surgery, my little mother was once again home, ensconced in her armchair, taking long, therapeutic puffs on her cigarette.
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An astronaut is sucked into a wormhole and ends up breaking out of prison and being ensconced on a living spaceship called Moya with the usual ragtag group of compatriots, many of them created by Jim Henson's Creature Workshop.
Michael Giltz: DVDs: "West Side Story" (Almost) Perfect In New BluRay Set
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Her husband was alarmed, but he calmed down once they were safely ensconced in the delivery room.
Times, Sunday Times
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Soon the baby is ensconced in a booster seat.
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No sooner was he ensconced than he was verbally abused by an irate customer who had taken umbrage because he (our reader) was not wearing socks.
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In the meantime Thomas Mugridge, like a drowned rat, was being dragged out from under the forecastle head where he had cravenly ensconced himself.
Chapter 17
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And the state Department of Public Safety has little jurisdiction to keep the diesels ensconced within their border habitat.
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Our faves include the modular Box Sectional that can be re-arranged at your whim; the elegant and surprisingly comfortable Milano that ensconces you in your own private little world with its regal height; and the brightly patterned Chesterfield, a modern and decidedly feminine riff on an old world classic.
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As my "whimsical locks" frizzed up in the Virginia heat, the baby crawled between donors 'legs, bumping into the host's priceless ultra-mod sculptures and stuck her finger in a Lalique-ensconced electrical socket.
Natalia Brzezinski: Building Our Daughters' Self Esteem, By Starting With Our Own
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An Old Etonian from a military family, a "rugger" fan and a Marylebone Cricket Club member, he ought to be ensconced in a Mayfair private members 'club or doing something in private banking - not designing ostentatious, colourful jewellery fetching up to hundreds of thousands of pounds.
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Millar has him say this, but then firmly ensconces him in the world of a “geek.â€
Kick-Ass #1 Review | Comics Should Be Good! @ Comic Book Resources
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Max: The Brits liked Monty Python so much they apparently decided to ensconce such absurdity into laws like the one cited above, insane but true.
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She raced to the elevators, only to heave a sigh of relief once she was ensconced safely inside.
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The only traces he could find of his previous life here were a few of the paperbacks now ensconced on nicely dadoed pine shelves between the kitchen and living area, mixed in with a bunch of beachy page-turners: Elmore Leonard, Michael Crichton, Kurt Vonnegut.
Again to Carthage
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Esseri was waiting in the library, ensconced at her desk in the puddle of sunlight that seeped through the leaded windowpanes.
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Standing behind this more melancholy strand is the artistic Benjamin, unperformed, unpublished, locked in a loveless marriage and happily ensconced as an accountant.
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Maidie, meanwhile, ensconced in the Hope family coach with her abigail in attendance, was congratulating herself on the outcome of her mission.
Gatlinburg
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In the case of vampires, I locked myself in my bedroom, dim the lights, close the curtains and ensconce myself in the middle of pillows and warm blankets.
Angels' Pawn is out! Psst...something cool in the post [Edited]
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The couple were therefore ensconced in a swish Mayfair hotel last week.
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Brian was ensconced behind the bar.
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Mom wears an apron and a smile,[sentence dictionary] looking fully ensconced in family life.
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The journey of aging is a complicated one … my partner told me she will pack up all our belongings and ensconce me by the Mediterranean beaches I so deeply desire, if my days become acutely finite. xx,
Inevitable
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The singer did turn up but she remained firmly ensconced in a VIP room at the back of the venue and refused to appear on stage.
Times, Sunday Times
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I do hope that was safely ensconced in inverted commas.
Times, Sunday Times
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Soon after this O'Donnell became a tenant of the Earl of Ormond and shortly after became ensconced as constable in Butlers castle.
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Ken is conveniently ensconced in his very own bachelor pad.
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If these markings imply that readers were not all young town gallants ensconced in taverns or on the fringes of court, being lascivious, witty, and drunk, so does the tantalizing case of Leonard Wheatcroft.
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Back in the house, Dick found Paula playing to the madrono sages, and ensconced himself on the couch to wait and wonder if she would kiss him good night when bedtime came.
CHAPTER XXIII
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Ensconced on a giant rucksack, wearing camouflage paint, a helmet and some fetching pink frillies, Lydia's mum Jodie, agreed: ‘It's absolutely fantastic.’
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The kitten was ensconced in an easy chair.
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He is currently ensconced in a bungalow in the town of Calabar in Cross River State.
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Safely ensconced in aluminum cans, this oeuvre still resides in my hall closet along with their open-reel taped soundtracks.
INTERVIEW: James Morrow
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Thanks to the way modern letters ensconces poetry as the bastion of the divine and numinous spirit within ink, we think poetry is good in the way that brussel sprouts and broccoli are "good".
Bad Poetry
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She was happily ensconced in a massage chair, playing with the controls and thoroughly enjoying her pampering.
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There are people astride camels and horses, and some ensconced within tongas and bullock carts for fun-filled rides.
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McClellan was so obviously on the outside of the bubble that ensconces the President that he couldn't really be blamed for all the nonsense he spouted in the briefing room.
Ankush Khardori: Why You Should Feel Bad for Scott McClellan
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After dinner, I ensconced myself in a deep armchair with a book.
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India is rightly called the umbrageous land with great geographical and economic entity, ensconced in the swathe of cultural unity amidst diversity held together by the strong and invisible threads of veneration and love amongst the people.
India Unveiled « Illiteracy Articles « Articles « Literacy News
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A fascinating subject, but as for noticing trends, I am so firmly ensconced in TCM that the latest flick at the cineplex is a strange and unfamiliar world to me.
Hollywood Sets the Trend
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So when he is safely ensconced in his new job he won't be around to pick up the pieces.
The Sun
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Let's crowbar our way toward that booth, toward the entity ensconced in admirers.
Oscars: Inside the Vanity Fair party after the awards
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The secret agent in his place, he wrote, the infiltrator safely ensconced.
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For example, two Navajo friends named King Tutt and Paul Shorty staked a claim on a ridgetop where VCA was already ensconced, assuming that where there was a known deposit, more uranium must lurk nearby.
Yellow Dirt
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Day He Himself Shall Wipe My Tears Away (1972), [15] Oe draws the portrait of a delusional father dying of bladder cancer, a pseudo-Emperor who ensconces himself in a barber's chair in the family storehouse and plots to bomb the Imperial Palace with his little son-soldier on August 16, the day after the Emperor's momentous announcement.
Kenzaburo Oe: Laughing Prophet and Soulful Healer
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Whether this is true or not, eryngiums have become firmly ensconced in British gardens, with a plethora of species, hybrids and cultivars to choose from.
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Tom is too comfortably ensconced in his modest, undemanding job ever to consider making a change.
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He ensconced himself in the closet in order to eavesdrop.
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Her son is now happily ensconced there.
Times, Sunday Times
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Brian was ensconced behind the bar.
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With wry insight, he views the Steins ensconced in rueful domesticity.
The Book of Salt: Summary and book reviews of The Book of Salt by Monique Truong.
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Her husband was alarmed, but he calmed down once they were safely ensconced in the delivery room.
Times, Sunday Times
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If you read just a handful of these reactions, you will see that the contributors are not ensconced in any echo chamber.
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Not rutted as in bumpy, rather one long trough in which I have been comfortably ensconced.
Archive 2009-05-01
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Norwegian royalty is shorn of regalia but is safety ensconced in respect.
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I think about my sixth-grade year spent safely ensconced in a lovely elementary school.
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When English football had its sliding doors moment, one club found itself safely ensconced in the inner sanctum.
Times, Sunday Times
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Come Saturday, we were ensconced in our New York hotel when we spied delightful snowflakes.
