How To Use Enveloping In A Sentence
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So avoiding the whiff of scandal enveloping me back home, let me introduce you to the rest of my competitors.
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And it was not reported, it can be reported now that in the very beginning they had identified this very small area called the carbolic (ph) gap as their entranceway, basically, into Baghdad and into flanking and enveloping the Medina.
CNN Transcript Apr 3, 2003
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The only barrier was a mosquito net, enveloping the entire bed.
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It was eventually identified as a non-malignant but all-enveloping meningioma.
Times, Sunday Times
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Altogether they create an enveloping abecedarium in Tandem Press's booth, one of 90 on hand at the Park Avenue Armory.
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It is a kind of enveloping void that subsumes the senses into a kind of frozen present.
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It was functional but soft, enveloping a visitor in instant comfort and security.
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He saw, seating himself as directed in an enveloping black chair, what clear-sighted men sometimes see.
SOMEWHERE EAST OF LIFE
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There's ample activity in the surrounds, with thunderous bass creating a huge, enveloping soundfield.
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The new mix is wonderfully enveloping with bullets ricocheting and voices echoing around in the cavernous locations when appropriate.
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Secondly, the Russians might abandon Vilna and draw off to mass in force south of a line running from Grodno to Slonim; in that case the Grande Armée would sweep into the Russian rear, and pen them in a pocket formed by Slonim, the Pripet Marshes, the rivers Bug and Narew—a repetition, in fact, of the enveloping movement used to such good effect at Ulm in 1805.
THE CAMPAIGNS OF NAPOLEON
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Blocking the open - sided porch, framed by the enveloping fog, stood a tall grave - faced policeman.
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With perceptions of safety and liquidity enveloping the entire American credit-creating process, credit is issued today in unparalleled overabundance.
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Then, as great quantities of black-grey reek, wheeling all convolved, were now enveloping the vessel, resting on the sea, reaching away in thinner fog even to the _Boodah_, and as, the day being calm, there was a difficulty in reading the flags, the Captain gasped: "Take the trumpet -- ask them -- But don't they pay for this ...?
The Lord of the Sea
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I pictured fishermen in boats hauling in their nets as fast as they were able with their thoughts of the darkness enveloping them.
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He was thankful for the darkness of the cinema enveloping them so that he would no longer need to blather.
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Nike produces an all - enveloping athletic uniform to protect the modesty of Muslim women athletes.
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It was functional but soft, enveloping a visitor in instant comfort and security.
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Simply put, Arnold advised multinational resource extractors that in an all - enveloping mediascape the way to achieve their corporate ends is by simulating democratic action.
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Not being able to stand it a moment longer, she sprang out of the reeds and dashed toward her sibling, enveloping him in a very wet embrace.
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Roi Faineant, King Donothing; but with the strangest new Mayor of the Palace: no bow-legged Pepin now, but that same cloud-capt, fire-breathing Spectre of DEMOCRACY; incalculable, which is enveloping the world!
The French Revolution
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But the photographs from the years between 1933 and 1938 (when my grandparents left Germany, after my grandfather spent several weeks in Buchenwald) have always struck me because the horror of what was enveloping Germany's Jews never appeared.
IsThatLegal?
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Subtle horns creak from enveloping static before becoming lost in an overbearing string arrangement.
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For Jill, in the twinkling of a star, had let fall the enveloping cloak, standing for one second like some exotic bit of statuary in her black billowing satin trousers and infinitesimal coatee over a silver-spangled frothy vest, her great eyes dancing with glee over the face veil.
Desert Love
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The fires were indeed visible; flickers of yellow in the enveloping night.
GALILEE
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Through the enveloping silence came the sound of the wind singing through the passes; the tinkle of meltwater running off the ice and the occasional cry of a bird hanging in the thermals overhead.
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An all-enveloping black abaya is made from lightweight cloth embroidered with tapestried threads.
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Some true bulbs, such as tulips, daffodils, hyacinths and Dutch irises, are tunicated, with the scales completely enveloping the basal plate.
SFGate: Top News Stories
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He misjudged her reaction, and removed his leather jacket, enveloping her shoulders with it.
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I closed my eyes and gradually felt the hurt and disappointment ebbing away when I felt his arms enveloping me, encasing me in his warmth.
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The jagged geometry of supersmooth Europa; the idiosyncratic surfaces of the other orbs floating serenely in space; the pristine interstellar vacuum; the inscrutable emptiness of intergalactic space, that immense, echoing, absolutely featureless void enveloping the spinning galaxies: it all serves as a perfect philosophical mirror image, reflecting back the quandary of the species, the limitations of human knowledge.
A Space in Time
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Fall leaves lay in heaps on the ground, enveloping the road as well.
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There are days when a one-way journey into a deep, enveloping oblivion can seem very appealing.
Times, Sunday Times
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It was functional but soft, enveloping a visitor in instant comfort and security.
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Mexico is not immune from the paedophilia scandals that are enveloping the Catholic church.
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The best of helmets, gold and mail are placed on the pyre, and the fire grows, enveloping the great King.
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Its downdraft pushed some of the smoke toward the street in a wicked, enveloping gray spiral.
VITALS
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I doubt there will be any pressure in enveloping another town around here.
Waldo Jaquith - Lost counties, cities, and towns of Virginia.
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Only Dalton's mother resists the enveloping gloom by taking part in a factory occupation.
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It creeps in gradually enveloping the earth, devouring the last traces of the struggling dusk.
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Suddenly the whole delta shape of the craft flashed purple and a beam lanced down onto the Pathfinder enveloping it in a surreal lambency.
Archive 2006-08-01
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Smooth white plaster for enveloping walls is not the absence of decor; it is the choice of one particular, relatively neutral decor.
A Philosophy of Interior Design
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Then I felt a kind of enveloping heat and, at the same time, a sensation as if the cot had dropped away from beneath me, and I was floating in a sea of warmth.
Black Blade
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the army's enveloping maneuver
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Instantly, a pall of black smoke belched out at them, enveloping them and turning everything dark.
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He cracked a sleepy smile and leant forwards, enveloping me in his arms and holding me tightly.
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Johnson's Loins® for $500/lb. Or genetically modified pigs nurtured in Johnson's “perfected” landscape, then ensanguinated in hermetically sealed glass hamlets, their butchers soothed from the horrors of blood and squealing with an enveloping view of Nature.
Chicken Wing
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I closed my eyes and gradually felt the hurt and disappointment ebbing away when I felt his arms enveloping me, encasing me in his warmth.
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Silhouettes that are kind of enveloping, I love the idea of that.
Coats, Cowls Warm Up the Runways
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Above all, it faced the progressive movement of the civilisation of the book, enveloping discordance like the resolving refrain of a Beethoven sonata.
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They were being effeminated and corrupted -- that is to say, absorbed in the foul, sickly enveloping forms.
A Voyage to Arcturus
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Those three main approaches: pose space deformation, shape by example, multi - weights enveloping.
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What was this hymn which now the tenors sang, and what was the answer that came from all the voices so close to me, the words in Latin unstrung and only incoherently enveloping me: "Lord, I am come into the Valley of Death; Lord, I am come to the end of my Sorrow; Lord, in thy deliverance I give life to those who would be idle in Hell were it not for thy divine plan.
Vittorio, The Vampire
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Suitable for car painting enveloping or any important enveloping.
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And it hasn't returned, in the kind of enveloping, huge, awful way that it was with me for the first several months of 2009.
One More Thing
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The composition steps out of the deep, cool, enveloping pool of myrtle green, wades through the translucent, pale waters of lotus and finally explodes in a burst of joyous, floral pinkness of boronia...
Aftelier Lumiere: Perfume Review
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He wondered if maybe she had been some kind of omen, a harbinger of the chaos that was enveloping the entire SpaceHold.
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Nike produces an all - enveloping athletic uniform to protect the modesty of Muslim women athletes.
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Millions of fiery colours swerved before her eyes enveloping her.
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He could sense an immense power enveloping the planet, and knew his death was only hours away.
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My shirt was a kind of enveloping sky wetly wrapping my goosy skin, and across which, at intervals, hot winds from Africa and Arctic blizzards blew.
Cider With Rosie
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I shrink with bone-chilling horror at the deathly shroud of moribund prose that dangles limply from the author's limblike arms, as he threatens ominously to envelopingly enwrap me in it ... or it in me.
Archive 2006-08-01
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An enveloping old theatre or cinema with - vital commodity - an orchestral pit.
Times, Sunday Times
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He used vivid shocking pink dyed furs atop huge enveloping coats.
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Liz" had been known, in a shortage of nurses, to be called into the mysterious room down the hall to assist; and on those occasions, in an all-enveloping white gown over her wrapper, with her hair under a cap, she outranked the queen herself in regalness and authority.
Love Stories
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New York-based scenic designer Walt Spangler uses the term "enveloping" to describe this first-ever mounting of the show in a black box theatre, one that seats 280 rather than the triple-digit capacity of theaters that have previously hosted the legendary Trevor Nunn / John Napier original with its famous turntable turning, turning, turning from scene to scene.
Live Design Online RSS Feed
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At present, chocolate has to be heated and put in moulds in order to shape it or else, in a process called enveloping, it is poured or dribbled over items like biscuits or cakes.
ANC Daily News Briefing
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The use of white ropes as props with the dancer's movements enveloping and unravelling the rope makes a powerful visual image of the soul's freedom from bondage.
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He was like a child coming back to the sense of an enveloping presence: her nearness was a breast on which he leaned.
The Touchstone
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When, therefore, inflammation invades the brain and its enveloping membranes it is properly called encephalitis; when the membranes alone are affected it is called meningitis, or the brain substance alone cerebritis.
Special Report on Diseases of the Horse
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He was short, perhaps even a little smaller than she, and, despite his enveloping cloak, she suspected that he was slight in build as well.
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The surface equation of metallic spiral casing was obtained by applying the enveloping surface theory.
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Sliding between the bedcovers, she flicked off the bedside lamp and snuggled down into the enveloping warmth.
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When, therefore, inflammation invades the brain and its enveloping membranes it is properly called encephalitis; when the membranes alone are affected it is called meningitis, or the brain substance alone cerebritis.
Special Report on Diseases of the Horse
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The spiral movement which is obtained by stacking the units, generates a continuous flow of enveloping lines that elevates the sign for expressive dynamics sinuosity.
Swing-Up by AquiliAlberg for Serralunga
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Bouquet : Rare aroma with notes of strawberry, black current and blueberry. Taste : Palate : soft fragrant , enveloping.
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Zhu Ming's performances consist of either enveloping himself with an immense blanket of sudsy bubbles or encasing himself within a plastic balloon, often in brutal and physically demanding ways.
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We forded the home river, and with bouncing wheels and an all-enveloping cloud of red dust, ground our way up the opposite bank.
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The peachy tones at its top deepen to a comforting, enveloping vermilion.
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The company's acoustic boffins tuned the engine to introduce a throatier sounding note, so the all enveloping deep bass throb rising to spine tingling wail exists.
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The bonds of Gemeinschaft were narrow and exclusive, but emotionally, familially intense; those of Gesellschaft were less passionate and more reflective, less enveloping but potentially universal.
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Retreating subunits will inevitably be engaged by the enemy's enveloping, raiding, air-mobile, or commando forces.
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And doggone it if I didn't go running to his enveloping arms.
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If the Germans and their allies crossed the river above and below the city, enveloping it from three sides, their bridgeheads across the river would not only be vulnerable to flank attacks, but the city itself would become a staging area for attacks, what a German general in a previous war had called a postern gate, an opening in a fortification that enabled the defenders to sally forth and surprise the besiegers.
Deathride
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The mental and spiritual accidie which had been enveloping me for nearly a year dropped off me like a cloak.
Try Anything Twice
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With respect to the cocoons spun by the different larvæ, both workers and drones spin _complete cocoons_, or inclose themselves on every side; royal larvæ construct only _imperfect cocoons_, open behind, and enveloping only the head, thorax, and first ring of the abdomen; and
Langstroth on the Hive and the Honey-Bee A Bee Keeper's Manual
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Lights provide a panorama of color enveloping the entire church, moving from the coolness of the green/blue to the warmth of pink and then yellow.
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The tar descended in warm and sluggish streams, trickling over my forehead, dropping from my eyelids, rolling over my cheeks, sealing my mouth, gluing my ears to my skull, identifying itself with my hair, pursuing the path indicated by my spine beneath my shirt, -- in short, enveloping me with a close-fitting armor of a glutinous and most unsavory material.
The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 08, No. 47, September, 1861
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Jim's first impression of London was an ocean of flying mud, through which myriads of phantasmagorial creatures and things moved in sullen, unceasing procession; an all-enveloping wall of brown fog; and a roar like unto some monster in pain.
Colorado Jim
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For in their early stages of development within the ovary the ova of the highest animals are likewise in the condition of naked cells, exhibiting amoebiform movements; the enveloping membrane of an ovum being the product of a later development.
Darwin, and After Darwin (Vol. 1 and 3, of 3) An Exposition of the Darwinian Theory and a Discussion of Post-Darwinian Questions
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Enveloping his hands in purple light, the emitters hummed softly.
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The practice of "enveloping" bloomed in the late 1990s, a time of dirty money and a turbulent stock market.
Neweurasia.net
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Through the enveloping silence came the sound of the wind singing through the passes.
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In composition, an intensive particle, or conveys the idea of enveloping with cords.
The Maya Chronicles Brinton's Library Of Aboriginal American Literature, Number 1
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Not so good for the enveloping showers some of us prefer i.e. water comes straight down, rather than spreading into a cone, which means sides of shoulders, arms, etc. are waterless, which is just not OK.
Archive 2009-01-01
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Another dish appears to be a glazed tomato but is in fact solidified tomato juice, enveloping a brandada de bacalao of cod.
Exploring a New Terroir
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The nucellus is a cellular tissue enveloping one large cell, the embryo-sac or macrospore.
Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 2, Part 1, Slice 1
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It creaked as the gates had at his entry, and the door shut behind him, enveloping him in sudden noise.
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His tall imposing figure entered the room, his presence immediately enveloping me.
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In fact, the Blue Ribbon shirts find roots in the fascinating world of Italian mosaic, with a selection of overchecks, large checks enveloping smaller checks; interwoven checks; stripes within stripes; and, solids in blue.
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Its overall tone is apparently muted, opening up after a few minutes to affect the entire room, changing the mood and enveloping the spectator in an inescapable and curiously addictive melancholia.
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Most wore an enveloping black abaya or a head scarf over their hair.
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Acclaimed warriors were especially magnificent in regalia and demeanor, while Cortès judged that the glory enveloping Emperor Moctezoma surpassed that of the court of Spain.
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The notes washed over her a sparkling glissade carrying her up and out, her soul expanding into the immensity of the moment into the all enveloping love that was the great hall and she found herself at peace.
Glissando
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Smooth white plaster for enveloping walls is not the absence of decor; it is the choice of one particular, relatively neutral decor.
A Philosophy of Interior Design
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Lifting her snifter, she took an appreciative sip of the rare tequila, letting it blaze a path down her throat, its warmth enveloping her.
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It was eventually identified as a non-malignant but all-enveloping meningioma.
Times, Sunday Times
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By diligently limiting the flashlight's movements during the exposures he gave the anemone a luminous vitality and kept the enveloping space murk.
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Christ, half-lit, retains his mystery - a contrast to the ambiguity, doubt and infinity of the enveloping blackness.
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Australia lie solitary beneath the bright cross of the south, a rank and luxuriant herbage cumbered every footbreadth of the dank and steaming soil; and even to distant planets our earth must have shone through the enveloping cloud with a green and delicate ray.
The Testimony of the Rocks or, Geology in Its Bearings on the Two Theologies, Natural and Revealed
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But when I apply pressure nothing comes out and the flames grow even more ferocious, enveloping the room in what might be a derelict tenement.
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An enveloping old theatre or cinema with - vital commodity - an orchestral pit.
Times, Sunday Times
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Small enveloping detachments and air assault forces were used to strike into the enemy flank and rear.
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With the first new post-war cars, the 1947 Studebaker shows trends that would shape the era: the "pontoon" all-enveloping body restrained by functionally unnecessary vestigial rear "fenders" and a bright accent line where the running board used to be.
The Truth About Cars
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The troops attack from the march by performing enveloping and outflanking maneuvers and striking at the flanks and the rear.
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His depression constantly occupies a corner of his mind, feeding off his insecurities and frustrations and enveloping him when he least expects it.
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Ministers thought he just didn't want to be blamed for the economic crisis that seemed to be enveloping the country.
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It depicts an angel with enveloping wings sitting in a boat; shining above them is a moonstone.
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Sliding between the bedcovers, she flicked off the bedside lamp and snuggled down into the enveloping warmth.
