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Example sentences for "embracing"

Lexicographically close words:
embrace; embraced; embracements; embraces; embraceth; embrasser; embrasure; embrasured; embrasures; embrocation
  1. My sweet Girl (said Lady Scudamore embracing me with great affection) what a delicate way of thinking you have in these matters, and what a quick discernment for one of your years!

  2. While he was thus tenderly embracing me, Sophia astonished at my precipitate Departure, entered the Room in search of me.

  3. I have seen a French gentleman take his grocer by the hand, and embracing him, hope for his company at supper.

  4. With an all-embracing sympathy he has not himself really lived.

  5. No longer the lean ascetic, debarring his soul of her rightful pleasures; but embracing all the joys of life, and combining pleasure with knowledge.

  6. And leaning forward on her saddle and stretching out her arms to receive the child, she added: "In embracing this child, I am embracing you all, my dear women.

  7. Charmed by these caresses, the child threw her arms around the neck of Mademoiselle Plouernel, who responded to the affectionate familiarity by embracing the child again, and again.

  8. He predicts the coming of Christ, and the return of the Jews from dispersion upon embracing the gospel.

  9. It would seem that her natural destiny was with Wisconsin, or some possible new State embracing the iron and copper, forest and shipping areas of Michigan, Wisconsin, and Minnesota on Lake Superior.

  10. Here, as in Virginia, a great proprietary grant extended across the colony--Lord Granville's proprietary was a zone embracing the northern half of North Carolina.

  11. Now a word about the next form of this all-embracing precept.

  12. I need not insist either, I suppose, on the necessity, if our Christian life is to be modelled upon the Apostolic lines, of our faith embracing the Christ in all these aspects in which I have been speaking about His work.

  13. The all-embracing word at parting singularly links the end of the letter with its beginning, where we find a remarkable sequence of similar allusions to 'all' the Philippian Christians.

  14. My brother received me affectionately, embracing me and saying: "O Es-Samit, ever have I loved thee.

  15. There were tilled fields and palm groves to the left of the village and a large house surrounded by white walls embracing extensive gardens.

  16. The omnibus system is very extensive, embracing all the principal streets throughout the county and extending over a large part of Greater London.

  17. Cyrus was immediately arrested, and would have been put to death on the spot, had not his mother interfered, and, embracing him in her arms, made it impossible for the executioner to perform his task.

  18. His immediate desire was, probably, to annex Thrace; but he may have already entertained wider views, and have looked to embracing in his dominions the lovely isles and coasts of Greece also, so making good the former threats of Cyrus.

  19. He did not bring life and immortality to light, and, as for me, the preacher, I have no light to hold out to you in the all-embracing gloom and night of death.

  20. He says I am God--he says that because he declares himself as embracing the whole extent of being.

  21. A late writer, in a work embracing a vast amount of miscellaneous knowledge, but written in a dogmatic style, argues at great length for the doctrine of more immediate exertions on the part of the Deity in the works of his creation.

  22. The fifth family is the Chinese, embracing a large part of China, and most of the regions of Central and Northern Asia.

  23. The northern section of the state, embracing the strong Democratic white counties, was distinctly unfriendly to slavery, or rather to the negro, and controlled the politics of the state.

  24. The Conservative party, now embracing nearly all the whites except the Radical candidates, determined to oppose the ratification of the constitution.

  25. It is a story of the Pacific, embracing some of Mr. Cooper's finest sea pictures, but altogether is not so interesting as the average of his nautical tales.

  26. This building extends over a whole square, or rather fronts upon three streets, embracing ample room for every department of the postal service, including that of the telegraph.

  27. Some of the floral displays were truly gorgeous, embracing the flaring warratah and the glowing banksias, decked with curious and lovely foliage.

  28. The city is not without its Botanical Garden, embracing twelve or fifteen acres of land near the centre of the town.

  29. Where there was only a swamp and uncleared woods a few years ago, there has risen a city containing to-day a population of fully four hundred and twenty thousand, embracing the immediate suburbs.

  30. For a city of its size it is unusually well supplied with churches and places of public worship, of which there are forty-one, embracing all sects of professed Christians.

  31. Lake Yan-Yan supplies Melbourne with drinking-water by means of a system embracing a double set of pipes.

  32. Embracing a view of the Origin, Progress, and Principles of the Religious Reformation which he advocated.

  33. About 16 feet down this slope, a ditch with an outer bank has been dug, embracing half the mound.

  34. In the Brut, Ystrad Towy does not only mean the vale of Towy, but a very large district, embracing most of Carmarthenshire and part of Glamorganshire.

  35. Jacques, after embracing Edouard again; "didn't you guess who I was?


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