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Example sentences for "enwrapped"

Lexicographically close words:
envoys; envy; envye; envying; enwrap; enwrapping; enwraps; enwrapt; enwreathed; enwrought
  1. Was the dense shadow which enwrapped them on the point of being dispelled?

  2. When enwrapped in rosy pleasure, Our careless pulses beat, With a rhythm sweet, sweet, To the music's merry measure.

  3. The hush of a great holiday enwrapped the city.

  4. Veils of white linen enwrapped the head, and unbound hair was rarely seen except on young girls.

  5. She, who now must be obeyed, was forced then to take a back seat enwrapped in the toga, and all who would have preached or practised the doctrine of diversified dress remained mute, inglorious modistes.

  6. The military robe proper of the Romans was a woollen garment called a sagum, and the men at first wore neither stockings nor breeches, but enwrapped their legs and thighs with pieces of cloth.

  7. Moreover the light dress that enwrapped her like a cloud was particularly becoming, and her hair, with the familiar little curls on the neck, seemed darker from the contrast.

  8. There were scenes, touching and brutal; for several months, every day brought different weather, as sunshine or storm was tried to dispel the unapproachable virtue in which this singular being enwrapped herself.

  9. But when Sir Gawaine told Sir Bors concerning the prophecy of Merlin, then Sir Bors became all enwrapped as with a certain exaltation of spirit.

  10. The long stretch of the moor was enwrapped by a thin silver network of haze; the warmth of the sun, seen so dimly that it was like a shadow reflected in a mirror, struck to the very heart of the soil.

  11. She put out her hand and clutched damp heavy thick cloth, cloth that enwrapped as it seemed some weighty substance like stone or brick.

  12. And when the sudden hour of tears bursts upon us, then most of all shall we see it enwrapped in light.

  13. It might so have happened that he whom we spoke of just now should, day after day, from youth to old age, have passed by the side of the wall behind which his happiness lay waiting, enwrapped in too secret a silence.

  14. It is only as the last word is spoken that the curtain is raised for an instant; we know nothing of all that preceded, of the brightness or gloom that enwrapped it.

  15. Gomara describes the festival in honor of the Mexican God of Fire, called "Xocothuecl," when an idol was used made of every kind of seed and was then enwrapped in sacred blankets to keep it from breaking.

  16. It, however, enwrapped a tiny bag of hoddentin, which, in its turn, held a small but very clear crystal of quartz and four feathers of eagle down.

  17. Already were their foes enwrapped with flame, For thick and fast as snowflakes poured from heaven The thunderbolts: the might of Zeus was roused, And burning giants seemed to breathe out flames.

  18. Fire darted forth and enwrapped the mountain, burning its trees and destroying many birds, and the lions and elephants that crouched on its slopes.

  19. The shades of advancing night had already appeared to have enwrapped the earth some hours, when Nigel Bruce was startled from an uneasy slumber by the creaking sounds of bolts and bars announcing the entrance of some one within the dungeon.

  20. Of a sudden, the stillness which had tenderly enwrapped them was roughly broken.

  21. On the river road below the tannery, away back in New York State, there stood for many years a small house, always surrounded in summer by sunflowers and hollyhocks and peonies that enwrapped it as in a beautiful garment.

  22. Before this time however a hint of light had appeared in the clouds that enwrapped her and Leopold: she had begun to doubt whether he had really committed the crime of which he accused himself.

  23. Standing there, in the middle of the room, she closed her eyes, and she felt as though a mist had fallen and enwrapped her.

  24. They scarcely said another word, oppressed by the superhuman sadness which enwrapped them like a shroud.

  25. A dead silence enwrapped the two solitary actors; they might have been the first man and the first woman, so encompassed were they by Nature and solitude.

  26. Punctually at nine of the night he takes up a paper left on his desk by his padrone, in which is enwrapped ten dollars--the golden eagle, and he departs for that day.

  27. It became evident that they must rush matters if they would go to camp before the night enwrapped them.

  28. The dust rose about them, enwrapped them, and hid them from sight.

  29. A noble river is the St. John, enwrapped with the halo of romance and deeds of daring.

  30. But nothing could he see, for the river still lay enwrapped in the shadows of the hills beyond.

  31. He gained the door and found himself enwrapped in a sheet of flame.

  32. Though enwrapped in a cloud of grief, one could see that she possessed beauty of a rich and rare type.


  33. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "enwrapped" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.