Lexicographical Neighbors of Embarred
| embarrasing embarred (current term) embarring embars embase embased embases embaseth embasing |
Literary usage of Embarred
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Great Cryptogram: Francis Bacon's Cipher in the So-called Shakespeare Plays by Ignatius Donnelly (1887)
"... resident in Flanders, and changed the foreign mart, but he also embarred all
further trade — that is, denied the Flemish commerce access to his people. ..."
2. Artillery Through the Ages: A Short Illustrated History of Cannon by Albert C. Manucy (1994)
"3 and 4 embarred under the carriage cheeks to bear down on the rear spokes of
the wheel; Nos. 5 and 6 had their spikes under the maneuvering bolts of the ..."
3. The Poems of John Donne by John Donne, James Russell Lowell, Grolier Club (1895)
"If this commerce 'twixt heaven and earth were not embarred, and all this traffic
quite forgot, She, for whose loss we have lamented thus, Would work more ..."
4. Winthrop's Journal, "History of New England," 1630-1649 by John Winthrop, James Kendall Hosmer (1908)
"... and was by their agreement stolen out of the harbor, where she had been long
embarred, they hired this Dutchman to bring them hither where they had ..."
5. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine (1835)
"... keep the Bird of Jove embarred Like a lone criminal whose life is spared.
Vexed is he, and screams loud. The last I saw Was on the wing ; stooping, ..."
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