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Definition of Embosoms
1. embosom [v] - See also: embosom
Lexicographical Neighbors of Embosoms
Literary usage of Embosoms
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The History and Geography of the Mississippi Valley: To which is Appended a by Timothy Flint (1833)
"It receives forty considerable rivers, has valuable fisheries of sturgeon and
white fish, and embosoms some islands towards its northern extremity. ..."
2. A Condensed Geography and History of the Western States, Or the Mississippi by Timothy Flint (1828)
"It embosoms a number of considerable islands. Ascending still farther west, we
find another strait, as the French word Detroit imports. ..."
3. Moral Aspects of City Life: A Series of Lectures by Edwin Hubbell Chapin (1853)
"Step by step, as you go, God's awards go with you. Wake to a conception of the
greatness of this existence that embosoms the vast city, ..."
4. Ordnance Gazetteer of Scotland: A Survey of Scottish Topography, Staistical by Francis Hindes Groome (1882)
"... embosoms Lismore and Shuna islands, sends off Loch Creran to the E, separates
Morvern from Appin, and ramifies, at its NE end, into Lochs Eil and Leven, ..."
5. The Works of the English Poets, from Chaucer to Cowper: Including the Series by Alexander Chalmers, Samuel Johnson (1810)
"... explores All Nature's scenes, and Nature's God adores, Skill'd in each drug
the varying world provides, All earth embosoms, aud all ocean hides; Expels, ..."
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