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Definition of Embraves
1. embrave [v] - See also: embrave
Lexicographical Neighbors of Embraves
Literary usage of Embraves
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Flower of the Mind: A Choice Among the Best Poems by Alice Christiana Thompson Meynell (1904)
"The babe, whose birth embraves this morn, Made His own bed ere He was born.
Tityrus I saw the curled drops, soft and slow, Come hovering o'er the place's ..."
2. The Oxford Book of English Verse, 1250-1900 by Arthur Thomas Quiller-Couch (1908)
"The babe, whose birth embraves this morn, Made His own bed ere He was born.
I saw the curl'd drops, soft and slow, Come hovering o'er the place's head, ..."
3. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine (1835)
"... that rutty Jordan laves, Anil with their verdure his white head embraves, To
chide the winds, or hiving bees, that fly About the laughing blooms of ..."
4. Merchants' Magazine and Commercial Review by William B. Dana (1865)
"... proportion of free blacks to slaves is steadily increasing, and now embraves
two fifths of the whole ..."
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