Lexicographical Neighbors of Inwrapping
Literary usage of Inwrapping
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Odyssey of Homer by Homer (1853)
"... sunk transported on the conscious bed. Down rush'd the toils, inwrapping as
they lay The careless lovers in their wanton play: 340 * Cytherea, Venus. ..."
2. The Federal Reporter: With Key-number Annotations by District of Columbia Court of Appeals, United States Commerce Court, Courts of Appeals (1890)
"Whether running at six miles or less, the engineer could not have seen any better
through the inwrapping smoke nor against the glare of the head-light, ..."
3. Gray's New Manual of Botany: A Handbook of the Flowering Plants and Ferns of by Asa Gray, Benjamin Lincoln Robinson, Merritt Lyndon Fernald (1908)
"Bud-scales numerous, about 10, successively inwrapping, the inner ones accrescent,
becoming thin and membranaceous and rather tardily deciduous; ..."
4. New Englander and Yale Review by Edward Royall Tyler, William Lathrop Kingsley, George Park Fisher, Timothy Dwight (1851)
"... the evil passions which they are nourishing to-day, will be burning unquenchable
in the immortal soul, and inwrapping it as in sheets of eternal fire. ..."
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