1284 examples of envelop in sentences

He heard the merry hum of the bees at work and the strident call of the locusts, mingled with the distant neighing of horses and the soft lowing of the cows, but all the sweetness of nature was powerless to lift the gloom which seemed to envelop him as in a shroud.

She felt his understanding to envelop her little spirit with a soft and clear penetration, and that nothing she did or said could ever be misconceived more.

From the safe shelter of the bush the enemy reconnoitred their assailants, and taking courage from their small numbers, proceeded to envelop them by a flank movement.

Its two windows, distinguished by eternally half-drawn blinds of yellow, looked out upon the veranda, permitting a decorous gloom to envelop the sacred precincts.

An eerie stillness seemed to envelop the room like a linseed poultice.

Of course the fire which seemed to envelop the young magician was instantly put out when he leaped into the tank.

So it came to pass that, as the Revolution took its shape, a vast combination among the antique species came semi-automatically into existence, pledged to envelop and strangle the rising type of man, a combination, however, which only attained to maturity in 1793, after the execution of the King.

The passports, mysterious scratches in Turkish, did not arrive until the last minute, and with them came the chief, the great Bedri Bey himself a strong man and a mysterious one, pale, inscrutable, with dark, brooding eyes and velvety manners, calculated to envelop even a cup of coffee and a couple of boiled eggs in an air of sinister romance.

He came back presently with a legal envelop, and his face was blank and half uncomprehending.

They knew how short a time it would be before some ache, some pain, some chance word, would bring his mortality home to him again, and envelop him once more in those superstitious terrors which took the place of religion in his mind.

And they seemed to envelop her in a flash of cerulean light.

Only when scores of officers have written their reminiscences shall we have the full story of those last days of August, when a little army which was exhausted after many battles staggered hard away from the menace of enormous odds seeking to envelop it.

And the lad's imagination, hasty and illogical in its decisions, used to envelop his godfather in a halo of historic interest, similar to that of the conquerors.

" Ferragut instantly forgot all his irritation in order to listen to her and envelop her in the adoring light of his eyes.

In the middle of a summer night the people in the neighborhood perceived a luminous cloud that seemed wholly to envelop the mountain.

"Stripped of the beautiful romance with which we have been so long willing to envelop him, transferred from the inviting pages of the novelist to the localities where we are compelled to meet with him in his native village, on the warpath, and when raiding upon our frontier settlements and lines of travel, the Indian forfeits his claim to the appellation of the 'noble red man'" (12).

As we envelop our sight and hearing, so the earth-soul envelops us, and the star-soul the earth-soul, untilwhat?

Why should we envelop our many with the 'one' that brings so much poison in its train?

I unfolded my paper and proceeded to envelop myself in the usual way.

" Even through the terrible scorching heat which seemed to envelop my body I realized that Lillian, as always, was dominating the situation.

" There are three movements or inflections of the hand which must be pointed out: to hover, to insinuate, to envelop.

A kind of bronze mist seemed to envelop her head, as the dull-tawny sunset light fell on her from those broad windows.

If, on the other hand, they prove sound, some of the mists which at present envelop the figure of Giorgione will have been dispersed.

Near the close of the war he was wounded on the Weldon road, along which Grant was extending his left wing to envelop Petersburg.

In the olden story the bards relate with great gusto every phase of attack and defense during cruise and raid, describe every blow given and received, and spare us none of carnage, or lurid flames which envelop both enemies and ships in common ruin.

1284 examples of  envelop  in sentences