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  • What she began to feel, aside from helplessness, was a heightened sense of who she was in relation to the others, thousands of them, orderly but all-enclosing.

    Falling Man Don DeLillo 2007

  • Their shell-closing adductor amounts to just a tenth of the body weight, the thin, delicate sheets of all-enclosing mantle and gills account for more than half, and the visceral mass for a third.

    On Food and Cooking, The Science and Lore of the Kitchen Harold McGee 2004

  • Their shell-closing adductor amounts to just a tenth of the body weight, the thin, delicate sheets of all-enclosing mantle and gills account for more than half, and the visceral mass for a third.

    On Food and Cooking, The Science and Lore of the Kitchen Harold McGee 2004

  • There were the freeways and autostradas and autobahns, strung in an all-enclosing net across the faces of the continents.

    Crashlander Niven, Larry 1994

  • There were the freeways and autostradas and autobahns, strung in an all-enclosing net across the faces of the continents.

    Neutron Star Niven, Larry 1969

  • There were the freeways and autostradas and autobahns, strung in an all-enclosing net across the faces of the continents.

    Neutron Star Niven, Larry 1968

  • Cummings grunted, then nodded toward the engineer, anonymous in all-enclosing armor.

    The Past Through Tomorrow Heinlein, Robert A. 1967

  • With a sickening sense of disaster, he remembered that he was dressed in an all-enclosing, transparent suit, and that his money was inside.

    The Weapon Shops of Isher Van Vogt, A. E. 1951

  • For I am affection, I am the cheer-bringing God, with hope and all-enclosing charity,

    Chanting the Square Deific 1917

  • For I am affection—I am the cheer-bringing God, with hope, and all-enclosing Charity;

    Chanting the Square Deific 1900

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