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Examples
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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
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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
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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
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There were the freeways and autostradas and autobahns, strung in an all-enclosing net across the faces of the continents.
Crashlander Niven, Larry 1994
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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
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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
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Cummings grunted, then nodded toward the engineer, anonymous in all-enclosing armor.
The Past Through Tomorrow Heinlein, Robert A. 1967
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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
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For I am affection, I am the cheer-bringing God, with hope and all-enclosing charity,
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For I am affectionI am the cheer-bringing God, with hope, and all-enclosing Charity;
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