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- verb Simple past tense and past participle of
embosom .
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Examples
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Isis, which flows beside it through meadows of exquisite verdure, is spread forth into a placid expanse of waters, which reflects its majestic assemblage of towers, and spires, and domes, embosomed among aged trees.
Chapter 19 2010
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From a home "embosomed by nature" to the wild countryside, it is built into his weekend.
Philip Mould Unearths England's Bucolic Beauty Bruce Palling 2011
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Isis, which flows beside it through meadows of exquisite verdure, is spread forth into a placid expanse of waters, which reflects its majestic assemblage of towers, and spires, and domes, embosomed among aged trees.
Chapter 2 2010
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I recently bought a Gainsborough, which a contemporary critic said had been "embosomed by nature" and that is what I feel about my house.
Philip Mould Unearths England's Bucolic Beauty Bruce Palling 2011
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"Daughter of Leda, in addition to my first letter I now send thee word not to despatch thy daughter to Euboea's embosomed wing, to the to the waveless bay of Aulis; for after all we wiltlelebrate our child's wedding at another time."
Iphigenia at Aulis 2008
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"Daughter of Leda, in addition to my first letter I now send thee word not to despatch thy daughter to Euboea's embosomed wing, to the to the waveless bay of Aulis; for after all we wiltlelebrate our child's wedding at another time."
Iphigenia at Aulis 2008
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But the lake was much larger, and adorned with several islets besides that on which the fortress was situated; and instead of being embosomed in hills like that of Avenel, had upon the southern side only a splendid mountainous screen, being the descent of one of the Lomond hills, and on the other was surrounded by the extensive and fertile plain of
The Abbot 2008
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A half-mile to the eastward of the town, two or three hundred feet up the steep mountain side, stood a large, low, white house embosomed in trees and gardens.
Westward Ho! 2007
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He does not wear a look of melancholy resignation, neither does he live in love-gilded poverty, in a cottage embosomed in roses.
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It was old, but in good repair, and stood snugly embosomed in a grove of sycamore, with a well-stocked garden in front, bounded by the small river, which was partly visible from the windows, partly concealed by the bushes, trees, and bounding hedge.
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