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  • [14] Miss Quince, the encloser in this case, probably resented

    Letter 423 2009

  • An author's first or second play is important mainly -- to use Whitman's phrase -- as "an encloser of things to be."

    The Theory of the Theatre Clayton Hamilton

  • I am an acme of things accomplishÂ’d, and I an encloser of things to be. 1145

    Walt Whitman 1900

  • His coming had broken in on the slumber of circumstance, widening the present till it became the encloser of remotest chances.

    The Greater Inclination Edith Wharton 1899

  • Legal documents prove him to have been a lender of small sums, an avid creditor, a would-be encloser of commons.

    Shakespeare, Bacon, and the Great Unknown Andrew Lang 1878

  • Shakspere, the purchaser of the right to bear arms; so bad at paying one debt at least; so eager a creditor; a would-be encloser of a common; a man totally bookless, is, to Mr. Greenwood's mind, an impossible author of the later plays.

    Shakespeare, Bacon, and the Great Unknown Andrew Lang 1878

  • I am an acme of things accomplish'd, and I an encloser of things to be.

    Leaves of Grass Walt Whitman 1855

  • God, in thus confining men to one, has been so far from putting any hardship upon them that he has really consulted their true interest; for, as Mr. Herbert observes, "If God had laid all common, certainly man would have been the encloser."

    Commentary on the Whole Bible Volume III (Job to Song of Solomon) 1721

  • Must of got board with it's tiny encloser in freezing Dalton.

    Evening Mail news round-up 2010

  • Must of got board with it's tiny encloser in freezing Dalton.

    Evening Mail news round-up 2010

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