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Examples
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[14] Miss Quince, the encloser in this case, probably resented
Letter 423 2009
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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
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I am an acme of things accomplishÂ’d, and I an encloser of things to be. 1145
Walt Whitman 1900
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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
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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
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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
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I am an acme of things accomplish'd, and I an encloser of things to be.
Leaves of Grass Walt Whitman 1855
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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
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Must of got board with it's tiny encloser in freezing Dalton.
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Must of got board with it's tiny encloser in freezing Dalton.
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