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Or maybe the elephant thought the man was stealing soil to take home to enrich his garden, to encourage new growth instead of leaving the soil where its only role was to embosom the dead.

August « 2008 « poetry dispatch & other notes from the underground 2008

Or maybe the elephant thought the man was stealing soil to take home to enrich his garden, to encourage new growth instead of leaving the soil where its only role was to embosom the dead.

ronald baatz | the elephants and everybody else « poetry dispatch & other notes from the underground 2008

We give ourselves in all seriousness to horticulture, and embosom the chalet in flowers, of which we are passionately fond.

Letters of Two Brides 2007

That in years gone by — how long gone by I cannot tell, but I think some centuries — before the city had over-spread this quarter, and when it was tilled ground and avenue, and such deep and leafy seclusion as ought to embosom a religious house-that something had happened on this site which, rousing fear and inflicting horror, had left to the place the inheritance of a ghost-story.

Villette 2003

Shady groves, bowers of oranges, roses and jasmine, lofty cypresses, and wide spreading plane trees, embosom the elegant pagoda-shaped buildings, which comprise the kiosks of the Sultan, and the women's apartments; all of which, together with the stables and other inferior offices, are richly gilt and painted of various gaudy colours.

Journal of a Visit to Constantinople and Some of the Greek Islands in the Spring and Summer of 1833 John Auldjo

The hills embosom a clear little creek called after the yellow rattlesnake, which is almost as plentiful a luxury in these wilds as the grasshopper.

The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 18, No. 106, August, 1866 Various

Other parts are laid into floors, or wrought into wainscoting, or carved for frames of noble pictures, or fashioned into chairs that embosom the weakness of old age.

How to Succeed or, Stepping-Stones to Fame and Fortune Orison Swett Marden 1887

There is a fire of autumn colour in the tufted woods that embosom

Angling Sketches Andrew Lang 1878

When a damp southeast wind blows up the valley of the Ardeche, its moisture is condensed, and precipitated in a deluge upon the mountains which embosom the headwaters of that stream, thus producing a flood, while a neighboring basin, the axis of which lies transversely or obliquely to that of the Ardeche, is not at all affected [110].

Earth as Modified by Human Action, The~ Chapter 03 (historical) 1874

The deep forests of evergreen pine that embosom that lake shall typify the ever green spot in our memory where shall cluster the pleasant recollections of our varied experiences on that expedition.

The Discovery of Yellowstone Park Nathaniel Pitt Langford 1871