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  • There is a solemn curse inwrapping the whole wrath annexed to the law, with reference to the transgression thereof; and from this are we wholly at liberty.

    Of Communion with God the Father, Son and Holy Ghost 1616-1683 1965

  • As yet the hills are nearly all gray, the forests also inwrapping them are gray and ghostly, for the sun has but just risen above them, and vapors hang like a veil between.

    Two Years in the French West Indies Lafcadio Hearn 1877

  • Later, a gray fog stole softly over the roofs, soothing the wind-roughened surfaces, and inwrapping all things in an uncertain light and a measureless peace.

    Tales of the Argonauts Bret Harte 1869

  • Here comes to me Roland, with a delicacy of sentiment leading and inwrapping him like a divine cloud or holy ghost.

    The Conduct of Life (1860) 1856

  • Others also do hang a cross made of the Elder and Sallow, mutually inwrapping one another, about the children's neck as anti-epileptick. "

    Herbal Simples Approved for Modern Uses of Cure William Thomas Fernie

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