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Example sentences for "close embrace"

  • Each king, with suppliant hands upheld, Gazed on the other’s face: And then by mutual love impelled Met in a close embrace.

  • Then Bharat clomb the car to greet His king and bowed him at his feet, Till Ráma raised him face to face And held him in a close embrace.

  • When the carcass once more was opened, two feathers lay curled in a close embrace, while the third was lost to sight, and the cheek of the High Priest paled.

  • This second army, when it reached the plains, began likewise to divide, stretching away to east and west in the manner of two huge, creeping arms that girt the city in a close embrace.

  • Laughter and tears, entwined in a close embrace, for the joy of a man is ever his neighbor's woe.

  • The hunted stag which pants for thirst does not so long for the spring, nor does the hungry sparrow-hawk return so quickly when he is called, as did these two come to hold each other in close embrace.

  • There they lay in close embrace, like the true lovers they were.

  • At once he goes and clambers up the wall until he succeeds in getting over it, when beneath the tree he sees Fenice and Cliges lying asleep and naked in close embrace.

  • Then old Evander, with a close embrace, Strain'd his departing friend; and tears o'erflow his face.

  • They held each other in a close embrace, they wept for joy, and their souls, beaming eyes, and smiling lips, exchanged mute vows of eternal love and fidelity.

  • Had any one stood near he would soon have observed two shadows on the window-blind--two shadows in a close embrace.

  • With a loud, piercing cry, Wilhelmine threw herself over the king's person and clasped him in a close embrace, as if determined to protect him against the whole world.

  • On returning to the parlor, Caroline's countenance shone with pleasure, and her lips parted in a happy smile when she saw the two lovers in a close embrace, heart to heart.


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    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    carried about; close column; close friend; close interbreeding; close resemblance; closed circuit; closed door; closed eyes; closed the; closely akin; closely allied; closely connected; closely followed; closely pursued; closely resembling; closely similar; closely veiled; coming years; fair lords; first wife; high protective; object lesson; per annum; remain where they were; until recent; years previously