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Definition of Embraceable
1. [adj]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Embraceable
Literary usage of Embraceable
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The World's Best Orations: From the Earliest Period to the Present Time by David Josiah Brewer, Edward Archibald Allen, William Schuyler (1899)
"As to the moral and mental powers which distinguished him, all embraceable under
this general description of clearness of truth, the most remarkable thing ..."
2. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine (1849)
"Even in the fields of astronomy, where we have to deal with large masses of
matter, it is no longer possible for the imagination to form any embraceable ..."
3. The History of Early English Literature: Being the History of English Poetry by Stopford Augustus Brooke (1905)
"Go, and bear with thee Home the gold enchased, and the girls embraceable, Women
of thy people ! For a while thou needest not Fear the fighting rush of the ..."
4. English Literature, from the Beginning to the Norman Conquest by Stopford Augustus Brooke (1898)
"... of the Northumbrian impassioned against the Pict: — Go, and bear with thee
Home the gold enchased, and the girls embraceable, Women of thy people ! ..."
5. Complete Works of Abraham Lincoln by Abraham Lincoln, Daniel Fish (1905)
"As to the moral and mental powers which distinguished him, all embraceable under
this general description of clearness or truth, the most remarkable thing ..."
6. Modern Eloquence by Thomas Brackett Reed, Rossiter Johnson, Justin McCarthy, Albert Ellery Bergh (1900)
"... all embraceable under this general description of clearness or truth, the most
remarkable thing is the way in which they blend with one another, ..."
7. Godey's Magazine by Louis Antoine Godey, Sarah Josepha Buell Hale (1896)
"And without doubt, one of the least glorious opportunities embraceable is a saving
lamp-post if one has looked over-long upon the New Year's egg-nog when it ..."
8. The World's Best Orations: From the Earliest Period to the Present Time by David Josiah Brewer, Edward Archibald Allen, William Schuyler (1899)
"As to the moral and mental powers which distinguished him, all embraceable under
this general description of clearness of truth, the most remarkable thing ..."
9. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine (1849)
"Even in the fields of astronomy, where we have to deal with large masses of
matter, it is no longer possible for the imagination to form any embraceable ..."
10. The History of Early English Literature: Being the History of English Poetry by Stopford Augustus Brooke (1905)
"Go, and bear with thee Home the gold enchased, and the girls embraceable, Women
of thy people ! For a while thou needest not Fear the fighting rush of the ..."
11. English Literature, from the Beginning to the Norman Conquest by Stopford Augustus Brooke (1898)
"... of the Northumbrian impassioned against the Pict: — Go, and bear with thee
Home the gold enchased, and the girls embraceable, Women of thy people ! ..."
12. Complete Works of Abraham Lincoln by Abraham Lincoln, Daniel Fish (1905)
"As to the moral and mental powers which distinguished him, all embraceable under
this general description of clearness or truth, the most remarkable thing ..."
13. Modern Eloquence by Thomas Brackett Reed, Rossiter Johnson, Justin McCarthy, Albert Ellery Bergh (1900)
"... all embraceable under this general description of clearness or truth, the most
remarkable thing is the way in which they blend with one another, ..."
14. Godey's Magazine by Louis Antoine Godey, Sarah Josepha Buell Hale (1896)
"And without doubt, one of the least glorious opportunities embraceable is a saving
lamp-post if one has looked over-long upon the New Year's egg-nog when it ..."
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