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Definition of Imbosoms
1. imbosom [v] - See also: imbosom
Lexicographical Neighbors of Imbosoms
Literary usage of Imbosoms
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Early Western Travels, 1748-1846: A Series of Annotated Reprints of Some of by Reuben Gold Thwaites (1906)
"... several hundred miles above, are separated by a valley from twenty to twenty-five
miles wide, which now deeply imbosoms the current of the Mississippi. ..."
2. Graham's Magazine by George R. Graham, Edgar Allan Poe (1851)
"To be inactive or idle is to be out of accord with the whole universe that imbosoms
us and stands in infinite ways related to us. The soul finds, perhaps, ..."
3. The British Dominions in North America, Or, A Topographical and Statistical by Joseph Bouchette (1831)
"... following the curvatures of the coast, which beyond Pointe des Monts, sweeps
suddenly round in a deep segment, and imbosoms the island of Anticosti. ..."
4. Evidences of Christianity: Lectures Before the Lowell Institute, Revised as by Mark Hopkins (1909)
"Than this, nothing can be more entire. As was said in the second lecture, the
moral law, which Christianity imbosoms, is as universal and pervading as ..."
5. Pilgrim Memorials, and Guide for Visitors to Plymouth Village: With a by William Shaw Russell (1851)
"It imbosoms an Island containing two acres of land, formerly covered with every
variety of forest trees, and now mostly replaced by an orchard and dwelling ..."
6. Evidences of Christianity: Lectures Before the Lowell Institute, Revised as by Mark Hopkins (1909)
"As was said in the second lecture, the moral law, which Christianity imbosoms,
is as universal and pervading as that of gravitation. ..."
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