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Down the embankment, paddle through four inches of fetid water and soon we were engulfed by darkness.
Lee waved down the server behind the counter, who seemed to have been engulfed in conversation with one of the two men seated next to us.
Flames like tongues of fire engulfed the farmhouse, porch and all, angry, cracking flames that left no exit.
The fire started in a manure heap on their farm, engulfed a trailer and looked set to spread along the stable block.
The sun turned the chain of mountains on the western horizon an amber red, but it was slowly engulfed by the creeping darkness.
The city was engulfed by shock transmuted into compassion, grief and mourning.
Stuffed into the neck of the bottle was a flame engulfed rag, blazing brightly.
Fire engulfed the ships, and explosions from ammunition blew the ships apart.
To this day I cannot forget the deep and sincere sorrow and mourning that engulfed Pakistan.
In 1966, a slag heap collapsed and engulfed a primary school in Aberfan, killing 144 people, including 116 children.
He turned his attention to a dead body, dragged halfway onto shore, the other half engulfed in the unilluminated black waters of the lake.
Definitional whirlpools and methodological monsters have realistically, not mythically, engulfed many reviewers and researchers.
He lost everything when the mighty Jamuna river burst its banks, unleashing a torrent that engulfed his village.
As she tells her tale she is engulfed in a wave of small-town American self-help psycho-babble.
Choking acrid smoke from the burning building engulfed nearby streets and flames could be seen leaping high into the sky.
By the time they got there, the 106-year-old, three-story gabled house, on the graceful Esplanade, was engulfed in flames and unsalvageable.
I was engulfed in a bout of intense work, which perhaps the etching registered.
The helmsman skillfully navigated the ship towards the enormous docking bay doors which engulfed the view screen.
As the Brexit debate has engulfed the island nation, political and business notables are queuing to take their stance on the issue.
However, the majority of the bulging to accommodate the engulfed water undoubtedly occurs passively as a result of the inertia of the water.
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Examples from Classical Literature
The Eddystone lurched over, fell from its soap-dish rock and was engulfed in the quilty billows below.
The convolutions of its spiral are filled with numerous starlike condensations, themselves engulfed in nebulosity.
The economic interests of the class may be engulfed in the solidarity of the race.
A sudden surge in the tide of struggling bodies swept the ironside out of reach and engulfed him in a whirlpool of Danish swords.
So there they stood, seven sorrowful little figures engulfed in the rayless despair of childhood and the bitterness of poverty.
Porthos picked up his plan, folded it carefully, and engulfed it in his large pocket.
They are like cells in the body, essential, but, so long as they remain healthy, engulfed in the momentous whole.
Costa resorts will be engulfed as melting Arctic ice caps raise sea levels and push the Spanish coastline inland by 500 metres.
More than 20 customers and staff fled as flames engulfed The Barn Beefeater, Hockley Heath.
There was a sudden surge forward of the jellies and Placer was engulfed.
The remorseful past and the pain-filled present engulfed him.
But now perturbed, engulfed, distressed, worn out, I move about the river and lake at my leisure.
Monuments are becoming rarer and rarer, and one seems to see them gradually engulfed, by the flood of houses.
On Wednesday, firefighters hosed down a heap of charred carpet and linoleum flooring outside the 60-foot-by-200-foot warehouse engulfed in flames Tuesday afternoon.
Biscarrat, better mounted than his companions, arrived first at the opening of the grotto, and comprehended that fox and hounds were one and all engulfed in it.
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