Literary notes about Ensconced (AI summary)
In literature, the term "ensconced" is often employed to evoke a sense of secure, comfortable, and sometimes secret placement within a space. Writers use it to suggest that a character or object is settled in a manner that conveys both physical ease and emotional retreat, as seen when a person is described as "snugly ensconced" in a comfortable chair ([1], [2], [3]). It can also denote a hidden or strategic placement, whether a figure concealed behind a tree trunk ([4]) or positioned securely within an architectural feature like a mountain nook ([5]). Additionally, the word extends to more abstract settings, highlighting how something can be deeply embedded in its environment, thereby enriching the narrative with layers of intimacy or deliberate isolation ([6], [7], [8]).
- The gentleman was comfortably ensconced in the Morris chair, smoking a cigar.
— from A Modern Cinderella by Amanda M. Douglas - All the station platforms were coming on the right hand side, and in the right hand corner seat I had ensconced myself reading a book.
— from My Reminiscences by Rabindranath Tagore - Phileas Fogg, snugly ensconced in his corner, did not open his lips.
— from Around the World in Eighty Days by Jules Verne - I drew nigh, and saw my lieutenant ensconced behind the trunk of the tree, and trembling like one of its leaves.
— from Adventures in the Philippine Islands by Paul P. de La Gironière - We must be close upon the tower, I know, That half way up the mountain lies ensconced.
— from Life Is a Dream by Pedro Calderón de la Barca - So again Dick wended his way to the top of the hill, and ensconced himself in his now familiar hiding-place beneath the bush.
— from Two Gallant Sons of Devon: A Tale of the Days of Queen Bess by Harry Collingwood - I ensconced myself just below the sill of the window, and lit the fuse.
— from The Thirty-Nine Steps by John Buchan - She noted how perception was ensconced in oneOs environment and lifestyle and that an ensconced thing became the thing it was ensconced in.
— from Tokyo to Tijuana: Gabriele Departing America by Steven David Justin Sills
