Literary notes about Envelop (AI summary)
The term "envelop" is employed in literature with remarkable versatility, often serving as a bridge between the tangible and the abstract. In many works, authors use it to evoke an atmosphere of mystery or intensity—suggesting how elements like fog, light, or emotion can shroud a person or place, as seen when characters are described as being “envelop'd in Scotch mist” ([1]) or when a peculiar glow seems to envelop a figure ([2]). The word also carries a more physical or strategic sense, describing acts of surrounding or encircling, whether in military tactics ([3], [4], [5]) or in the mundane context of enclosing objects like letters and packages ([6], [7], [8]). This dual usage enriches narrative imagery by seamlessly linking the ethereal with the concrete.
- Why stay, a ghost, on the Lethean Wharf, Envelop'd in Scotch mist and gloomy fogs?
— from The Poetical Works of Thomas Hood by Thomas Hood - The more he observed her the more he was puzzled by that peculiar effect, that glow which seemed to envelop her.
— from The Net by Rex Beach - On the 29th the lines were extended so as to envelop the place, the Americans taking the right, with their right flank resting on Wormley Creek.
— from Narrative and Critical History of America, Vol. 6 (of 8) The United States of North America, Part I - The companies then advanced at attack formation, so as to envelop the top of the hill.
— from South Africa and the Transvaal War, Vol. 6 (of 8) From the Occupation of Pretoria to Mr. Kruger's Departure from South Africa, with a Summarised Account of the Guerilla War to March 1901 by Louis Creswicke - The army then proceeded to envelop Petersburg towards the South Side Railroad as far as possible without attacking fortifications.
— from Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant, Complete by Ulysses S. Grant - Every letter-sheet, every envelop, bore a picture of the flag.
— from The History of Company A, Second Illinois Cavalry by D. H. Fletcher - He tore the yellow envelop, and read the message.
— from T. Tembarom by Frances Hodgson Burnett - There was no stamp and no post-mark on the envelop.
— from Tillie, a Mennonite Maid; a Story of the Pennsylvania Dutch by Helen Reimensnyder Martin
