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Literary notes about enclosed (AI summary)

The term "enclosed" is employed in literature to denote both physical containment and metaphorical limitation. It often describes objects securely placed within another item—such as letters sent with contents tucked inside envelopes [1, 2, 3]—as well as spaces defined by clear boundaries, whether in architecture or nature, where areas are circumscribed by walls, fences, or natural barriers [4, 5, 6]. Additionally, writers use it to evoke sensations of confinement or protection in both concrete and abstract ways, from the security of a well-defined enclosure [7, 8] to the more psychological or symbolic sense of being trapped within one's circumstance or mind [9, 10].
  1. This is enclosed in an outer envelope which is sealed and addressed: Mr. and Mrs. Jameson Greatlake, 24 Michigan Avenue, Chicago.
    — from Etiquette by Emily Post
  2. I enclosed the letter in another to M. Dandolo, begging him to read it, and to send it on.
    — from The Memoirs of Jacques Casanova de Seingalt, 1725-1798. Complete by Giacomo Casanova
  3. “Oh, madam,” cries Jones, “it was enclosed in a pocket-book, in which the young lady's name was written.”
    — from History of Tom Jones, a Foundling by Henry Fielding
  4. A little street, the Rue du Chemin-Vert-Saint-Antoine, opened out between two timber-yards enclosed in walls.
    — from Les Misérables by Victor Hugo
  5. Entering a portal, fastened only by a latch, I stood amidst a space of enclosed ground, from which the wood swept away in a semicircle.
    — from Jane Eyre: An Autobiography by Charlotte Brontë
  6. The Agora of Athens is situated in a valley partially enclosed by the Acropolis, Areopagus, Pnyx, and Museum.
    — from The New Gresham Encyclopedia. A to Amide by Various
  7. And these two towers were outlined against the milky whiteness of the Alps, that enormous distant wall of snow which enclosed the entire horizon.
    — from Complete Original Short Stories of Guy De Maupassant by Guy de Maupassant
  8. We are enclosed in a space that is relatively confined.
    — from Twenty Thousand Leagues under the Sea by Jules Verne
  9. Anton's world: it became in her feverish brain a compression which enclosed her.
    — from The Rainbow by D. H. Lawrence
  10. It was as if a hard, horny shell enclosed them all.
    — from The Rainbow by D. H. Lawrence

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