The Elsinore was embayed in a tiny universe of mist and sea. From Wordnik.com. [CHAPTER XXVIII] Reference
A shift in the wind might soon find Hotspur embayed on a lee shore. From Wordnik.com. [Hornblower And The Hotspur]
From the embayed town so named you have the choice of a cross-road to Messina. From Wordnik.com. [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine — Volume 56, No. 345, July, 1844] Reference
He gets embayed with Portland-he can't help but go ashore if he goes that way, somewhere near Bridport. From Wordnik.com. [Movie Night] Reference
I name this for two reasons: first, to explain again what I said before of ships being embayed and lost here. From Wordnik.com. [From London to Land's End] Reference
Hotspur had escaped being embayed in Lyme Bay; she had neatly weathered the Casquets, and it all stemmed from that fortunate order. From Wordnik.com. [Hornblower And The Hotspur]
They had no idle thoughts, and no one without could see their work, for their industry was not as in knots and excrescences embayed. From Wordnik.com. [Harvard Classics Volume 28 Essays English and American] Reference
Add to this a view of the gardens from the deep embayed windows, and you have a faint conception of the drawing-room scene at Bereford Castle, the intended home for Lady. From Wordnik.com. [Lady Rosamond's Secret A Romance of Fredericton] Reference
The corvette was caught on a lee shore and embayed. From Wordnik.com. [The Three Midshipmen] Reference
A veiled sunlight lit up faintly the grey sheet of water where the river was embayed. From Wordnik.com. [A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man] Reference
"Give way, lads -- give way; an easy stroke, for if he is embayed, he can't escape us!". From Wordnik.com. [Jack Tier] Reference
He was overcome by the beauty of those deeply embayed combes, scooped in the flanks of the ridge beneath him. From Wordnik.com. [Crome Yellow] Reference
There is no thought in this of saving time, for they will pull a long way in to skirt a point that is embayed. From Wordnik.com. [In the South Seas] Reference
She was standing at the deep embayed window that looked out towards the river and the apparently endless desolation beyond. From Wordnik.com. [A Modern Mercenary] Reference
If they failed to arrive at the appointed time, his instructions were to return to his schooner, which lay snugly embayed in. From Wordnik.com. [The Pilot] Reference
He at last halted before his door, gave a scrutinizing glance around the embayed recess, and opened the door half expectantly. From Wordnik.com. [The Bell-Ringer of Angel's] Reference
Boston; and we were too far embayed to retreat, especially as the wind had died away, and the tide of flood not half expended. From Wordnik.com. [An Historical Account of the Settlements of Scotch Highlanders in America] Reference
They sauntered on towards a turn of the stream where a little pool lay embayed like a smooth mirror reflecting the grassy bank. From Wordnik.com. [The Golden Dog] Reference
Needles the ship was embayed, our course now lying between Hampshire and the Isle of Wight, through a channel of no great width. From Wordnik.com. [Recollections of Europe] Reference
He had come back from the window, and was standing close to her, who, in the curve of her grand piano, was, as it were, embayed. From Wordnik.com. [The Forsyte Saga - Complete] Reference
Dunbar seated in a deep embayed window, with the sunshine lighting up her hair and gleaming amongst the folds of her violet silk dress. From Wordnik.com. [Henry Dunbar A Novel] Reference
We had him, indeed, partly embayed, and yet, if he was able to carry on, it was clear that he might still manage to get out ahead of us. From Wordnik.com. [Tales of the Sea And of our Jack Tars] Reference
They entered the garden; at the head of one of the alleys stood a green wooden bench, embayed in the midst of a fragrant continent of lavender bushes. From Wordnik.com. [Crome Yellow] Reference
Vpon another small Iland here was also found a great dead fish, which as it should seeme, had bene embayed with yce, and was in proportion round like to a. From Wordnik.com. [The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques, and Discoveries of The English Nation, Vol. XII., America, Part I.] Reference
As they neared their boat, the rays of the setting sun were darted into Kildeer river and gilded the embayed little vessel and all the surrounding shores. From Wordnik.com. [Say and Seal, Volume II] Reference
"Now, Mr Rayner, supposing the ship you are in charge of is caught on a lee shore with a hurricane blowing, and you find yourself embayed; what would you do?". From Wordnik.com. [From Powder Monkey to Admiral A Story of Naval Adventure] Reference
A gentle eddy carried the boat farther in shore, until at last it was completely embayed under the lee of a rocky point now faintly discernible through the fog. From Wordnik.com. [The Luck of Roaring Camp and Other Tales With Condensed Novels, Spanish and American Legends, and Earlier Papers] Reference
A gentle eddy carried the boat further in shore, until at last it was completely embayed under the lee of a rocky point now faintly discernible through the fog. From Wordnik.com. [Legends and Tales] Reference
Well, that is a barque embayed in the ice, and evidently making a supreme effort to free herself -- an effort which to me, and at this distance, appears quite hopeless. From Wordnik.com. [The Log of the Flying Fish A Story of Aerial and Submarine Peril and Adventure] Reference
Owing to the density of the crowd of reposing whales, more immediately surrounding the embayed axis of the herd, no possible chance of escape was at present afforded us. From Wordnik.com. [Moby Dick, or, the whale] Reference
All eyes are fixed on the "huer;" he stands watchful and still, until the shoal is thoroughly embayed, in water which he knows to be within the depth of the "seine" net. From Wordnik.com. [Rambles Beyond Railways; or, Notes in Cornwall taken A-foot] Reference
After "yawing about" for some minutes "in search of a channel," as Larry expressed it, Muggins suddenly gave in and exclaimed, -- "I'm a Dutchman, boys, if we ha'n't got embayed!". From Wordnik.com. [Lost in the Forest Wandering Will's Adventures in South America] Reference
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