Word: envelopingly
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...Paris, one Albert Jauron announced that he had perfected an anti- aircraft projectile which, upon exploding in midair, would fling out a net to enmesh or envelop an airplane as a lepidopterist snares a butterfly. The Japanese Government having recently announced the adoption of just such a shell, Inventor Jauron declared he would...
...Telltale" is modelled after Addison's Spectator. Its object is explained in the first paper: "This paper is Entitled the Telltale or Criticisms of the Conversation & Behaviour of Scholars to promote right reasoning & good manner." Telltale is unknown. "I am so envelop'd with clouds & vizards that the most piercing eye cannot distinguish me from Stoughton's Hall." Unfortunately he does not follow his stated purpose of criticism entirely but describes in a number of pages curious dreams in which he meets a number of characters disputing of various subjects, and tells at great length of an meeting...
...marked "for the Baldwin Prize". The name of a competitor should not appear on the essay, but a fictitious name, or some other designation, should be given instead. The author's true name of the competitor, together with his college and home address, must be enclosed in a sealed envelop" accompanying the essay...
...tells Erda, the goddess of earth that he is contented that man shall supersede the gods. As Erda sinks into the earth, Siegfried enters and inquires the way to Brunnhilde's rock. Wotan lays his spear across the way, but Siegfried shatters it, and advances to the flames, which envelop the stage. Finally they clear and discover Siegfried on the rock. He has never seen a woman, and thinks Brunnhilde is a beautiful warrior. He loosens the helmet, sees for the first time the long tresses of a woman, and is seized with fear. But he stoops and kisses...
Each memoir must be accompanied by a sealed envelop enclosing the author's name and superscribed with a motto corresponding to one on the manuscript, and must be in the hands of the Secretary on or before April 1 of the year for which the prize is offered...