Meaning of inshell | Babel Free

Definitions

To enclose in a shell.

literary, rare

Examples

“’Tis Aufidius, Who, hearing of our Coriolanus’ banishment, Thrusts forth his horns again into the world; Which were inshell’d when Coriolanus stood for Rome, And durst not once peep out.”

“[…] of all men that I have⟳ ever known, no one was more reluctant to creep⟳ out of the modesty in which he had inshelled himself, than the man whom I cannot even yet think⟳ no more, feeling towards his memory as if he were still waiting for something not received.”

“Vermilion wings, by distance held To pause aflight while fleeting swift: And high aloft the pearl inshelled Her lucid glow in glow will lift⟳:”

“Who could know⟳ what forces those two-meter hulls inshelled, or what fleets and empires waited on their signal?”

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