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  • The ethnic political violence that convulsed Kenya after disputed elections on Dec. 27 shattered the nation's image as an oasis of calm in a turbulent corner of Africa. Perhaps no one was more shocked — or had more to lose — than members of Kenya's middle class, who seemed comfortably ensconced in Westernized modernity after more than 40 years of economic growth without major political trauma.  (source)
  • The four of them were ensconced in a clearing near the fishing spot.  (source)
  • Once they were securely ensconced at the Gryffindor table for dinner, however, he felt safe enough to tell them.  (source)
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  • I was a spectator safely ensconced in his seat.  (source)
    ensconced = settled comfortably
  • At first light he would creep into the thicket, squeeze between the twisted stems, ensconce himself so deep that only a crawler like himself could come through, and that crawler would be jabbed.  (source)
    ensconce = settle safely
  • 'Take the road you came,' she answered, ensconcing herself in a chair, with a candle, and the long book open before her.†  (source)
  • Hiro can see trickles of blood run-fling down from the area where Vie ensconced himself.  (source)
    ensconced = hid
  • From time to time, if some soldier, an officer or representative of the people, chanced to traverse the deserted highway, a faint, sharp whistle was heard, and the passer-by fell dead or wounded, or, if he escaped the bullet, sometimes a biscaien was seen to ensconce itself in some closed shutter, in the interstice between two blocks of stone, or in the plaster of a wall.†  (source)
  • Hence is it that we make trifles of terrors, ensconcing ourselves into seeming knowledge when we should submit ourselves to an unknown fear.†  (source)
  • I am ensconced in the Hide-A-Way Cabins (has ever there been a more apt name?)  (source)
    ensconced = hidden
  • She shall not see me; I will ensconce me behind the arras.†  (source)
  • Agent Simkins was lying on his stomach, ensconced in the bushes of Franklin Square.  (source)
  • so you would leave battering, I had rather have it a head: an you use these blows long, I must get a sconce for my head, and ensconce it too; or else I shall seek my wit in my shoulders.†  (source)
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