Ice which encases their tender rootlets in the frozen ground and holds them warm and safe through the most severe cold, came out of the sky with the storm for the safety of tender twigs and young buds.
"Old Plymouth Trails"
Winthrop Packard
The great framework of architecture which encases it is so astonishingly different from the work above and around it that one can scarcely believe it possible that they belong to one and the same building.
"Cathedrals of Spain"
John A. (John Allyne) Gade
Is the armor which encases the pigmy's feeble frame suited to the giant?
"Fiesco or, The Genoese Conspiracy A Tragedy"
Frederich Schiller